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No, none of my dreams are like the ones you write about here. But that isn’t to say I don’t have odd dreams, they just don’t generally focus on lost automobiles.

It isn’t surprising that the dream took hold. You stated that you’d learned to drive, what? A week before getting the car? Goodness, no wonder you created a dream that stuff. There were bound to be so many fears and anxieties attacked to the buying and driving of that car, it’s not surprising at all what it had on your subconscious. I think we generally dream about our fears, and as our dreaming state tries to make sense of it, it creates some pretty wild scenarios. I’m sure there was a lack of confidence with the car, plus it was a major purchase, not to mention, it was your first one, no kidding you were worried about it being stolen. Now, why it has persisted for so long, that is a harder nut to crack, and since I’m just a common, no-nothing Joe, I don’t even have a wild speculative answer. But I bet as you think about it, you can come up with a few thoughts on why it continues to be an issue in your dreams.

There are a few suggestions I’d like to toss around. Nothing major, just niggling stuff:

In Paragraph Two:

In the dreams, I park my car without any problem and go about whatever I needed to do.

While I certainly get your meaning, I wonder if making the sentence complete reads better? Maybe add, “doing” after, “about?”

In Paragraph Three:

. I pass dozens of cars, and my heart stops for milliseconds each time see a blue one, but none are my tiny treasure.

How about putting an, “I” between, “time,” and, “see”?

In Paragraph Seven:

the second time a large snow bank was rammed.

How about, instead of the passive voice, the second time I rammed into a large snow bank.”

Paragraph Eight:

so it made sense I couldn’t see Blue Roan.

Again for a more complete feel, how about adding the word, “that,” between, “sense,” and, “I”?

So yeah, it’s not really surprising you had that recurring dream, though the longevity is surprising. However, as a reader all I really care about is the entertainment factor, and that works here for me. The writing is good, the story intriguing, and it as a nostalgic element to it, since it made me think of my own youth and first car. Though mine was so old and beaten up, that had someone stolen it, that would have been to my advantage, lol.

It’s a good work of non-fiction.