Something Disturbing.....

[PACIFICBUSA]

If your palms were shredded and your butt was shredded the first time it sounds like you weren't wearing any armor/protection.

What this dream is telling you is, next time, make sure you're wearing some....

Good set of leathers, boots, gloves and a helmet. Or, if you get too hot in that, wear some armor that goes under your jeans and shirt, e.g.:

http://www.actionstation.com

Seriously, get the message and be proactive about defending your own skin.

true....I was not wearing gear. I had a jacket, but left it at home because I was gonna sell it. I had my helmet on, so that saved my pimpin' good looks (facewise) but my jeans did nothing to save my Go-Go dancer buttocks. I was trying to save up for some gloves, but I missed the cut...

I hear ya though....and will be when I saddle up again.

 

[PACIFICBUSA]

Hey Pac,

Try this:  Go find a dim and quite place to relax.  Close your eyes and picture yourself riding the Busa down your favorite strech of road.  Going through the twisties and looking around you.  That's the easy part.  Now visualize your one of your fears coming true.  What do you do to correct it?  (Remember, it was the decision before the mistake that causes the problem.)  Picture what you need to do, and mentally do it!  Study every aspect of the correction as you do it.  This part will take some practice.

Mentally practice this over and over, until you see yourself regaining control of your bike EVERY TIME AUTOMATICALLY!

Try this to improve most riding skills also.

Keep your head up, Pac.

God Speed.

I'll try....but then again, I had everything down-pat in my head. I knew everything I needed to do to stop the first crash from happening....my mind did not hesitate for a split second.

I ran into trouble trying to get my mind to communicate it to my body.

 

[PACIFICBUSA]

That is definitely an idea.....

Now let's see....where's my Bailey's and my 151?

 

[PACIFICBUSA]

yea and stop smoking blow

you know, .......there's one of these in every group. You ask for something constructive and you get this. Kinda reminds me of myself sometimes...


Back of the line, paulos....

 

[PACIFICBUSA]

The mind is a tricky thing... most dreams are pure crap.  We have the tendency to replay all our fears over and over again in the hopes of finding an answer or to protect ourselves.  Never let fear quide your actions... Learn from it, overcome it... That is the only way to truly protect yourself.  Really only you can fufill a self fufilling prophecy. I was going to write this in Yoda speak but it is not polite to make light of someone else's fears.  I used to have a dr350 and I clipped a tree branch about fifteen feet (doing about 20mph) in the air.  I had recurring nightmares up until I got back on the bike and hit the jump that knocked me on my A$$ again.  Ride through it... Thats my advice!

I hear ya....and I used to subcribe heavily to that belief/theory. It's just that things seem somewhat different this time around. I guess the only thing I can do now is go through with it...but still, like I said before, the motto goes:

"Live to Ride...",

not

"Live to Crash..."

 

[PACIFICBUSA]

Really only you can fufill a self fufilling prophecy

Hence the term........

got some real smart apples in this bunch, eh?

 

[PACIFICBUSA]

focus on your riding- not your dreams-dreams aren't reality-just coincidence---

True....and yet sometimes they're not.

 

[PACIFICBUSA]

ok real quickly again....dangit I'm gonna be late for the staff meeting...


Crack Kills, huh?

an how many times you think HE has been late? (not too many times late for lunch by the looks of it)

Hey wait a minute....I'm rarely late for lunch either!

Good Lord.... TELL that's not how I look when I ride....

 

[PACIFICBUSA]

Pac,

Not sure if this will be of comfort, nor if anyone other than you can truly offer a solution.

When not paying homage to the Busa God's my job is flying.  At the moment I fly helicopters and have also flown big jets for an airline.  Over the years I have lost many friends and co-workers in aircraft crashes.  The worst of all time was when I was the person to find my best friend's body, or what was left of it, scattered over a 20 acre crash site.  

In flying helicopters that perform certain jobs, like lifting loads or performing rescues, a pilot is literally on the edge of death, often placing themselves in an unrecoverable situation if the engine even hesitates.  There have been many pilots who have started down a path of doubt that ate at them to the point that they had to leave the business.  Those of us who overcome such thoughts do so by virtue of sheer stupidity or some way of pushing aside such thoughts.

In 1992 I had a crash when an engine component failed.  I obviously lived, but broke my back in three places and had to face the uncertainty of being able to walk again for some time.   When it came time to get back in the helicopter, I went through a similar situation as you with recurring dreams, with all the people whom I had known that died, joining in these dreams.

What got me through it was doing essentially what a lot of people have already shared with you here.  In going back to square one and starting from scratch with an emphasis on keeping things safe and simple and letting my proverbial envelope expand back at it’s own pace.  It really did not take long at all until all that passed.  An interesting side note to that is, even though the accident was easily determined to be a mechanical failure.  My personal abilities at flying increased ten-fold as I went back to basics.  This obviously helped in overcoming any self-doubt.  

For you, this would mean starting back at square one and giving yourself time to become so comfortable with your bike that it becomes an extension of you.  My bet is that doing so will yield a much different result should the ugly demon of fate, or your front tire, raise its ugly head…….

Good advice, Heli.... +1


I'm just worried about that damn low-side. In the dream, I wasn't even burnin a sweeper....I was just weaving in my own lane, scrubbing the tires little by little. I wasn't even that far over...it just slid out from under me. That's what's getting me all freaked out. It's like going along your merry way and then BAM!! your tire blows and you go down. While you're on your way down, all you're thinkin is "WTF just happened here??"

 

[jessup]

Quote (Mr Brown @ April 21 2005,22:41)
Quote (jessup @ April 21 2005,16:15)
Really only you can fufill a self fufilling prophecy

Hence the term........



got some real smart apples in this bunch, eh?



You should have seen my senior thesis

 

[Mikey D]

Pac, sorry I didn't get in sooner...

Here's what ya do:
Go out and pick up a used dirtbike. Sumptin like a CR500 (my fav) or a KX500. They both have the same power to weight ratio as the Busa. Get yerself some protective plastic: boots, gloves knees & elbows etc...

Take that baby (along with a friend or two) out and tear up that island!

Why. you may ask?

First off it's a ton-o-fun.

Secondly and more importantly, yer gonna crash. No two ways about it. If yer pullin wheelies on the street, yer gonna do it in the dirt. Cept herre when you crash, you can just get up, dust off yer bike and start riding again. That'll take care of the self fufilling BS.

Thirdly and maybe even more important, yer gonna save yerself from crashing multiple times a minute. You will get that rear tire broken loose in a turn, lay off the throttle a tad and bring her back up. You'll do an accidental 12 O'clock, tap the brake and bring her back down. In short (well, too late for that) you will be able to teach yourself how to handle those accident situations on the street, before they become accidents!

Ride hard and ride safe my follicly challenged Island brother!

 

[BusaAdmirer]

Dreams very rarely come true!! in your case its the bad one.. next time why don't you dream of somethin nice.. like Va's Lotto Money or somethin..

 

[BusaAdmirer]

or better still.. don't waste time on your dreams and get some good sleep!!!

 

[Aughtsix]

Pac - Odd as this may sound, next time you have 'the dream', take control of it.

In your dream, when you're beginning to slide out or to lose control, look through the corner, so to speak, control the dream, and get it back in line. Dreams CAN be controlled.

Just as in reality when you've entered a corner a bit too fast, the natural tendency is to look off the road, where you think you're going to crash, or to pick the place, as best you can, where you're going to wad it up. This is exactly the wrong thing to do. The right thing to do takes discipline and practice, but it's to look through the corner, don't let off the throttle and lean 'er down even further. You'll make it.

In your dream too my friend, you'll make it. Control it, look through it.

Steve

 

[PACIFICBUSA]

Pac, sorry I didn't get in sooner...

Here's what ya do:
        Go out and pick up a used dirtbike.  Sumptin like a CR500 (my fav) or a KX500.  They both have the same power to weight ratio as the Busa.  Get yerself some protective plastic: boots, gloves knees & elbows etc...

Take that baby (along with a friend or two) out and tear up that island!

           Why. you may ask?

First off it's a ton-o-fun.

Secondly and more importantly, yer gonna crash.  No two ways about it.  If yer pullin wheelies on the street, yer gonna do it in the dirt.  Cept herre when you crash, you can just get up, dust off yer bike and start riding again.   That'll take care of the self fufilling BS.

Thirdly and maybe even more important, yer gonna save yerself from crashing multiple times a minute.  You will get that rear tire broken loose in a turn, lay off the throttle a tad and bring her back up.  You'll do an accidental 12 O'clock, tap the brake and bring her back down.  In short (well, too late for that) you will be able to teach yourself how to handle those accident situations on the street, before they become accidents!

      Ride hard and ride safe my follicly challenged Island brother!  

 

Very sound advice, Mikey...I like it. Now it's just a matter of finding some. Some $$$ would be good too....


very good...

 

[PACIFICBUSA]

Dreams very rarely come true!! in your case its the bad one.. next time why don't you dream of somethin nice.. like Va's Lotto Money or somethin..

While that may be true, I have enough happen to me that makes me believe otherwise at times. Kinda like that saying that lightning doesn't strike the same place twice. I dunno if it's something about me (mebbe I was a real bad person in another life), but I always seem to get the short end of the stick....it's like something ALWAYS has to go wrong.

Seems to me like the good dreams rarely happen....it's only the bad ones that do. At least for me, anyways....

 

[PACIFICBUSA]

Pac - Odd as this may sound, next time you have 'the dream', take control of it.  

In your dream, when you're beginning to slide out or to lose control, look through the corner, so to speak, control the dream, and get it back in line.  Dreams CAN be controlled.  

Just as in reality when you've entered a corner a bit too fast, the natural tendency is to look off the road, where you think you're going to crash, or to pick the place, as best you can, where you're going to wad it up.  This is exactly the wrong thing to do.  The right thing to do takes discipline and practice, but it's to look through the corner, don't let off the throttle and lean 'er down even further.  You'll make it.

In your dream too my friend, you'll make it.  Control it, look through it.

Steve

Aah yes...I remember this from my "General Psychology" class at the university. Unfortunately, you need to be in some kind of quasi-REM state to consciously do so. I have attempted many times, but I can't seem to nail it.

Perhaps if I think about it enough, I may just be able to influence my subconscious.

The thing that freaks me out the most about it is that it happens outta the blue...nothing extraordinary about it, I was just doing things we normally do. Thanks for the vote of confidence, though...I 'preciate it.