# Weird - a dream found my iPod **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 22, 2012, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-a-dream-found-my-ipod/616474 "2012-03-22T04:10:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![GameHat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ed655f/32.png) [@GameHat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GameHat)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2012, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-a-dream-found-my-ipod/616474/1 "2012-03-22T04:10:21Z")
It’s a running joke (deserved) among my friends: I just cannot keep an iPod. I destroy them all. My iPod history; spoilered to shorten: iPod classic, 3rd gen I think (2004?) - left it idle for a year, after which the battery would not hold a charge. ipod mini 2nd gen (2006). Same problem. note - I started using my ipod at work here, so usage was way up ipod nano 2nd gen - loved it, till I put it through the wash. Fail. ipod nano 6th gen - same story. Loved it for about a year, then forgot it in my pocket, washed, fail. ipod nano 6th gen, 16 gb - this is my current. I’m at about a 1.5 years with it. Anyways, I’m on my 5th ipod here since 2004. I’ve destroyed all previous. And damn me, I “lost” my current one last Friday. I left work early to hit the bar - this messed up my usual OC routine of - check pockets: phone, keys, money clip, ipod, go. But when I looked for my stuff on Saturday the iPod wasn’t there. Historically this means I’ve put it through the wash. After cursing my stupidity, I searched the washer and dryer. Twice, different days. Nothing. Checked all pockets of things I wore or might have worn last week. Twice again, different days. Nothing. I TORE my condo apart. Three times, three different days. Still nothing. And I spent a good 20 minutes cleaning out my car, searching (nearly) every nook or cranny that it might have fallen into. Twice, different days. Nothing. I had been getting a bit depressed at work this week. You’d think working a sciency-job in a lab was always interesting, but there’s a lot of repetition, running the same tests over and over. Damn, I missed podcasts. I was this close to surrendering and buying a new one. I _must_ have lost or dropped the old one. But this morning, I woke up at 5 AM - which is normal. I usually go back to sleep for another hour or two. But this time, lying in bed, half-awake, half-asleep - a picture _ **exploded** _ in my mind. An iPod, hidden under my driver’s seat, in a really specific place. Tucked under the rail that the mechanical seat adjustment runs on. Strange. And I remember thinking, “pssht. I tore that car apart with searching. Multiple times.” I fell back asleep, but when I got a spare chance at work today I went out to the parking lot, and feeling a little foolish, looked under that rail. 30 second search, and there’s my iPod. I have no idea how I missed it. But hurrah! Dreams are strange. ---
**Author:** ![Spacegirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@Spacegirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spacegirl)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2012, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-a-dream-found-my-ipod/616474/2 "2012-03-22T04:46:32Z")
That’s cool! ---
**Author:** ![foxymoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d26b3c/32.png) [@foxymoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foxymoron)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2012, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-a-dream-found-my-ipod/616474/3 "2012-03-22T05:56:58Z")
I’ve had three dreams that led me to find missing items. Once with a missing pair of glasses, and twice with a piece of jewelry. It’s almost like the knowledge of where the item went just floats around in my brain for a few days or weeks, until it hits some sweet spot, then all is revealed.