Perhaps I've traveled enough for now?

[magid]

I woke up this morning from a dream in which I'd left my work building to go either to the Public Garden or the Common. I was standing there, looking up at the sky, and saw a plane coming in far too low. Something was wrong, and it crashed, nose down. And there were planes following it, close enough that it was more like a Massachusetts car intersection, not airways at all. And they followed the path of the first one, all of them crashing, some nose-down, some more gliding in (so I had more hope of survivors). There was a lot of smoke around, and strange red lighting (that didn't have the feel of flickeriness that would imply fire), though I don't think they crashed so near me that I was afraid they'd hit me. I was upset, of course, and went back to the office, unable to work, having watched 26 planes crash. (Why 26, I wonder.)

Comments

[zahzeh.livejournal.com]

Strange dream. Maybe the whole pipe bursting scare in Manhattan conjured up 9-11 images and scared you, too.

[(Anonymous)]

Wow, perhaps you have.

That sounds quite frightening.

I myself experienced this morning an intense, upsetting bit of a dream.

[magid.livejournal.com]

I barely saw anything about the steam pipe thing, just a little bit on the news as I schvitzed in the Denver airport. It was much scarier to look over at my inflight neighbor's newspaper and read about the recent plane crash.

[magid.livejournal.com]

It wasn't frightening, exactly. Upsetting, but almost in a made-for-TV-movie sort of way, with the idea of people being killed, but they somehow weren't real enough to be fully upset over, if that makes any sense. (Yeah, when did dreams make lots of sense?)

I hope your dream didn't carry over into the day.

[(Anonymous)]

That makes sense, or, at least, I think I understand.

I find it intriguing that the dream actually seems to have been a complete, consistent scene.

I hope your dream didn't carry over into the day.

What an amazingly thoughtful thing to say. Wow. Thank you.

I did think of you and our last conversation here about dreams once I was awake, as I'm really not sure that my dreams always come only from within me.

[magid.livejournal.com]

I don't often have dreams that make any kind of sense to me (maybe I'm just obtuse...), and frequently they're not internally consistent either, with lots of shifts of scene (without obvious narrative purpose) and so on.

I sometimes dream of people I know, and it can be hard to shake off strange/upsetting things my brain has shown/made them do, keeping that separate from the actual person and their actions/words. Dreams can be so vivid...