I had the dream again last night. My old friend. The dream I have had once or twice a month for the last 20-something years. The details are not exactly the same, but it's the same general plot. It involves me being a passenger on an airliner. And the airliner is in some kind of peril. Sometimes we're lifting off and can't achieve any altitude. We usually clip something like power lines. More often we're flying at altitude and something is wrong with the plane. It's never clear exactly what is wrong, only that the flight is in jeopardy. It's never one of those falling out of the sky things. The plane doesn't seem to be in immediate danger. But something is wrong. I always wake up before anything really bad happens. But the threat is there, looming over my fellow passengers and me. I sometimes wonder what would happen if I didn't wake up and the dream continued to its conclusion.
When I was a kid I used to have similar recurring dreams. Only in these dreams, I was not a passenger. The plane did crash, always not far from my house. I vividly remember the first time I had one of these dreams. I was about 10 or 11. I was out in the front yard of our house. An American Airlines 727 came screeching nose down out of the sky and exploded on the street a few blocks from my house. I woke up immediately. And a similar dream returned. Not very often, but every now and then. I think my current recurring dream is an extension of that one.
So, I would sure like to know what the hell that means. I know dreams are just random thoughts from the subconscious thrown together while we sleep. But to have a similar dream over and over again must signify something.
It's odd what the human mind is capable of.
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