Originally posted by Anelior
Lots of dream recall this night.
Didn't go to sleep until about 12. Set my alarm for 4:40am instead, as the previous night, setting it at 4:30am interrupted my freshly onset lucid dream.

First dream I remember happened just before my alarm went off. I was in an airplane, which is one of my greatest fears. We took off, and I had a seat very far back. As the plane got further down the runway, I kept sliding back further and further, until I was right at the back of the plane. Next thing I knew, I was on a tarpauline which was dangling from behind the plane. The only thing I could hold on to were two ropes. The plane had just taken off into the air, so I was suspended from the tarp.
We got higher and higher, until I realized jumping off wasn't an option. I tried to climb up the tarp to get back in the plane, but found the hatch to the passenger area had closed. Then I heard an announcement that the tarp was just to assist in take-off, and would be discarded when the plane reached cruising altitude. That terrified me, and I scrambled up the tarp until I reached the two metal rings holding it in place.
I thought I was safe (well, by that I mean that I wasn't going to go with the tarp), and then realized that the rings could be released too from the two pincers holding them on. Just after this, the dream ended.
This sounds like a classic anxiety dream...
And why is it, these dreams are always really 'atmospheric' and vivid, and you wake up terrified?


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