I had this dream the night before last, and kept waiting and hoping it would actually come into focus for me so I could remember the context. That never happened, so for what it's worth (probably about twenty-five cents)...
It was another of what I call the "running" dream. I know other people have these, so maybe someone here will know it. You want or need to run to something or someplace, for whatever reason. And maybe you don't have your car or other transportation, so you think "I can just run or jog there", even though it might be a ridiculous distance away.
So I start to pick up my pace, but I'm remembering how running, as opposed to walking, causes the forces - whatever they are - to bog me down, so I try to very gradually accelerate. But that doesn't really work, and the running becomes a grotesque swimming type of motion, and it's like you're in quicksand, or it gets to where you're practically parallel to the ground and doing a sort of desperate crawl. At some point I'll feel the desperation from trying to move, and that will wake me up, sometimes like from a nightmare. All I remember from this one is that having to use the necessary is most likely what woke me.
But the craziest thing about this time is that I'd awakened from that dream around 3:15 a.m., and then just before getting up at 7:00 or so, I had another one - totally different - that has now escaped me but it, too, had me needing to get somewhere fast. It just wasn't quite the running thing. That one stayed clear in my memory up through yesterday noon or so, but now it's totally gone. Damn it, I want my money back.
