Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Strange Dream Last Night

So the setting of the dream is, I assume, the Las Vegas airport, though it's not really recognizable in any way. There is apparently a big snowstorm or other cold weather event fast approaching so everybody is trying to get on the last flights out. I'm with a group of people that I know in this world but I don't recognize any of them from real life. Some booked flights on various airlines like Continental and others. My flight is the last one out on Las Vegas Air at 9:30 AM. All the other flights before and after this one on this airline were canceled.

Other airlines arrive and different friends of mine bid their farewells and leave. 9:30 comes and goes and still no sign of the last Las Vegas Air flight. I'm on a severe lack of sleep and am worried about whether the flight will ever come and if I should have booked a different airline. At around 12:00 I find myself walking down the aisle of an abandoned aircraft and sit next to a girl that I know in this world. We talk a bit about whether our flight will arrive or not. She seems wistfully optimistic about the whole situation and I can't figure out why.

Then, amazingly, I hear the telltale sound of the Las Vegas Air flight as it flies overhead and touches down. I am so relieved that it has finally arrived and I'll be able to get out just in time. We smile at each other and I stand up and begin to walk to the exit. It is then that I realize that other people are starting to board this plane! I walk up to them and I recognize some of them and one smiles at me and expresses his relief that we're finally going to fly out of here. I ask him why he's on this plane and he is confused and says, "because this is the Las Vegas Air flight of course!"

I am very confused at this point and tell my friend about how this is just an old abandoned aircraft. He laughs at me and thinks that I am joking. He tells me about how he heard the aircraft land and went to the gate specified and boarded the plane and that is how he's here. It is at that point that I look around and the plane doesn't look like an old aircraft anymore, it looks like the Las Vegas Air flight. I also notice that the girl that I was talking to has all her bags here but I left mine in the airport. I ask my friend to leave the plane with me to go get my bags, which will also give me some vague chance to "get on the right plane."

So we leave and go to where I left my bags. We talk more about this weird situation and my friend begins to get a bit worried that something is wrong. We find the bags and head back to the plane. I'm a little surprised when we board the plane from the outside instead of through a gate but my friend assures me that this is where we just left. The plane is now full as we walk down the aisle to our seats. My friend's seat is much further up the plane, so he sits down as we say a few final things about the situation. As I head further down the plane I say "I trust you." He looks a little unsure still and says "I guess the question is do I trust me?"

I make my way to my seat and put my bags away and sit down next to the girl I was talking to earlier and it feels like a huge weight has finally been lifted off me. I'm finally going to fly out of here and everything is going to be great. I've put the whole weirdness of the abandoned aircraft and such stuff out of my mind. Then I hear someone near me shout, "Oh my God, she's freezing her legs off!"

I snap awake.