falling

This morning was one of those rare times that I actually remembered at least part of a dream.

Let me preface the description of the brief snippet of the dream by explaining what I call a composite person. It has happened many times in my dreams that I have a composite person in my dream, this composite person is made up of two, three or many people that I have known throughout my life but they are all in one person. When I look at the person I see only one person with my eyes, but in my mind's eye I can recognize that the person is made up of a bunch of specific individuals. Usually I can name the primary and secondary people that make up the composite person, but not always. In last night's dream I did.

So I was going home from school (though my friend and I were not kids, we were the age I am now) in a school bus and this composite person friend was sitting to my left, I was at the window on the right side of the bus. The bus took a road that went up a mountain with forest on either side of the road, but when it crested the mountain, there was a sheer cliff going down on the right side (my side of the bus) and on the left side of the bus it continued as forest as it was earlier. At about the same time that I noticed someone walking up the hill on the opposite side of the street by having glanced over to see through the left side of the bus, the bus was no longer a bus, but a jeep; still my buddy sitting next to me. I noticed the man walking was David Suzuki and the driver of the jeep noticed this too as he looked left. The driver turned left as he looked left, realized what he was doing, then overcompensated and turned a hard right and sent us flying over the edge of the cliff. I then awoke with that sensation of falling.

It is just amazing how real that sensation of falling can be, even when one is safe in one's own bed.