21 Feb 2024
Dream
I dreamt that I was dating a man, about my own age, and together we took my two youngest daughters out for New Year's Eve. It was my idea to sneak on board a cruise ship and enjoy the champagne, cocktails, oysters and other fine food for free. We managed it well, and had a fun night watching the fireworks. The children wanted to linger on the viewing deck after the other passengers had left, to eat some more of the fine food, because we never got the chance in daily life. So I let them. A crew member came in and asked me a question in another language, and I realised the ship must have been in port from another country. I smiled and said I didn't understand , but we were just visiting friends on the ship and would be leaving soon. He looked confused so I repeated myself. He just shrugged and left. Suddenly it was morning, the sun was up and I knew we had to get off the ship before the staff came in the clean. I hurried them towards where the gangway had been, only to discover it had been pulled away and the access door closed. I found a latch to open the access door and lower some smaller staff-stairs, which were without a railing and very unstable. As the access door opened and the stairs lowered, I sat on them and began to lower myself down one step at a time, telling the others to wait until I was at the bottom so I could hold the stairs firm and they could follow. Suddenly I realised that the reason the stairs were unstable was because we weren't on a ship, but on an airplane - and it had taken off and we were now miles above the ground, being taken to some other country. I hurried back up and hit a latch to retract the stairs and close the access door. Inside the plane still looked like a ship, and all the passengers were either in the dining room or in their cabins. All the staff were at meetings, and I was hurrying around trying to find someone who could help us, when I woke up.
