Plane Crash

Had a dream that I was on a jet airplane taking a relatively short trip, something like Seattle-Portland (I haven't taken an airplane to anywhere in several decades).

The plane seemed to be getting lower and lower and I became concerned and went up to the cockpit which oddly enough wasn't locked. There I found the co-pilot and pilot kind of out of it and at this point we were flying directly over a freeway. I asked them if they realized how low to the ground we were flying and the captain seemed startled and quickly pushed the throttles wide open and pulled up on the controls. At that point we were almost on the freeway and almost crashed into an overpass.

Just as the plane started to ascend, the pilot slumped and fell over the controls putting the plane back into a dive, and the co-pilot was essentially out of it.

I grabbed the controls and attempted to pull up in spite of the pilots weight leaning on them. Both the pilot and the co-pilot had oxygen on and were passed out none-the-less. I was concerned that whatever overcame them would overcome me soon, and also there were many controls and gages that looked very intimidating. I was just hoping to keep the plane from crashing long enough to hope that one of the passengers might be a pilot or perhaps I could get some help on the radio or something.

At that point I woke up, without any clear conclusion with respect to whether the aircraft was going to crash or not.

I don't know specifically where we were flying from/to except that it seemed a short commuter-type route like Seattle-Portland, and seemed north-south.

Dream & Big Cat Mauls Zoo Visitors

Last night I had a dream being in this park-like location. In the dream there was this artificial ravine separating visitors from large cats similar to the old setup at the Woodland Park Zoo.

One of the cats jumped from a ledge behind the artificial ravine to a rock next to the railing and then out escaping. In the dream I didn't know what type of cat, only that it was large, nor where it was, neither did anyone get mauled though I definitely was aware that was a possibility.

Tonight I hear on the news about a tiger escaping at the San Francisco zoo, attacking and killing one 23 year old man and injuring two others. Lots of things about the dream were off; the tiger had a cage at the zoo, not an enclosure that attempted to reproduce a semi-natural environment.

Still, large cats aren't a regular part of my dreams, so it seems like an odd coincidence.

Warm Weather Dream

Perhaps influenced by the recent string of snow, wind, and monsoon type rains, and maybe the idea of global warming taken to an extreme, I had a dream where even though it's December and the temperatures are in the 30's and 40's, that Puget Sound was warm enough (and oddly clean enough) to swim in, the Beaches were crowded, and a lot of people were in the water, but it was strange because it still got dark very early as it does this time of year.