katemorrigan

I was at an event with a bunch of people I used to hang out with years ago. It was clear in dream-continuity that the same amount of time had passed, and the event was being held near where I live now and not where we used to play.

"E" is one of those people that I have a long and complicated past with without ever actually dating. He and I were going after the same spot in the event, and wound up in a very minor scuffle over it. Unfortunately for some reason we were on a subway platform and I fell down in the tracks.

The floor was a tan, speckled formica with the tracks inset to the point where it was almost flat. The space between the platform and the wall was about ten or twelve feet. E came down to try to help me, but a train was coming. I knew that there would be indents on the wall side that we could stand in to avoid the train and that if we tried to climb up right then we'd get crushed, so I dragged him across the tracks and over to the wall. They weren't as deep as I had hoped -- only a couple of inches -- but we pressed ourselves against the alcoves and held hands as the train rushed into the station.

When the train stopped, we went back to bickering. There was a set of doors down at our level that we used to board the train and the dream started to fade as it pulled out of the station.


I know looking back that those alcoves weren't there until I asserted that they would be, but I had no idea I was dreaming at the time.