When escaping things in dreams, running from things, or just traveling in dreams do you find yourself moving forward, like, in a straight progressive line? If I am dreaming I am on a street escaping something I tend to just go straight down a street until I reach an end or I wake up. I just notice I never feel as if I move left or right, just forward.

I wonder if it's from years spent playing 2d side scrolling video games as a young kid in the 80's and it somehow has somehow influenced my dreams.