elevator

It's been a while since I last dreamt of anything. Probably due to tiredness from coming home after work. But surprisingly I just had one before waking up today.

It all felt a little bit like third-person, like watching a movie, but in any case, the storyline goes something like this... I/the person I was watching was in a lucky draw of sorts and won a trip to some place nice. Excited as I was, I packed my belongings and headed to what seemed like a terminal/interchange of sorts, for some public transport. Could have been a train/ship or whatever. It all felt a bit like in the forties, fifties, and the environment reminded me of some place american. Or basically caucasian for that matter.

There were some other people queuing up at the location, waiting to board this transport. It was a long queue. However, I didn't NEED to queue. I was escorted with another guy that I was having a happy conversation with, into an elevator. The elevator resembled those found on construction sites, with a rather open concept. It certainly didn't feel very safe.

And indeed it wasn't. I could see the cables pulling our car up the shaft somehow, and for some strange reason, the elevator gradually gained speed, and it felt like it was losing control. Panicky as we were, we couldn't do much. As we were propelled up to the top floor, the elevator launched off the shaft and landed on this platform just above the shaft. It was quite a large area that we landed on, and it felt pretty safe.

The problem now is, this floor was rather inaccessible and it didn't seem like we were going to get out of this place easily. The two of us were stuck here, it seemed. We stared down the shaft, and it was a really, really, really, really, really long way down... we considered rappelling down the shaft using an available elevator shaft cable, but it didn't seem safe because if we were to lose our grip we will certainly fall to our doom.

And I woke. Kind of anti-climax wasn't it? It really didn't seem like there was going to be any way out for me... and I think we were more worried about not getting on board our transport, which made us even more anxious to get out of that place. And I have no idea who the person is but all I can say is that it was a guy I'm sure.