I was half awake idly going over the dream in my head, it was a familiar dream. I can clearly remember that I’m on a train but where am I going and who am I with? the details are frustratingly elusive. Each time I have this dream it ends the same way, in my dream I’m telling myself please, please don’t wake up just yet! I am with someone I know very well and we are going to see someone or going to stop something?There is an urgency of some sort, but it always ends the same way. I wake up in the middle of the seemingly important mission with a feeling of …………regret? or maybe failure?
My eyes flew open abruptly and I quickly sat up and looked through the porthole. We were moving! I scooted off the bed and headed to the bathroom to brush my teeth. I could hear the anchor chain rattling as it was being wound up on the winch. I hurriedly pulled on a pair of shorts and a t-shirt and went up the short flight of stairs to the galley.