plane crash

I has another plane crash dream last night…

I was watching a struggling plane (a 737 or similar in a livery similar to Lufthansa's) from an upstairs window in my old house in Whitley Bay. However, by the time I'd run downstairs the house was situated right on a beach. In America (don't you just love dreams?). At first it was strange as apart from a few other eye witnesses gathering on the beach there were no sirens or emergency vehicles. It was clear that the plane had gone down in shallow waters pretty near the coast. I grabbed my camera and began taking photos of some rescuers going out in boats and large amounts of debris being washed ashore by the surf. Soon, the emergency services arrived and a kind of organised chaos ensued.

That's all I remember.

the ideal crash

For years I’ve been having regular dreams about witnessing plane crashes at very close range. Whenever I’m at home in a dream it’s always in Whitley Bay, in the house where I grew up, even though I haven’t lived there for almost 17 years. I digress. In these dreams, I’m usually looking out of the window and see a plane (an airliner) taking off and then obviously struggling before crashing in the streets near to my house. Occassionally, I’ll be walking somewhere when the plane crashes and I have to run for cover and dodge enormous bits of debris. One particularly vivid occurence was when I was walking along Hillheads near the ice rink when a 737 came down. I only just escaped that one.

The house in Whitley Bay was near the flightpath of Newcastle Airport but approaching planes were still at a fairly high altitude when they passed over. In Peterborough the only plane you’ll see is the odd RAF fighter on maneouvres. I was also having these dreams long before I was flying back and forth between the UK and Italy last year. Plus, I’m not scared of flying. But I wanted to use this blog to note when I have a plane crash dream and see if there is a pattern to them.