Prison...
I frequently have dreams where I am imprisoned somewhere. Sometimes it is, literally, in a prison itself. Since I love to watch movies where characters are in prison (quite frankly because I am deathly afraid of it) I often have dreams about prisons.
Probably one of my worst fears is to be in a prison in a foreign country. I remember, as a younger guy, watching a movie called "Midnight Express," where a young man is caught with drugs in Turkey and kept in a horrific prison. It scared me to death watching it, picturing myself in the same situation. OK, now on with the dream...
As I have intimated, this dream involves me being in a foreign prison. The circumstances that led me there are not explained in the dream. It is a foreign prison, in an unnamed and rather scary-looking third-world environment, resembling something ancient and Byzantine. The prison is ugly, it is dirty, and everyone is ugly and intimidating.
A girl is with me, someone whom I care for. But soon she is taken away and I do my best to escape the prison to find her. My escape attempts are always thwarted by the militaristic guards and horrible citizens who surround the prison. During one attempt, I somehow gain the power to fly. I fly over the walls and into a nearby sea. I desperately swim and board some type of freighter, but am caught (I don't remember how). I am brought back to the prison. Seemingly, years pass. I am afraid of everyone there, including the guards.
Visions of my friends and family appear in odd places. Finally, I escape again and attempt to leave the country in the midst of a large and crowded parade which has filled the city's labyrinthine streets. A car comes for me, filled with my family and friends and the girl whom I was originally with. I get in the car but the police chase us. The car crashes and I wake up.