It's always good to confront the fear in a dream, and avoid waking up before finding out what happens. Not always possible, due to not being able to sleep late, having to get up and go to work, etc...
If you can, try to see the dream through and not wake up due to "cowardice" in the dream. We are all cowards at some time or another in dreams. The exercise in dreaming is to face fears and defeat them. I've been shot, chased by monsters and even confronted by robots. Sometimes I get caught or killed. But sometimes whatever I need to deal with the problem magically appears. Or help comes. When it does it is always a beautiful woman, and not of this world either.
Another interesting thing I've heard about dreams, is everyone in the dream is you or a different part of you. I.e, the bad guy in a dream with a gun or trying to beat you up is actually you. That's a nightmare, because you are faced with defending yourself against yourself, you run or you kill the bad guy. It's an eye opener when you shoot someone that's going to, or at least you think they're going to shoot you in a dream. And where the heck did that 1911 .45 come from you have in your hand??? That's how dreams work.
The most vivid pleasant dream I've ever had was when the space woman took me to a space station under construction. It was the shape of the 2001 Odyssey space station, wheel shaped. I asked her how big it was. (We were in a section where the curvature was evident, with 100 ft wide corridors running the length of about 400 yards visible to me.) She said the station was about 50 miles in diameter, and she brought me up there to see it, though it was still under construction.
I woke up then, but it was so real I swear I was there.
It was absolutely beautiful beyond description.
I dreamed that 5 years ago!!!
If I may take the liberty to be speculative here JB73, it sounds like you were the pilot of the B-25 Mitchell. You and your friend knew about the danger ahead and tried to warn the pilot, which was you. You may have crashed the plane because you are troubled about something and have a decision to make perhaps, and can't decide.
Anyway, dreams are always strange because it's when the subconscious is at full tilt, without the logic and restraint of the everyday conscious mind. Anything goes in a dream. It's how the brain reorganizes itself, and there's nothing to fear. To the contrary. Go with it.
The Spanish painter Goya described it best when he did an etching titled "The Sleep of Reason produces Monsters."
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