Woken by dream. Help me understand please.

[Jeremy]

Been a long time since I could recall any dreams so when this one brought me out of bed with a feeling of dread, I decided to do some checking and found this site. I have been more healthy of late and am in the middle of the first vacation from work I have had in a year. 1 week off. staying at home.

In my dream, I find myself working at a company I had worked at in the past. I recognize faces but I don't recall names. Everything is jovial. They are glad to have me back. Some family of the management comes by us workers get out of the way while they do whatever. No idea what they do other than visit with some of the employees and mill about the place a while.
Next scene, I am waking up with a travel packet in my hand and I feel that I am being send away for some extra training or to another company location. I am in an airport-like building. There aren't any security checkpoints but there is a convoluted method of reaching the plane/train/whatever. I try to get the method into my head but it doesn't come together for me comfortably. We are to put our belongings in a plastic bag and are given a very heavy briefcase to carry. We are to traverse the bottom of this huge swimming pool while various undead creatures (mostly people but with a few man-sized skeletal dinosaurs mixed in) start coming out slowing from one side. After reaching a certain point, our belongings are to be dropped down to us where we leave the heavy briefcase and swim for the other side. I don't even know if I can hold my breath long enough either. Or at least that is how I think it was supposed to go. I locate a couple fellow techs that seem to be perfectly fine with what we are about to be put through. While I am trying to question them about specifics they keep chatting about other things. Their topics are unclear. The mass exodus of passengers starts while I am not in my position/seat/cabin and I am afraid that starting late will put me in the middle or rear of the pack of travellers where I will have a lesser chance of making it across in one piece. My fellow techs bolt when the event starts. I see families starting to cross as I try tog et back to my things. All the while I feel a sense of dread. Before I can start this crossing myself, I wake up and don't want to go back to sleep.

I used to be very imaginative as a child and had very fanciful dreams but in my adult life they are very few and far between. This is by far the most vivid dream I have had in a decade. Sorry if it sounds wacky, but these things kinda govern themselves if I understand correctly. I have some ideas on it regarding theme and some symbols but I'll hold off and see what an experienced interpreter suspects before sharing my thoughts on it. Off to write all this down and step out for a smoke to relax.

[Tish]

All your dream seems to be saying is that you are feeling overwhelmed at work, that you are in a situation you feel unprepared for and are not sure whether you are able to do what is being asked of you. Previously you felt capable and valued, now you feel out of your depth. I hope it eases up for you soon.

[Jennings]

In the first part of your dream it would seem to indicate that you feel uncomfortable in the presence of authority figures and it might be that you feel inadequate in their presence.

The second part (and from what you related about your present life) tends to indicate that you had an accident, possibly while at work, and that you are in hospital undergoing tests and that you may have been transferred to another hospital for an operation which was of concern to you. The briefcases probably represents the health burdens or case notes of each patient.

It almost sounds as if you had a by-pass (but surely something as serious) and that you are now back in harness and enjoying life once again.

I should add that there is another possible interpretation but this is the one I've chosen; does it get close?