53: Launched from a Dream

The title today is in reference to my experience this morning with dreaming and waking up, a new one for me. I was dreaming something relatively normal, if memory serves (and it better, even though this is all made up) I was eating dinner with some friends I hadn't seen in a good long while, and after dinner we were sitting in someone's living room just chatting, and all of a sudden everyone else turns to look at/behind me (there were probably 6? other people there) and someone shouts "Behind you!" and the vibes I got from their facial expressions was one of eldritch horror, something beyond comprehension was here to get me. I remember whomever was closest lunging towards me to try and pull me out of the way of whatever it was, and then I was hit by what I can only describe as a dense pillow. It felt like someone had thrown one of those big squishmallows at me, heavy, but soft. As soon as the impact occurred, my eyes flew open in real life, and the train of thought out of the dream was seamless. I could recount the whole sequence, as I'm doing now, and it was one train of thought, not just me remembering a dream. It was really quite strange, and not an experience I had had before, at least not quite in that way.