right i have had this dream twice. i start by flying through the sky only about 40 feet high but my flight is not very good as it takes some practice. its a cold winters night i see a factory in the distance and fly over near it, near the factory there is a canal and on the other side there is a woman stood there at the side of a metal fence. something is telling me it was around 1950s by the clothes this woman was wearing. she had a long coat on and a scalf around her head and it was covering her mouth and nose,as i flew over the canal to this woman i got close up to her eyes and then my flight went out of control and the i woke. it happend twice just the same.

when i fly, it is an extension of childhood desire to escape - I would struggle to flap my arms and fly above the fray.
This dream, you struggle to fly? is this an extension of your desire to be able to GO SEE (what is happening)?

50's clothes - you saw old style clothes, but in waking state you assume (is this right?) that the clothing style places the action in the 50's? Or/ as when you travel in Europe, you see old style fashion all the time? so it could be a present happening?

Factory and canal - did she SEE something at th factory? just by reading your narrative, I get the assumption/feelling that this is in eastern europe, poland, cold so scarf over face and nose. Why are the eyes so important?

Are you projecting yourself by flight to go see what this woman sees? You probably need to fill in all the tiny details, then turn them over for public analysis here, as we between us will then SEE the possibilities - but it is hard, as sometimes we are only allowed glimpses anyhow.

while reading your post i was put back to the news report about the chenoble (incorrect spelling i think),i remember a woman on the fence looking watching waiting for news she had on a very old long type coat,scarf ect, heavy one but she was still cold , maybe it was just an old coat of 50's style worn many years later.maybe because just her eyes showed thats what you focused on.

i have to say that when readin your post I too thought of Chernobyl momentarily. I happening this is not going to repeat. Myabe we came real close in the past also?