I was caving. Right at the beginning of the dream, I was standing on a ledge, in Propantes, and I was derigging the cave on my way out at -70m of the continuous entrance pit of -285m.
As I derigged, a maillon dropped and fell, clanking on the rock as it went the 200m to the bottom of the pit. As I looked on as it fell, I realised that I was not on rope. I had somehow come out of my harness and let the rope go. The rope was dangling about 3 feet away, just out if arm's length amd I was just stood there, on a narrow ledge, holding on to an oval anchor, alone.
"Hey, koumpare, please come down here, I've done something silly." I said to Alexandros, some tens of metres above me. I looked up and could see daylight in the distance towards the shaft's exit. Alexandros started coming back down, I started feeling a little exposed and weak at the knees and the anchor felt very small and hard to hold on to, but Alexandros appeared and went to get my harness and put me back on rope.
A big burley guy in a green MTDE suit appeared going down (Rustem?) and then I saw Costis in a red AV oversuit coming down, too.
Then I woke up kinda glad I had been caving again and happy that the incident had resolved. I have not been to Propantes since 2006 or 2007 when I surveyed the pit with tape and a suunto tandem... I have not taken my harness off and left the security of the rope, ever. Now feeling a little meh with a faint bit of happy that I was caving.
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