Running through my mind

They have been away for a while but the strange dreams are back, this was last nights

You (the dreamer) are running along a road, running at a pretty decent speed, you're feeling good about things because you are making good time, there is just the 'thud thud thud' of your feet on the tarmac, no cars or distractions around. After a while you get to a y shaped intersection, the road has finished and you need to choose one of these directions to take, you pause for a moment but realise its quite obvious which direction you should take, one road is very dark and the other is brightly lit so you keep on running (like the song), the next fork in the road you get to you meerly slow down to a jog, you have learnt from before and are following the light. You keep running following the light each time and not even needing to stop to think, you know what you are doing and you feel quite pleased with yourself, things seem quite straightforward. The road seems to get a little bit bumpy, and you wonder how you didnt see this coming (hadn't you been watching the road ahead?) you find yourself going up and down pretty steep hills, the journey upwards is really hard going but its a great view at the top (a great surround sound, you dont have a camera though which is disappointing because you would like to save this feeling for later when you arent so busy) the way down the hills is easy going but you could almost mistake it for being dark down here, you wonder if you've gone the wrong way, been lead off the track but you realise your view is affected by the hill you just climbed. Back on the straight and narrow you are running again, that little hiccup is long behind you and you are speeding along until you find yourself in total darkness, you stop, turn around and wonder what happened, you know this isnt right so you look back, to try and figure out where you had gone wrong, there is a HUGE flashing arrow shaped (lit up with lightbulbs) sign pointing to the brightly lit side road, its much smaller than the road you are on but it seems so obvious looking back, how did you miss that? You decide to slow down a bit, retrace your steps and follow the arrow. This road is really quite tiny and after a while it turns from smooth tarmac to cobble stones, not easy going on your feet, then it turns to dirt, a dirt track that seems like very few people have walked before, there is only one persons foot steps to follow and you start to have second thoughts, you look back wondering if you have gone the wrong way again, was the dark road better than this? Did you miss another turning? But things are quite clearly bright here, brighter than they have been at any other part of your journey, you are sure this is the right way, it just looks hard going, treading carefully you carry on, very prepared to hop it in the other direction if anything goes wrong, the path gets even harder, climbing on all fours, leading you into a forest which looks kinda dark, you are really scared, the trees are blocking out some of the light that was guiding you, making it really cold too. After a while of struggling you have serious second thoughts, you stand for a while. Then you realise, standing in the scary place isnt a good place to stand, why didnt you stand longer in all those bright warm places? Why were you so eager to speed on?? You are cold and weary but realise you are fully equipped to deal with the situation, you have a jumper and are wearing hiking shoes, you just need the right attitude, you look ahead and decide not to let the darkness bother you, there are spots of light that break through the shade the tree has given, you hop between them (like a child playing hop scotch), keeping your focus on them, before you know if you are out of the forest in the bright open landscape again, it looks so much more beautiful for having been away for a while, you take a moment and look how far you have come, the steep jagged journey looks so much worse from this angle, you are a little taken a back that you actually made it, you cant understand how you did that, you decide to walk slower for the rest of the journey, you start to enjoy the heat from the light on your back, whereas before you had been trying to run from it, you find yourself walking with someone else, you were running away from them before, yet they had been ahead, you guess it was there footprints and you are quietly thankful although you'll never let on.

*shrugs* Any ideas?