I have just had the first 'happy' dream I have had for years and years.

It only lasted a really brief moment but oh my goodness.

It started off that I was driving a really beaten up car. The bonnet had been badly damaged and the engine was exposed. I had to plug myself in to the engine even at one point, driving along with jump leads hanging off my ear.

I parked the car and got out to pick up some kayaks. As I was loading them on to the roof some guy came up to me and we got talking. He was asking what kind of kayaks I had and where I was planning on launching.

I said I didn't know, I was new to the area.

So he said "ther s a good launch point not far away" and said he would show me if I fancied a short walk.

As we walked we passed a strange looking area. I stopped. He said, well you could always launch off the ....... (Can't remember what he called it) public jump site or something. I was curious, so I stopped to take a good look. He said to be careful, that I'd need to lace my shoes up properly.

Two of the guys we were with walked down the ramp, and I followed. Curious. Intrigued. It was like a water slide. Loads of people were just throwing themselves off the side a d being swept away. The two guys jumped. I hesitated, and then thought "I need to learn to live again" and jumped in after them.

I got carried along by the fast flow of the river, down the slide, twisting and turning, then all of a sudden I got launched off the end and was expecting to splash into the water, but instead I didn't land. I flew. High above the water, just suspended in the air. Free and floating.

Then I woke up.