I had a dream last night wherein I was in a very different place, maybe a different world, without knowing where any of the people I know are. It was very like Phillip Jose Farmer's Riverworld in feeling, if not in detail. Though there were buildings and technology and things, it also felt kind of like an afterlife in the way those books do.
Finally, I found one of my girlfriends amidst the throngs of strangers. I was so relieved that my tears seemed to come from my whole being, with wracking full-body sobs. When I woke up, tears were streaming down my cheeks and onto my pillow.
Oddly, it's kind of a nice experience on occasion to feel that sort of indescribable sense of joy and relief so tremendous it can't be vocalized.