I had a dream that I was out in public at a park or something. I saw The Boy in the distance.  Somehow, eventually, we came together without words. We hugged/held each other for a long time.  We then decided we had to go somewhere from here. We couldn't just stay here.  So we started walking. We were indoors at this point, like a public building looking area. A school or a hospital maybe...  I don't know.  We were talking about not knowing where to go from here.  I saw the park in the distance and said we want to be back in the park. I realized what was happening and told him,  "it's a metaphor."  He teased back,  "You and your big words." I replied, "You're a writer; you know what a metaphor is." We made our way toward the park which required walking under a bridge. We got separated and were talking through a headset or something.  The connection got bad and I couldn't understand anything he was saying, so I went back to find him. He was still standing on the other side of the bridge. I walked toward him,  but the connection was not getting any better.  Still static and breaking up.  The bridge was getting lower and lower the closer I got until the point that it was almost crushing me.  I'm not claustrophobic but I have a real awful fear of being pinned down,  and that's what this bridge was doing to me.  I started freaking out and told him I had to go.  I tried lifting the weight off of me,  and that's when I woke up.

Pretty straightforward metaphor there. But I don't know why it's happening now.  

Then again, I have covid right now... it was just a fever dream.