It was just after six in the morning when I boarded my return flight to Chicago. As part of my job, I took a regular trip to our neighboring regional office in Minneapolis, which usually lasted a couple of days. Meetings had run late on the previous night, and I was short on sleep. During a travel day, I was expected to report to work for the second half of my normal scheduled work hours. I hoped to get a forty-five-minute nap during the roughly sixty-five-minute flight to help get me through the day.
Unfortunately, the plane was almost fully booked. It seemed like these flights were either completely full or empty, and there was no in-between. At least I had a window seat, which would ensure that I didn’t have to get up for bathroom breaks or get bumped into by fumbling passengers walking down the aisle.
As always, I came prepared with a small blanket and mini pillow in my carry-on bag. Once seated, I got settled into a comfortable position wearing the cozy tracksuit that I usually donned on those early morning flights. There were three seats on my side of the plane, and they were all occupied. Fortunately, neither of them bothered me as they could see that I was fully intending to go to sleep.
I leaned ever-so-slightly into the side of the plane as I stared blankly out of the window. It didn’t take very long for me to nod off.
I can recall having a dream about a sexual encounter with a familiar girl. She took the vague form of several of my ex-girlfriends, the secretary from my office, and the cute barista at my favorite coffee shop at different points in the encounter.
We always seemed to fall just short of having sexual intercourse, although we were both naked and doing just about everything else that we could possibly do. I remember thinking that I was getting overstimulated at that point in the encounter and was in danger of finishing before we really got the action going.
Just then, my eyes started to flutter. Dazed, I looked around the plane and realized where I was actually at and that it was just a dream. I quickly realized, though, that the sexual stimulation had not stopped. As I looked down, I could see movement underneath my blanket. I looked things over and quickly realized that the man sitting next to me had reached his hand inside my pants and was stroking my cock.
Strangely, much like when you fall down in public, my first reaction was to make sure that nobody had noticed what was going on. Groggy and panicked, I wasn’t sure how to react. I wasn’t gay and had never had a gay experience in my life. Still, I was paralyzed by the fear of causing a disturbance that would draw attention to what was happening.