Meta Dream

I had a really strange dream last night. I told it to some friends today and they were all quite fascinated by the implications. Here's what happened.

In my dream I was running through a building. It was sort of like a hospital. I can't remember what I was running from, but I know that it was important that I run as fast as possible because what was chasing me was really bad.

I ran out of the building and as I ran out the door I turned and I saw shaking and I heard a rumbling sound. I ran as fast as I could to get away from the building, and when I was a suitable distance ,I turned again and watched the building explode.

I kept on running (still don't know why I had to run) and then all of a sudden my dream stopped. Everything stopped moving--the world was just completely frozen, and then I heard my own voice...the voice was pretty critical and it said "you totally got that wrong. You saw where the building was shaking. The support was going out on the left side, it would have fallen that way. You had the building fall on the wrong side. Let's do it over so you get it right."

Right then my dream re-wound, and I was back in the building, and I was running out, and everything happened the same way, but this time the building fell correctly. I kept on running and the dream proceeded as any other dream would.

When I woke up this morning I was really curious as to what all this meant. I mean, I'm not a fan of dream analysis, but this was a strange dream. And while I disagree with most if not all dream theory, I do think dreams at an individual level are often insightful.

I think that we dream about what we think about when we go to bed, and I think we often use our dreams to sort through the events of the day and process all the new info. So, I guess (in that view) our dreams, since they are derived from our waking experience, can also be used to teach us about our waking experience...maybe to reflect what we're thinking or worrying about. Anyway, given all that, what could this mean?

All I know is I was criticizing myself, I was self-aware in a dream, and I spoke to myself. Perhaps the most interesting thing is the rigorous perfectionist tendencies that have haunted me most of my life are a part of me--even in my sleep. So, when people complain about me being overly critical, I can at least tell them I am critical unconsciously...and I got proof cause I was critical in my sleep (which I'm pretty sure is my subconscious or my unconscious or something).

Anyway, that's the dream. It's a dream where I corrected my own dream, or at least I corrected myself having a dream...and I was sort of a jerk to myself about it.

Any interpretations? Please be nice.