Add airpline pilot to the list of jobs I don't want

Last night I dreamed I had just finished learning how to fly a plane. This is not the first time I've been on board a plane in my dreams, but definitely the 1st time I've flown. Both dreams were scary.
I had been given the task of flying a very large, very complicated airplane across the Atlantic with no help. I was terrified and I knew I couldn't do it, but I didn't know how to get out of it.

I know where this comes from. It's that damn research paper I'm doing.

I think the plane represents a journey or task that I don't feel confident about. Wonder what Freud would say?