Dream - The figure receding sideways through the clouds

In the late morning of Wednesday, November 26, 2008, the day before Thanksgiving, I had a series of strange dreams. The following dream is the first in the list that I made of them.

In the dream, I saw a dark figure facing the right, completely covered in a bulky suit. The head was slightly pointed down, and the head and neck were completely hidden by a cylindrical flat-topped covering with a faceplate. The head covering may have been of soft material. Overall, it was almost as if he was wearing a containment suit or perhaps some kind of welding suit. After a slight pause, the figure, still with its side facing me, rapidly receded away from me through a hole in layers of dark clouds.

Two days later, on the morning of Friday the 28th, on WGN, Matlock had an episode called "The Coach," in which a person briefly appeared wearing a dark, smooth, bulky coat with a hood. The hood was tall and went to a point in the back. The person was shown from the side, head pointed slightly downward, though the forward slope of the top of the hood exaggerated this, and the person's face was almost entirely hidden and sometimes entirely hidden by the side of the hood. The figure was very disturbingly reminiscent of the figure in my dream.

Later that day, at 10:00 PM, a new Monk Christmas episode came on the USA channel in which monks appeared wearing brown hoods that were somewhat pointed at the back, but the cloth was thinner and the tops of the hoods were more rounded. They were thus less of a match, though it was still interesting that I should see similar costumes on two shows that day, ones that were at least somewhat similar to a figure in a dream two days before.