What hope sometimes seems like to me

I saw an episode from Monty Python where a man is imprisoned in the Soviet Union, and guards have just grabbed him to take him from his cell to be tortured and executed. Suddenly someone is shaking his shoulder and telling him to wake up. He sees he’s laying in a lawn chair at his own house, and his sweet loving elderly mother is standing over him. He’s so happy, he cries “Mother, thank God! It was all a dream!” and she just gives him a beaming smile and says “oh, no, dear, this is the dream! You’re still back in the cell!”