Wow! I too was asleep when it was all going on. I was in Grand Junction, Colorado at the time. I had a very similar dream as well. I don’t talk much about this, but I had a dream I was on a plane that was in a very steep dive. I was sitting on the floor of the aisle with several other people. People were screaming, and the plane was shaking and rattling as it was on the way down. There were also some passengers who were already dead, and I recall being confused in the dream why they were dead before the plane had gone down. It didn’t last very long, was just a flash and then I woke up. I know it sounds far fetched, but I really did have that dream.
I woke up to my clock radio as well, Limbaugh was on. I laid in my bed for several minutes, listening to this montague of audio bytes, several different people describing all the different things that had happened. I was half asleep, thinking I was listening to a radio ad for some action film. That is, until the guest host for Rush came on, announced he had just spoken to Rush, that his plane had been grounded, and that he was at an airport and was ok. That’s when I realized this was real, I leaped out of my bed, flipped on the tv. An old friend of mine’s mother was in one of the Towers and didn’t make it out. I will never forget either.
Except for a few family members, I had not told people about having that dream either until I decided to post it here. I thought perhaps others might have experienced something similar. It's amazing how the sub-conscience mind can be influenced by what we my hear when we are asleep. But in this case it was kind of freaky.