I love dreaming. I have dreams that are more fun than any movie or TV show I have ever watched. They get vivid, weird, crazy and engaging. James Cameron is right about dreams.
My dreams are frequently great and it's usually every day that I wake up to at least one memorable dream. I do have 3 reoccuring dreams that happen what feels like all the time.
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My first one is my favorite and most frequent, happening quite often in fact. It is not so much a dream but rather what I do. Fly. But a floating kind of flying. Like how you float on your back in the pool, but I can fly/glide around in the air. No matter the genre of dream, no matter what else may be going on, if I'm around I typically fly around. It is so freeing and fun. Sometimes I'm just floating around a few feet off the ground and sometimes I'm covering distances in the sky. Plus, if on the off chance I start lucid dreaming while in a fly dream, it becomes real and FUCKING SICK.
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I am back at high school, this time surrounded by not only my classmates from school but an amalgamation of all people I've met throughout my life so far. All now classmates in my dream. Sometimes It'll be a near identicle dream but it's usually different situations and people but with the same theme. I am worried about the schoolwork/papers/tests I need to take in-dream because I didn't study, but also I am aware that I've graduated already. I will become more lacksadasical because I know I already have a degree so doing poorly won't negatively affect me. It's weird and sometimes annoying but I don't typically mind these ones.
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my least favorite. Also a "theme" rather than specific dream. But in it I am hated by my friends/family/strangers. Not so much hated as just found incredibly annoying and considered a loser who no one wants to hang out with. I'll either be upset and get angry at what they do/say or just slink away in shame. This is the only type of dream where I'm always thankful to wake up. I assume I have this kind of dream because of the low self-esteem I had for years and years.
What are yours? What do you think they mean? How fucking fun is dreaming?
Variations on "you're actually one course short to graduate so you'll have to wait until next year". Sometimes I'll even be in college and they call me back to take a high school class I forgot about. Not fun,.and from what I understand it doesn't stop as you get older
Sometimes it does, I haven't dreamt about school in at least five years
I find it kind of fascinating that so many people have this exact dream. I swear it has to mean something.
i have that dream too, but usually about elementary school. like i have to go back and finish first grade even though i'm an adult with a masters degree
My deceased father keeps calling me on the phone. Sometimes it's eery, sometimes it's just annoying. But at least 2x a week, in my head I get a phone call from him.
I don't have a reoccurring dream but instead a reoccurring theme that is in my dreams like the fucking Dark Tower that stephen king series.
No matter the dream there is always this house in it, not a house I've ever seen irl either. Its decrepit and needs a massive overhaul and for some reason I own it but i never moved in just left it.
No matter the dream or location thaf house is always there and ever so slowly I clear it out bit by bit. Its very spooky and found it had some caved in bunkers underneath it which i saw someone somehow run into.
Every dream i have the context of this house follows on from the last dream. Is my brain ok?
I have something similar, where I'm either living in or visiting this old house and every time I go to the basement there are stairs that lead to another, creepier basement. I've made it several levels down before, but the house above is almost always the same. I wish mine saved progress though, I'll never get to that bottom basement
I once dreamt I had to save a family of racoons from a shopping mall mission accomplished
One common one is a car rolling down a steep hill either out of control or without a driver. Clearly from my general anxiety and hatred of driving since I find it stressful
Another one is that I'm back in elementary school but everybody is around my age, we're all swimming around in the air, and there's portals opening around us and people keep jumping in
I've had the above one for over 10 years now, maybe 4 or 5 times
Generally most of my dreams are really cool. Basically sci-fi, action, adventure movie scenes. Often times stressful though
Sudden exam I forgot to prep for and know I'm failing hard in. Graduated College in 2016.
Holy shit I have the high school dream and I hate it so much. I'll often end up cutting class because I realize on a subconscious level that I don't technically need to be there. Another recurring dream I have is one where I'm a college undergrad again and I realize there's a math or computer science class I've been neglecting all semester and am now horribly behind on.
Another one is a dream where I've horribly fucked up at work and am at risk of being fired, or have been given a task I have absolutely no idea how to accomplish.
It's not that I never have good dreams, they just tend to be one-offs rather than recurring.
EDIT: Forgot a recurring dream I have where I somehow fail or relapse as a vegan - I either eat something containing an animal product by accident, or (worse) I give into a craving and eat something I shouldn't. I find that interesting because I've heard that former drug and alcohol addicts often have similar nightmares about relapsing.
I am back at high school, this time surrounded by not only my classmates from school but an amalgamation of all people I've met throughout my life so far. All now classmates in my dream. Sometimes It'll be a near identicle dream but it's usually different situations and people but with the same theme. I am worried about the schoolwork/papers/tests I need to take in-dream because I didn't study, but also I am aware that I've graduated already. I will become more lacksadasical because I know I already have a degree so doing poorly won't negatively affect me. It's weird and sometimes annoying but I don't typically mind these ones.
Holy shit I have kind of like the same reoccurring dream! Often I wake up in a panic thinking I didn't do a big assignment but then I realize I'm literally a college graduate lol. Other reoccurring dream is aliens and close encounters which makes me paranoid.
One of my earliest memories is a recurring dream that happened once or twice a year from age 5 to about 25.
In it I am scuba diving in a relatively shallow area, maybe 100 feet of water, and it's a completely flat, empty expanse of sand, except for one thing. It's a complete metal bedframe with metal bar headboard and footboard that's quite corroded, but intact. I see something glinting underneath it, so I swim under the frame, but my scuba gear gets caught on it, it's completely unmovable, then I struggle with it until I run out of air and drown.
I have no idea what the fuck, why it started, why it stopped, why my 5 year old non-coastal self had any concept of scuba diving
always doing schools and interior buildings. backrooms shit. i hate anxiety dreams
the secret extra floor in a building where everything is wrong and i don't know how to get down
I have not so much reoccurring dreams as much as reoccurring nightmares. They usually involve some kind of apocalyptic theme.
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I get a notification somehow (on my phone, on a TV) that a nuclear war has begun. I never run, I just try to make the best use of my remaining 30 minutes to say goodbye to everyone before me and everyone I love is vaporized. This one is the worst. The feeling of horror is indescribable. Thankfully, it doesn't happen too often.
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Some kind of cataclysmic enemy (zombies or rogue AI usually) has killed most of humanity. I'm still alive in my home, just trying to stay beneath the notice of whatever foe humanity has lost to. All the curtains are over the windows and I can hear the sounds of whatever it is occasionally. I can't make too much noise or light or else I'll be discovered and killed. I'm just trying to live out my remaining days with whatever food and water I have. Sometimes, I leave my home for supplies but it usually doesn't end well. Sometimes it just ends without any conflict. But rarely I am discovered and killed in some horrific way.
I only dream about these things rarely but it always leaves me in a shaken state. The kind of state where you're awake but it feels like you haven't fully left the dream. So you're just lying there, terrified, motionless, trying to anchor yourself back into reality.
Edit: Just tried to repeat myself less. I feel like whenever I write anything longer than a few sentences I end up sounding like a robot.
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