Me too. I got really, really sick one time when I lived alone, and was trying to call my mom, but was hallucinating this. It was awful.
Thank you!!!
I have these dreams, only they’re peeing dreams. I’ve mentioned them to a couple family members and they all seem to think I’m insane.
Usually I’m on a cross country trip and I really need to pee but there’s always something wrong with the bathroom.
I have learned that if I can wake myself up so I can go to the bathroom, the dream goes away. I decided that it was my subconscious desire to NOT wet the bed that stops me from peeing in my dream.
And, on looking back, I have also learned that I should just read the whole thread before posting in my excitement. Apparently, you all know about pee dreams already. 
I get trapped inside. I’ll walk through a door from the inside trying to go outside, but I end up entering a different interior room (often some strange family’s personal space, living room or whatever). Often the rooms become progressively smaller and the doors narrower. Repeat ad infinitum until in the dream I realise ‘oh crap it’s one of those dreams again’, firmly state (within the dream, still sleeping) “I’m leaving” or “enough” or whatever and make my way outside and on to some other forgotten dream.
That’s my recurring frustration dream. None about any hobbies or interests.
Oh hell. ALL my bleeping dreams are like this. Especially the sexual ones. For pete’s sake, I can’t even get a break in my dreams. Wah.
I think I’ve had about every dream described so far in this thread (frustration/pee/school angst). But the really funny thing? Going back to the OP - I have dreams about playing golf sometimes.
And I’ve never played a round of golf in my life. Never really wanted to. I figure that I can find much less expensive ways of exercising the old four-letter vocabulary.
In my golf dreams, I’m usually playing with someone I know, and the course is just awful, torn up, not maintained, etc. And in my dreams, I’m always playing well despite the fact that I’ve never played (it’s always my first ever round in the dream).
Go figure.
I guess I’ll cover both topics:
The “bodily functions” dreams usually involve me going to the bathroom, starting to go, but the sensation never stops, so I feel like it’s going to go on forever. But, since I actually do start going, I don’t think it’s my brain trying to keep me from wetting the bed. It’s just my paralyzed muscles not letting me control them.
AS for the frustration dreams, I’ve had them. I’m a (not-yet professional) musician, and I’ll have dreams where I can’t get enough breath to sing. And when I try to apologize, I can’t even get enough to talk more than a few words at a time.
I also have plenty of dreams where I can suddenly do a whole lot better. And even dreams where, although I can’t do better, I can make up things on the fly, and people will believe it is true. For example, I’ll get to play rehearsal, and realize I don’t know my lines. So I’ll make crap up, and it’ll turn out, that’s really what’s on the page. Another example is not being able to open a doorknob. I’ll just close my eyes and walk straight through the closed door! I’ll be about to fall, and will myself to fly.
It seems that, in my dreams at least, I’ve adapted a way to not let the frustration stop me. I game the dream. Heck, I’ve even had the classic “suddenly realizing I’m naked” dream, and, after hiding for a bit, I’ll just go out and act like I’m not naked, and people won’t notice. Would that you could out of these situations so easily in real life…
I’m a straight female, (at least I think I am) yet this past week I’ve had two dreams that had me doing lesbian stuff with my ex-best friend. (Who, trust me, I would never be physically attracted to even if I were a guy, or indeed lesbian.) In the dreams, I wasn’t a willing partner, so I’m not sure what to make of that.
But I’ve had plenty of frustration dreams, things like not being able to dial a phone or get to some place that I absolute HAVE to get to. I also get dreams about filthy toilets and stuff covered with bugs and maggots. Ew.
My “frustration” dream, if that’s what it is, is about shopping. I have tons of money and only a couple of hours to shop, and I have to buy things, yet I can’t find anything that I like/that fits.
One kind of frustration dream I get is that I’m doing a radio show but somehow I can’t seem to find any records in the studio, and if I do find one, it seems to last about 23 seconds, and I need to cue up another one NOW but there aren’t any…
Funny because it’s been decades since the last time I was actually a DJ, but I still have those dreams occasionally.
Another one I have a lot is that summer is ending and I’m trying to get to the beach but somehow I can’t. Pretty obvious mortality symbolism there, I think.
I just thought I’d drop you a line to say that you’ve summed up my recurring dream, I’ve had for some 15+ years, to a Tee… or some other object I have to use as a tee when trying to place my golf ball on a 90 degree slope :smack:
Sex, usually. I’ve got it figured out though. In my case it means that my bladder is over full and has forced an erection. Since I sleep on my stomach, the wriggling around from needing to pee has stimulated the “morning wood” type hardon and produced a frustrating sex dream. I HATE those. Lately I’ve gotten good about waking up before I become to frustrated with the dream though.
Pretty much a Universal dream.
I’ve had all sorts of these frustration dreams.
One I get often are driving dreams. It’s particularly freightening too, because not only am I lost, or trying to find a road to get to some destination, but I seem to acknowledge that something is certainly wrong and that I shouldn’t be driving because I can’t remember where I’m going, can’t quite make out the road, everything is super vague, or I even feel like I’m asleep at the wheel. It’s really bizarre and scary.
Oh god. It has also been decades since I was in radio, but every once in awhile I get dreams where I have to put on records, but the only ones are terrible, ancient discs that have nothing to do with the radio station’s format (obscure classical records, foreign language lessons, how to build a shed etc.). One record will be ending and I’ll have no time to cue up another, and there are no usable public service spots or anything to fill the upcoming dead air. Even worse, I’ll have only a couple of minutes to set up a long newscast, with no prerecorded local stories available. I’ll be leafing through mounds of Associated Press teletype paper containing no real news, only laughably inane features. I have to improvise, make up a weather forecast and so on.
I don’t view these as “frustration” dreams - they’re anxiety dreams incorporating current work stresses and sometimes events that caused angst years and years ago.
And yes, I still occasionally get revolting academic/postgraduate training dreams in which I have missed loads of classes with exams coming up, can’t find the assigned classrooms and so on. The most disgusting of these dreams have me needing to repeat college, medical school, high school or even elementary school. And I’m my current age in such dreams, which you’d think would get me funny looks in the classroom. :dubious:
I have frustration dreams but usually it is something simple like I need to go to the store. Then usually my roommate wants to come with but first they must do this and that and the other. Then I can’t find my keys or my shoes.
I hate those dreams.
I’ve had that one too, except I’ll be driving and can’t stay awake. And I can’t pull over either. Pretty scary.
I’ve had a variation of the exam dream as well, where it’s the last week of school, but I realize I haven’t been to class all semester, haven’t done any of the assignments and I’m about to flunk big time.
I have these too. Being able to fly is common in my dreams so I sometimes have dreams where I can’t fly like I normally can.
I also have basic walking frustration dreams. In these I struggle to walk, as if giant slabs of concrete are attached to my legs.
I have dreams where I have to warn someone, but I can’t speak, or I’m in danger, but I can’t move, or I can only move very slowly, like I’m under water.
Or I’m at an amusement park, and I want to ride a certain ride, but I can’t get there, or I’m planning on going swimming, but I never make it to the pool. Something ALWAYS prevents it from happening.
When I was in college, I’d dream that for some reason my transcripts from elementary school were messed up, and I had to go back there. And I’d be like, “This isn’t right, I’m supposed to be in college!” And they’d tell me, “no no no, you have to finish some stuff here, then you can go back!” Aaaah!!!
I have dreams where I cant walk properly or open doors. They piss me off 