I’m seriously debating if I should tell my child: " Ya’ know, years from now, when you’re a full grown adult, you’re going to have nightmares about being back in school… …as an adult!
/Evil grin.
FWIW, while I checked it, I haven’t had the “naked in public” dream in 25 years, since I lived it after falling in the lake at college.
I have a reoccurring dream, more of a nightmare, where I’m a muffler on a 1957 Chevy. Between the noise, vibration, smell, and heat, I don’t get much sleep.
I wake up exhausted.
I’ve had the teeth crumbling/falling out one, too.
Odd thing about the flying dreams - I used to have a LOT of flying dreams. Until I actually started flying. I haven’t had a dream about flying since my first solo, whether that’s the flying like superman type thing or flying in airplanes.
Kind of miss them…
I’ve done that a good number of times, most recently a few days ago. 99% of the time the music that I think is so great and amazing in my dream is complete shit when I wake up and come to my senses.
I had the naked and flying dreams a lot when I was younger but haven’t had them in many years.
Sex with an attractive stranger wasn’t an option, but that’s a theme in my dreams. Also being in school and utterly clueless and unprepared, one way or another.
Also, bugs and spiders. Last night I had a long, complex dream about needing to rid my van of ants, and also having fire ants all over my body. When I have time, I try to drift back to sleep in the morning and re-connect with my dreams. But they rarely make sense no matter what.
I don’t think I have ever met anyone who I have discussed dreams with who hasn’t had a dream about being able to fly. Also, it is usually just they who can fly, no one else in their dream. Same with me, although in my dreams I can only fly a few inches off the ground, and usually when I attempt to show others that I can fly, I suddenly, and inexplicably can’t.
Never dreamed of being unable to find a bathroom, always found one eventually. Typically a bathroom with weird plumbing, missing fixtures, and/or zero privacy.
Have had a few “back in school” dreams and even fewer “back in Basic” dreams.
Sometimes I’ll dream that I’m in a completely unfamiliar place. Last one of these was a few nights ago, dreamed that I had moved somewhere in England and was trying to walk home but everything was incomprehensible to me. So I pulled out a smartphone, told it to call home and the sweet voice of a local lass answered. I asked her to come get me. Then I woke up.
I used to have a recurring dream of swimming in deep water in the dark of night. Large fish would swim by, or dead fish carcasses were floating in the water.
I have something like this, I think. I have a lot of dreams set at “work,” but the setting is in most ways quite different from my actual workplace–not one detail, really, is the same. (And the nature of the job we’re doing differs from dream to dream.) But I realized recently that this “work” setting in my dreams, if you were to map out the rooms in it, and describe the map verbally, is in fact totally accurate to my actual workplace. (“When you walk into the entrance, there are stairs right in front of you, a large gathering place to the left, and a hallway to the right,” etc.) The room proportions are all different, and everything is just basically not the same as my actual workplace–but at the very broad verbal description level it’s dead on.
I like flying dreams but I have the same problem I would have in real life. If I’m too low there are power lines and trees to worry about and if I go any higher there are helicopters and airplanes. I don’t know how birds do it. Oh yeah, I don’t need to get hit by ducks either.
I’ve also been having dreams with songs and musical compositions that I have no other recollection of. They aren’t the best of the best but better then I would expect me to be able to dream up.
When I was in school, I had dreams about being in school. Naked.
I hate these - I need to get rid of the gum, so I reach into my mouth and pull it out in pieces, but there always seems to be more stuck way back that I can’t seem to get all of it out. Annoying as I never actually chew gum, and have never chewed gum other than once when I was about 10 and it kept sticking to my back fillings, and the flavor vanished almost instantly [so I never saw the point of gum.]
If not 911, then calling someone I really need to contact. Seriously fucking annoying.
Or a lack of privacy [door doesn’t shut, no stall walls/door] or they are disgustingly filthy, or no toilet paper, or they are full to the brim and not flushed.
I have dreams where I need to shoot an attacker and either the gun doesn’t work, the round basically bounces off the guy, out of ammo or down to the last couple of rounds, or if I do manage to hit the guy it is only a light wound and he keeps coming. If I try to escape/evade I can’t run or have a foot/leg injury that prevents me from moving quickly or quietly.
Another odd one is directly related to my crutches - in my dream I am only faking needing my crutches, and I keep forgetting them somewhere and need to sneak back to get them before anybody notices I don’t have them, or I need to get something out of reach but I don’t want to stand up out of my wheelchair because people will realize I am faking it.
Though the real heartbreaker is being able to walk and dance in my dreams because I don’t need crutches or my chair. 
Never had a flying dream, AFAIK, even though I know it’s a dream a lot of people have.
I’d never had or even heard about the dream where your teeth are crumbling and falling out. WTF?!
Never had or heard about the dream where the lights are not working properly, at least as any sort of noticeable thing. So many things tend to not work normally in dreams that I’ve probably had one where the lights, among other things, didn’t work, but the lights not working weren’t a part of the dream that stood out.
Had the naked-in-public dream (decades ago); had the dream where it’s time for the final exam of a class that you’ve only just remembered for the first time all semester that you signed up for (a number of times in my 30s and early 40s, but not before or since, AFAIK), and for a few years after getting out of a dead-end job and going back to grad school and ultimately, better jobs, I dreamed I was back in that job.
Had sex with a totally unattractive student of mine once in a dream. And no, I didn’t find her to be any more attractive after I woke up from that one.
Yeah, I’ve had enough of those sort that that’s how I know it’s a dream, so I wake up and go to the john.
More and more, though, lately, in the dream I actually find a bathroom I can use, and use it, and go on with the dream.
And in answer to the obvious question, no, I don’t wet the bed when this happens. I wake up some time later, go to the bathroom, and go back to bed.
Related to the school dreams, I have the one where I forget I signed up for a class, or forgot to go, and now it’s test/research paper time and I"M GONNA FAIL!!!
Rufus, I have that same thing about using a bathroom in my dream. Scares me to death that I’ll wet the bed, but I never have yet.
For some reason, I have really bad taste in my dreams. A recurring stress dream for me is me shopping for something to where to a big event. I eventually find something, and when I wake up, I realize it’s completely hideous.
I’ve been able to lucid dream since I was a kid. I had lots of falling nightmares, but I always woke up before I hit the ground. So, once I was dreaming, and I was with my younger sister. The dream was starting to bore me. I was aware I was dreaming and, since I knew falling would wake me up, I changed the scenery so we were at the edge of a cliff. I jumped off and pulled my sister off the ledge with me to see if she would wake up, too. Sigh. She didn’t.
I used to have the can’t-quite-do-it dreams but now mine are more like “Here I come, to save the daaaay…” Adversity, conflict, zombies—I’m your man.
I don’t watch zombie movies or TV shows (except Night of the Living Dead which I saw years and years ago. It was good.) but the other night “we” (?) were fighting zombies. They looked and sounded and acted like zombies though I would have told you I don’t know anything about them. Anyway, I had grabbed hands with people and we rolled over the top of the crowd they were interspersed in and the zombies didn’t get us. When we burst through the exit I said “See? I told you I’d get us out.”
Runaway car and we’re being kidnapped in the floorboard? I reach over and bring my fist down on the brake. Convoluted emotional trauma and I say Bullshit and wake up.
At least I’m winning in my dreams. har
I’ve had the disgustingly filthy one. I’ve also had ones where I’m doing something I can’t stop, like CPR, but I really have to pee.
Of course, when I wake up from these, I have to pee really bad.
Before I actually had a baby, I sometimes had a dream where I had a baby, and it died because I forgot to feed it. I don’t have that dream anymore. I never had a dream I was pregnant though, but I understand that’s something men dream sometimes. I hear from men more than women that they dreamed they were pregnant.
Another common one with me only happens when a planned trip is approaching. I dream that I’m on said trip and forgot my luggage.
A couple of times now I’ve had a dream where nobody had faces. People’s heads just looked like the back of people’s heads, but at the front and sides too.