I once dreamed that I was sliding into the driver’s seat of a sweet '57 Chevy. The action of putting my foot on the gas woke me up.
I’ve never had that one, but I have dreams where I’m on a terrifyingly high bridge and I just randomly take a right. I usually wake up before the car goes over the edge, though.
Ha! I just remembered I once had a dream I was flying-driving the DeLorean from Back To The Future.
Boy that was a fun dream.
Ironically, I can fly a car a lot better than I can drive a car.
Teeth crumbling? Check! In school as an adult and not knowing my schedule-lost-failing? Check. Naked in school or work? Check. I’ve had trying to fight but instead of my hand being too heavy, my arms are too weak and my punches are like feathers.
One I didn’t see: Trying to talk or warn of danger but can only whisper/ can’t make myself heard.
Teeth falling out used to be a big one for me, as did not being able to run. When I flew it was more like a really long leap (I would often think I should enter the Olympic high jump). When I dream about being nekkid in public no one ever notices my clothes are missing.
Of the ones listed in the poll, the only one I’ve had was that I could fly. And I’ve had it since early childhood.
But it’s not flying, in the sense that birds fly. It’s more like swimming, and the air has a consistency like water. I’m looking down, and the ground grows farther and farther away. I then realize that I cannot stop. I’m getting higher and higher and I can hardly recognize anything beneath me. Then I wake up.
You’re missing the hyper-realistic drowning dream, which I’ve only had once but will likely never forget. I was wading with water up to my chin and suddenly I walked off the edge of an underwater cliff and I sank and I distinctly felt water rising up around my mouth before I woke up.
Also, the driving dream, where you’re a passenger in a car which is being driven by someone you know but the car has no traction and the road is miles off the ground and, of course, the person is driving so fast you fall off and wake up before you hit. Trees that grow for miles above the elevated road are optional.
Or the dream where you have to hide something terrible from someone and you almost can’t, which is related to the dream where you’re at a hotel hosting a conference for serial killers and you have to get out but you don’t know if you’re a serial killer yourself or just an innocent bystander. Hoom.
Or are those just my dreams?
(I’ve never had bad teeth dreams. Everyone who does is a weirdo.)
I have the school dream fairly often (didn’t know I was in the class, hadn’t gone to any of the classes, and/or didn’t study for the final).
Haven’t had any of the others on the list, but the other most common one for me is what I call “the con dream” - I try to go to gaming conventions every year, and my dream has to do with realizing it’s the last day of the con and I haven’t even set foot in the dealer’s room yet (I buy a lot of crap at cons! :D) or that I’ve completely forgotten to attend whichever seminars/presentations I’ve specifically signed up for and been looking forward to.
I’ve never even heard of the “teeth dream.” How interesting!
Yup. DH also.
I have recurring dreams where I find new rooms in my house. Anyone else?
My version of that is trying to drive my car, but it won’t go very fast (or I’m trying to go uphill and it just…won’t…go).
Yup - it’s so cool when you discover new rooms or passageways.
My current recurring dream is about school, but from the perspective that it’s all classes I’ve taken before, and it doesn’t really matter if I show up or not or if I pass the classes. It’s an…odd dream, not really bad or good, but I keep having it.
I just remembered another frequent dream I have, although oddly it’s almost always when I take a nap during the day (rather than normal sleeping at night) and I can usually have it at will if I tell myself “I want to dream about my house” before I go to sleep.
“My house” in this case is a huge, rambling, very weird place with rooms that don’t make sense (including one very large one sort of like an old art-deco theater, with black walls and lots of things glowing like they’re in black light, and a huge basement with secret rooms that’s set up like something that would have been sort of stylish in the '70s–beanbag chairs, white walls with dark blue carpet, etc.). This house also has spacious grounds, most of which are dirt and some trees. It looks the same in every dream, though I explore different areas of it in different dreams.
I love this place. I don’t know where I might have gotten it, but I often wake up disappointed that it doesn’t really exist and I don’t own it.
I went through a time when I was having a recurring dream about this. Normally it’s really cool, ‘hey, there’s a room I didn’t know I had!’ but this series of dreams was anything but.
As I entered the new room (unfurnished, wooden floors, wood panelled walls and ceiling), I felt bad, real bad. The longer I stayed in that room, the greater the feeling of dread and evil became.
It’s one of the only times a dream has had a real life physical effect on me, i would wake up sweating and heart pounding on several occasions. Thank goodness I haven’t had that dream in a long time!
You forgot the one about having a final exam for a class you never attended.
This. I would have checked “yes” for the fist one, but I can’t recall ever dreaming about specifically being unable to fight. More like unable to save someone in trouble, I guess by physically whisking them away from the danger.
This. Most of my school dreams have to do with realizing late in a semester that I’ve only attended a few class sessions and only done a subset of the assignments.
As for flying… In my flying dreams, I’m usually piloting a large commercial airplane (or sometimes I’m a passenger in one), but it flies in ways no real plane could do: typically, about a hundred feet above the ground, following every contour of the streets, trees, houses, telephone poles, and hills just a few feet below – but sometimes from room to room inside a house. Within the dream, I perceive this as normal airplane behavior.
No, I am not a pilot IRL.