In my bathroom dreams, not only are the restrooms huge and filthy but the stall doors are either too short to give any privacy or too narrow to close properly. And, sometimes, though I’m in the women’s room, there are men in there too.
I have two versions of the last day of school dreams. There’s the one where I haven’t been there all year and it’s test time. I don’t want to go and take it but wind up wandering the school’s halls, putting off getting to the classroom and thinking I should just leave. Sometimes I do but usually I just spend the dream in a hallway limbo.
In the other, the last day of school is over and I realize I have a ton of stuff to take home but no way to get it there other than carrying it while walking. Several years ago, after waking up from such a dream, I imagined that teachers are probably at school finishing things up for a day or two after the students have gone. I could ask my teacher if I could come back the next day to get the rest of my stuff. In my dreams I sometimes remember this but, somehow, never get around to actually asking the teacher.
I don’t know if I’ve ever had a recurring dream as such, but I do have recurring themes. Most of my dreams for the past ten years or more have been about exploration. I am either travelling somewhere in a vehicle, or newly arrived in a location and I have to look around, where I either hide from people because I’m trespassing, or alternatively pretend confidence as I encounter people. There’s usually an element of deception or secrecy.
This does not include the dreams I have when my bladder is full, because those inevitably are quite literally about desperately looking for the toilet.
For many years I had dreams of elevators ‘malfunctioning’ in various ways. They were not much fun I tell ya!
But of late, my sleep involves normal enough dreams, BUT I CONTINUE TO WAKE UP mid dream. It’s like…’ Oh, there’s a cave that has a skeletal crab on a technicolour rock, and BOOM’, I’m wide awake again. What’s weirder though is that I go right back to sleep (within 5 min) and I’m back in the same bloody dream most of the time. WTH?
I’m presuming it’s medication-based, but sheesh, they might have warned me.
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[li]I didn’t study for/didn’t know about the big test[/li][li]I can’t find/can’t remember my classroom[/li][li]I can’t find my locker/can’t remember the combination[/li][/ul]
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I don’t care what my subconscious is telling me through dreams, I am NOT going to repeat medical school and then enter a family medicine residency, ensuring that when I finally start practice I’ll shortly be too old to get anything done.
The thought of repeating all those basic science and anatomy courses is more chilling than being chased by monsters. :eek::eek::eek:
Bad recurring dream:
I moved to a new place and there is something very wrong with it (for example: exterior walls are missing, I have to climb a broken stair to reach it, I have to crawl through a tiny hole to reach it, it’s the only flat in a large building filled with filthy toilets and showers,…).
Good recurring dream:
I moved to a new place and I discover hidden rooms/gardens with lots of interesting stuff in them.
I seem to dream about certain “dreamscapes” for a long time, and then somehow moves on to something newer. It often involves hiking/biking/driving some road or path, which invariably gets worse and worse until it is Dr. Seuss territory. Many frightful moments trying to drive an impossible path and not fall into the water far far below.
And as AHunter3 listed, I’ve had my share of the first four on his list.
I DREAM that I’ve woken up or succeeded in waking myself out of the dream, fall back to sleep, dream, “wake myself”, repeat, but in reality I am still asleep the whole time. It’s exhausting.
Ooh, another one! Because I just woke up from one of them!
I get quite excited in these dreams because I’ve recognized a good change to make, perhaps in my database code or (as in this instance) a change to a passage in my book. I either make the change itself or make a note about what change to make and I’m feeling very happy because it’s a really good change.
Then, if it’s still in my head when I wake up, it’s, umm…
• My favorite one so far about modification to the database scripting was the clever notion that I could open a remote session to a computer at work, populate a global container field (known as a “binary large object” or BLOB in some other database environments) with an object I’d left behind by accident at my desk, and then open the database over wide area network connection at home and download it from the same field. Voila, I’ve incorporated a Star Trek transporter into my FileMaker database!
• Tonight, I was editing the action scene on the ship where the pirate-like invaders are coming down from the sails with knives in hand and one lands in front of me. I realized it would make more sense to the reader, who might otherwise wonder why the guy didn’t hack me in half immediately, if I explained that the pet monkey he had riding on his shoulder had hopped off awkwardly as he landed and made a sound, and he’d glanced back momentarily which had given me time to get my startled ass in motion. Sounds like a good edit, except that there is no scene anywhere in the book that takes place on a ship, no knife-weilding pirates, and no monkeys.
Actually the only standard dream I have that hasn’t yet been mentioned is where I have to catch a plane. But try as I might, one hurdle after another gets in my way. I slowly go from having plenty of time to cutting it a bit fine to total panic trying to get to the airport but never being able to get there.
As to the recurring exam/assignment dream, as I think I have mentioned before, this one is so strong that even sitting here now wide awake, nearly 30 years since my last exam, I can’t quite shake the feeling that there is something that I’m due to study for or hand in which is overdue.
I lived in Austin, TX from 1966 to 1979 when I moved back to Houston.
Sometime in the early 1990s, I started having a recurring theme in dreams about riding a bicycle to Austin. This can actually be the main focus of the dream or just some ancillary action. I remember one dream where I was thinking about looking at a bike shop and thinking about buying one so I could ride it to Austin. I’ve been having this happen about once a month since they started.
Lately, I’ve been having a recurring dream about having to check out of a huge hotel, but I can’t find my room so that I can pack. This one just started about a year ago.
