# Tell me about your most common dreams. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 11, 2005, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-most-common-dreams/303374 "2005-05-11T12:03:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Little\_Bird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Little\_Bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Bird)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2005, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-most-common-dreams/303374/41 "2005-05-12T18:23:56Z")
Also, before I was on the pill I’d have a blood or menstruation dream the night before my period started. Handy! ---
**Author:** ![Antivenin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f17d59/32.png) [@Antivenin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antivenin)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2005, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-most-common-dreams/303374/42 "2005-05-12T18:25:13Z")
I have had this one dream over and over. I am in a river, trying to get to the bank, because there are snakes in the water. (I am not a good swimmer.), anyway, I get to the bank and can almost touch it when I realize the bank is a mass of slithering snakes. My husband told me I was thrashing around in bed one night and yelled, “Bees!!” The scariest one is that I am in a hospital room and it is dark, but I can see the shadow of someone (evil) coming up the hall, knowing he is coming to my room. I try to scream but can’t make a sound, and I try to run, but I can’t even move. I always awaken from that dream in a cold sweat. ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2005, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-most-common-dreams/303374/43 "2005-05-12T19:19:44Z")
> [@Little Bird](#): > > I _will_ often dream that I’m back in high school for some reason. I try to explain that I graduated and am now in college, or graduated from college and working in the real world (depending on when I had the dream) but for some reason I had to go back. Like a missed a credit or something. _That_ dream. Eugh. I feel your pain. I have that one from time to time- I’ve been back in high school, college, and grad school in variants of that one. I always wake up from it wondering whether the dream or my normal life is real. Every time, I contemplate asking my mom for my framed high school, college, and grad school diplomas, so I can put them up in my room and remind myself that I did in fact graduate… ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2005, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-most-common-dreams/303374/44 "2005-05-12T19:49:42Z")
> [@swanky\_glue](#): > > On a similar note, I sometimes dream that I wake up at the sound of my alarm clock and go about my usual routine of showering, brushing teeth, getting ready for work, and sometimes even actually getting to work and starting my day, then I wake up and realize that it was all a dream. I am then filled with the thought that I don’t feel like taking another shower because I seemingly just took one. > > Weird. Richard Linklater made a great movie based around the premise of this type of dream: [Waking Life](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0243017/) ---
**Author:** ![klintypooh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3da27b/32.png) [@klintypooh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/klintypooh)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2005, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-most-common-dreams/303374/45 "2005-05-12T22:21:20Z")
It is a weird week if I don’t have at least one dream with me being back in school. I am also constantly dreaming I am a Nazi in WW2. My third most popular is my gf annoying me in some way and I always wake up as I’m lashing out at my wall, pillow etc. Thankfully she hasn’t been in the bed next to me whilst I’ve had one of these. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-most-common-dreams/303374.md?page=2)