# Weird Recurring Dreams. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 14, 2018, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-recurring-dreams/817901 "2018-07-14T16:29:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![seal\_cleaner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@seal\_cleaner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seal_cleaner)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2018, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-recurring-dreams/817901/21 "2018-07-18T01:55:34Z")
I used to have the college final nightmare. Recently I’ve had to fly around the US for various family emergencies and have had airport/flight dreams. Too late for my connecting flight, or showing up with no cash or credit cards. I want to stay home now. ---
**Author:** ![Gordon\_Urquhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/db5fbb/32.png) [@Gordon\_Urquhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gordon_Urquhart)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2018, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-recurring-dreams/817901/22 "2018-07-18T20:58:31Z")
I have a dream every couple of weeks in which I’m packing luggage or making other preparations to return home. I can be at a friend’s house or a hotel room (last night’s dream had me at a B&B that was not lacking for floral decor), but the common theme is that I’m getting ready to go back home. I sometimes make it onto an airplane and land at my city’s airport, but the dream always ends before I actually make it home. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2018, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-recurring-dreams/817901/23 "2018-07-18T23:14:36Z")
> [@Jim\_B](#): > > I also have been having a lot of sexual dreams. Interesting. Because I mis-read this as, “Weird Rectum Dreams”. ---
**Author:** ![Topologist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/topologist/32/3208_2.png) [@Topologist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Topologist)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2018, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-recurring-dreams/817901/24 "2018-07-19T00:43:49Z")
I used to have the student dream regularly. But for quite a while after I started teaching college, I would have a teacher’s version of it: It’s approaching the end of the semester and I realize that there’s a class _I forgot to teach_. ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2018, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-recurring-dreams/817901/25 "2018-07-19T09:13:36Z")
I used to have the college graduation dream (and before that, the junior high dream where I was naked from the waist down). Then I had a relationship breakdown, and all my nightmares where about that. I haven’t had the college graduation dream since. > [@IOLANTHE](#): > > (Recitative) > Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest: > Love, hopeless love, my ardent soul encumbers: > Love, nightmare-like, lies heavy on my chest > And weaves itself into my midnight slumbers! > > (Song) > … > Well, you get some repose > In the form of a doze > With hot eyeballs and head ever aching > But your slumbering teems > With such horrible dreams > That you’d very much better be waking; > … ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2018, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-recurring-dreams/817901/26 "2018-07-19T12:28:21Z")
Worst of all is the recurring combo anxiety dream. I’m struggling to get all my stuff packed so I can drive halfway across the country just in time to register for college classes that I won’t attend, know the location of or do the work for, so I can stress out at exam time. I blame the college nightmares on an actual experience in Bio 101, where I needed a massive last-minute effort including an all-nighter to pass the final. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-recurring-dreams/817901.md?page=1)