<p>I had a strange dream a few weeks before Christmas where I was living in an apartment in the small town where I attend some CC classes because it was cheaper than commuting (in real life it is just 25 miles away and I go twice a week and I am an old married mom). The dream had various oddities including a bat and an exterminator trying to catch him. But the most memorable thing was that there was this really cool cheap ($50) countertop dishwasher in my apartment which I thought would be a perfect Christmas present for my daughter for her off campus apartment. Memorable because when I woke up I was *really *excited for quite a while that I had found such a perfect and affordable Christmas present for her. Such a let down when reality set in!!</p>
<p>I had one dream where I suddenly realise at the end of the exam there was an entire page I didn’t see that I had accidentally skipped.</p>
<p>Time pressures are so fickle in dreams. I also didn’t seem to realise how the uncanny it was that the problems kept changing every time I went back to the same page!</p>
<p>I’ve had the tidal wave dream. I turn my back and I see the shadow of the wave coming over me. Usually I wake up but one time, I lived through it and spent the rest of the night sweeping and mopping up sand. I was exhausted the next morning. I also had disturbing dreams when I was pregnant about the baby being a monster/alien type of thing. I also dream about being in the house I grew up in and there are bad guys surrounding the house and I’m crouching down beneath the windows hoping they can’t see me. They rattle the doors and windows and will no doubt get in.</p>
<p>The most common reoccurring dream I have is where I am running away from/toward something and moving in slow motion. Also sometimes I am trying to shut and lock a door.</p>
<p>Yes, yes, yes!!! I love that dream. In mine, I either discover a whole middle floor of the house that I didn’t know about, or we are moving into a house that has tons of rooms. Occasionally I am moving into a smaller or less desirable house. But during the years we were expanding our family, I had the “discover hidden rooms/floor” dream a lot.</p>
<p>I dream about two houses - with hidden rooms - and I love those houses. I keep thinking that one day, I will actually find them. I am very proud of them in my dream and giving tours to friends and family. One is an old mansion with rooms that you have to crawl through a small opening to access. The other is more of a resort type house with incredible views. </p>
<p>I also dream that I am staying in a hotel or dorm type situation where all the rooms look just alike and I can never remember the number of my room or I can’t find my key and I am desperately trying to find the keys and/or the room. Those dreams are exhausting.</p>
<p>I had my first I-can-fly! dream when I was about 12 years old. Two nuns were on either side of me. We were flying about 2 feet off the ground until they suddenly took me up high and flew me around some big domed building. (No, I am not Catholic). Other variants of flying have occured over the years until I went to work for a company that trims trees away from power lines. My flying dreams were stifled after that because I always have to avoid the power lines in my dreams. I read somewhere that flying dreams mean you are really happy.</p>
<p>I’ve also had the tidal wave dream. I always wake up just before it comes into shore. </p>
<p>I’ve also had the extra rooms dream. I love the extra rooms, but I never own the house so I never get to live in the rooms. They are fabulous, though.</p>
<p>I have recurring tornado dreams, too. Usually, I see the tornado approaching and wake up before it hits, but in one dream I was running from my best friend’s house two doors down and made it only as far as the corner of my garage when the tornado picked me up. I was so terrified I actually screamed, which I think woke me up. I had a sore throat for two days!</p>
<p>Recently, I have had a recurring dream where I am at a beautiful swimming pool which has a stream feeding into it. I swim down the stream to find a gigantic boulder at the end of it. It is so peaceful. Months later I had a dream which placed me on the boulder looking at a 90 degree angle from the calm stream toward white water. I’m afraid to dive into the calm stream because I know it is not deep enough for diving, so I go into the white water. Turns into a dream about trying to steer a boat through the turbulent water. Why I choose to go into the turbulent water instead of finding a way to the calm stream is anyone’s guess.</p>
<p>I haven’t had the flying dream in a long time - I guess I know why. I don’t really fly but jump a bit and go to the ceiling and sort of float above. I can maneuver while I float. Other people in my dream can “fly” a little but I am always the most accomplished!</p>
<p>Wow, these are great. I have also had the dream where I find extra rooms. One was opening a door to find an enormous living room, with clusters of sofas and chairs. When I woke up, I realized it was a lounge in the student center of my college. Another variation is the dozens of extra bedrooms I find. But there is one disturbing house dream where I go to a top floor, an attic, I guess, and the rain is coming in on one end and the roof and walls are crumbling. Nobody downstairs knows it.</p>
<p>You’re running away from a monster/murderer and you’re moving in slow motion/your feet are stuck. You’re screaming “HELP!” and no sound is coming out of your mouth–you wake up right when you’re about to be grabbed/shot/eaten. . .</p>
<p>Another one: You’re a teacher in front of a classroom full of students. You’re talking and no one can hear you. Students ignore you, continue talking to each other. You talk louder, start to yell, and still no looks at you or responds in any way. . . (Close to my RL experience as a TA.)</p>
<p>I don’t have the “flying” dream. I have the “falling” dream. Or the “parachute won’t open” dream.</p>
<p>Anyone had the “waking up alive in a coffin” dream? OMG–the worst! I used to have this when I slept in the bottom bunk as a kid.</p>
<p>Oh my, bugmom - I have the roof leaking dream too - you just reminded me. The roof is destroyed or missing in places in the attic and water is just streaming in. Sometimes the water has not made it down to other floors and sometimes it is leaking all over the house and I am running around trying to find all the leaks. </p>
<p>I’m starting to wonder if there is any standard recurring dream that I haven’t had. </p>
<p>My least favorite dream is when I dream I am awake trying desperately to get to sleep. That one is also exhausting.</p>
<p>Oh, my goodness, yes! I had this a lot in one form or another as a youngster. The most memorable one involved a tall, ghostly woman in a flowing, gossamer gown and an unnaturally long neck walking up the stairs toward my bedroom. I was terrified of her. I repeatedly punched her in the face as hard as I could, but my arms were like Jell-O, and I couldn’t make a proper fist, so my hand just glanced ineffectually off her face. Needless to say, my screams for help came out only as faint rasps. I think I was about six years old, but I remember this dream like it was yesterday.</p>
<p>I don’t think anyone has mentioned the dream in which you think you’ve already gotten out of bed, gotten dressed, had breakfast, etc. Then you wake up for real and think, "Shoot, I have to go through all of that again!"</p>
<p>I went through a phase in my 20s where I dreamed almost every night that I was doing normal everyday things. Going to work, cleaning the house, etc. It was awful. It lasted for months and I felt like I never got any sleep.</p>
<p>I had another recurring dream this week – the one where I go to work and find that my office is not the way it normally is. In my dream, my landlord has changed everything around – walls have been moved, the physical layout is different, furniture is different and I am trying to figure my way around. Often, I find that my space is actually a lot nicer than what it is in real life, but then as the dream progresses I find that there are all kinds of problems with it and I feel very stressed out. This is a recurring dream that I have from time to time. Anyone else?</p>
<p>Last night I had an interesting dream. Not a recurring dream, so I guess it’s a little off-topic, but anyway…</p>
<p>I went to a George Carlin performance. I left my computer bag on the beach. My wife told me that was really dumb, because someone would steal it. After the show, I went back to the beach and found that, not only had my bag not been stolen, but George Carlin had been there, found it, and placed a note inside informing me that he had paid my rent for the month. The receipt was for only $600 or so, and my rent (in the dream) was about $700, but I was still very appreciative and resolved to tell my wife that it was actually a very good idea to leave my computer bag on the beach. I didn’t think about how George Carlin could have been both performing and at the beach, nor about the fact that he’s dead.</p>
<p>Then I went to my job at a nuclear missile facility of some sort. As a practical joke I decided to push the “big red button” and start the process of attacking Russia. (Sorry, I guess my Cold War upbringing manifested itself there.) Alarms started sounding, and a long row of missiles began to emerge slowly from the ground, and people were running around in a panic trying to figure out what was going on. I then opened a breaker box and flipped some switches, which caused the alarms to shut off and the missiles to retract into the ground.</p>
<p>It then occurred to me that maybe this had been a very bad idea, and so I left work as quickly as I could, trying not to be noticed, and wondering if, by the time I returned the next day, they would have figured out I was the culprit.</p>
<p>DonnaL mentioned this thread in “business prof e-mail goes viral,” and I realized that I hadn’t posted my academic nightmare yet.</p>
<p>My worst dream was that my evil TA for my most tedious class showed up as I was laboring over my final project. He pointed to a car in the middle of the lab. I’d never noticed this car before. He said, “In lieu of your final project, you instead need to break into this car. You may close your eyes and pick three items out of that bin over there to help you in this task, and I will choose which one of the three items you will be allowed to use.” The bin was filled with things-- sledgehammers, jaws of life, crowbars-- and I thought to myself, “Gee! This’ll be easy, and might even be fun!” I close my eyes, reach into the bin, and pull out… a bobby pin. I look at the TA, horrified, and he says, “No, no… I won’t make you use that. Keep going.” I reach in and pull out another item… an elastic hair band. I look at it and hear the evil TA laughing hysterically. He says, “That’s it! You don’t even get to pick the third; that’s the one you’ve gotta use to break into the car.” He breaks into laughter again as my stomach drops, and I wake up.</p>
<p>It isn’t starting World War III, but it seemed bad at the time. ;)</p>
<p>Thanks to DonnaL, I’m joining the party (albeit late)</p>
<p>Failed to drop class/attend classes, now final exam looms-check</p>
<p>Teeth falling out-check</p>
<p>Finding extra floors or rooms in my house-check</p>
<p>Being held down by a monster and trying to scream as my mom walks by but scream is only a whisper-check</p>
<p>Three I haven’t seen here:</p>
<p>The tornado dream-have this one alot-
—The tornado sirens are screaming and I’m running frantically through town trying to find a building with a basement. Sometimes my kids are with me and they won’t mind me to run downstairs to safety.</p>
<p>___The ICU dream: I’ve just given report to the oncoming night nurse and she says: “What about the patient in room 209?” I say, “Oh, that wasn’t my patient.” She replies, “yes it is, your name is right there on the board!” </p>
<p>OMG I had an ICU patient all day and I never once went into his room, never gave his meds or treatments?!</p>
<p>----The Passport dream: I’m checking in for my flight back to the US from Paris and I can’t find my passport anywhere. The authorities are not amused.</p>