^^^^OMG, I am just dying laughing at that. No offense intended. 
None taken, I had to laugh at that too. Just why?
Maybe it has to do with wanting your son back the way he was 17 years ago. 
I had a dream last night where I was at a conference for work, but I hadn’t packed any of the right things – clothes, work papers, phone, charger, laptop were all missing or in a mess. When I arrived, I was two days late, and while I was there I realized I didn’t know about my plane reservation to return home. Then I learned that the conference would go on for several more days, and I hadn’t prepared for that.
Typical dream of being concerned that I’m just not ready for something.
I often have travel dreams which involve having my purse and/or passport stolen. Those are very disturbing dreams!
I’ve often had the “not prepared for an exam” dream, as well as the nightmare where I show up for an exam at the wrong time and place. Unfortunately, the latter is a nightmare that came true. I was working on a big case as a law clerk and missed the last class in one of my courses. The professor announced that the final exam would be in a different room than shown on the schedule. I didn’t find out until I showed up at the original room and found it completely empty.
I have this recurring dream where I’m in my house and it looks fine at first glance. Then I notice the ceiling is bowed and something is wrong with the walls. When I touch the walls, they are wet and tear like tissue. Then the ceiling starts collapsing and water pours out. The whole house begins to crumble around me. I’ve had this dream periodically for years.
Bumping this up because the dream is baaaaaack – I’m on campus and finally found my classroom, but then I realize I need some money and I left my wallet in my dorm, but I can’t find my way back to the dorm, and then I’m afraid I won’t be able to find my class again . . . Hours and hours of wandering aimlessly . . .
I wonder what’s really on my mind.
I’ve been having dreams recently where I need to go somewhere or do something and I can’t find what I need to wear or I can’t find something necessary to accomplish my task. I look and look and look and get increasingly frustrated.
That kind of dream is exhausting.
Yes. And, what does it mean?!
@VeryHappy, if you find out, let me know!
The anxiety dreams are bad in themselves, but I am disturbed by the psychological 'hangover" they sometimes cause. Even though I know it was only a dream, if I dreamed I failed to accomplish some important task, or dreamed my husband left me or I lost all my friends, then for hours the following day I can feel insecure and slightly traumatized. My DH thinks I have issues, lol.
I have the test dream a lot, and the need-a-toilet-but-can’t-get-to-one dream frequently too. The teeth dream, just once. Recently I dreamed one of my kids had a test that she didn’t study for, which was almost as bad! I don’t tend to dream about physical danger–only emotional danger. A new one I’ve been having is that I am living in this really filthy old shack of a house and it’s mine but all of a sudden mine. I feel extreme desperation because I can’t ever come close to cleaning up the huge mess or repairing all the serious defects and can’t accomplish anything else as a result.
I’ve felt that hangover effect as well. But think of it this way - when you realize that whatever awful thing happened in the dream was indeed just a dream, your real life seems much better as a result - or at least, it could always be worse. Your husband hasn’t left you, you don’t have to take a test today, you still have all your teeth, etc. Relief!
Does anyone remember that episode in one of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe books - I think it was Prince Caspian? A group of sailors is told that all their dreams (dreams, not wishes) will come true if they can make it to a particular island, so they take off for it like mad. Then they realize what it would be like if their nightmares came true as well, and reverse course. (I read the books to my kids years ago, so if I dreamed this passage, please tell me.)
I’m just constantly amazed that my dreams can seem so real. I often wake up looking around, checking to see what the reality is. They really are exhausting. It IS a relief when the bad ones are not true - but also crushing when the good ones are not true. (Like talking with and doing an activity with a long gone loved one.)
I also have had dreams affect my day. I tend to really remember my dreams and have done a class in dream analysis. I think my dreams tell me a lot, and when they are interrupted or the meaning isn’t clear, it bothers me.