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[ProgenitorCastle]

Hey GAF. I wonder if any of you have particular recurring dreams? I'll share one that I had and one I still have.

Had:

For a long time growing up, I kept dreaming that I'd get certain Bionicle sets that I was never able to acquire. It'd drive me insane since everytime I got close to getting them in the dream, then I'd wake up.

Still have:

Dreams about ex-friends: More often than not, I'd have dreams at night about former friends. There were many variants of the dream over the different times I experienced them, but last night's variation stood out to me because in that one, one of the ex friends came forward and said hi to me. When I woke up, I felt a sense of peace as a result.

 

[GymWolf]

I don't dream, but the rare times when i do dream is something bad like me loosing a plane during a trip or my dog killing yet another fucking cat in my garden with me wrestling to get the cat out of his mouth.

 

[TaySan]

A good amount of my dreams involve me falling to my death. Usually waking up right before it happens. :/

 

[ValiantTraveler]

I have a few recurring patterns in my dreams:
- I need to dress and get ready in the morning to go somewhere, like work or school, but I struggle to find or choose my clothes, or I have to do something else, and I quickly run out of time. The situation becomes extremely stressful. Somtimes there's someone around yelling at me to hurry.
- A tsunami comes out of nowhere, in a place like the beach, a random alley or the street I live in.

 

[Stouffers]

For years I had a recurring dream where I was in a speeding vehicle with no way to stop or get out. It would always end with a crash.

After years of having this dream, I was in a crazy car wreck. Driver of the car I was in passed out at the wheel on the Highway going around 80mph. We smacked into the back of a slower big rig, lost complete control and then hit the concrete highway divider wall.

I've had the dream since, but now I'm alway in the drivers seat and groggy to the point I can't control the vehicle.

 

[Tesseract]

lots of temporal stuff, back and forth through large spans of time

lots of violence and death, mud and blood

 

[ILoveGTR]

Not a recurring but nowadays i saw nightmares about my school again and again xd

 

[synchronicity]

I don't really have recurring dreams, but a strange thing that has happened many, many times in my life is that I will wake up out of a particular dream and then the following night I will resume that same dream upon falling asleep where it left off. I always thought that was strange. I don't know if others have that experience, but I've never met anyone who said they have.

A good amount of my dreams involve me falling to my death. Usually waking up right before it happens. :/

I've had an instance of that where I did hit without waking up, and was fine. Usually, of course, that type of near-death dream will wake you up. I don't know if that has any significance, but it seems a bit unusual.

 

[DESTROYA]

Recurring dreams!
Shit I never remember my dreams, haven't for years. I sometimes wonder if they even happen now knowing experts say we all do.

 

[apotema]

I sometimes dream about having superpowers but I am being pursued by someone with greater powers

 

[Airola]

Had:

For a long time growing up, I kept dreaming that I'd get certain Bionicle sets that I was never able to acquire. It'd drive me insane since everytime I got close to getting them in the dream, then I'd wake up.

I still from time to time see dreams where I go through some flea market or second hand store, find really interesting VHS movies or video games and never manage to buy them. Sometimes I just wake up right before I'm about to pay for them and sometimes the shelfs start to fall and I need to keep them up and it lasts so long that the store closes and I'm not able to pay and buy them.

 

[Mossybrew]

Never had a recurring dream. See it a lot on movies and shows though were somebody has that repeating traumatic dream, wonder how often that really happens or its mostly a dramatic effect thing.

 

[MastAndo]

I have dreams about school all the time, and I'm an old ass man who hasn't stepped foot in a classroom in ages. They usually follow the same theme - I have a big test I didn't study for, or it's finals week and I suddenly realize there was a class I had registered for that I hadn't even gone to once.

 

[Ornlu]

I used to get really powerful 'deja vu' style dreams...I'd dream of people I hadn't met yet, in places I'd never been, then suddenly a few months later I would meet said people and be freaked out for a hot second. My first one was as a kid, before starting school, I had a dream about sitting in kindergarten, drinking sweet tea with my first little girlfriend that I hadn't met yet. It didn't happen for almost a year after the dream, and blew my little mind.

They've faded away with age, but I still have one every year or two.

 

[morelan]

I have dreams about school all the time, and I'm an old ass man who hasn't stepped foot in a classroom in ages. They usually follow the same theme - I have a big test I didn't study for, or it's finals week and I suddenly realize there was a class I had registered for that I hadn't even gone to once.

This! At least once a year I dream that, for some dumb reason (like forgetting to take an obligatory class 15 years ago), I have to go back to school, with my current age. And I'm 31. The weirdest thing is that some of my old colleagues are still there taking classes, and they're also as old as me.

 

[Airola]

Oh, just remembered one I have VERY often!

I'm with either some musician I admire or with some Youtube show personalities, sometimes just talking to them but sometimes being in their shows, and I talk to them a lot but I suddenly realize I've been talking Finnish to them and they've acted as if they understood me but at the same time show they haven't understood a thing I've said, and then I try to tell the same things in English but always fall back in speaking Finnish again and have hard time to keep myself talking to them in English. Then it becomes me nervously laughing at myself and trying to say "oh I spoke Finnish again, didn't I, I'm so sorry haha............"

I have dreams about school all the time, and I'm an old ass man who hasn't stepped foot in a classroom in ages. They usually follow the same theme - I have a big test I didn't study for, or it's finals week and I suddenly realize there was a class I had registered for that I hadn't even gone to once.

Yeah, that's familiar to me too. Been back in the army quite a bit in my dreams too.
But the school dreams I think I see a few times every year. Sometimes it's the classic "I suddenly notice I'm naked" scenario too. It's the best if I realize no-one actually felt grossed out by my sorry fat ass, but before realizing that it's pretty damn terrible always

Another one is me getting to my parents home for Christmas and I've completely forgotten to buy Christmas presents. It usually is then me learning there is still maybe an hour or half an hour to go to some odd store somewhere and quickly try to find at least something. Sometimes I've come to terms with the situation and been able to accept that this Christmas I just wasn't able to get any presents to anyone.

 

[EviLore]

After all the 2017 GAF drama, I was barely getting any sleep, and when I would finally pass out I would inevitably have a recurring dream about an alternate universe GAF. Something would have gone terribly wrong, the site design was totally different and nothing made sense to navigate, I was on my own, and everyone inexplicably seethed with hatred toward me in every interaction. I'd try to fix everything, try to understand where everyone was coming from with their hate and resolve it, but couldn't make any headway.

Very on the nose in terms of what I was going through, but fortunately in the waking world you can fix things--and you're not alone.

 

[and 3 others]

After all the 2017 GAF drama, I was barely getting any sleep, and when I would finally pass out I would inevitably have a recurring dream about an alternate universe GAF. Something would have gone terribly wrong, the site design was totally different and nothing made sense to navigate, I was on my own, and everyone inexplicably seethed with hatred toward me in every interaction. I'd try to fix everything, try to understand where everyone was coming from with their hate and resolve it, but couldn't make any headway.

Very on the nose in terms of what I was going through, but fortunately in the waking world you can fix things--and you're not alone.

Dreams do come true eh?

 

[bender]

After all the 2017 GAF drama, I was barely getting any sleep, and when I would finally pass out I would inevitably have a recurring dream about an alternate universe GAF. Something would have gone terribly wrong, the site design was totally different and nothing made sense to navigate, I was on my own, and everyone inexplicably seethed with hatred toward me in every interaction. I'd try to fix everything, try to understand where everyone was coming from with their hate and resolve it, but couldn't make any headway.

Very on the nose in terms of what I was going through, but fortunately in the waking world you can fix things--and you're not alone.

Makes sense. I know when I'm pushing myself too hard for work or infatuated with a hobby to the point of exhaustion, my dreams when I do sleep are related to that subject matter.

For the most part, I'm lucky. I don't remember my dreams enough to know if they are re-occuring.

 

[synchronicity]

I have dreams about school all the time, and I'm an old ass man who hasn't stepped foot in a classroom in ages. They usually follow the same theme - I have a big test I didn't study for, or it's finals week and I suddenly realize there was a class I had registered for that I hadn't even gone to once.

There's no pressure from the system.

 

[Happosai]

I dream nearly every night of driving different 70's-80's models care. Cars I've never owned and would not take a great interest in (Datsuns, old Jeeps, early Honda Accord ,et al). I tend to drive endlessly from town to town stopping only at gas stations or fast food drive-ins. The landscape is usually countryside-small town with resemblance to the MidWestern U.S. where I grew up or sometimes Netherlands. Seemingly long dreams, no passengers, and long roads.

 

[Husky]

Used to constantly dream that I'd wake up in my bed, with something else in the room. Figures in my doorway, at the foot of my bed, behind my pillow, or sitting at my desk. Haven't had any of these for a few months though.

Lately I've dreamt about Shadow of the Colossus a lot. Even made a thread about that one.

Another theme that's appeared often has been that I'm not actually dreaming, and that the waking world is the fake one. In one, I was finally being allowed back into reality, after I'd been banished, but after upsetting the woman who was letting me back, she sent me right back here. I woke up with a gasp as I fell backwards out of that world. I've seen too many good movies and TV shows for my dreams to start getting boring, lmao.

It's nice that I remember a shitload of my dreams, and I never dream about stuff like falling, drowning, my teeth falling out. They're always more like movies or video games, and tend to be real coherent. Even the scary dreams are rather like scenes out of a horror movie.

 

[GeorgPrime]

- Dreaming about "Aliens"

PAST: i often failed to protect people and the xeno gets me.

NOW: i save the people, playing tricks on the xeno abd destroy them

- Dreaming about Airships:

I am always on top of the balloon hanging on some rope ladders trying to climb back in.

I can see clouds ftom above and the countries below. I ham afraid of climbing because i could fall. It never happens

 

[Happosai]

- Dreaming about "Aliens"

PAST: i often failed to protect people and the xeno gets me.

NOW: i save the people, playing tricks on the xeno abd destroy them

- Dreaming about Airships:

I am always on top of the balloon hanging on some rope ladders trying to climb back in.

I can see clouds ftom above and the countries below. I ham afraid of climbing because i could fall. It never happens

Last November I was having some bad withdrawal and strange dreams with that. I dreamed about 6-hours of a prequel to Alien (1979). My wife wanted me to publish it after I read her the draft (written by memory). I eventually scrapped it as the prequel details the establishing years for Weyland-Yutani, crew meeting on a separate mission to Thedus on the Nostromo, the first accident with a synthetic/android prior to Ash while mining on Thedus, and how the company discovers the transmission from LV-426 prior to the crew entering hypersleep. The story is character driven and was going to give my audience a look at the lives of Ripley, Dallas, Parker, Brett, Lambert, Kane, Ash ,and another character which dissolves prior to departing Thedus. The reason I never made this dream a reality was that people want a story like Alien to have a xenomorph (obviously) and the events of my story only preset for their encounter with the Alien. Basically, people aren't going to buy "Alien: Before the Nightmare" without reading about the Alien. Pretty cool that someone else dreamed of the Alien universe.

 

[GeorgPrime]

Last November I was having some bad withdrawal and strange dreams with that. I dreamed about 6-hours of a prequel to Alien (1979). My wife wanted me to publish it after I read her the draft (written by memory). I eventually scrapped it as the prequel details the establishing years for Weyland-Yutani, crew meeting on a separate mission to Thedus on the Nostromo, the first accident with a synthetic/android prior to Ash while mining on Thedus, and how the company discovers the transmission from LV-426 prior to the crew entering hypersleep. The story is character driven and was going to give my audience a look at the lives of Ripley, Dallas, Parker, Brett, Lambert, Kane, Ash ,and another character which dissolves prior to departing Thedus. The reason I never made this dream a reality was that people want a story like Alien to have a xenomorph (obviously) and the events of my story only preset for their encounter with the Alien. Basically, people aren't going to buy "Alien: Before the Nightmare" without reading about the Alien. Pretty cool that someone else dreamed of the Alien universe.

I guess its stuck in my head because i watched it as a child. Way too young for the movies.

I waa really scared back then

 

[Cutty Flam]

Wow excellent thread idea, I think this kind of stuff is important beyond measure. I'll have to read more of everyone's later

Here are mine that I have been trying to make sense of for years:

-I'm at my old block where I used to live. I lived by my Elementary School and loved that block. At least a decade of very fond and cherished memories there. Felt like home, is just a heavenly place in my mind I truly love that street, that block, that area, that part of town is just amazing to me I love it in many ways. But there is this very peculiar dream I have. I'm on the block, walking the streets maybe near the school that was diagonally across from my house on the corner. Or I am walking towards the middle of my street, right by my homie's house where we would play over the years. Point is I have been near the school on one street or middle of the block I think most times on the other street that I actually lived on. And I perceive danger. I feel that I am being watched by maybe one, two, maybe even a group of people? I feel the ominous threat despite nobody being near me. In fact, I don't think anyone is near me or even in the dream at all, but I feel eminent threat with some kind of malicious intent. To the point where I will jump literally like 100, sometimes as high as maybe 200-300 feet in the air and sort of hang up there as I ascend. Then I will almost always land on the sidewalk or a rooftop of one of the houses. Or the roof on the school or in the grass field, and perform more super jumps into the air. And in the air I feel sort of safer, but at the same time, I feel the ominous threat of being watched and that I am still in danger. Now I remember, I think there are some people in the dreams and I will usually run, sprint and jump away from them, but the only times I can remember those people I jumped away from into the sky way above, I think they were just curious people I knew maybe...But the strangest feeling is that the jumps and the running to get momentum feel so natural. I jump up to 300 feet, I sometimes even fear the descent during my dreams and I think I have awoken from thinking my jump would kill me, but I have performed many and survive it, don't feel it obviously because it is a dream. But my mind seems to teeter on knowing what I do in that dream state is fake but sometimes it just accepts it mostly. But the odd thing is the feeling of loneliness and desolation felt within the dream combined with the feeling that I am being targeted by unseen forces maybe men wishing harm, I do not know. But I feel the need to jump and I simply do jump high into the clouds and many yards forward if I choose (maybe half the street I have leaped up and forward to—to then land on a rooftop)

It's very bizarre and a head trip. I've had it happen several times. At least a few that I can recall. Maybe as many as five to seven times? I have zero clue as to what it might mean?

I also had the most wicked, sinister sleep-paralysis dreams/nightmares that i'll have to share as well later

And there have been apocalyptic dreams as well. One was so vivid and surreal, and featured an alien attack, that I had to write it down in my ipod touch back in 2016 I think. At like 3:30 in the morning I wrote a couple to a few paragraphs and shared it with a coworker, close friend. Shared my other one with another coworker years later that involved her ex bf, a good friend of ours both. She's really nice and even shared her unbelievable dream in which she and her dad had on the same night, with the same circumstances. I can't wait to get in touch with her one day again and ask her how it went one more time. It really startled me and made me think

 

[The Lunch Legend]

I still have dreams about being back in high school and being frightened because I forgot the combination to my locker.

Weird...

Although, I've never mentally advanced past the age of 16, so I guess it makes a little sense.

 

[Cutty Flam]

have had many school dreams like some in here

have also had many dreams, in which I felt I was half awake and restless, but nevertheless being taught or maybe even given moves in chess when I had been playing a ton of games and researching it and learning all that i could the time in senior year of hs when i learned

it was so boring, and restless sleep when i would dream about chess. it was literally just a giant board with pieces i could not make out, moving certain moves i could not recall or even see in my dreams. it was so blurry and clouded, my vision. but for some reason i had always felt like maybe i was going over moves that would help despite really disliking these dreams about chess and how they made me feel. it was interesting

 

[The Lunch Legend]

More on the subject of dreams :

- Had a lucid dream twice. One involved flying over Earth ; the other flying over the moon. Both times jarred me so bad , I woke up in a cold sweat.

- Had an Inception-style , dream-within-a-dream once. Didn't think it was possible until it happened to me. I also woke up with a wtf sweat on my brow.

 

[DelireMan7]

When I was kid (I would say around 12), I had several recurring dreams :

• I do some bike with my brother, in a kind of "cross bike field" with a lot of small hill to go up and down. Suddenly I fall, my brother continue like he didn't notice me and disappear behind the next hill. From this hill a bear come down and attack me... I wake up. I did it quite some time.
• Another one with bear, don't remember clearly but at the end I am in our courtyard, and our garden was higher than the yard, we had to take a stair to access it. Suddenly a bear come down from this stair and attack me. I wake up. Also did it quite some time.
• A last one but remember only fragments : I am in the street, suddenly I am in a roller coaster. I think it was in the middle of clouds... And that's it. Did it only few times

Don't know why the bear. I don't remember being scare of bears.
There is classic French movie "L'ours" (The bear), we watched several time as a kid but I don't remember if it was around that. Side note : I recommend the movie : nice, touching and a weird "bear under mushroom influence" sequence.

 

[Kadayi]

lots of violence and death, mud and blood

TBF I was reading 'Why we sleep' by Matthew Walker and sleep research show's that death, violence and sex are pretty heavy components of dreams., to a considerable degree, so you shouldn't worry too much if some fucked up shit is going through your CPU when it's defragging your SSD.

As for the OPs question, as a kid quite often, these days though, even though University is long past I still get the 'Haven't written my Dissertation' Nightmare loom up out of the depths of the Ether once in a blue moon (a common one according to friends). Generally enough to make me wake up in a mild panic before I realise that shit is behind me.

 

[justAjohn]

TBF I was reading 'Why we sleep' by Matthew Walker and sleep research show's that death, violence and sex are pretty heavy components of dreams., to a considerable degree, so you shouldn't worry too much if some fucked up shit is going through your CPU when it's defragging your SSD.

As for the OPs question, as a kid quite often, these days though, even though University is long past I still get the 'Haven't written my Dissertation' Nightmare loom up out of the depths of the Ether once in a blue moon (a common one according to friends). Generally enough to make me wake up in a mild panic before I realise that shit is behind me.

Then the recurring nightmares ARE good! But damn, is my brain defragmenting far too often.

I almost thought a being attached itself to me and salvages my fear, dread and terror like some form of its sustenance by incurring these nightmares onto me.

The ´mare is somewhat same; I am usually immobile, watched by some entity. It causes some auditory or visual phenomena, which cause me utter dread, but I am in some kind of a pocket dimension unable to escape untill it is done harvesting.

 

[synchronicity]

- Had an Inception-style , dream-within-a-dream once. Didn't think it was possible until it happened to me. I also woke up with a wtf sweat on my brow.

I've had those quite a few times in life. It's so bizarre to be convinced you are awake, moving around and living like you would normally only to, at some point, realize that, no, you're *still* sleeping. Really strange feeling, for sure.

 

[Sign]

Probably tmi, but . . .

For several months after my father died I would dream about him. At first it was just him appearing casually and I would run over to him sobbing and hug him. However, his presence was so frequent it became routine and I just started inadvertently living out memories of my life with him there. It was so believable that I would often awake feeling as though my father was still alive for the briefest of moments. I'd always, soon after, remember the truth and it felt like my soul was dying. This would happen multiple times a night. It got to the point where I started taking the feeling with me into the dreams. Started telling him, everytime I saw him, that he wasn't supposed to be here. "You're not supposed to be here."

Eventually, he stopped appearing. That was about 10 years ago, and I've not really dreamt about him like that since. Nor, have I had any other recurring dreams that I can remember which is strange as I used to have them frequently.

Spoiler

The dreams hurt a lot when they were happening, but the older I get the more I wish they would come back. Never miss an opportunity to hug your loved ones.

 

[Airola]

To the point where I will jump literally like 100, sometimes as high as maybe 200-300 feet in the air and sort of hang up there as I ascend. Then I will almost always land on the sidewalk or a rooftop of one of the houses. Or the roof on the school or in the grass field, and perform more super jumps into the air. And in the air I feel sort of safer, but at the same time, I feel the ominous threat of being watched and that I am still in danger. Now I remember, I think there are some people in the dreams and I will usually run, sprint and jump away from them, but the only times I can remember those people I jumped away from into the sky way above, I think they were just curious people I knew maybe...But the strangest feeling is that the jumps and the running to get momentum feel so natural. I jump up to 300 feet, I sometimes even fear the descent during my dreams and I think I have awoken from thinking my jump would kill me, but I have performed many and survive it, don't feel it obviously because it is a dream.

The jumping high and/or flying dreams are quite fun and sometimes very frustrating too.

I used to be able to know in my dream that I am dreaming and then I would start to fly because I know that's possible in dreams. For a while it was wonderful to fly. I usually started to run, then jump, then jump again a bit higher, and again higher, until my jump was very high and then I would start to fly.

But when I started to become more and more depressed in real life I started to be unable to fly. At first in those flying moments I encountered some sort of an invisible ceiling that stopped me from getting higher. Then in later dreams I would start to feel gravity or something else pulling me down from the air. And in the end I couldn't fly anymore even if I knew it was a dream. It just became impossible.

 

[Airola]

Oh! I once had a dream where I couldn't get any sleep. I thought it was 100% real. I was lying on the bed and had insane feeling of insomnia. It felt like it took forever and forever and forever, and I just wanted to be able to sleep at least a bit. Then I woke up and felt super tired.

 

[GametimeUK]

I tend to live my life regret free, but my biggest regret in life is giving up skateboarding.

I keep having skateboarding dreams where I can shred better than I ever could in "real life". They are definitely my favourite dreams and they happen all the time. Unfortunately skating isn't like riding a bike. When you've been off the board a good part of 10 years and you're about to turn 33 in a week or so I doubt I could ever make any progress, but the dreams are amazing and I hope I keep having them.

 

[Mr Nash]

A good amount of my dreams involve me falling to my death. Usually waking up right before it happens. :/

Maybe that's your actual life and what your experiencing now, posting on forums and such, is a defense mechanism by your psyche to protect your mind from the intense trauma of the situation.

 

[nyr88nyg]

A lot of falling dreams. They feel very real.

 

[teezzy]

As a kid I dreamt of Gooey Gus from the PBS Show Ghostwriter over and over again. I had nightmares for months.

 

[Mistake]

I have two which happen time to time. The first is flying around the mario 64 castle, and the second is shoving a coat hanger in my shirt that also lets me fly, with random locations.

 

[Roll Fizzlebeef]

I had the same recurring nightmare for years.. between the ages of about 12 to 14. so much so that it fucked up my thoughts during the day.

It would always start with some random beginning. Like playing with friends or walking in a park before morphing into a slow chase by a dark figure. (clothes not skin.. lol), i would eventually end up home where inexplicably there was always a loaded handgun in a box in the living room.(my family never owned any) i would grab it and turn to the figure trying to shoot but never having the finger strength to pull the trigger. I would point it pulling and straining trying to get it to fire. He would eventually catch me and i woke up. Many times once "awake" i would experience sleep paralysis.

At 14 i joined the air cadets and wasnt long before i learned to shoot, went away not long after that but the sleep paralysis stayed around for a few more years.

Thinking back on it now i probably needed therapy.. lol i was pretty fucked up

 

[Cutty Flam]

Second time in the past five days I wanna say, that I've dreamt about violent murderers and potential home invasion / break in / burglary with someone set on murdering

Second to last dream was bizarre. I don't live in an apartment but I dreamt that I was living on the bottom floor and late at night a fat dude on the second floor went out for some air outside his apt. door and got shot dead on the spot by cartel members? Can't tell, I only sensed that they were and their malicious intent was off the charts so maybe my subconscious made that call. It was weird, the dream obviously took place in an apartment complex, but this familiar house sized living room, with a ton of open windows and some amount of doors, two I would guess because I am looking out the part where the fat dude gets shot in cold blood, and am worrying about the other door and closing the ridiculous amount of blinds or whatever may be available to make sure nothing can be seen. What is the meaning? I'm thinking vulnerability, perhaps I'm too out in the open in some way and my mind or something is telling me potential danger might arise

The latest dream, it's a little more difficult to recall but it happened last time I slept. Someone was frantic and panicking and suggesting by way of yelling that we need to move out of the state. And I can't recall but there was the feeling of immediate danger very close by trying to enter and harm. I felt the same need to check areas all over the place to make sure everything was patched up

Thought I'd document these here, just in case a similar dream occurs again

 

[Catphish]

I was in the Navy for a brief stint in the early 90's. A time of my life long past.

Yet, once or twice a year, like last night, I have a dream where I'm back in.

They all start the same; I'm excited and enthusiastic to be back. Often, I'm in a barracks. Sometimes, I'm on a ship, like an aircraft carrier. Sometimes on a submarine. Last night, I was quartered in a fellow sailor's house, with a bunch of other enlisted, waiting to ship out the next day.

But then, a sinking dread starts to set in. Like, oh shit, this will go on for four years. The big dread is, 'When will I see my daughter?' The thought of not seeing her for months on end is usually enough to wake me up.

But not last night. Last night, I had the same dread and, for the first time ever, I knew I was dreaming, but couldn't wake myself up. In the dream, I literally spoke out loud, "No way this is real. I have to be dreaming. Wake up. Wake up!" as I had both fists clutching and yanking the hair on my head, trying to wake the fuck up.

Eventually I did wake up, and the same wave of relief washed over me. I woke up about 2 hours earlier than I wanted to, and couldn't go back to sleep.

I don't know what brings these dreams on, but I wish it would fucking stop.

 

[EverydayBeast]

Dreams are incredible.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

I still get the dreams about being in school where I miss doing a test, cant find the room, or do badly on it.

I just had it again last night! Unfortunately, most dreams seem to fade away soon after I wake up so I cant even really remember last night's dream. But it did involve (again) having trouble finding the exam room and I'm asking people for help. But still cant find it.

I remember in Batman the cartoon saying you cand read or write in dreams. That is 100% false. I see words all the time. I even see them when I'm doing a high school or university test.

But it's always the same thing.

- Cant find classroom even though I got a schedule in my hand
- I sit down and do a test, but cant really answer the questions, so I'm flipping page to page trying to find one I can answer
- A weird one where I am coherent enough to know Ive been skipping class, so I dont know when the exam is. And I hope I still pass the course and graduate
- I have never had the dream about not knowing my lock combo

Funny thing is I always did pretty well in school. And I'm overall a very organized and process driven guy, so in real life I've never run into those issues at school.

So some reason my mind is making me super nervous about school or something in life. But in reality I'm chill and live a comfortable life.

 

[Grildon Tundy]

Dreams are incredible.

Whoa, buddy, cool off your hot takes. We're all just trying to get along here

 

[Grildon Tundy]

When I was younger, from the time I was about 10 to 18 years old, I had a recurring nightmare that Chuck E. Cheese animatronics had developed sentience and were taking over the world.

I would see a shadowed Chuck peering at me around the corner down the hallway of my childhood home. Creepy, lifeless smile with the in-dream knowledge he'd already killed my family.

This predates Five Nights at Freddy's by a lot, btw.


I also have a lifelong, ongoing recurring nightmare where I am running from an unknown threat in the dark but keep tripping. I get up, take a few steps, and fall again. The threat always advancing. Wasn't a surprise when my psychiatrist diagnosed me with an anxiety disorder in my 20s

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Any of you guys get this? I cant control it, but it happens sometimes.

You dream, wake up, doze off back to bed and you go right back to the same dream you were having.

 

[Alebrije]

I have a dream.....cast