common recurring dreams

[Savonarola]

I can fly or levitate in a number of my recurring dreams.   

I also get the false awakenings from time to time.

[Admiral Yi]

I've had two recurring dreams in my life, neither in good long while.

In the first I'm a scientist feverishly working on a special ray gun that is humanity's only chance of defeating an on-going alien invasion.  I race against time as the invasion gets closer and closer to my home.  I tighten the last screw as they burst through the front door, point it at the first alien...and it doesn't work.

In the second I'm in college, there's a term paper due the next day, I haven't started researching it, let alone writing it, and the library is open for another four hours.

Oh, thought of a third.  It's final examination period and I find out that I have a test the next day in a class I didn't realize I was registered for, and have not attended all semester.

[Monoriu]

Most common dream is failing an exam.  In these dreams, I always go back to my high school, and I need to face an important exam in a subject that I suck, usually math or physics, in the next 24 hours.  Somehow I know that this exam will test material in the past 2 - 5 years, and I always neglect to study at all prior to the exam.  Which means I have to cramp at most 5 years of material into my head in the next 24 hours.

And I always wake up before the exam happens. 

[Razgovory]

I sometimes have lucid dreams, where I know I'm dreaming.  They are very annoying.  Mostly I dream about a girl I had a crush on in high school named Melody.  When I wake up from those dreams I'm sad.

[Viking]

well... there is the one with the gorilla chasing me and never catching me despite always getting closer...

[grumbler]

well... there is the one with the gorilla chasing me and never catching me despite always getting closer...

Does the gorilla answer to the name "Melody?"

[Razgovory]

Hey,   Don't cross that line.  Or I'll bring up that thing with you and Cleopatra (and every other guy in the ancient world).

[CountDeMoney]

I dream about tornados.  Even though I've never seen one before in person.

I dream about ex-girlfriends.  The good ones and the bad ones.

I dream about pets I've had.  I miss my cat, and I miss our golden retriever we had when I was growing up, Brandy.  She was a good dog.

[BuddhaRhubarb]

a magical noir-ish place that is an amalgamation of San-Fransisco and Winnipeg.

I shit you not... I realized when I visited SF in 95. I think I've just seen too many movies.

[Malthus]

The subconscious indeed...   

It's fun to check the symbolism behind those dreams - and can be instructive.  Take Malthus' basement for instance; what dirty secrets are you hiding there counsel? 

Personally, I always associated it with getting wound up in my blankets as I slept - but I like the sound of deep, dark, dirty secrets better. 

[Malthus]

In the second I'm in college, there's a term paper due the next day, I haven't started researching it, let alone writing it, and the library is open for another four hours.

Oh, thought of a third.  It's final examination period and I find out that I have a test the next day in a class I didn't realize I was registered for, and have not attended all semester.

I've had both of these ... I suppose almost everyone has.

[Camerus]

Of course I've often had a school anxiety dream.  It is always the same:  I have forgotten to write an essay for my 3rd year Central European history course (dunno why it's always this course, since it was my second highest mark while at university).

My most common dream is that I am driving without a driver's license.  I am in fear that the police will pull me over and ask to see my license.  In some dreams they do, in others, they don't.  Perhaps it reflects an innate mistrust or fear of authority figures?

[Razgovory]

I just dreamnt I was a Prussian Hussar and I fell in love with a french woman.  What a nice dream.

[Ed Anger]

I dream of cannibalism and fucking Hitler's daughter.

[Jaron]

I miss my wife.