#8

yeah loads

missed my dissertation deadline (i graduated over 15 years ago)
trying to break through the lid of a box/ceiling/room/enclosure into rapturous light

#9

yeah, my one is where I’m at school and I have my English A level to sit but haven’t had any lessons etc. I merked ma Eglush A LEVEl as well wiv an A!!
Also planes crashing into the ground when I’m walking around in my dreams. Cut it out!!
@zxcvbnm

#10

Yes, I don’t seem to have had it for a while. It’s obviously an anxiety dream :confused:

In it I’m still with my ex bf and initially it seems normal and fine and then suddenly it’ll dawn on me “OH MY GOD, I do not want to be with this person, they’re awful, where is (my current bf)?” :nauseated_face:

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#11

I have ones similar to the one you mentioned. I have sporadic recurring dreams where I have to go back to school because of some weird A-Level coursework where the deadline is ten years or so after one has already left school. So I’m having to go back to school as an adult in my old classes to work on this coursework that I’d forgotten about for the past decade.

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#12

Yes I have this one!

#13

It’s such a relief to wake and realise that I passed and I don’t ACTUALLY have to resit a module or whatever

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#14

Oh fuck, I have very similar ones. I’m back in secondary school to resit my Leaving Certificate but I’m ten years older than everyone else. Absolutely terrifying dreams.

#15

Always used to have dreams about having to walk home down a motorway. Now I’ve passed my driving test these seem to have been replaced by car-stress dreams

#16

I used to have ones about exams or being late for public transport or getting on the wrong bus train or plane. These days my only one is where I’m looking at the gerbil tank and my gerbil(s) are in there but then some other mangy gerbils or mice appear that shouldn’t be in there and they’re fighting my gerbils and I’m so upset and I’m terrified that I’m going to be blamed for them being in there

No idea what the fuck it means.

#17

I always find them eerily simultaneously comforting / discomforting; being in these rooms and with these people that were such a huge part of my life that (it doesn’t occur to me until I think about it) I haven’t actually been in / with frequently in almost a decade. The weather’s always kind of weirdly sunny as well.

#18

I used to have a recurring dream where I found, bought or otherwise obtained a smutty magazine. There would then be a slightly frustrating routine where I’d try to find some ‘alone time’ with the magazine only to have old friends from school, work collegues, dead relatives etc. suddenly appear from nowhere to spoil my fun. Eventually I’d get some peace but, upon opening the pages, there’d be nothing but writing and no mucky pictures.

#19

Every 18 months or so i get the same (ish) dream.
I’m in beautiful countryside on a single track dusty road, wheat fields or something similar on either side, clear blue sky and the sun is warming me as i walk.
Walking towards me are like an arfican tribe with white face/body paint, it’s like a neverending procession and nothing is said. Even though nothing has ever been said somehow i know that they are called the Why people.
Then i wake up. Ive been having this dream stretching back about 20 years.

I have a couple other that recur but they change somehwta all the time, the why people one is always the same.

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#20

When I aas about 3-6 I had two recurring dreams. In one my parents had been turned into daleks (had no idea what a dalek was at the time but must have seem them somewhere), and they were just there speaking to me and I was terrified. In the other I was in the waiting room at the doctors and my mum had turned onto a robot something like the one from Lost in Space and I really wanted her to change back.

Seemingly I had some inexplicable fear of my parents becoming robots* that haunted my dreams for years.

*yes, I am aware daleks are not robots, but to me at the time they were as far as I knew.

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#21

does anyone else just randomly remember specific places (that don’t exist) from dreams you had years ago
scares me a bit, feel a bit ‘eleven’

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#22

all the time when I was a kid, it was terrifying. Constantly thought I was being abducted or eaten by either robot/aliens or shadowy monsters. Later found out this was Sleep Paralysis.

Also, much like that story in the new Stranger Things, or Nightmare on Elm St, I eventually made this (mostly) go away by going into my dream and standing up to/fighting the beast

#24

I really, really hope that this is real :star_struck:

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#25

yes - there are some places (that don’t exist) that I have visited multiple times in dreams.

#26

just that one where you’re lying in bed and @saps comes flying in through the window naked

it’s fucking terrifying

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#27

My astral projection is really getting out of hand.

#28

I have a lot of recurring dreams because I just dream a lot of weird shit in general. Some of the unpleasant ones disappear once I figure out what they mean, others just keep coming back for years.

My version of the back to school thing that several people have already mentioned is that I have to go back to high school because some technicality from way back in the day had gone wrong and it means that no-one really graduated. And in the dream I aleays keep thinking to myself “I have an MA and everything, this is bullshit and I shouldn’t be here” but seem unable to do anything about it. I still refuse to attend maths and PE, though, even though it could jeopardise the whole thing.