I've had that school dream as well. Used to have one often about it was game time and I coild not find my uniform for the game.
When I was taking anti malaria medication it gives extremely vivid dreams. One I routinely had asmi would start walking to our ready room.....and would walk..and walk...and ndver get there. Id look at the time and it woipd take 8 hours to get there..then I'd turn around and walk back.
posted by supermanI used to dream I was a teepee then I would dream the next night I was a wigwam. Talked to the doctor. He said I was two tents.
Say it out loud.
Wait for it.
I'll see myself out now.
posted by cat_loverI work in retail management and although it is not the same dream,I do have dreams several times a year that involve my workplace.
I've had stretches where I worked 80+ hours a week for several weeks, and that was ALL I dreamed about because basically all I was doing was eat, sleep and work. Not even any downtime to relax and unwind.
I've had the school dreams forgetting a class until the end of the semester in college or I don't know which locker is mine in high school. I'm in a gun battle and my gun does not fire is another.
You can sum this thread up as your brain enjoys fucking with you at night.
The first time I remember dreaming, I was probably 3 and a half, and and it seemed they were in black and white back then. Probably switched to color between 4 and 5.
I studied the dreaming mechanism in college. The thing that made the most sense was that our brain uses dreams to "de-fragment" memory storage, so we dream more during periods of intensive learning. Babies dream almost non-stop during the first year of life, an incredibly intense learning period.
It's interesting to see how many folks have similar type dreams as me. In my younger days, repetitive work on the job would show up in a dream, and I'd wake up exhausted because I'd already put in 8 hours on the job - in my sleep.
I have the same problem when I'm sick from a cold or other virus - if the virus really has me in its grip and my head is fuzzy, any dream time is spent stuck in a mindless activity loop, and I'm trapped. Miserable feeling.
Interestingly, if I fall asleep without putting my CPAP on, and my airway starts constricting, I will dream about being in a claustrophobic space. I do not like to be without my CPAP.
I used to have the "running in wet cement" type dreams - I believe it's because during REM sleep your brain paralyzes your muscles from being able to actually move substantially, so you have that sensation in the dream that your legs are stuck.
I don't have a "recurring dream", but I have several recurring themes. In one of them, my house morphs into my parents' house, and the front and back yard sometimes have these deep holes or trenches dug into the lawn, and everyone acts like it's normal. I haven't figured out where that comes from. Freud might have a field day with that one.
This isn't recurring, but I had a weird one last night where I was starting to go bald, but the bald spot was in a really weird location. It basically went from widows peak to widows peak (mine aren't receding), straight across in a strip.
posted by justincredibleThis isn't recurring, but I had a weird one last night where I was starting to go bald, but the bald spot was in a really weird location. It basically went from widows peak to widows peak (mine aren't receding), straight across in a strip.
Had one last night I had 6 inches water in my car. The I woke hearing it raining tun remembered I had my sunroof open yesterday
I often have dreams with the same themes. Either I am trying to find my way out of a building or some other area. Or I'm trying to get to some destination but everything happens in order to prevent me, such as tires going flat, roads blocked, etc.
