- Being back at school - in college and being lost, often physically can't find my way to class and always being lost and confused about the work and about to fail and get thrown out of college. I had this dream every single night, literally every single night in some version for over a year after college graduation. Now I still have it quite frequently but not every single night anymore and with more varying details now but basically the same. That year it was always the last two classes I was failing that were going to get me thrown out, now that's not always the case. This dream wouldn't be so bizarre or remarkable (it's actually a very common thing people dream about -school and failing - but it was (and sometimes still is) so very frequent, obsessively frequent and some details were relentless and so magnified. I would have two and three of this dream in the same nights! Fascinating! Other than my first year in college I never seriously struggled with grades and other than that first year I wasn't in danger of being thrown out. And it was my struggle with Math that really almost got me thrown out. But in my dream it's not math. I don't understand the dream. I never thought of it as being driven by real fear or anxiety, I thought it wasn't, because I'm not generally fearful or anxious but maybe it's a result of fear/anxiety/a sense of failing about a specific thing I'm not necessarily conscious/always conscious of? Sometimes I feel a sense of failing either a general sense or about something specific and sometimes I experience fear/anxiety but not often. I love analyzing my dreams!
- elevators/being trapped in an elevator - I used to have a very horrible fear of closed in places, especially elevators but I have overcome that to some degree, it's still here a bit but not as bad but I still have the dreams
- a dream about running through offices - have no idea what it's about. I dream somewhat often of running through a building in and out of different offices and cubicles and have a sense of urgency and there's often people in the offices I don't recognize and they look up at me and say nothing and I turn and run. It's like I'm looking for something or someone. I see their faces so clearly. I don't know who they are in my dreams or for real.
- when I'm depressed I have recurring dreams that someone is trying to kill me
- I often dream about getting a new friend, usually a woman, but in every dream she's different. I don't know her for real.
- I have often had dreams about being put into a mental hospital without my consent (this really happened and after that I couldn't stop dreaming about it but in my dreams it's not how it really happened - the dreams are bizarre usually. In my dreams the mental hospitals and the hospitalizations are more dark, dreary than the real ones, the hospitals are more like old insane asylums almost like what you would see in an old movie. And the whole thing is just more dramatic than it really happened.) I still have dreams like this but not as often.
- I have dreamed very frequently about being in therapy sessions. Sometimes I would dream often of not being heard or understood. And dreams about someone chasing me, like doctors, to put me away for being mentally ill. I am more fascinated by them than disturbed. I actually like thinking about these dreams. They are dark and bizarre but very interesting like a thriller movie I get to be the star in!
- my dreams are usually very bizarre, very ordinary as if an extension of my days, inspiring, pleasant - I don't usually have nightmares or bad dreams.
- I am fascinated by the subject of sleep and dreams. I read and think about it often. I believe dreams are just things we been thinking about consciously or unconsciously and a way to live things out in our sleep. I think some dreams are meaningless but some, especially recurring ones, are our brain trying to send us a message. If we pay careful attention maybe we can consciously interpret it!
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