Dreams are fascinating things.
Does anyone tend to have recurring themes?
For instance, mine are:
- Water. Oceans primarily. I'd say 90% of my dreams take place around either large flowing rivers or on/near the ocean. Many times there are like, giant sea creature fossils and tide pools with weird little things in them strewn all over the place. Usually there are sail boats and swimming involved. I *used* to have recurring tidal wave dreams...I'd be on a beach, the ocean would suck back...this giant wave was coming toward me. My mother told me that next time this happens, instead of running I should just let the wave take me. I did, and I haven't had another "tsunami" dream since.
- Mountains. Huge mountains, sometimes rocky and snowcapped, other times lush and green. More than once there are trains or ski lifts involved. Sometimes volcanos.
- And this one rickety wooden village, like a wharf, built on docks strewn around a river mouth leading into the ocean, with a large city near by.
I am also able to fly quite a bit and occasionally have the mind to lucidly dream. And I have had my fair share of interesting zombie necropalypse dreams as well.
My pets and often my childhood best friend are pretty commonplace as well.
The other night I was like, in some modern version of Dinotopia (with humans and dinosaurs coexisting). I was some sort of therapod...I'd see my dinosaur self in the reflection on buildings. I can't recall a whole except at one point I was in a grocery store leaping around and being all dinosaur-y, and the next moment we could fly and we were looking "for the party", which was apparently denoted by these pigeons who were flying up to a tall building and getting sucked into the glass. We wanted to follow them, but had to be wary because these were mobster pigeons and not a savoury sort at all. But then the pigeons implemented some sort of shield which slammed down over all the windows and we couldn't get in. ):
As for nightmares...I haven't had a real one since I was quite little, but on occasion I do have this disturbing recurring dream where I am exploring a big old house...I climb the stairs and at the end of the hallway or near it is a dark room. If I happen to enter this room, I get such an intense terrorfied feeling that I wake up immedietly. I can't really describe it. It's like a terror that I've never experienced in waking life, even when our car spun off the road into a gulch a few winters ago (which was arguably one of the most frightening things I have experienced yet).
