I love dreaming. I have dreams that are more fun than any movie or TV show I have ever watched. They get vivid, weird, crazy and engaging. James Cameron is right about dreams.

My dreams are frequently great and it's usually every day that I wake up to at least one memorable dream. I do have 3 reoccuring dreams that happen what feels like all the time.

  1. My first one is my favorite and most frequent, happening quite often in fact. It is not so much a dream but rather what I do. Fly. But a floating kind of flying. Like how you float on your back in the pool, but I can fly/glide around in the air. No matter the genre of dream, no matter what else may be going on, if I'm around I typically fly around. It is so freeing and fun. Sometimes I'm just floating around a few feet off the ground and sometimes I'm covering distances in the sky. Plus, if on the off chance I start lucid dreaming while in a fly dream, it becomes real and FUCKING SICK.

  2. I am back at high school, this time surrounded by not only my classmates from school but an amalgamation of all people I've met throughout my life so far. All now classmates in my dream. Sometimes It'll be a near identicle dream but it's usually different situations and people but with the same theme. I am worried about the schoolwork/papers/tests I need to take in-dream because I didn't study, but also I am aware that I've graduated already. I will become more lacksadasical because I know I already have a degree so doing poorly won't negatively affect me. It's weird and sometimes annoying but I don't typically mind these ones.

  3. my least favorite. Also a "theme" rather than specific dream. But in it I am hated by my friends/family/strangers. Not so much hated as just found incredibly annoying and considered a loser who no one wants to hang out with. I'll either be upset and get angry at what they do/say or just slink away in shame. This is the only type of dream where I'm always thankful to wake up. I assume I have this kind of dream because of the low self-esteem I had for years and years.

What are yours? What do you think they mean? How fucking fun is dreaming?

  • PaX [comrade/them, they/them]
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    1 year ago

    I have not so much reoccurring dreams as much as reoccurring nightmares. They usually involve some kind of apocalyptic theme.

    1. I get a notification somehow (on my phone, on a TV) that a nuclear war has begun. I never run, I just try to make the best use of my remaining 30 minutes to say goodbye to everyone before me and everyone I love is vaporized. This one is the worst. The feeling of horror is indescribable. Thankfully, it doesn't happen too often.

    2. Some kind of cataclysmic enemy (zombies or rogue AI usually) has killed most of humanity. I'm still alive in my home, just trying to stay beneath the notice of whatever foe humanity has lost to. All the curtains are over the windows and I can hear the sounds of whatever it is occasionally. I can't make too much noise or light or else I'll be discovered and killed. I'm just trying to live out my remaining days with whatever food and water I have. Sometimes, I leave my home for supplies but it usually doesn't end well. Sometimes it just ends without any conflict. But rarely I am discovered and killed in some horrific way.

    I only dream about these things rarely but it always leaves me in a shaken state. The kind of state where you're awake but it feels like you haven't fully left the dream. So you're just lying there, terrified, motionless, trying to anchor yourself back into reality.

    Edit: Just tried to repeat myself less. I feel like whenever I write anything longer than a few sentences I end up sounding like a robot.