Recurring themes that you see when dreaming.

The idea being, it is known that everyone dreams when they are asleep at night, but out of all of the ones you remember and out of all the elements you have seen, which are the ones that seem to stick out in terms of them repeating every now and then.

The ones for me…

1). I’m walking along and I just ‘stop’ as if my legs become like lead and can’t go anywhere, but what’s even more interesting is that if I turn around and start walking backwards, I can literally go as fast as the average Olympic sprinter or even faster. This has gotten rarer somewhat in recent years, but they still occur.

2). My PC has some weird problem or virus, last night I had a dream that I was rendering something and my Win7 interface changes to what looks like an incredibly complex and all-over-the-place version of Windows 98, I then find AVG saying it’s a virus and it manages to restore the UI. Another dream saw me turning on my computer and seeing a 30 minute infomercial come up, while still others really see the machine glitching out (which I almost breathe a sign of relief when I wake up). I think this started happening back when I had a Dell XPS Quadcore but the rate increased after I got my new i7.

3). Highschool, I graduated more than several years ago, but it still doesn’t stop me from dreaming I’m back at school going to class, what’s even weirder is that I’m fully aware that I graduated so I have no idea why I’m there. Now there’s usually one or two things that happen, I either cause a lot of trouble to try to get out or I end up taking some classes for fun.

4). A recent one, I’m at my grandmother’s house, but the dream version of her house is often bigger and the versions have ranged from the addition of large rooms in her basement to extra smaller basement rooms to an open-air second floor. Other times it doesn’t really change all that much, but then something happens like her house catching on fire.

5). Also mainly seen in recent years, I’m walking through this labyrinthine mall or city street layout that might have everything from long consecutive chains of bathrooms to entirely enclosed outdoor areas with streets where you have to go through buildings to get out of it, other times this type of things manifests as a neighborhood where the whole thing is indoors and looks more like a dimly lit apartment building hall with a lot of variance in the walls rather than rows of houses.

6). Not as common, but my dreams sometime render as hometown as much bigger than it really is, like the downtown area gets a lot of apartment buildings and amenities that in reality do not exist, this type generally does not have near as much variance as the others.

So what are the main recurring things you have seen over the years when dreaming?

I see a country where a president receives money from people (because obviously those people were paying some service done to them in form of contracts, so avoiding free competition and favoring the “friends”).

Oh, wait, that is the reality, not a dream!
I really thought it was a dream, but no, is real, we continue to have hat president!
What a banana country.

I’ve seen 1-6 myself a lot too.

My dreams are always delightfully abstract or weird
I can’t really say that I can recall any specific themes :wink:

Growing up, age 10 through 16 I died every night in my dreams…

I have been shot, stabbed, eaten by alligators…

and you wake up, and it’s like your soul hurts…

the worst dream I ever had, my family was trapped in a overturned car in a shallow river…

besides that I don’t get re-occuring dreams…

I had one zombie dream that restarted overand over every time I died…

There’s another theme I’ve been noticing over the last year or so, and it has to do with my neighborhood or areas around our house either being dug up or developed on. Still quite uncommon, but it’s there.

Like there was one where our street was being worked on and much of it was being dug up for road work, another one showed the more centrally located houses being replaced by apartment blocks, one just last night saw our entire front yard dug up by our neighbors (which was followed by a serious altercation that included the deflection of small electric shock projectiles).

And get this, I had a variant of the weird problem with the PC dream last night, only the issue was with our Xbox360 (involving multiple game GUI’s mashed together on the screen).

On top of that, another recurring theme is that I’m playing some version of Sonic that has levels with layouts and designs that are nothing like those in the official games (one of them even having its own bonus levels). Most of them however are 2D and a few of them used the same graphics as Sonic 1 but with different/larger layouts and original traps. This also doesn’t only occur with Sonic, this occurs with Mario as well despite me only having seen videos of most of the games.

It appears that hackers have gotton into the system somehow here.