Some of them include:
- Being chased: getting inside the house -- but the door will NOT latch!! (There's always a gap between the door frame and the door!)
- My teeth falling out (and rattling around inside my mouth -- eek!). I haven't had one of those dreams in quite a while (knock wood!) -- but I remember the horror of realizing I had broken a tooth once (in real life!) and fishing chunks of tooth out of my mouth and thinking, "OMG, it's just like in my dream!!"
- Flying! -- on my own, not in an airplane! (In my dreams, it's like doing the breaststroke in the air, lol.)
- Tornados. (I know where this one comes from: my grandfather was deathly afraid of bad weather, and kept an eagle eye on the weather report. At the first sign of approaching storms, he'd hustle us over a neighbour's house where there was a basement we could shelter in.)
- My grandparents' house, built in the early 1900s, had a simple dirt cellar, accessed through a trap door in the kitchen floor. I do remember going down there during bad weather when I was very young, but my grandfather didn't think it was very stable -- which is why we began heading over to the neighbour's house! But in my dreams, I'm often heading down into that cellar -- and finding not only a 1970s-style rec room down there, but an entire underground city...!
- Related: Finding hidden rooms & attics in my grandparents' house (which was torn down in 1998).
- Finding a book that takes my family history back several generations, with handwritten notes that I'm dying to read -- but I wake up before I can actually read what's in it!
- Visiting a cemetery or mausoleum and wandering around endlessly, trying to find where Katie & other family members are buried.
- Being back in school, not attending class all term -- and then finding out I still have to write the exam! and scrambling to make my way across a HUGE campus to get to the exam location on time! (I think this is a common one!) (Note that the last time I was in a classroom of any sort was FORTY YEARS AGO!! lol)
- Being back in my old university dorm, and wandering around through the hallways, up & down stairs...
- Wandering endlessly through the underground PATH that connects all the office towers in downtown Toronto. It's often either deserted, or crowded with people. And I'm often trying to find my way to a bookstore! lol
- Being at work. (Yes, 10 years after I was let go, I am STILL dreaming about work!!)
- Being at work AFTER I was let go. In my dreams, I was told they wanted me back, urgently -- so I return to the office, only to have people giving me funny looks, like "What's SHE doing here?"
- Related: Going up & down endless flights of stairs between floors. (We DID have elevators!)
- Being the odd person out/the only one (if not specifically childless). Not only a reflection on my childlessness, but probably also my childhood, where I was often "the new girl" and the oddball because of my good grades, love of reading (and using big words!), and my ineptitude at sports!
Do you remember your dreams? Do you find certain themes or scenarios being repeated over & over again?
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