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The only recurring dream I have anymore is an ever growing collection of dogs that are in various stages of neglect, some of which are family pets that have since passed away.

I fucking hate it, there's never any food to feed them no matter how hard I look and there's almost always a fight or an escapee that I have to deal with only to be done with that and be missing (or gaining) even more dogs.

I'm always in a panic when I wake up.

I'd like to say that I have never neglected a dog, and only have one which I love very much, strangly, she is usually not present in the dog horde.

Oh, my brain has cooked up a much bigger menu of recurring awfulness. Like a weekly pop-up restaurant, here's what's on offer from time to time:

Appetizers

• forgot to study for exam
• forgot locker combo
• forgot where next class is
• wander endlessly through the backrooms
• sampler platter (a little bit of everything on this list)

Entrees

• teeth fall out
• show up naked to class
• can't pull anything together at work

Dessert

• car completely disintegrates while driving on freeway
• standing in a skyscraper as its falling over
• elevator floor drops out

Clearly there's a theme around helplessness and anxiety. I am indeed in the process of sorting that out, but it's a long process.

My dreams are just me working a whole day and then waking up to do it all over again

Either that or my car breaking down

I'm just living double shifts in the real and dream world

At least your dreams give you the option of "or". I usually get an "and" plus frequently somehow lose my dogs.

My dreams are basically country music plots. lol

I hate the teeth dreams

Hmm, could I get the dream where I am back in high school and have to open the locker to get my books. I know I don't have the actual locker combination, but I try a random one and am pleasantly surprised when it works.

Also you’re falling now

My dreams of hs are consistent with me going back to hs as an adult to get a diploma even though in the dream i have phd. Im always frustrated and trying to get out of it. My God i hate hs sooo much.

Let's relive that job you loved and the coworkers you liked, but that boss that kept trying to blame you for his poor actions you advised him to not attempt until he was harassing you on a daily basis and everyone just also wanted you fired just so he'd stop doing this shit everyday forever.

My recurring stress dream is someone chasing me and it’s like I’m running into a gale force wind, try as hard as I might I can barely move. I’ll be tipped forward struggling to put force into my legs and just, no result. Each foot goes down right where I picked it up from, or maybe a few inches forward.

Then of course they catch me, and my ability to fight back is equally shit, like full force punch barely grazes them sort of stuff.

I’m fairly certain it’s all due to the lack of actual bodily response in my sleeping self, because I’m pretty aware of that sort of thing (I’ve used my pulse to determine lucid dreaming status for decades, as it doesn’t exist in dreams, and on the occasions I’ve tried to wake myself from them I can feel the sleep paralysis preventing willful movement)

I enjoy the high school dreams, because for a brief moment they allow me to forget about my adult responsibilities and remember what it was like to be a kid again. The worst part about dreaming about being in school again is waking up.

There is a dreams community: !dreams@redlemmy.com

Somehow I can't see it's posts from my client tho, but webbrowser and posting into it works.

Yes.

My greatest hits:

Grind my teeth until they start ripping out

Shirtless at school and trying to escape

Trying to get somewhere but constantly detoured and delayed

why not both?