Recurring Dreams

I was talking with a couple of guys at work about dreams and we got to talking about recurring dreams we had. We found that we shared some school-related dreams. Some I've had:

- I can't remember the combination to my locker. I'm usually in my high school.

- I am so far along in the semester and figure out that I've had my schedule wrong and that I've missed just about every English class (for example) all along. This one seems to be related to the fact that in high school, we had a rotating schedule that you had to keep track of. In these dreams it seems to be both high school and college, or both rolled into one.

I don't seem to have (or at least remember) any recurring dreams that many people have: falling, wanting to scream but nothing coming out... My dreams seem to be more violent. My inadequacy dreams seem to be me trying to hit someone or something but not being able to hit hard enough.

I also have adventurous dreams - trying to save the world, or a town, or friends, or myself... I used to have a recurring dream that was much like the movie The Goonies. In a basement, friends and I would find a secret passage behind some boxes and follow it on a crazy Goonie adventure.

The One with the Earthquake

I was living in either a condo or an apartment -- the inside looked like the one I used to live in, but the outside was different. I got up to go to the bathroom and I heard a loud noise. I thought it was my fish tank when the filter doesn't get enough water.

I shut off the Golden Girls which was playing the the living room. I looked out the window and it looked like they were doing construction, like taking up the pavement in the parking lot or something.

 I looked a bit closer and it was obvious there was an earthquake and there was a big crack, a fissure, not too far away. There was a bunch of damaged cars that looked like they got ran over by a huge monster truck or something, all the cars in a row.

 One guy came to get stuff out of his truck, but the guy that was working nearby told him to get back. I asked them, “What's going on, was there an earthquake?” And there was an aftershock as I was standing there. He replied, “Yeah, if you're going to stay inside...” And I said, “Should I?” And he was like, “No, no, not really - go get your stuff.” I went back inside and started getting dressed and went to go pee, then I started gathering stuff up to put into a suitcase to take out.

I remember being asleep in the dream, feeling something (the earthquake) and incorporating that into my dream (in my dream).

The One with the Football and the Cigarette

I had a dream that Marc, Ellen, Jeff, Mike and I were outside, at night, in a tennis court at a school. We were having some sort of party, I think, but Marc was like our sports coach. We were taking turns doing something with balls --- like we were taking turns at bat but we weren't playing baseball. I think we were using tennis balls and definitely a football. So at one point I volunteered to throw the football for people because I didn't really like "playing" - it was like I was doing the pitching for batting practice and not taking a turn at bat. Ellen was smoking and when I decided to that, I took over from her and took the rest of her cigarette. So I was throwing a football at the rest of you, who were drinking beers and stuff, with the cigarette hanging out of my mouth.