Almost my whole life, I've had vivid, sometimes disturbing dreams. Some over and over again. Some not so often, but they seem so real that I wonder about them for weeks afterwards. Some have seemed so real that I almost forget that they were dreams and I mistakenly think of them as memories, until I remind myself they were dreams.
Here are some. Some common to others, and some not so common:
1) Flying. This is a dream shared by many. In my dream, I know that I can fly. I'll be walking and feeling sure that I have this power that others do not have, when I'm fed up I will myself upwards and I just seem to float up. I usually only allow myself to go up ten feet or so. It seems very normal when I'm doing it. In other dreams, I fly very high, maybe in the clouds, but I think that I better not go so high because the "will" to fly might falter and I could fall. I dream this so often I usually "know" that I am dreaming in the dream. I'm aware that I'm asleep yet I feel I am really flying.
2) Moving but can't take my things. I am sometimes in college, sometimes in an old apartment. I have to move by the end of the day. I've put off moving for months, but now I HAVE to move. I have lots of valuable things, but I can't take them. I wonder what will happen to them. I leave books, cameras, money, things on shelves. I'm very upset at myself that I didn't make arrangements to move, and now I have to leave everything. I wonder if the people moving into the dorm room or apartment after me will steal them. I wonder if I can get an "extension", to come back later and get my things. This dream is vivid and common to me, I usually realize I am dreaming within the dream, and I tell myself this is not really happening, but it still feels frightening and disorienting.
3) Woman in the deep tunnel. This involves my ex-wife. I don't have this often, but when I did have it, it was so vivid that I felt it was real for several weeks after the dream. I often wondered if it WAS real, although it was impossible to be true. I won't go into detail.
4) Something is missing. In this dream, I perhaps have a bag of camera lenses or other valuables. Some are missing. I am very upset, I try to remember what I had before that is now gone, but I can't place it. I know something is missing. For years, I've felt somehow I lost a big bookshelf full of rare and valuable old books about 40 years ago. I actually don't remember if I did have those books, I think I did, or if this loss was a "missing" dream. I really don't know. I can't tell the dream from the possible reality.
5) Intense, realistic "cinematic" dream. This dream usually is like a movie. EVERYTHING is ultra-realistic. Different countries, elaborate "stage sets", intense and complicated "plot" that I follow. I see and hear dialog, things progress logically or illogically with sounds, smells, people, food. There are many "camera" angles. I'm aware it's a cinematic dream, usually near the point of waking up. At that point I frantically try to "remember" the dream, make some sense out of it or keep the thread of what's going on. When I wake up, I am sometimes astonished. I think if I could really have gotten that dream down on film, I would have made one of the world's greatest movies. It's very odd, and then I forget almost all of it.
