recurring_dreams icy i still have them, but they used to be nearly every night. there were a few dream places that i would visit on a regular basis... but not controlled enough that i could decide where i wanted to go. sometimes i would realise i was dreaming and have more control over the situation or event, but sometimes it would give me less. so often the dreams had some type of panicked state in them, like having to fit through an insanely small opening, fighting for my life when i feel (and move) as though i'm weighted underwater, things like that. many of the dreams centered at places i know in real life - but they're not the same in the dream, i just know where i am. similar, but not right. like at my grandparents' house, at my mom and dad's place, but even though i knew where i was, it looked different from how it actually is in real life. i always thought other people had this too, and dreamed in color and black & white (but never just one color), and could sometimes take control of their dreams. when i would say, o, i dreamed of this place again, but something else happened this time, people would tease me and say i was making up a dream sitcom or something. they would also ask what was going to happen tonight, like i was dream tv guide. i stopped talking about those dreams pretty quickly after that, and usually don't ask others unless i know them very well... but here i don't know anyone, or at least i don't know if i know someone. so i can say all i want and not have to worry about direct censure... because i know that one asshole will be there to take it the wrong way, point out the stupidity, whatever. i say, bring it on. i want to read what real people dream of... recurringly of course. 031111 ... megan i keep seeing the guy from the movie about elizabeth smart. and he talks a bunch of gibberish to me, and, like her, it kind of takes over my mind until i wake up. Lord, get me out of this. 031111 ... misstree i don't remember my dreams much anymore. i believe this to be the reason i'm addicted to the snooze button--i get to glimpse into them, even if just for a moment before i fling myself back at sleep to try to recapture it. but there have been two things that were recurring, a long time ago. one, i had five dreams of various apocalypses within a week. nuclear holocause, machines gaining sentience, alien attack, i don't remember the other two. all of them were very vivid and intense. the other is that for about 3 years, i dreamt of Amityville (a house i used to love in). i started dreaming of it a year before, and didn't stop until a year after i'd left. its shape changed, but its identity was always the same. not particularly comforting, but what can you expect from the dream representation of a fount of chaos that's slowly rotting under its own weight, with a baby ghost in the basement and a bunch of dark-natured freaks in the attic? 031111 what's it to you? who go blather from