I’m a very active dreamer and usually wake up remembering
one or more dreams… And for as long as I can remember, I have had one
particular dream at least once a month: I am in a large house with a lot of
passageways and rooms, and a generally confusing layout. Most of the house
seems normal, but there is one section that I know I am not ever, ever supposed
to enter, lest terrible things happen to me. The times when I have peeked into
these rooms or ended up there by accident (which happens a lot), I have an overwhelming
feeling of dread. There’s no one in there, but I know it's a bad place.
In current years, it has been a large craftsman style house,
where the “bad” part is a series of hidden rooms off of the master bedroom,
filled with bunk beds. It used to be a huge Victorian house where the “bad”
part was through a series of secret passageways, and if you entered the
passageways, you would never get out. Before that, it was a multi-story
apartment building, where the top floor was where the evil lived. And every
time, I find myself going to these bad places by accident, and there seems to
be no avoiding ending up there.
No matter what the building looks like, it’s basically the
same dream over and over. Nothing really happens, there may or may not be other
people who make appearances, but for the most part it’s me, alone in a
building, trying to avoid the evil area. I’ve never learned what actually lurks
there.
My other recurring dreams are a little more normal, at
least: I’m on a very narrow ledge trying to avoid falling over the edge. The
other is where I am underwater, trying to hold my breath. Usually in these dreams, though, I realize I
am dreaming, and either jump off the cliff and wake up, or start breathing
under water and wake up.
Anyone else have any weird recurring (or non-recurring)
dreams?