Do you have any recurring dreams? I have a few, my most common one though is where im in...

The Cold Man: Evil entity, has that creepy calm, yet threatening demeanor. Rarely came after me directly, but apparently random people. I try to stop him, sometimes I succeed, sometimes I fail miserably.

The Dark Basement: Not always a literal basement, but always underground, sometimes a cave. Very gloomy, all light is muted, colors are dull, atmosphere is oppressively sad. Often other people are there, and they're defeated, hopeless. Sometimes, there is another presence, unseen, lurking, dangerous. Always feels like I'm never getting out.

The Malfunctioning Portal: Could be an elevator, a teleporter, an archway, something designed to go from one place to another. I go through it, but something goes wrong. I end up in a strange place with literally nothing there. Just a perfectly flat, barren landscape as far as the eye can see. I immediately know there is no way back, and I'm stuck there forever.

All three of these have been apparently defeated, as I haven't had any of them for about 15 years now. I HAVE had dreams of what was the Dark Basement, but every since my last technical DARK Basement dream, where halfway through it, I found the object I was frantically looking for in it and everything changed to light and joyous, It's no longer dark, the hopelessness is gone, the people there are now vibrant and happy, and that other presence is nowhere to be found.

CrazyMusicLover · 31-35

Using a toilet that is in an odd place and gives no privacy. 😅 Either I don't notice the stall isn't complete later or when there's a toilet without a stall, I think nobody would come there. But of course, people always come and I'm embarrassed.

A toilet bowl in that instead of getting flushed starts to overflow.

The front door of my apartment is broken and I have to guard it so no intruder would come but still sometimes some random people I don't know enter as if it was normal. Also it's usually in the middle of the night and I can't call help.

I'm in the woods alone and try to avoid groups of people, so I always pick some less known trails and try to disappear before they spot me.

Lucid dreams where I'm stuck in a dark apartment and have to wait to wake up. The sign for the lucid dream is being unable to switch on the light in any room. It usually starts in the bathroom, then I test kitchen and livingroom and then I realize I'm in a dream but I can't do anything. If I'm luckier, I feel the upsurge of joy and fly out of the window but even then I can be limited by the lack of my imagination and I'm just flying around the residental area as it is, it's dark, lonely and joyless.

OlderSometimesWiser · F

I get a version of that as well, that I’ve flunked college but I’m back again struggling to graduate. Definitely some unfinished business there which I’m trying to work out through the dream.