Who shows up in your dreams most often? I'm not talking about fantasies here... I mean actual dreams while you're sleeping. Is there a common "rotation" of people through your dreams, or places or times? If someone were studying your dream patterns, what would be the most noticeable thing?
For me, I dream a lot about my old home, the one that I lived in for my whole life (until I left for grad school) and which was torn down in 2006 when my mom sold it to developers. I have not been back to the property since that happened, so I don't have an image in my head of it being gone... in my mind, and I suppose most strongly in my subconscious, it's still there. All of my dreams that take place at "home," happen in that house, in that yard, and often even with my grandmother, who passed away in that house in 2005. Most of the time in my dreams, she's alive... but sometimes she's dead (sort of a ghostly figure, but not scary) or she's very sick, which is how she was the last time I saw her. These dreams are not disturbing... just memories.
I also dream about ktsp a lot (of course), and it's great when I dream about hot sex with him and then I wake up, and we go at it right away.
But there are also some not very pleasant dreams with him, because it's often his "evil twin" showing up in my dream. I mean that the husband in my dreams is often the one enacting all of my worst fears (abandoning me, cheating on me, etc), and not at ALL like the one I'm married to in real life! Whenever I wake up from these dreams, I always snuggle immediately over to ktsp and curl up next to him, so relieved to know that *this* is the real one, and the dream quickly fades away.
Parents don't feature that regularly, although sometimes they do pop up. Various aunts tend to show up now and then, oddly. More often, I get these random people from my past, people I most definitely have not thought of consciously for years, sometimes longer. They were non-entities in my life even when we were in school together, etc... just people in other social circles, whom I never noticed. And yet sometimes they pop up. Of course, I get the occasional "ex" dream, which is always slightly odd (it used to happen a more, of course, when I wasn't married/cohabiting w/ktsp--they have pretty much stopped now)--and it seems I tend to dream about traveling in large groups of friends, with all of us on some kind of big trip going somewhere exotic. Those are usually the fun dreams.
Last night, I dreamed about going to Disneyland with ktsp, and I was so extremely happy to be there. It sounds so strange--cynic that I am--but I have always loved Disneyland, no matter how commercialized or brainwashing it is. I probably went there 10+ times as a kid and teenager. So I think it's kind of stuck in my brain as a "happy place" and it pops up in my dreams now and then.
Anyway, what do you all dream about?