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Originally Posted by spinelust
On the other hand, recurrent dreams I have had of flying have been among my very favorite.
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I've only dreamed about flying once (that I remember), and it was indeed AWESOME. It was one of my favorite dreams... must have been a couple of years ago now, but I remember it distinctly. I wish that was a recurring feature! Would be so nice if we could just "plug in" our favorite dreams, like a DVD... but I suppose that would take away some of the wonder about them.
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Originally Posted by spinelust
Do any of you ever feel as though you have sequels to your dreams?
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Actually, no... or very rarely, maybe once it happened that way. I always WANT sequels, especially when I wake up in the middle of one and I try to go to back to sleep right away, to make sure it continues... but it almost never happens. It's as if my brain only assembles each random dream configuration once, and while the next dream might resemble an old one, it's never an exact sequel.
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Originally Posted by SabrinaFair
Some frequent themes include my teeth breaking/falling out
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I had forgotten about that one as well... it used to happen to me all the time when I was living by myself in the first few years of grad school. Not a dream about them breaking, but that they were always loose, about to fall out... and I was so terrified of losing my whole, adult teeth in my dreams. That's definitely a recurring one, but not very common now. I wonder what the trigger for that one is, since so many people seem to dream about it with no connection between them.
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Originally Posted by fresnelly
It makes me wonder how I create them. Are they people I've seen on tv or the street? Are they more or less true representations of strangers or amalgams or completely imagined?
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I wonder about that as well... who are these faces, and where does my brain come up with them? Sometimes I'll dream about my own husband, but it will be a face I don't know from real life... just an "actor" in his place, or something random like that. The brain is so fascinating in that way.
I wonder if science will ever be able to decipher what kind of neurological activity produces particular kinds of dreams over others... or if that's just something that's impossible to study, due to the highly individualized nature of these things. Then again, if everyone dreams about teeth falling out, there has to be something to it!