that I inherited a house with a previously undiscovered subterranean level with dingy muted-color plush-or-shag-carpeted rooms that looked like they hadn’t been touched since the 1950s-1970s depending on their style and everything was covered with a thick layer of dust. there would be several large expansive bathrooms that were fresh and clean and I would sometimes find people in them and we would engage in territorial disputes. I haven’t had one of these in a while.
Realizing I had missed math class for the entire semester, was failing, and I didn’t even know where it was or what my class schedule was (probably because I’m bad at math, skipped a lot of school, and did in fact fail classes as a consequence of not doing work).
Always dreams of large labyrinthian buildings, often schools with a grand entrance hall and a huge performing arts theater, but sometimes nightmarish facsimiles of luxury apartment buildings and their residents which are already disturbing enough in reality.
A shopping mall with a two-story Walgreens that has escalators inside. There’s a movie theater at the mall where you enter and go up a cramped set of stairs to get to the lobby, and a department store that’s more on the level of a Kohl’s than something upscale.
Wild animals (lions, tigers and bears—oh my!) stalking the streets at night and I’m the only one who notices or cares. Going to a dimly-lit combination zoo/aquarium/museum where all of the interior rooms are black, animals are just roaming free, and I never get to see every exhibit. Pet stores with hundreds of aisles filled with cages of mistreated cats and dogs.
Once I dreamt that I found a parrot with all of its feathers plucked bare and a broken beak. I nursed it back to health and it transformed into a mighty leopard.
A dusty old town center somewhere close to Mexico in the old west. Escaping from mass shooter and murderer situations. Evil shape shifting entities that I recognize from previous dreams. Watching a movie and then I’m in the movie or the same with video games.
Oh and also my pets often accompany me on my journeys!