What's the first dream you remember having?

I've tried, I'm just no good at sussing out the meaning of dreams :(. Nope, hadn't gone fishing, no lakes where I grew up, and houseboats were never a topic. The only houseboat I knew of then was from watching the movie Houseboat (good movie!).

The biggest factor of that one was that it looked small from the outside, but was somehow ENORMOUS once I was inside exploring. But what the heck does that mean? For some reason that was important enough for little me to keep dreaming it over and over 🤔

Yikes, accidentally killing someone you love would be a nightmare! A warning to tone down your pranks?

Just out of curiosity, do you have those dreams when you are stressed about something?

Laura, the next time you have your #3 dream, I hope you remember what I’m about to tell you: I had that happen to me in real life, and I’m still here to tell the tale. I’d contracted necrotizing fasciitis. I needed surgery to try to save my life. It was very extensive surgery. They put enough tranqs into to stun a Blue whale. Then I thought I could hear the surgeons talking. It sounded like they were debating if I were alive or dead. I became very frightened! What if they decided to cremate me then and there; and that’s when I discovered I could not move or speak. I couldn’t cough, flutter an eyelid, do SOMETHING that was a sign of life. Eventually, though, I came to. They hadn’t put me in the ground after all! I hope you remember that when you dream😊

I am always writing an exam of some kind. The subject is never revealed.

I have several reoccurring dreams, one of which I experienced again just last night. It was about finding myself trapped in an environment of massive industrial machinery.

"3. I am paralyzed and I think I'm awake, and try so hard to call for help or move just the tiniest bit but can't."

That sounds a lot like sleep paralysis, which is a fairly common problem. If that's what you have, it's when your brain starts to wake up but your body hasn't fully waken up yet, so you're kind of stuck. Naturally you panic, and often people in this situation have their brain conjure up an explanation for why they're trapped in their own body, usually some horrifying vision of a monster or demon or something standing/sitting on top of them or over in the corner of the room. Very scary for someone experiencing it, but harmless and not quite a nightmare, at least not in the usual sense.

Of course maybe you don't have that and it's just an actual nightmare. But it sounds like sleep paralysis.

Do you still have these dreams? All of them are nightmares in my book!

I had one, as an adult, like your #3, and can attest it's awful. In mine, well I won't go into all the surrounding additionally terrifying details, but I also dreamed I woke up, was very relieved, only to find the same thing was happening again! By the time I really did wake up, there was no sense of relief because I thought it was going to happen again. And again 😱

Anxiety dreams. It's always a relief to wake up from them :)

Isn't it weird when you have dreams about people or a place that in your dream you know is supposed to be your home, or someplace else you know, but looks entirely different, and the people do too? But in the dream, it's all perfectly normal and you don't question it.

Aurora Borealis, the icy sky at night, paddles cut the water on a long and hurried flight
From the white man to the fields of green
In the homeland we've never seen
They killed us in our teepees and they cut our women down
They might might have left some babies crying on the ground
But the fire sticks and the wagons come
And the night falls on the setting Sun.

I'd love to have that one :). Makes sense that would be the reason, or a reason, why you were obsessed with astronomy early on. You've gotta see the Aurora Borealis!

That dream is very interesting! Even more so that you had it when you were so young. It's like you were drawn up higher and higher, until you were in the universe itself. Very cool, but I can understand why it'd make you afraid to fly.

It does sound like a video game. Very creative, and creepy. Do you particularly like or dislike the colour orange?

Another nightmare! I haven't seen Melancholia, but that dream would have scared the pants off of me as a kid.
Even as an adult!

That's hilarious 😄. But I'm assuming in your dream it was scary, or you probably wouldn't think of making it into a horror film.

Kind of like The Birds. You could call it The Cows!

Weird, but interesting.