That reminds me of something else. I don't have recurring dreams (not that I can recall), but most dreams involving home and my family (parents and siblings) are set in same location no matter what. "Home" in my dreams is almost always this house that's an amalgam of places we've lived when I was growing up. It may have changed a bit over the years, but it's essentially the same as it's been since fifth grade or so (as long as I can remember having dreams set there). Sometime this year, I had another dream set there, and this realization struck me after waking up. It seems weird, but I guess it makes some sort of sense.

Or the Jem'Hadar are about to burst through the door and kill you in a 1920's-style mob hit.

I lived in the same house all through my childhood, and that's always been "home" in my dreams.

A couple of years ago, though, I had a dream in which I was the target of hitmen(!) and was trying to get home before they killed me. In that dream, "home" was the house I now own, not my childhood house.

It wasn't relevant within the dream, but after I woke up it struck me as the first dream where "home" wasn't, er, "home" - at least, the first one I remembered. I don't remember any dreams involving "home" since then, though.

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Me too...sort of. Enjoy watching tornado-chaser vids, etc.

Was born/raised in the Midwest, lived there until 27 years old and never saw a tornado. Wasn't until mid-90s and living in New Mexico (in the desert) that I saw my first real-life tornado.

...and the accompanying vicious lightning, baseball-sized hailstones...

Yes, that was sweet of you.

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I've had one recurring theme once a blue moon. In the theme, my teeth feel like they are about to explode, and so I try to open my mouth to ease it. But eventually my teeth crack and fall apart in my mouth. Very weird, but happens very rarely.

Most of the time if I realize that I'm dreaming I can easy take control of it, when that happens it feels as if a veil has been lifted, and the surroundings seem less real. My mind seems to be quite creative however, and most often I can fly when I'm dreaming. I still feel the sensation of falling, but I can control myself and fly around like Superman.

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I like the urban legend, or myth, that if you die in a dream you die in real life--a-la, the Matrix. I can't count how many people have said "Those dreams where you feel like you're falling? If you hit bottom you really die!"

Nonsense. I've died via fall before. More often I die via gunfights (guns are a very strong theme in my dreams...hmmm...BLAME THE MEDIA! BAN VIDEO GAMES! j/k.).

In fact, death dreams are also some of my favorite. Not because I'm morbid and I want to die. I most assuredly do not. But because, as I believe it is with all (or most) of us, my own mortality is something that I hate to think about. It's the scarey, final, inevadable unknown. But if you die in a dream, it at least temporarily unburdens you of that feeling of mortality. It's really quite nice

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On the other hand, I went through a phase where I would dream that I was getting up, using the bathroom, showering, getting dressed, etc. Then I would wake up and have to do it all over again, just for real this time. That was very annoying.

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not a dream persay, but I've awoken a couple times unable to move. My body was still disconnected from my mind. It was also frightening.

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I think it has more to do with the fact that your body disconnects motor control when you're dreaming, so that when you dream that you're running your legs actually aren't moving at all. So there isn't the sensory feedback that you would expect, and this results in the feeling that you're moving very slowly.

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I have had dreams where I fell and cracked my head wide open or was shot and could see through my skull. I never died though, and in my dreams always looked for help to get to a hospital - which I never got.

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Was it a nice dream?

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That's a pretty common experience. There's a technical name for it, which is escaping me at the moment. Edit: it's called hypnopompic paralysis.

The first time or two it happened to me it was quite frightening, but after that I started recognizing the feeling and now it's no big deal. You just lie there for a few seconds until your body starts to come unstuck.

Actually, come to think of it, that hasn't happened to me for a long time. Maybe the next time it does I'll be scared again.

Edit again: I've also experienced something different but related when falling asleep. I'll be just dropping off, and I'll suddenly be startled (perhaps by the onset of some scary dream), and I'll fling out an arm to protect myself... except in this case, the arm actually moves. I've given the wall or headboard a pretty good whack on some of these occasions. Of course, the startle/reaction/impact leaves me wide awake, so I have to go through the whole getting-to-sleep process all over.

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That paralysis isn't 100% effective, I've had some wild dreams, and have woken up with the blanket on the floor behind the head of my bed, and the pillow on the other side of the room.

Too bad we can't hit all those evil creatures full strength in our dreams (your remark on lack of vestibular feedback creating a sense of decreased motion certainly sounds logical, ToSeek), but thanks to that (partial) paralysis at least we don't break our knuckles against the wall or run into the bedroom door all the time .

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I think I've had that a few times...
A few times I've woken up suddenly feeling disoriented, and certain that something was looking right at me in the dark. Once my brain finally starts firing again, I realize that there's nothing there and promptly fall asleep.

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You'll have to have them all pulled out after the Savoy Truffle.

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Most popular themes here are tornadoes (unlike some others I've been within 1/4 mile of one: not pleasant), flying, and in semi-familiar territory trying to drive back home.

The tornado ones are usually very realistic. Fortunately I wake up just as everything is getting ripped to shreds.

The flying ones are perhaps unusual, in that I'm piloting an airliner that will get only so high off the ground. I wind up having to negotiate streets, underpasses, etc., because the darn thing just won't gain altitude. Adjustments to the flaps, throttle, etc., have no effect.

The driving ones are probably a result of being homesick for Connecticut.

Oh yeah, and sometimes there's a T. Rex in there somewhere.

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Which just kills me. Falling asleep is never an easy process for me. Sometimes it's hours but rarely less than 30 minutes.

I know people that fall asleep the instant they hit the pillow.

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