Most common recurring dream:
I'm in college, I'm getting ready to wrap up a school year and suddenly remember that I have a final exam in a class I attended at the start of semester and then forgot about. I know that if I can make the exam, I can still salvage some credits as long as I pass. The only trouble is, I cannot remember where the class is...only the building...and it's full of hallways and dour-looking professors standing at doors looking at me oddly as I, alone in the hallway, walk past their rooms looking for a familiar face.
Have had this dream infrequently over the past 10 years, but at least twice. Before, I'd have it at least once a year.
Two weirdest dreams:
I was in the Navy, but dreamed I was back in college. It was snowing. And the U.S. and USSR had exchanged missile strikes. I was among my classmates being herded into a basement, but I remember looking out a door window and watching the snow...and wondering if I'd ever see my parents again...and worrying whether they were safe.
Another one I dreamed only once, but it was a powerful dream. It was in the early 1980s. I was back in my "hometown" and living with my parents in a house we had circa 1959-61. My guess is that it had to be "that" house for my dream because a huge picture window with a view of the night sky was essential to the dream as it played out and that's the only house we had lived in that fit the bill. At any rate, an alert had been issued over TV that the U.S. was sending out the air force to investigate unauthorized traffic over U.S. air space. We were told to turn out our lights. It was a blackout, essentially. My parents were sitting by the fireplace telling me not to worry, but I was watching the skies...seeing stars...and suddenly I saw the stars move. They moved and formed a shape....moved again and formed another shape....and I realized that whatever was up there was visible and forming the shapes of well-known star clusters -- the Big Dipper, Orion, Cassiopeia, etc.
It was a visitation from aliens!
And then I woke up. It was vivid, that dream. And I thank Steven Spielberg for it!