mazes. lots of mazes. usually in places associated with traumatic memories. and oddly, a lot of bathrooms. labrynths of hallways, tunnels hidden under the school. like the backrooms, but a lot more crowded. recurring locations and plots and characters, too. we can go lucid whenever, but usually we keep it at around the level of vividity and just let things play out. sometimes we influence the dream a little, just to change things that we don't like, but usually not.
one of my faves was one where the entire population of earth had died. Now inhabiting a fleet of cruise ships traveling through a surrealistic and absurdist vaporwave landscape of orange seas and purple skies, and oversized objects and foods. the purpose of the journey was to discover one's true self, at which point they would transform and become something inhuman. yet, everyone still got along, despite their different forms and needs. some would leave the ships to forge their own paths, but mostly, people were trying to make a life for themselves.
of the recurring ones, our favorite is the one where we, and a bunch of other super powered psionic kids, have to colonize the summer camp we were stranded at when the aliens invaded earth.
disturbing ones have had us taking care of pets but failing. sometimes its because the pets have multiplied into thousands and are attacking each other, or things just keep going wrong and they keep exploding or dying in gruesome ways.
less disturbing ones have us as multiple people. less said about this one the better.
the ones where we can fly are the best. it's like swimming, or climbing in the air. hard to describe.
or we will be trying to take over a spa maze, or walking through the bathroom stall maze, or the school maze with lunch lines and hallways. lots and lots of mazes. not just any mazes, like, these are the kind that would make the movie Labarynth starring David Bowie's Bulge look like a tiny twerp in comparision.
