do you dream in genres?

<bad Austrian accent>Andrew, do you think your subconscious is trying to tell you something with the failing-exams-after-decade-of-attempts ouvre? hmmm?<accent>

i never have type (ii)

i get:

*action-adventure (in grade 6 i dreamt i went to the amazon with my friend meah to find a cure for cancer only to be greeted by a half whale/half alligator monster! we triumphed over the monster but failed to obtain the rare ingredients necessary for the cure. it had an epilogue set in a fancy hotel and everything)

*disaster (godzilla rip-offs)

*romance

*horror (aargh, the one where i ended up stuffing rock salt in a girl i murdered's mouth still scares me)

*name dropping celeb mtv specials (rarer these days, but in the past i have met inxs, billy joe from greenday, and bono. they always seem to like hanging around in shopping centres)

*documentary (boorrring, eg. going to uni and photocopying stuff)

the rest are yr run of the mill 'surreal', is that a genre? i guess like what petra jane said.

i have never dreamt in western, no science fiction or fantasy, no anime, no comedy (!!! i just realised this! it's not as tho all my dreams are deadly serious, but they never star mike myers or anything like that. i guess i'm just not all that funny), thriller/detective.

1. Sci-fi movie dreams. These are GREAT, I am invariably the hero and do such things as fly spacecrafts to rescue world's population from evil aliens, or fight of pink slime that flows out of the taps and drains.

2. The my-body-is-so-tired-I-can-barely-move dreams. These are awful, they involve having to be someplace at a certain time, but all the muscles in my legs hurt and kind of drag to the ground so I can't move. These dreams I have so often that I sometimes catch myself thinking "oh, I hope that tired-legs-thing doesn't happen now that I'm in such a hurry" - daytimes when I'm wide awake!

* Late for work/important appointment and somehow always prevented from getting where I'm going -- Screwball comedy or thriller depending on circumstance

* Creepy crawlies (surreally big spiders usually) in house -- Horror

There are others but I rarely wake up with a clear memory of them.

That's from normal sleeping. I apparently have stock footage dreams when I faint, if I remember dreaming at all when I wake up. I'll see myself sitting on a couch watching TV, or sitting in the kitchen of my parents house, or sitting on a bench in a park. I'm never doing anything in these dreams and no one else is ever around. Weird.

not sure about genre but the soundtrack for this dream was a mash-up of the theme from Brave New World, Sisters Of Mercy's 'Dominion' and Slayer :(

+ possession by Satan/eternal damnation/apocalypse (drama queen, moi?)

+ playing in a football match, though it often turns into...

+ attempting to complete a task, often sport-related, but finding the journey there takes forever, or I don't have the right gear, etc. etc.

+ sex

+ beaches (probably the commonest single theme) and/or frightening, unpredictable seas and waves

I almost never have nightmares, at least not that I remember. I only have nightmares that make me wake up and have trouble falling back asleep like maybe twice a year. Lucky me.

But mostly I have bad dreams, usually involving car crashes or being chased.

Does anyone else have MY BF(/GF) IS COMPLETELY EVIL dreams? I do sometimes. I'll go to bed fine, have this dream where NA is a total bastard, and wake up mad at him (even though in real life he's a complete angel).

Last night, I dreamt (is that how you spell it? weird) that he started dating this 11-year-old girl on the sly. Then I found out about it right before she and all her friends were about to come over to the apartment, so he told me to hide. Then I tried to leave him but he started chasing me and I was running and hiding and then he would find me. So I would run some more. Basically, most of my dreams involve running away from someone but it's usually not my boyfriend. So anyway, then the alarm woke up. As per usual, NA moved over to my side of the bed to spoon me but I was freaked out from him chasing me in my dream, so I wriggled myself out and jumped up out of bed!

(I think most my dreams are pretty limbic in nature; fight or flight or fucking.)

I also dreamed once that i was the laser-light tech at a Pink Floyd show...somewhere in there Roger Waters whooped my ass. Dont ask me why. Yet another nic patch dream. They are the best.

Like an Edward Gorey dream come to life, I approve.

(The action/horror bit involved, I think, giant human chess and men in black bodysuits on a dusty road about to torture me.)

So, the teeth genre, I guess, that time.

The only person i really know on ILX is Millar...and i hope that never happens.

My unconscious is a riot.

v true as i will have one more examination in abt 18 months-2 years (but it won't be a written one).

Night before last, I was trying to steer a too-large boat through too-fast rapids.

So maybe my genre is disaster movie.

Other dream genres include being a character in popular tv shows and sex, which is either a)hot hot hot sex with a celebrity or b)sex with someone I know. B is often depressing as I wake up happily thinking "Oh yay yesterday, I kissed Perso... oh shit, that didn't really happen."

I also have a fair few dreams that are just totally weird. Kinda surreal/sci-fi dreams.

"Just had a really weird dream...
It was about the last thoughts of a dying wasp (though it looked like an augmented wasp). At first it was sitting on the side of the basin, and I wanted to clean my teeth, but didn't want to get stung. So, I just sat in bed watching some very strange TV show which would keep getting interrupted by a man saying "this of course, was not real". The wasp flew up to the open window, and hovered there for a moment, I was wishing for it to fly away, instead it settled on a wall mounted lamp, and that's when I could hear her thoughts "I wish I had listened to my father, but I am too weak now". I was now thinking that I was late for work, I thought about finishing off the wasp with a quick swipe of the newspaper. Then I woke up"

"did have another weird dream, it was about a botanical garden that was full of strange and beautiful fauna and flora. But there was this really evil little furry thing with sharp teeth that attacked my friend. We ran and got away, and ended up in the corridors of an average looking office block"

And then there was the dream where I trapped inside one of Saddam's royal palaces, and I eventually found him, and he showed me the way out.

I shall try and remember some more of my dreams.

I used to have the scary radio dream lots but I'm having it less. In this one I'm in a studio and the board is unfamilar and I have to figure out how it works live on the air, or I know the board but it's all broken or something. The dead air throws you into an ever-escalating panic, and then you wake up and of course it's still quiet! I know DJs who can't sleep without music because they will wake up in panic if they hear 'dead air'.

It seems that a great deal of my dreams take place in gigantic elaborate buildings (houses, hotel-ish things, etc.) and involve lots of interaction with other people, sometimes real people, sometimes dream people.

I also had a dream continue into the next night, like a two-part episode.

Looking back, it appears as if it did have a plot and so on; but when I first woke up I realised that it only appears so in retrospect. When I was actually dreaming it, there was lots of other weird stuff I've forgotten which makes it obvious my brain was making it up as it went along.