What are your dreams like?

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How incredibly interesting to read all the replies to this one.

My own dreams differ a lot, many of them are very much movie-like, or even videogame-like, including multiple lives x) I often experience things out of more than one perspective.

I also have one of those dreams that reoccur again and again.
It starts with me coming to a stranger town (not always the same one), I need to find something for someone, don't know what or why, and try to ask people for the way, but they're distant and strange and they don't blink. Then at some point, I start running away from someone. Always the same person/guy, that I feel a strange affection for, even though he has a dark, abusive aura.
I run and run and run, and at some point I'm suddenly in a more familiar environment without really noticing. I think someone's with me, a companion, hard to define and not a person; more like Aladin's parrot, or Link's..anything.
Then at the very end, I enter a small store in a small street; it's run by an old(ish) woman who doesn't talk a lot, but whom I apparently know, or who knows friends of mine. My companion knows her, too. Taking his advise, I ask her to let me hide in the shop, against my instincts, I don't trust her at all;
she agrees (silently), and I hide between pieces of clothing.
She always gives me away, and HE comes, and at the end of the dream he stands in front of me but I couldn't possibly say what he looks like. It feels like I've lost a game for the thousandth time; and it feels like obeying, giving in, and I know he's gonna do something to me.

God. Don't you just hate it when you realize how easily your dreams could, and would, be interpreted to fit your condition by the average psychologist?

the only other reoccuring dream I've had in my life is one where a man dressed comletely in black comes into my room. There's nothing strange about it, the room looks 100% realistic and I'm sitting in my bed, exept...I know for sure that the man wants to murder me.
But he's unbelievably clumsy; he trips over EVERYTHING in the whole room, walks circles, silently curses. Since I know I'm gonna die in the end, I roll my eyes at some point, and become impatient, and want him to get it over with. When he reaches my bed in the end, the last thing I thought before waking up was usually "FINALLY. How hard can it be to cross my tiny bedroom!"
....I might have to add I was really really young when I had that dream, 3-5, maybe.

I've learned new actual words from my dreams.

Also things such as my house, my grandmothers house, school, etc are all altered and that alteration is always the same. (Things such as the kitchen looks different, driveway, the yard, etc) But for some reason that alteration stays, and it's always like that.

Most of my dreams are hyperealistic. They typically involve me engaged in some normal, day-to-day activity, but with something altered or amiss. Sometimes I will wake up and feel like my dream actually happened...it will take me a few minutes to realize that I was just lying in bed all that time! I even had one or two very powerful dreams that completely changed my outlook on life, and are responsible for making me who I am today.

sometimes chaotic and lost or panicky, sometimes epic and full of "magic" amazing fun, often nightmarish or worse, sometimes like they are bringing a gift to me, such as the other night when I was watching someone paint in the dream - woke up and realized I could paint that technique now that I watched them do it.

I agree with the OP that dreams do 'mean' things.

If you have a memorable dream the key is not to ask "what does such and such a thing 'mean'?" What you ask yourself is "what does such and such mean TO ME?". Then it often comes alive with meaning.The symbolism in dreams in very idiosyncratic to the person.

Most of my dreams involve bizarro versions of real-life scenarios. A recurring one I've had is the trying-to-go-home-but-never-getting-home dream. But in general, nothing particularly exciting.

My dreams tend to be vivid. Sometimes so vivid I often times get lost in them and believe them to be some manifestation of a reality. I live other people's lives and my dreams are what fill my short stories because of how vivid and easily I can remember them.

Sometimes my dreams seem really involved and I am really into the dream then I wake up and try to go back to sleep and get into the dream where it left off, but does not usually happen. Sometimes it will seem as though I have had the same dream or a similar type of dream before and I will have the dream again. It is really strange.

Often I dream that I am hanging out with my family and I am concerned about my younger sister.

I wonder if anyone else here dreams about flying/weightlessness

Most of my dreams are bizarre and seemingly meaningless.

Bizarre