When it is a cold and snowy as this winter, I dream of basking somewhere on a warm sunny tropical island with white sand and blue waters, an umbrella drink in my outstretched hand as I lounge on a beach chair.

Janet, 42
E. Brunswick, NJ

I often dream of large rambling interior spaces (apartments and houses sometimes stores but not  offices). They are oddly shaped and one room runs into another. I am walking all around these spaces (sometimes they are filled, sometimes they are empty). I  am looking . . . Not desparately or with anxiety but searching.  Sometimes there are people I know, sometimes ones I don't,   sometimes noone at all. But the theme is always a search.

Felicia, 34
Somerville, MA

Regular dream? Since my waking life is fairly circumscribed by circumstances I can control, I relish the variety of my dreams which may--or may not--be inspired by what I have done or read the day before.

Jill, 59
Saylorsburg, PA

lately my dreams have been mainly about my immeditate family. . .my half-bro, my half-sis, and my dead mom and dad looking up to hold me in deep judgement, and, although somewhat skeptical, expressing their opinions that I'm doing alright in my life, for the most part. . .

mothmc, 35
Pensacola, FL

Something, somewhere, running in shadows. Faces, suggestions, voices. I hear my own name a lot. Said accusingly by voices I never know. Occasional nudity, some great violence, though the language remains pretty clean. Tom Brokaw shows up more often than I am comfortable with.

Anthony, 24
Baton Rouge, LA

I suffer from panic attacks, so there are several times when I wake up "falling" back into my body. Basically, it's my body jerking awake.

Amy, 23
Baton Rouge, LA

Regular dream? What's that? In the last dream I had, my mom got a silver Jeep Grand Cherokee and everybody was trying to tell me that it was old because it had old parts. "We told you, it's a '79!" they kept saying, and I was yelling, "That's impossible!" Not all that interesting compared to some of my other dreams, but there 'tis.

Karen, 20
Marshelltown/Ames, IA

For the past 9 months, all I've dreamt about is my wedding (I'm getting married in September). Most of them are anxiety dreams: something is wrong with my dress, my dad is late, I'm late...weird stuff. I'm not really worried about any of that stuff happening, but my subconscious seems to be fretting a lot.

Nicole
Elk Grove, CA

Its a recurring nightmare really, but just about every night (give or take) I dream that I am lying in my bed sleeping next to my boyfriend.  I wake up and look up and there is a man standing over the bed smiling a wicked smile at me. I try to scream, sit up, wake up my boyfriend but I am frozen.

Kathy, 26
Garden City, MI

Yesterday / Tomorrow