Dreaming is Free

While my life situation is still as sucky as ever, I'm sort of bemused/amused by my brain's consistency in the dreams I keep having.

Clearly my subconscious is in some place where it's continuing to drive home the same messages and themes, night after night, because my dreams are startlingly consistent and vivid in ways I haven't had in years, typically mixes of the following:

Apocalyptic Game Show
Apocalyptic Road Trip
Apocalyptic City Life
Anxiety Dream City Life
Anxiety Dream Workplace Setting
Anxiety Dream Home Life
Glam Weird Dream
Glam War Setting
Glam City Life

I tend to be a lucid dreamer (have been for the past 20 years), so my brain typically lucid dreams if a nightmare tries to appear, where it'll automatically ramp down the fear (usually) and make it comic in some fashion.

But the above are the dreams I'll have (sometimes mix-and-matching motifs), even my lucid dreaming doesn't entirely tamp them down.

I wonder if that's common for people in stress, like for particular "dream themes" to occur.