How often do you have dreams where you are running?

I never dream I am running. It sound nice though. For some reason, most of my lucid dreams involve me being back at school and stressed out for some reason I can't quite put my finger on in a dream state.

For me it's more falling or being in a car crash. I seem to only remember the bad dreams.

I have a recurrent dream where I'm running a race, but I'm not able to make any forward progress despite running as hard as I can. I basically feel like I'm running in quicksand and I can see the finish line in front of me, but I'm not getting any closer to it as I try to run at a faster and faster pace. I end up grabbing the cord on the finish line chute and trying to drag myself to the line without any success.

That's my only running dream.

I have dreams of being back in school, and I feel very happy and excited in the dream. In some of those "back to school" dreams, panic might slip in, such as my forgetting about a class for the entire term, not remembering where my dorm room is, or my key not working in the dorm room door. Dreams are so strange!

If you would indulge me in my amateur dream interpretation, there might be in area in your life where you feel frustrated, not in control, or you feel that you are not making progress.

I occasionally have your type of running dream where I'm running fast and effortlessly, usually over some pretty countryside.

But most of my running dreams are anxiety dreams in which either I can't get to the starting line of my race (traffic or getting lost), or I'm out on the course, make a wrong turn and get lost. I often end up running through warehouses, shopping malls, up and down stairs, etc. while trying to find my way back onto the course.

IRL I've never failed to make it to the start of a race in time. I have made wrong turns a few times, once getting lost pretty badly in a trail race. On the whole, though, the anxiety I feel about running in my dreams is completely out of proportion to what happens in reality. I guess that's what dreams are for.

That's funny because I once had a dream that recreated the court martial scene from "A Few Good Men," but with the Tom Cruise-Jack Nicholson roles reversed: Tom Cruise was the defendant and I was Jack Nicholson in the prosecutor role. I got a rush as I yelled at Tom Cruise, "You can't handle the truth!"

I have similar dreams about missing a class for a semester. Or missing a final. Sometimes I'm just in a panicked state and back in a college setting and couldn't really explain why. These dreams sometimes involve people I didn't even meet until after college. Its so strange because I haven't been enrolled in any classes in over a decade. I do not revisit or think about things I experienced as a student in my waking day.

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That's cool, because apparently running is your "happy time." Running is my happy time too, or better stated as my "drug" to which I am addicted. I will run when it is not safe to do so, maybe due to the weather or location. I've run in thunderstorms, strong winds, close to wildfires... seriously. Once when I was in Colombia, South America, I went out for a run, and people were staring at me as if I was crazy (which I am, of course). My wife was pissed at me, saying that I was running in a very dangerous area. I was oblivious, and too much into my run.

So, for me, it seems like that you have an addiction to running, which can be counterproductive for you at times. Just my $0.02.

The human mind is the world's most powerful, lethal weapon. Visualization and projection are valuable tools, and are a form of self-hypnosis. It is rumored that Filbert Bayi in 1975 performed self-hypnosis, convincing himself that he would break Jim Ryun's fabled Mile World Record (3:51.1). Later, that evening, Bayi runs 3:51.0. Did the self-hypnosis work? Why did he just barely break the world record? It is very Twilight Zonish.

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OK, I get it.

OK, I get it. I just say whoever is without fault, cast the first stone. Or to paraphrase, Thomas Jefferson, "If whatever my neighbor says or believes neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg, it matters not to me."

I used to have this dream all the time. The entire field pulling farther and farther away. Terrible!

I have two versions of running dreams, neither that regularly. Maybe once a month at best. One version I can't run fast at all the the race gets away from me. The other version is I'm somehow using an extra year of college eligibility that I'm pretty positive I shouldn't have, and I'm worried about getting in trouble.