Do you have recurring dreams?

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Recurring dreams fascinate me. It's like returning to a place that you're not sure if you've been to before but know, in your heart of hearts that you have. My senior year of high school was particularly rough of me as my mother passed away three days before it began. I wanted to drop out, but I didn't because I knew how disappointed my mother would have been. For her, I endured, though it was excruciating, having to bear the brunt of what seemed so terribly unimportant in the scheme of life and death. While I maintained As and Bs, I struggled, always afraid that I would fail this class or that--mostly math--and not graduate. So, every now and again, in my dreams I roam the halls of Columbia High School, on the first day of senior year, not quite sure where to go. The bell has already rung, and everyone is in class. Everyone but me. I spend what seems like an eternity roaming the halls, trying to find my math class, but never can. The dream skips ahead to another day when I've just finished one class and math is next on the agenda. But I can't find the classroom! It goes on and on like that, until I'm resigned to the fact that I'm going to fail math and stay behind another year. I always wake up from that dream with the sense that I'm still in high school, dealing with the death of my mother, hoping against hope that I'll have the strength to stick it out and get my diploma. Sick as it may sound, I've come to enjoy that dream. I experience such a feeling of RELIEF once I realize it was just that, a dream, and life seems that much simpler, at least for a little while. So, my question to you, my fellow myLotters, is this: Do you have recurring dreams? If so, what are they? I'd love to hear from you! Elizabeth