The last two nights I've had such realistic dreams that when I woke up in the a.m. I couldn't remember where I was! We are on a back to school schedule so I've been asleep no later than 10:00. It doesn't seem to matter though. When I wake up I'm too tired to move! And we don't have kids yet!
My dream is like that mouse on a wheel dream but I'm stuck in a school. In the dream all of these schools are put together. The outsides of the schools are not connected but the "innards" are. So when I try to get out of one building (moving through the mechanical areas of course!) I can't. I just keep going from building to building. All the doors are locked though except for the doors to my building. The tunnels connecting the various locked doors are all really steep and very small. Some of them are too steep and I don't feel safe even trying to walk up or down them. Some of the doorways are too small and I can't crawl through them!
I'm sure there is some classic meaning to this but I don't know a lot about dreams. I do know that I wake up with this extreme case of anxiety! I just want to pull the covers back over my head and try waking up again!