Nightmares

I've never been the type to have monsters in my nightmares. My nightmares are always semi-reasonably related to my current life stage. Here's a list of the main ones:

Have I ever shown you this picture before? I think it's utterly hilarious. Apparently you can get four kids to sit still and look at a camera but the infant won't have anything to do with such business. This was taken around the time when I became quite terrified of interruptin my mom.

Childhood nightmare: I interrupted my mom while she was talking to some people. I knew better, interrupting was against the rules, but I did it anyway. She immediately dragged me down to a dungeon where hundreds of children were chained to the wall, told me that these were all of her other kids who had interrupted her before I had, and locked me up to spent the rest of my life in chains because of my transgression. Talk about dramatic!

Bride-to-be Nightmare: It's my wedding day, and Mom and Dad come and tell me that Angel is refusing to marry me, but not to worry, they found someone else who will marry me, so none of the money or arrangements will be wasted, I just need to go and marry him right now. In a daze, I go through with the ceremony, but at the reception, I see Angel there, and he's very upset. It turns out that my parents had been lying the whole time, and it was all a scheme to get me to marry this stranger, even though Angel had wanted to marry me all along. I chase after Angel to find him and explain that I didn't want to marry this guy, I'd been tricked, but it wasn't too late, we were still at the wedding venue and the papers hadn't even been filed yet.

Senior Year of College Nightmare: It's the seventh week of the semester, and I completely forgot that I had signed up for a class, and at this point I have failed to attend any of the sessions or do any of the coursework, simply because I forgot that the class existed. I'm trying desperately to find the prof and the classroom, which are seemingly impossible to find, because I need to straighten out this mess and find a way to fix my grade before graduation!

Newly-Licensed Cosmetologist Nightmare: I'm licensed, I already passed my state board test and I have the fancy card in my wallet--yet through some strange turn of events, my hours were calculated incorrectly and I have to return for one more week of cosmetology school. I'm devastated by the news.

About to Move to China Nightmare: I'm at an Indian restaurant, but the only language that the Indian lady who owns the restaurant and I share in common in Mandarin. And, bizarrely, my knowledge of Mandarin has disappeared and I'm left stumbling over a simple question "What hours is this restaurant open?" I manage to get out "restaurant" and "time" and "open" and she understands and tells me they're open till 10 p.m. but I'm so embarrassed that I can't string one sentence together. When I wake up, I immediately test myself, "Qing wen, nin de can guan cong ji dian zhong dao ji dian zhong kai shi?" What a relief. I haven't lost either my good sense or my Mandarin skills.

p.s. I'd like it to be noted that my parents are actually good people, they only play evil characters in my nightmares, it seems.

Do you ever have nightmares related to your actual life circumstance?