It seems that when I was younger, I dreamed much more than I do now, and the content and variation of the dreams was more diverse.
When I do dream, it is intense, almost "exhausting" when I wake up, I do not feel very rested until I shake off the dream and come to.
As a kid, I moved around every two years, as part of being a member of a military family. The dreams I had for many years often contained a "house" that was composed of "pieces of all my other houses I had lived in IRL" and my friends, but not just my friends where I lived, but my friends from all the places I lived. It was kind of cool, kind of a way to stay connected with my memories of people and places before the internet, before Facebook...
My dreams are hardly ever violent, I can't rememeber the last one that was. The worst my dreams are as of late is "non-sensical" in that they have no real obvious message to me, but I know that I am just not looking hard enough, or maybe even I don't know their language.
The most frequent dreams I have with any recurrence now are maybe not even a kind of dream. In all honesty, I think they are related to daily cycles of testosterone production. There are times that I get inexplicably tired, like to the point I can drink an entire cup of coffee and still be nodding off in my chair. Usually these dreams hit me between noon and four PM. In addition to my temporary state of fatigue, I end up fixating off from reality and into some type of "trance" which is really more of a loose consciousness. There is no discrete scenery, there are no distinct people, but there is life, and there is movement, and there is dialogue. The dreams are not necessarily "sexual" either (aka "wet dreams" or "nocturnal emissions") but with some regularity I will end up snapping out of the stupor and have a massive erection.
Maybe I just need more sleep, or maybe I really do need to see a psychiatirst.
-Halla