About those extra rooms in your house dream... I have it too. I think it is pretty common. It always is best to go with the feeling in the dream in order to target its meaning.

For you the rooms are interesting... That sounds pretty positive. My hunch is that when we are young we get sent off to bed while interesting things are going on. This may lay the basis for the dream that there is more to the house than we have explored! So its a satisfaction of our curiosity to explore those unknown areas in our dream. It may represent a wish to discover more aspects to your home life. Hard to tell for sure...

Wow. The house fell in on you!

I guess you are feeling pretty insecure about something, maybe something you did, perhaps because you feel that it may lead to a disaster at home. The second element you dream about -- your inability to get to the right room -- is based on the frustration of not being able to get to where you want to be. You should think about what was going on that day that might have led to that feeling of not being able to make much progress.

In homeroom, she started to throw up and she wouldn't stop. She kept on and on. Then, she looked at me, as if crying out for help. Then, my teachers and classmates began to surround her. I couldn't tell what was going on then. All of them got in my way. I felt helpless.

You feel badly that you can't take care of your friend in your dream. I guess you are aware that at 14 years old, you can't take on full care of a girl friend yet. Putting the setting in school, where everyone is watching, might be telling you that it's more than you can handle. So perhaps the message is to keep the relationship friendly.

The dream ends the same way every time. I finally get to the front seat (I am now my current age.. 28), but the car goes off a cliff. I scream all the way down and wake up upon impact.

I have been having this dream for as long as I can remember and I still wake up sweating, scared, & confused.

Your "back seat in your father's car" dream has been happening a long time, so it probably refers to a recurring need for more control over the direction of your life. When you were little you wanted to steer your own course, but you got put in your place ... the back seat. Once you were big enough to make your own choices , you began to fear that some of your choices could lead to disaster.

The best thing for you is to face the fact that you are somewhat unsure of your ability to take control. Ask yourself what could be undermining your confidence. Maybe it was because you felt no one was running things adequately when you were young so you didn't have a good model?

The best interpreter of a dream is the dreamer. I can only bring my own associations to you for you to react to. So have a bash!

Also, when I fly in airplanes, they always fly extremely low. Usually they fly underneath or between telephone wires and come within inches of disaster, but they don't crash.

Life is dangerous and things don't always behave the way we want them to. In your case it's not people that let you down, but conveyances that are either out of control or risky. Seems to me you feel some anxiety about your ability to cope with a high tech world, and you might be more comfortable with your feet on the ground in a simpler life. What do you think? Is your dream saying "it's dangerous to put yourself in situations you can't control?"

All I can do is steer the car away from other cars. We end up lost, and we don't know how to find my mother again. I'm 26 years old, and I've been having this dream since I was about five.

Another recurring out-of-control dream.

We become aware rather early in life that we are not big enough to cope with the things our parents take for granted... that we are dependent on them. This makes us scared about what would happen if they were not there and we had to go it alone. In your case, whatever the experience was that found you on your own and unable to cope, it left this dream image behind so that it recurs whenever you feel an inability to manage things on your own. You re-experience the panic of the runaway car with no brakes.

Think about what was going on in your awake life that made you wish there was someone you could count on. Then think about what you can do about it. Good luck.

Here is the latest: I am driving a mini-van on the beach were I spent my summers as a child. In the back of the van sits a lion who manages to escape and is eating people on the beach. I am rather nonchalantly discussing this plight with an older couple when I see the lion run by, and for some reason or another this prompts me to realize that I have lost my keys to the mini-van.

While looking, I wind up in this locker-room type of structure where there is water below my feet. There, in the water, are several large fish, and one of them, a striped bass, has my keys in its mouth. I take the string from the hood in my sweatshirt and fashion a drop line which I then use to catch this fish. Upon grabbing my keys from its mouth, the fish returns to the water and I begin fishing again. But now I am pulling up 2 to 3 foot long sharks which I can never quite get to shore, and who keep getting off the hook when I am about to land them.

There also seem to be two men, who are encouraging me and cheering me on as if I am in some sort of bizarre fishing derby. I am carrying on some banal conversation with them when I wake to my alarm clock announcing the birth of a new day.

That was certainly a full length feature. Overall it shows you in a very positive light. You do not panic at the lion in the back seat and are pretty cool about its eating other people. Even though you loose your keys, you are inventive about retrieving them. Finally, you are showing off your prowess as a fisherman in the derby even if the fish you land are sharks. You have an admiring circle of friends.

In other words, no matter what disasters happen to other people or to you, you find a way to make things work out O.K. This is a very nice dream to wake up from to start the day with confidence that you can cope with the lions (older powerful males who chew up others but not you) and the sharks (unscrupulous sneaky attackers). These are dreams that give you self-confidence. Lucky you.