This is my first post in this forum. Ever since I can remember, I have had dreams where I am all alone in strange and public places, wandering, trying to find something familiar and getting more and more lost.

The places always differ but the theme of me being lost and alone is the same. Sometimes I'm at a school campus looking for a class, or my new dorm room, sometimes I'm in some sort of big, cold public transit system trying to get home and the environment keeps changing such that I don't recognize where I am or where I'm going. There is never anyone I recognize and the people I do make contact with always end up disappearing.

I hate these dreams. In real life, I am a grown adult with a family, loving husband, kids, a home and very much a life that I can call my own. I have tried to lucid dream out of these situations but they seem to creep back up again. I would appreciate some insight so that I can face the issues causing these dreams and make them stop.

Thanks in advance!

It's actually quite common to dream about wandering around lost.

They could have to do with not knowing how to deal with a situation in life or having to make a difficult decision.

Here is some more detailed info on dreams about being lost.