Dark dreams in consecutive nights

Lately, I have been having these dark dreams. It seems like I have a couple each night because I wake up two - three times/night in tears. The ones I remember were as following

1) I'm a graduate teaching assistant. There are three professors that I work with and that I really look up to. However, in one of my dreams, I sent out an email to one of them ( a 60 something year old man) to set up a meeting. In my dream, that professor misinterpreted my email and gave it a sexual interpretation. He then sued me for sexual harassment and he destroyed all of the work I had done because of that. In real life, I hardly ever see that professor anymore because I'm teaching in a different field now. I occasionally run into him but our conversations don't go any further than "Hi - how are you?". I honestly don't miss him or his classes at all. I don't understand why he of all people popped up in my dream.

2) This dream also relates to my occupation. I'm in class and there are about 100 students in the room instead of the 20 I'm used to. The crowd consists of either current or former students. While I'm teaching, I want to call on certain students but then get stuck because I don't remember ANY of their names. I get silent and it's impossible for me to say anything anymore. I'm literally speechless. It's like a force that is trying to withhold me from speaking.

I don't remember the other dreams but I know for a fact that they were all dark and that there was always a force involved that seemed to make my life impossible. A force that would hold me back, that would keep me from doing things, etc.

What could this possibly mean? Thanks!

Hey Annie, in my experience DC's almost always act differently from real life. We all often get dreams that we never thought of, our subconscious plays tricks with us.

The force that you are talking about is simply lack of control, every beginner lucid dreamer will experience it. You need to use your intention to control your dream, at the moment "you want to call on certain students", you need simply need to do that using your intention, just call them out without any hesitation. Every doubt will increase that force.