What exactly does it mean when you have recurring dreams? I've had about 3 different recurring dreams that I can remember. One only recurred twice and the others recurred 3-5 times. The thing is, when they recur it's always a dream that was either scary or foreboding and got less scary/was turned into something more silly the more times I had it. Can anyone tell me what that would mean?

I'm also wondering what it means when you're looking for someone. I always seem to have dreams where I'm looking for someone. Sometimes it's a specific person from my real life and other times it's just a non specific type of person and I usually can never find either of these. I think I know what it means because it's very literal but I'm wondering if there's any sort of generalized thing people know about this?

I'm also wondering, is it common for people to either 1. not be them self in a dream and 2. Be watching things happen instead of being a part of them/being a part and watching within one dream.