Originally posted by Alric
They always work for me. I don't know if this is the case but maybe people who have problems with them in dreams have problems with them in real life too. Like their computer keeps crashing or something. Or your just always worried something will go wrong. A little worrying in real life and end up in a dream as it never working.
Actually, studies have shown that people who have anxiety dreams, about whatever they are anxious about, have LESS cause in real life to be anxious. So it seems that whatever lessons their dreams are attempting to teach, are being very effectively learned.

One famous Motif especially -- the one where one is back in school and is found late for Final Exams without having cracked a single book or attended a single class or lecture ... well, it was found that only above average students would have such dreams, and that the students who actually did have serious problems with their study habits were to these likely to have these anxiety dreams.