Since I was a teen, I've had a dream that seems to continue from time to time. I am always the same person, regular characters come and go. Some have died. I'm now 50, so it's been going on a long time. It's not my regular dream anymore, but for about 20 years it was the only dream I had (like episodes of a tv show.)
I'll talk more about the subject of the dream later, but for now I just wanted to know if others have had a similar long term dream?

I never considered having Lucid Dreams to be a good thing. Most of mine have not been fun. If a few, I can fly. I taught my self this in a dream where I was falling. I often have those. In one I realized that I was falling in a dream and just decided to stop. I just landed on the ground standing. Later I worked with the idea and can sometimes concentrate in my dreams and do things like levitate a few feet and move around the room. Other times I seem to be able to fly around like the typical super hero, although I don't ever have any other "powers".
Flying does take effort. It often tires me out and I have to land or suffer pain from the effort.

The most disturbing thing about my LD's is when I see something that I know I've dreamed about (that's the feeling I have, da javu.) I certainly can't be sure I have actually seen something, but seeing an event on TV, or visiting a new place, often makes me "flash" back to a dream memory.

The general topic of my dream is about a the end of the world. It's a horrific disaster, world wide, that results in the breakdown of civilization. There were years of suffering and death afterwards. Then a period where I was the only one alive that I could find. I wandered the world looking for others. I eventually found a few people, then more and eventually settled in a small community that had rebuild. There were truly 4 or 5 years where there were no other people. No animals. No vegetation. I don't know what I lived on, I don't remember ever eating. I did drink water from streams when I found it. I need to make it clear. This is not one dream, on one night. This dream has continued off and on for 35 years or more.

I can provide more detail in follow ups. I don't want to make this a novel here. Mainly I'm just curious if others have had a similar dream sequence.