I'm a 19 year old college student, but I've had recurring Zombie dreams since I was around 14. Not every night, probably once every month I'll have one, which is still far too frequent considering how scary they are. I actually just woke up from one which has left me a bit shaken up.

In the dreams I'm always fleeing from Zombies, I'll occasionally be fighting them, but with odd methods (spraying them with mace as opposed to a bullet in the brain etc). I'm never actually a ghoul myself and I never get bit. I'm always either looking for places to hide, dead bolting doors etc. I'm generally with a band of survivors that are usually friends of mine, but I've also been with aquentences and strangers too. We often argue about the best place for us to be during the Zombie attack. Sometimes during these dreams, I know there dreams and I try to wake up. Sometimes I dream I'm waking up (but I'm not), and am attacked by zombies all over again, which I suppose adds why it feels like reality.

My family (mom dad and 3 younger sisters) tends to be at the epicenter of all this, in which I'm seperated from them and either trying to get to them or encouraging them to get to me because it's safer where I am. One or more of them always gets bit, but I usually wake up before they turn. Instead I watch them get sick with the zombie virus.

 In the dream I just woke up from, I' had run from a parking lot infested with zombies (in which I tried to trick them into leaving me alone by zombie walking) into a friend's dorm room where he was waiting with a few people I didn't know. In the hallway a girl walked by with a shot gun. When I asked if she had a extra gun, she turned her head and put her hand up like she didn't want to talk. I got a call from my mom telling me the family was in the parking lot, safe. I told her to get to me, that she wasn't safe. The kids I was with first said we should go to them because it's safer. I told them we were safer in the dorm and they agreed. I called my mom a few minutes later, and she answered in a really gentle "hi honey". I knew she was bit. I asked her where she was and she said her and a few survivors got on the roof of some building, that there was an attack. As she was talking, I woke up.

That is a pretty standard zombie dream for me. I woke up horrified.

I'm a college student (I live there during the school year) but as I said this all started when I was younger and other then the setting of the dream the concept changes very little. I have watched Zombie movies, but I'm not a horror movie fanatic or anything. This all started when I saw the new Dawn of the Dead, which was my first zombie movie and put the concept in my head. Scared the SHIT out of me.

I'm not on any medications. I tend towards being anxious, but everything has been pretty low stress lately so I haven't had issues with that. It doesn't seem to matter what mood I'm in when I fall asleep. I love my family a lot, we're all really close and my mom and dad are amazing parents.

So if anyone has any ideas, let me know!