That common stress dream where your deadbeat father, the Apostle Simon, entrusts you with the only copy of the Gospel According To Jesus, which you must protect from Lilith, in her attempt to overthrow God's Crestion, but also she is your ex & says she wants to get back together

That common stress dream where you are awoken from cryogenic sleep in the distant future after a cure for your terrible ailment is found, because the godlike hedonists who populate that era think cryopods are a great source of victims for the deadliest game, GigaChess.

That common stress dream where you discover your grandad was just like Tony Stark, except in the 1950s, & was well aware of this Asgardian bullshit, & built a Robocop to kill Nidhoggr, the serpent that gnaws the roots of Yggdrasil. That Robocop still lives, barely, & hates you.

That common stress dream where you are enslaved by three sexy vampire ladies, but only because they don't understand computers and need a social media manager to help them gain followers whom they assume will follow their commands and overthrow Christendom.

That common stress dream where you mean to hire a geneticist to clone a perfect staff for your political campaign, but you accidentally hire a eugenicist instead, who is going to breed the perfect staff in 200-300 years, with a bit of luck and rampant copulation.

That common stress dream where you and your ragtag band of unlikely allies survive a Mad Max style post apocalyptic hellscape of mutants and madmen, with various triumphs and tragedy, only to find out you are living in the edgier bigger budget sequel to the Truman Show.

That common stress dream where you and your superhero team try to apprehend murderous villain, Black Falcon, but due to a clerical error end up killing Black Fox, living legend of WW2 and African American civil rights icon.

That common stress dream where you are coaching a local league soccer team, the Nidavellir Night Elves, but to cover the fact that you know nothing about soccer, you constantly scream "Come on! Kick it!". You win on a technicality and everybody appreciates your contribution.

That common stress dream where you betray your fellow Mid-West prospectors & colonists to the native tribe to ingratiate yourself with them & live as one of them, but after taking your help they say they could never walk with one who would turn on his people, & who posts cringe.

That common stress dream where you humiliate your dystopian corporate masters at a board meeting & they send a child assassin to kill you at home but he dares you to a dance-off to the death & you wake up ashamed for simply ignoring his challenge & throwing him out the window.

That common stress dream where intelligent parasite worms from the seabed have spent millennia burrowing away beneath your island nation, looking to slip into your bodies during the flood season, but also because their God-Queen wants to meet your local crooner, she's a big fan.

That common stress dream where you move some furniture and discover a tiny door in your living room. Crawling down the hole, you discover another door, & an old woman reaches out, begging to be released. To lighten the situation, there is also a little fox cub. Awwwwww!

That common stress dream where your best friend achieves his life long goal of becoming a cheesemonger and then you casually mong the cheese way better than he mongs it, and he takes the tragic but honorable way out, committing seppuku with a sharp wedge of cheddar.

That common stress dream where your wife tells you she wants separate beds & you're kinda hurt & offended but she hurriedly tells you it's because she's riddled with fleas & you sheepishly admit that so are you & you both laugh & hug and go back to the same bed & all is well

That common stress dream where you challenge your old sensei (and secret lover) to a martial arts duel but he's shocked when you break the rules, but you say REAL combat has no rules & it's not like this audience of Westerners even know the rules of duelling

but then he tears off his robe to reveal he was a woman all along, and she's pregnant with your child, and crowd goes OOOOH but then you tear off your robe to reveal you were also a woman all along, so it couldn't possibly be your child, AND the crowd goes OOOOOOOOOOH

That common stress dream where you and your galactic rivals, the Clans, team up against an alien horde from beyond known space, but it turns out to be the engineered product of a corrupt corporation, because we are alone in the universe and all evil is human in origin.

That common stress dream where, after great & expense, you manage to surprise everyone by getting Right Said Fred to perform at your wedding, but all the guests scream "do We Didn't Start The Fire! We Didn't Start The Fire!" and the band scowls at you in anger & disappointment.

That common stress dream where you get back from shopping and ask the wife what she wanted with all these face-huggers and she says what and you say face-huggers and you check your messages and she actually said broccoli and boy do you feel foolish with this big wriggly bag hoho

That common stress dream where you step out for a smoke after Thanksgiving dinner & you walk round to look in the window when you hear a strange song & the whole family is chanting in an unknown language & they all look at you & your dad says they must give thanks in the old way

That common stress dream where that vampire biker gang rides up to your house but it turns out they're also 1' tall teddy bears & finally here's an enemy you can defeat to validate yourself but then your brother the Human Torch annihilates them & your mom says he's the favourite

That common stress dream where the Deep State are subtly altering all social media photos you take in your house so that Doomsday cultists around the world don't realise your rock garden has the exact same layout as Gobekli Tepe, which has grim portents for civilization.

That common stress dream where the basalt monolith that lurks in the woods speaks to you in granite tones, commanding you to leave its circle and you throw yourself on the ground and roll around in its circle singing "Nana, what you gonna do about it, you're just a stupid stone".

That common stress dream where your long term adulterous relationship with the Sexy Senator Who Used To Be A Cult TV Star is uncovered & your apartment is stormed by masked black-clad soldiers who turn out to be nostalgic internet perverts looking for nudes for their collections.

That common stress dream where you escape the T-Rex but it tears the roof off the house next door & you guess it knows houses sometimes have people inside & you have to stay still & quiet but your mother-in-law says it's her house & she'll play her Glen Campbell if she wants to.

That common stress dream where Neil Diamond and Glen Campbell do a charitable gig at a retirement home, to the joy and delight of the seniors, and they are followed by you, John Denver, and the audience turns away, bored, forever after shattering your confidence.

If you can't tell, I've been listening to a LOT of country music recently.