You're packing luggage for a long vacation?
In my experience, I'll be running around, making sure I have everything I could possibly need or want in my bags and making last minute changes as needed for this great trip I have planned...only to wake up before I even get to the airport. Or, if I'm really lucky, I'll be all set to board the plane when reality decides to show up and slap me across the face. 
* heavy sigh*
I have these dreams quite often and I hate them. I hate them with every fiber of my being. I hate the fact that my subconscious mind continuously tortures me with the fact that I desperately want to take a vacation to some far off land but I lack both the time (can't miss school right now) and the resources ($$$) to make my dreams a reality. What's worse is I'm not skilled enough in the art of lucid dreaming to be able to recognize that these dreams aren't real and stop them before I get too excited. It's really depressing waking up and realizing that everything I just experienced was all a very convincing lie constructed to remind me of all the great things that I just can't do right now.
*Another heavy sigh*
Has anyone else experienced anything similar to this? Does anyone have any tips for stopping these dreams in their tracks?
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Eventually, after recording multiple dreams (not sure how many), you begin to see patterns that your dreams share, and with that knowledge, you are more likely to identify the dream as a dream while you are dreaming it.
1. Someone dies
2. I die
3. We all die
I know that sounds grim, but... well more often or not I have a pleasant dream or I recognize that a dream is going to be grim and manage to control the situation and turn the outcome into something more positive.
GamerJM