I regularly have dreams that I'm in the Navy still.
i'm on the ship, or at my squadron on the NAS, and I'm "me" now circa 2020 in the dream. a little fat, longer hair, facial hair etc. and I'm walking around, panicked because I can't find my uniforms, and can't remember the way to the barbershop on the carrier. Worried my Division Officer or some other superior is going to spot me and send me to the CO.
Then, almost everytime, at some point in the dream I realize "wait a minute...I can go home any time now. I'm done / fulfilled my obligation". as if, my service obligation came and went, and I just 'forgot' / didn't realize it, and simply hung around the last 20 years.
such a weird dream; starts in confusion, then full on panic (uniforms, longer hair etc), the sense of elation/relief that I'm not "in" anymore and I can just leave.
weird.