I don't know about the dreams following you. I know there have been a lot of people who've left to get away from them. The times I've been out of the county I've never gotten new dreams...
I'm a space marine. The stuff I've dreamed about have been about wars with aliens, civil wars, being used as a lab rat, having someone else's memories shoved in my head, defending a planet from a bunch of pirates who wanted to rid it of its population... Its been a rough ride.