Do you have a recurring dream?

[Boston Tea Party]

I do.

It's a dream that begins rather pleasantly, but ends in a nightmarish way.

Have you ever made it stop? How did you do it?

 

[Pooh Girl 71]

I actually have 3 of them. I haven't been able to stop them but they only tend to come when I am incredibly stressed out.

The first dream is about alligators and a pit, I've had that one since I was little.

The second one is someone is chasing me with a knife. I manage to get the door closed but they are moving the knife underneath and on the sides of the door. I've had this one since I was a teen and it scares the crap out of me!

The third is I'm searching this big old house for something. There are lots of doors that I keep opening. I've had that one since my mid 20's.

 

[Buckalew11]

For years I have had a recurring dream of being back in high school and trying to get to Algebra class. I have no book, no paper, no pencil. I am totally unprepared for the class and cannot find my way to the classroom.

Sometimes the building in circular and I just go in circles never finding the class. Sometimes the building is like a maze and I never find my way and hit dead ends along the way.
But it is always Algebra class I am looking for.

I have stopped this dream and many other bad dreams but realizing it is a dream and taking control. I have done this since I was a little girl and read in a book that you can do such a thing. Sometimes when I realize it is a dream, I just wake up. But other times I am allowed to change the direction of the dream (yay!)

 

[Buckalew11]

oh and sometimes I'll dream that the DIS is a book instead of the Internet. With it being a book, I just turn the pages and turn and turn and read and read. But instead of it being on a computer screen it is real paper in my hands and I even see names and clipart and identify people here that way. It is almost like I'm saying, "These are real people with real problems, joys, news etc." So real that I can actually touch them (like one would real paper). Weird, I know.

 

[Sonya]

I have several. Some are good and some are bad. When I get into a rut and start having the bad ones it means something in my life is wrong. I reflect upon my life and try to see what I can improve. Sometimes it's stress, sometimes it's a relationship, etc.
However sometimes I can't do anything about it. It's at these times I get out my favorite book and read it like some people turn to comfort food. This usually puts my mind in a good place before I go to bed and things improve usually pretty soon.

 

[SDFgirl]

Oh, yes! Definitely. I have several.

The most common is that all of my teeth are rotting/falling out. Either they're all crumbly and brittle, or they're falling out whole, from the root. Just plopping out of my head. Either way, I dream that it's the weekend, and I can't get to the dentist. And I don't have any dental insurance...and while I'm desperately trying to find out how to see a dentist, my teeth are falling out one by one...

[shudder]

The other ones are mostly just a series of different plots in the same settings, over and over. I frequently dream about a city block that only exists in my dreams. I know all the stores, the apartments, the office buildings...and I'll have many different stories play out in this city block. I don't think it's anywhere I've ever been before. I just think it's a setting my subconcious has invented to play out mini-dramas...

 

[Deb & Bill]

Try to figure out what is causing the dream. Then see if you can resolve the problem in real life.

But I did dream last night that I woke up at 8:15AM instead of 6AM. Must have been Daylights Saving Time ending.

 

[SeeDisney]

Yes, if I'm under stress, I'll dream about tornados.


I love the recurring dreams that I'm ice skating through streets, towns and cities that I've never been before.

 

[Meezers]

Yes...when I am very stressed out I have the same dream about my very first bad paramedic call....you don't want to know...I am generally not a nice person to be around that day...

 

[Alice28]

For years I have had a recurring dream of being back in high school and trying to get to Algebra class. I have no book, no paper, no pencil. I am totally unprepared for the class and cannot find my way to the classroom.

Sometimes the building in circular and I just go in circles never finding the class. Sometimes the building is like a maze and I never find my way and hit dead ends along the way.
But it is always Algebra class I am looking for.

I have stopped this dream and many other bad dreams but realizing it is a dream and taking control. I have done this since I was a little girl and read in a book that you can do such a thing. Sometimes when I realize it is a dream, I just wake up. But other times I am allowed to change the direction of the dream (yay!)

My reoccuring dream is similar to this- I'm either back in high school or college again, and all of a sudden I realize I am not prepared for the exam, or forgot to do the term paper, etc. I start freaking out and then I realize, wait a minute, I already graduated high school! (or college)!! Why I am I stressing over this! And then I wake up. It's irritating. I finally went to a dream website and this is a common dream for a lot of people- they said it means I feel I have unfinished goals in life or have not gone as far as I would like to (career wise I guess).

 

[Beth76]

I have two. One is that I have my retainer (haven't worn in 15 years) in my mouth and my teeth hurt. I can't take the retainer out, all I can do is pop it off my teeth. It's very frustrating. Haven't had that dream in years though.

My more common dream has two versions. One is that I'm back in HS (after receiving a BS degree) to take one class that I forgot. In the dream I'm think how silly it is since I already have my degree. The other version of that is I'm back in college or HS getting ready for finals. Come to find out there's one class that I haven't been to all semester.

 

[Serena]

I haven't had any nightmarish ones since I found out I can change what's happening in the dream. If I wake up enough to realize I'm dreaming, then I can think about different things happening.
Sort of like turning a knife into a straw.

 

[DVCLiz]

I have had two - one is the big house and many rooms dream. It's usually an old house, and often I have to move from one room to another on some narrow, catwalk-type bridge.

The other is also about walking. I am either on a pier or climbing a fire tower in a forest. And the steps get longer and longer. Finally, I am either having to jump from one board of the pier to the next, or I am having to leap up to grab the next step of the tower. Either way, it's just a matter of time before I fall through the crack. And most of the time, there are sharks in the pier dream!!!!

I have these occasionally - mostly just the old house one. Haven't had the shark/tower dream in years....

 

[pamlet]

I have one of riding on a "down" escalator - and it opens like a mouth with HUGE teeth.

When I'm awake in "real life" ... and there's an escalator to go on I feel a rise in anxiety... very weird. I usually end up walking down stairs if I can find them. I'll go WAY out of my way to avoid the escalator if I've had the dream in the previous few days..

I've had this dream for years... and it made life interesting when I work on the 7th floor at Marshal Fields in Chicago. Every once in a while I'd end up walking down 7 stories...

 

[AmazingGrace]

My dad died of a heart attack in August of '90. Since then I have this dream where i find out he's had a massive heart attack and he's gravely ill and I have to get home to see him before he dies. And in the dream, he's so frail that he could die at any time. But when I go home to see him, he looks healthy, but he's dying. It's weird. the dream got so familiar that when I would start to have it, my dream self would just slide right into place knowing what was going to happen.

Sometimes, I'll have a dream that I'm in a really cool amusement park where there are rides and things hidden down tunnels, then I find the rides and they're closed or broken. I have the same dreams about malls too. I'll be in a shopping mall and i'll think I'm at the end of the mall. Then I'll go down a corridor, and it will open up to a whole other section of the mall.

 

[Boston Tea Party]

Try to figure out what is causing the dream. Then see if you can resolve the problem in real life.

I know exactly what is causing it. I have a broken relationship that had no closure. Contact is forbidden. I don't forsee a time when closure will occur.

 

[TiggerPiglet]

When I worked as a Court Reporter, I had a reoccurring dream that I was typing and there was no paper in my machine and I didn't notice. When I went to transcribe it, that's when I realized I had no paper and I would panic, because I didn't know how I was going to tell the lawyers they had to do the deposition all over again. The dreams ended once I quit to become a SAHM

 

[Pop Daddy]

time heals all

 

[beagle744]

I have 2 recurring dreams. In the first one I'm in a pool and I begin to drown and I'm really scared. I go under water for the last time and realize I can breathe underwater (like a fish) and then I'm relieved and think its the coolest thing.

In the second one I'm swimming laps and suddenly my left arm won't work almost like I had a stroke. But everthing else works and feels fine. I try and try to make my arm work right but it never does.

 

[Miller1412]

My reoccuring dream is similar to this- I'm either back in high school or college again, and all of a sudden I realize I am not prepared for the exam, or forgot to do the term paper, etc. I start freaking out and then I realize, wait a minute, I already graduated high school! (or college)!! Why I am I stressing over this! And then I wake up. It's irritating. I finally went to a dream website and this is a common dream for a lot of people- they said it means I feel I have unfinished goals in life or have not gone as far as I would like to (career wise I guess).

I've heard that, I've also heard that it means you are feeling unprepared for something in your life.

Just before I got married, I constantly dreamed that it was my wedding day and everything was going wrong, or I was marrying the wrong guy.

When I was pregnant, I dreamed I gave birth to a Chihuahua.

I am always having the not prepared for class dream. Usually it's finals time and I haven't been to one class all semester.