recurring dreams

[comeondover]

Inspired by a thread that describes a situation like a recurring dream I used to have. It's time to leave school forever, and I have to pack up my room (it was a boarding school) to take it all to my mother. There's lots of stuff and I don't know if I can get it all in my small car.

There are a couple of others I used to have, but none recently. Any other MNers have any recurring dreams? What are they and what do you make of them?

I always dream I'm swimming...sometimes in a pool,
sometimes in a canal,
Sometimes a sea. But there's always water and I always dream I'm swimming 🤷‍♀️

I have one about giant (as in skyscraper size) waves. Always when I'm stressed so easy to work out the meaning behind it.

@BettyCake that sounds nice. Are you enjoying the swimming in your dreams?

As a child I used to dream that I could breathe underwater just by cupping my hands over my mouth. I remember being really disappointed that this didn't work IRL.

@ScarlettOHaraHamiltonKennedyButler that sounds alarming, overwhelming even. Are you in the water? Do you make it to shore?

Im really interested in this, as I have had the same thing since I was a child.

sometimes I’m looking out to sea and sense the wave coming and it’s huge and I know I’m going to die.

other times I’m in recurring places I’ve never been and the sea is below the sea wall and huge and flooding everywhere

other times I’m in the sea and I know I can’t survive the wave

sometimes when the wave recedes I can see the sand and some of my possessions are scattered on it (like this particular hairbrush my mum gave me and I lost - it’s always in my dreams)

these dreams can be different places, but ALWAYS. The same sense of dread, the same terror of the waves.

do you have variances in your dreams too? Mine seem more prevalent when I am stressed or unhappy, do yours turn up at the same time?

I used to have a horrible recurring dream where I see a plane crash. It falls out of the sky and crashes and there's nothing I can do. Horrible.
I used to get it a lot but haven't for a number of years now.

Being back at school, going about my life and studying ect, then suddenly realising I have done it all before and already passed the exams.

House and finding hidden floors/rooms so so many some times terrifying variations on this one..

The mysteries of the mind... It would be nice to have a recurring dream that's really lovely, but that doesn't seem to happen. Not to me so far, anyway.

Another one I used to have was about running late to catch a flight. Never any idea where it was going. And there were always hurdles and delays on the journey to the airport, so it had a nail-biting, stressful feeling of 'will I make it in time?'

@Pipsickl yes exactly the same I am always somewhere different, starts off perfectly normal then suddenly the sense of dread and see the wave coming, knowing that I can't survive. Mine usually ends where the shadow of the wave comes over me or if I am inside when it hits the building and the windows break in. Always when I am stressed out, thankfully haven't had it recently.