What are your recurring dreams about?

[ofwarren]

I have a few. They are never nice ones and I've been having them for years, probably every couple of months.

The one I hate the most is where I've forgotten I have pets after leaving them alone for months locked up in the house. For some reason I'm living somewhere else. Sometimes it's cats and other times it's dogs and the dread of going back to the house where they have more than likely starved to death is awful.

Another I have is living in a country that's at war. I hear the planes flying over and its just terrifying.

Do you have any recurring dreams?

I have 2 although I don't have the first one so much now. I am in a room and there is beautiful bird in a cage, but the cage door is open. I go to close it but it flies out of the cage and then out of an open window. Since going back to uni and becoming successful in a career I love a barely ever have that dream any more.
The second dream (I had it this week actually) I am going out with a dress/ short skirt on to some important do and I haven't or can't shave my legs 😂 Must be anxiety!

I have the fly home mid holiday dream too! As I live in Australia and in my dream am usually holidaying somewhere in the UK or Europe it’s a long way to fly home and back again.

My flying dream is that I can float and swim through the air. I use a sort of breaststroke to get around. It’s a very freeing and pleasant sensation.

I have 2,
one that I'm in my bedroom, I can't see them but I know there's a person somewhere in the room, and I'm trying to turn on the bedside lamp, then the main light, then my emergency torch, then the landing light etc, and none of them will work. it's horrible. I bought the emergency torch in real life to try reassure my subconscious that I'll have light even if there's a power cut, but my subconscious just inserted it into the dream!
second one is that I'm driving my car up a really REALLY steep hill and it can't make it, and I know it's going to tip over backwards. I hate it!

Train stations, drink driving, being late, not being able to get somewhere and trying to phone 999 but keep getting the number wrong

I go through stages of having recurring dreams about there been some kind of accident/emergency and being unable to dial 999. The number goes in wrong or the phone won't dial or I dial the right number but it rings somebody else or nobody answers etc had that dream for at least 20 years I hate it when It starts again as it goes on for months.

Yes this is exactly what happens in mine. Sometimes I try phone someone, or use my phone torch, and that won't work either.

My flying dream is that I can float and swim through the air. I use a sort of breaststroke to get around. It’s a very freeing and pleasant sensation. I do this in my flying dreams too.

@ofwarren I have exactly the same dream, I had it last night as well. That I've forgotten to feed my pets, usually Guinea pigs as I used to have many. I'd turn up and they'd all be super skinny, thirsty and almost dead/dying. I'd then try/go to the shop and buy loads of hay, food etc and clean them out. In the dream I obviously feel so wretched and awful. It's a horrible dream that stays with me. Another popular one is that I'm driving and I either cannot reach the brake pedals or they don't work. The 3rd one is that I can't work my phone, I keep dialing the numbers incorrectly in an emergency. When I was younger I always dreamt that my boyfriend would go off with someone else. I think I've finally grown out of that one.

Exams. It’s always a German literature one, where not only have I not read any of the books, I don’t even know what they are.

I don’t know why it’s always German - I took 2 other A level languages - decades ago! - and got the same (respectable) grade for all 3.

Still, it’s almost worth the feeling of blessed relief when I wake up.

Annoyingly for the last few nights I've dreamt of my ex (not seen him in over 15 years and barely give him.a thought in day to day life). Nothing saucy either, he's usually just 'there'. I wish he'd bugger off.

My recurring dream doesn’t sound bad compared to some of the ones up thread, but it still bothers me whenever I have it. I’ve had this dream at least 8 times in the last 5 months.

In the dream, I’m back at uni & there’s always a huge project that I should be working on but I can’t seem to get started on it. When I go into the studio, everyone in the class has nearly finished and I’m still trying to work out how to start it. It’s so vivid, that I once woke up and for at least 2 mins, I was convinced that maybe I had outstanding uni work I didn’t hand in. It’s so odd, in the dream I feel very anxious but I’m not generally an anxious person in real life.

I have this one. A friend also had it, but then did discover an extra unknown room in her house after having the dream (it was old and rented and had a partition put in to use it as a cupboard, but behind the partition was a small room).

I have really fucked up, recurring dreams about my Dad. This post might not make much sense. I’m sorry if it doesn’t, it’s hard to put it into words.

For context, I lost my Dad when I was 27 in very sudden, tragic circumstances. After he died, DH and I renovated then sold his house.

I have weird dreams where DH and I drive past this house to be nosy, and when we get there, my Dad’s car is on the drive. We go in, and he’s there, and the house is back to the way it was on the day he died. I try and talk to my Dad in these dreams, but he often doesn’t recognise me or says vague things like “I can’t stay” and goes on to die anyway. Or DH and I see his car parked in various places and it’s like we’re chasing him around, all to no avail.

I hate it when I have these dreams. It’s been 9 years and I always wake up feeling like I’ve lost him all over again.

I’ve never told anyone this.

I have this with all the cities I have lived in. There is a dream version with different streets and public transport, but this new layout is the same in each dream. I could draw the whole map I reckon.

I have the exam one where I’m due to take A-levels but never went to any lessons. I also dream that I’m due to have a section but on the way to the hospital I realise that I have forgotten to get pregnant. I think these two are actually the same dream.

Just remembered another, we move into a house,( where I actually moved aged 17) but the rooms are dark, dirty, cobwebs everywhere. There are rooms that didn't exist in rl and stairs linking them..it is a bit tardis like in that it's bigger than it seems. I start to clean it and choose my bedroom.

I had one for years where I was packing to go home from somewhere (the location changed) and I has too many books to pack and not enough time.

Mine is maths and I learn that I didn’t get my degree and need to redo. I was good at it too, I really cared about it so maybe that’s why.

I think there's a name for them, but I have those really frustrating dreams where I'm either trying to get somewhere or do something and I can never find it, or end up continuously getting lost, lots of blockers in the way and I always wake up really frustrated

Heartbreaking

Endless water dreams. There's a woman and her child of Hispanic origins in a body of water in a car in America. Also other dreams of being in a hot country and water is crashing against a retirement home.A bit odd!!

Another person mentioned constant water dreams. It's obviously a thing.

I have a book and there's some explanation, so I did some screenshots for anyone who's interested.

Few more pages:

Sitting my A levels, and I realise that I've forgotten to revise or go to any classes, and I don't even know what day the exam is on!

I have a weird recurring dream that I'm in a house (always a different house) thy I have lived in for years. The house has been a normal house for the whole time I've lived there but then when I open a door or a hatch, there is a whole lot of other huge rooms, much bigger rooms than the whole house. It's such a strange dream and I've been having it for years.