Most frequent dream

[rosemole]

Just chatting to DD about dreams and started thinking about mine - I think by far my most frequent dream is being out somewhere and realising I don't have anything on from the waist down. The waist up never features, it's always, always waist down and having to navigate getting back to wherever I'm going with minimal embarrassment (impossible).

Do you have a recurring dream?

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I totally have the same dreams as you,how funny !

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I dream that I'm going up this endless staircase, in the middle of nothingness, leading up and up to I've no idea where. One side is open, and as I ascend, the treads get narrowerer, so I have to cling onto the other side for dear life, terrified I'll fall off into the abyss. I've had this dream lots of times.

Ah, a dream set in the Netherlands! Dutch stairs tend to be steep and narrow, and when they go around a corner things can really get tricky. The Dutch word for staircase is “trap” which is very appropriate.

My recurring dream is basically I have killed an old school friend (in real life she is happily still very much not dead).
First dream was the killing, then subsequent dreams are me panicking because I have to move her body before someone finds it. I've had this series on and off for over a decade now.
I also have the 'no clothes' dream. I feel it's absolutely reasonable for me to have no clothes on and then being on a bus or in the street and knowing I need to cover up.
I'm sure it all means I fear being exposed as I carry some massive secrets.

I recently had a horrible dream. I've had similar dreams before but this was ramped up to the nth degree. In it I was a soloist, rehearsing with an orchestra. I kept going wrong and the conductor was starting to get a bit annoyed with me. As the rehearsal went on things got steadily worse and worse, I'd knock my music off the stand, a bit would drop off my instrument, I was on the wrong page, or my music had vanished altogether. What made this dream truly horrifying was that the conductor was a VERY well known conductor, she's literally the best female conductor in the world, and is someone I admire immensely. But instead of apologising for my errors respectfully, I found myself getting increasingly rude and bolshy with her. The final straw was when she suggested a break, and I merrily replied "so I can go and bang my head against the wall and weep, ha ha ha", then off I went, and suddenly found myself driving off in a little car. I then realised I was on a dual carriageway, and there was no way in the world I'd be back in time for the end of the break. Truly horrifying. When I woke up, my first thought was that this conductor would never want to work with me ever again, and I was probably going to be blacklisted forever.

I used to have dreams about me or a relative being terminally ill. Also about having to scale huge structures. Sometimes about escaping the nazis. I haven't had those dreams for a while.
Regular ones would be getting lost on a journey and being unable to work a phone, discovering a new room in my house and not revised for an exam/rehearsed for a performance/ needing to teach a class but them getting out of control. Also the loo one if I need the loo

I used to have a recurring dream that I had to go back to my boarding school where I was dreadfully unhappy. Then I got a job in a boarding school where I was very happy, and the dreams stopped. Clearly some kind of trauma which was laid to rest when I started the job.

I'm trying to get to work but I don't know exactly where I need to be. Often I'm very late as well. I try to phone work or look at my computer but there are no buttons or I can't see the screen. Or I arrive and I'm in the wrong place. I'm on the wrong bus or driving a car with dozens of gears and heading in the wrong direction.

I'm in my ex-husband's house. Often I'm terrified, something horrible is present. Sometimes there's a strong wind in the stairwell and I'm holding on to the banister trying not to be blown away. In real life it's a big old house and I was always afraid of being there alone. Also had some very unhappy times there.

Or I have to take an exam and haven't attended any lectures or studied, in a subject like quantum physics.

@elliejjtiny weirdly, same as you, but for me it's naked top half and normal bottom half.

@CheeboygeeCheeboygee yes- this one. My dad (80) still gets this and now he can talk to himself in the dream and wake himself up :-) He just says "Dave dont be ridiculous. you have your pHD you dont need to do your English o level again"

The other one is a bit varied but basically it involves needing to be somewhere urgently but I cant get there because things keep happening, like I cant find the way or cant find my keys or havent packed.

I also have a dream about an abandoned house which I'm not sure exists - have had this dream since childhood- I'm just walking about in it and it's kind of creepy but nothing bad ever happens.

I often dream that I’ve sold my house and moved to a new one, but when I arrive at the new place, I have this deep sense of regret. I just can’t understand why I would leave the home I love and buy something so awful. No idea what it means I have no intention of moving.

My dad (80) still gets this and now he can talk to himself in the dream and wake himself up :-) He just says "Dave dont be ridiculous. you have your pHD you dont need to do your English o level again"

I get 'back to school' dreams on occasion. I tend to lucid dream, so I know I am dreaming. A few times, I am asking my class mates why we are in school and in our 40s.

Oooh yes. I get that dream where I'm back at school in my adulthood. And I feel terrible, like some sort of weirdo. And I tell myself in the dream that I have A levels and that adding more is fine. It's so odd.

I used to have the same dream for years. Always the wrong shoes … I’d be trying to climb a mountain, look down & be wearing ridiculously high heels. Wearing shoes that were too small, cutting my feet but just really loving them and not wanting to take them off. Queuing up to check in for a holiday to a really hot destination, looking down to see I was wearing wellingtons. Eventually I went to a Jungian therapist to have some dream analysis … he had it figured almost immediately. It just reflected who I was dating back then … just the wrong pairings. He explained to me that dreams are like our unconscious mind putting on a play … we choose the characters, the plot, the location … we just need to ask ourselves why we chose what/who/where.

The anxiety toilet dream.

Have to sit an exam, realise I haven't been to any of the lessons or done any revision.

I'm back with an ex, but just want to be with my husband. i don't know why I'm not.

So quite a few of us have dreams that the house layout has changed?

One which I get frequently (and had last night) is that I fall through the gap between the train and the platform

I have the late for/about to miss a train nightmare most frequently, usually I'm running over a railway bridge or through an endlessly long underpass, carrying unfeasible amounts of baggage etc. I wake up in an absolute panic, sweating and hyperventilating - standard anxiety dream obviously but why of all things my brain has chosen train travel I don't know, I've rarely if ever missed a train and find it by far the most pleasant form of travel (driving I find stressful but hardly ever have driving related dreams )...

Others I have that are less common are a horrible one in which I'm watching a plane crash. I'm not on the plane nor are my loved ones, I'm watching from a safe distance but the horrible powerless feeling of watching it start to spiral downwards makes me shudder. Also creepily, I have a recurrent one that there are people standing around the bed watching me sleep (they're not doing anything, just watching) and also that vaguely menacing forces are shining searchlights or flashing morse code messages into my bedroom as I sleep (I think the latter may be a reaction to our neighbour's rather oversensitive security lights!)

I now can't wait for my next dream. Does anyone write their dreams down?

I get the work one too! Several times I've spent all night sitting in an incredibly tedious work meeting or completing a repetitive admin task like filing or collating documents, only to wake up and realise I have to spend another 8 hours doing exactly the same, thanks brain 😡😂

I have a couple of recurring dreams. One is that I'm busting for a wee and can't find a useable toilet anywhere. They're either disgustingly dirty or the door is missing,or the actual toilet is broken. This dream always means that I DO actually need a wee,and wake up busting my bladder! The other dream involves being back at school. For some reason I've been absent and missed a load of work and I'm desperately trying to catch up,with not much success. Incidentally,I also occasionally have dreams about being in a state of undress,but it's all over,not just from the waist down! Thankfully it's not a recurring one!

I have this too!!

I have several. One is being naked in public, like at work. I'm mortified but trying to carry on as normal.
Another is losing teeth .
Another one about moving into a new house that's huge, and I keep finding new rooms.

I keep dreaming about the inside of a house I have never been in, different locations and circumstances, but the same house every time. It definitely isn't just somewhere I'd have been as a child or teen and don't remember, it's too specific in its details (and the style too old and shabby).

And about a specific person I've never met - same as the house, different locations and circumstances in the dream, but always the same person. They can play a large or a small role in the dream overall, but they stand out.

2 recurring dreams

1. I am driving but can't open my eyes
2. I am wading through shallow water filled with a shoal of silvery fish

"discovering a new room in my house"

This seems to be a bit of a theme too. I read somewhere that the house represents your brain/mind, and the undiscovered rooms your untapped potential, or something like that. 🤷‍♀️