Do you ever have recurring dreams?

[Frosty6611]

I have one about a huge tidal wave coming towards me in the distance. Must have had it at least 50 times in my life. If anyone knows anything about dreams, what does it mean?

It means that you are afraid of tidal waves? No idea, sorry, but yes I have recurring dreams and I always think they’re linked to underlying stress or anxiety

I regularly dream about fish, sometimes I'm putting them back in water, sometimes I'm eating them alive (wtf?!) and having looked into it it's all to do with control/losing control. I believe water related dreams are to do with control or lack of.

When I was a smoker I always dreamt of my teeth falling out which apparently means underlying illness. So my subconscious was basically telling me I was getting ill from smoking .....so I stopped

@Strongmummy I sometimes get the teeth falling out one, though I have never been a smoker. Strangely I am having dental issues at the moment which mean I am likely to lose a front tooth soon yet I haven't had the tooth dream once while this has been going on.

I think a very common dream is that you are at school or college about to take exams and discover there is a course you haven't worked on at all, or some variation of that. I think that one has petered out for me now since I got to my 50s!

The two I do get recurring are:

1. Some situation has arisen where I have to make an emergency call yet I can never quite do it. Either something wrong with the phone or some distraction so it feels like the whole night passes and I haven't managed to dial 999

1. I am having a wee in a very public place, e.g. by the side of the road or in a pit plant at work reception. When I started having the wee I thought it was ok but now in mid flow I have realised it really, really isn't

@Frosty6611 I have dreams about tidal waves too!!!! Huge waves but they don't ever crash over me. I'd love to know what it means.
I also have dreams where I need to go to the loo but they're all really exposed or they've got no doors on them etc. Very bizarre.

@rainbow I always manage to get to high ground and then the wave submerges everything below me.
I’ve had a few very ‘graphic’ dreams about male colleagues etc too (people I’ve never looked twice at and have zero attraction to).
Oh and I’ve had people popping up in my dreams who I haven’t seen or thought about for 20 years too. Bizarre!

Yes. Stupidly I dream about my husband having an affair.

Just about every night. Last time I dreamed of it (Saturday night) I was crying, panting and pulling on my hair. DH had to stop me and wake me up. They actually make me cry and I think about them all day. They're so clear and I can see everything that happens.

I wonder why I have them :(

I frequently dream about old houses full of hidden rooms and that I live there but have only just found the rooms.

I have recurring dreams about going blind, but Iran like I can still see, I just can’t actually see. Like there is an issue between brain and eye and the comprehension, not just seeing nothing.

Also have recurring dreams about going away somewhere and not having finished packing.

Yes I’m strange.

@5foot5 I think your 999 call dream is like my packing dream. I keep trying but keep getting thwarted and time is running away with me.

1.teeth falling out. So frequently it’s just boring.

1. The finding extra rooms in our house. On real bonza days it could be an entire wing. 🤣. That’s a favourite but sadly much more unusual than the bloody teeth.

I regularly dream that I'm back at school/uni and haven't attended a load of lessons or I haven't done an important piece of work! Awful and I always wake up stressed!

Water is supposed to represent emotions. So being close to being submerged might mean there is a huge emotional issue you know is close by and feel overwhelmed by.

Houses are supposed to represent yourself, especially finding hidden rooms in your own house, even if it's nothing like your RL house. It means there's things you are exploring in your subconscious or something.

I'm sure teeth falling out is money worries.

I used to have the huge tidal wave too, I was walking on the beach with cliffs behind me, huge tidal wave is raging towards beach but I know I’m perfectly safe and admire the colours and majesty of the huge tidal wave.

I once had a recurring dream every night until I changed the outcome of it, think in first dream everything goes wrong and me or someone I care about gets hurt, second time we escape the first danger but another one happens etc and so on until I know what's coming and save us from everything and then it just stops.

I think it went on for 4-5 nights.

it was bizarre and I have no idea
what it meant.

I have two recurring dreams:

1: teeth are crumbling (not falling out as such...just crumbling slowly in my mouth...it's horrible...until eventually there is nothing left!)

2: I am searching for a toilet and can't find one 'suitable' anywhere. I am frantic and keep finding all these 'unsuitable' toilets everywhere, either dirty, broken, too 'public' with no doors on, or just holes on the ground, which I wouldn't use, and I'm getting more and more desperate.

For clarification, I don't have any underlying/undiagnosed 'toilet' issues 😂😳

chaffy I have the toilet dream too. I had it 3 times a week or so when I was with my ex and they stopped for quite a while when I left. I do have them occasionally now but nowhere near as much as I used to. I wonder what it means?

Mammieloveswine I get that one too - I'm back at uni and it's exam time, except I've forgotten to go to any classes at all. There's always a sense that this isn't the first time I've done it (maybe I'm remembering all the other dreams!) and I'm really frustrated and annoyed with myself.

I have a lot of travel dreams too - mainly involving train stations but also driving across country or being in airports but only rarely managing to catch my plane.

Yes, though more themed / progressive ones. I have a couple of flats and a house I've lived in, only in my dreams. The same ones recur though, in 'in-dream memories' and I re-visit them sometimes.

I've had the toilet dream quite a lot. They're always very exposed toilets. Quite often I head into a cubicle and it turns out to lead to a much bigger structure that's very open.
Yes to teeth falling out. Several times I've thought whilst dreaming "Oh no, not this dream again" only to have someone say "No, this time it's real" and I believe them.
I love hidden room dreams.

I’ve had them also throughout my life (I’m now 47). They started when I was really young. That my two brothers were drowning during the great fire of London (I grew up in Australia,), and the one that haunted me the most. my Dad chasing after us with a gun try8ng to kill us in a certain part of Australia (my dad is an arsehole and I did fear that one day he would kill us). Until about 5 years ago I had a recurring dream that I’m leaving my parent’s house but I’m driving the car from the back seat and can’t reach the steering wheel or pedals (pretty obvious, aren’t they?).

I’ve really had them a lot throughout my life and still continue to have them, bu they largely dwell on the past - up until I was about 30. I very rarely dream about my own dcs or dh.

Yeah one where slides hatch from eggs on my pillow, quite a few cool but terrifying dystopian style dreams.

I have that dream about being back at school or uni and not knowing where I am supposed to go/finding out I missed lessons/not understanding what is being taught.

I didn't know it was a common thing.

OMG!! I have the toilet dream too! I never realised it was so common.

Trying to find one, it's usually really really filthy,, no doors etc then yes you might start to "use it" and then realise that it is completely open.

PLEASE someone come on and tell us what it means.

I have the toilet dream. It usually means my bladder's full.