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Do you ever have recurring dreams?

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Frosty6611 · 14/08/2018 08:14

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?

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SecretWitch · 14/08/2018 22:08

I dream repeatedly of tornados, getting told I never completed high school even when I dream protest I have an advanced degree, being naked at work or school and I’m the only one who notices. I believe these are all anxiety based.

rainbowfudgee · 14/08/2018 22:10
  1. My teeth are falling out.
  2. I'm teaching and it's all going wrong (I'm actually a teacher).
  3. I'm doing my A level exams and haven't revised at all.

All signs of an anxious mind!

Whistle73 · 14/08/2018 22:14

@Firefly2 I'm so glad it's not just me! I wake up terrified by the ghosts on a regular basis.

SecretWitch · 14/08/2018 22:14

Forgot to add one, I dream I am frantically looking for a wedding dress, as I’m being married that day and have forgotten to get a gown.

BuntyII · 14/08/2018 22:16

I also dream about being in houses with odd layouts and lots of hidden rooms. Lots of bedrooms with 4 or more beds.

Since I was a child I would sometimes dream about lions and tigers prowling around outside the house.

When I was pregnant I dreamt almost daily about water, being in the sea or in a swimming pool. I did have polyhydramnios which could be why!

summerblues · 14/08/2018 22:20

I have a recurring dream about suicidal fish that I have to keep putting back in the water! Seems to go on all night!

Also the teeth falling out and the needing the toilet one.

So weird how we all have similar dreams.

Emc3 · 14/08/2018 22:21

I used to have the tidal wave dream all the time as a child! I'd be on the beach quite high up on a dune and all the water would be draining away, getting further into the distance then I'd hear a huge roar and know it was coming so i'd be scrambling up the dunes in terror. Always woke before it got me.

It's strange because I don't think I knew the tide going out actually happened until the big boxing day tsunami on the news? At least I can't remember consciously learning that.

littlebillie · 14/08/2018 22:22

I dream about being incredibly tiny and the room is enormous. I've had this one since I was a child

MrsBrightside90 · 14/08/2018 22:23

I also have the finding rooms one, the exam one where I haven’t revised the topic and the toilet one! Isn’t it strange how lots of us have those! Smile

ShinyMe · 14/08/2018 22:28

@serbska - packing dreams! OMG I thought it was just me. I have had a recurring dream where there is some kind of disaster on the way (that varies - sometimes a fire, sometimes a nuclear holocaust, sometimes a flood, sometimes just that I have to be out of the house by a certain time) and I'm trying to pack but can't fit everything in or decide what to take and I'm getting more and more frenzied and am less and less ready.

Thinking about it, I haven't dreamt it since I left my old job in January. That was a job where I always had far too much to do and not enough time to do it in, and was under a lot of pressure. I always assumed this contributed to the dreams.

BuntyII · 14/08/2018 22:34

Oh I also have the lift one, in the dream I lose gravity in the lift and float as it crashes towards the ground.

Stardustmemories · 14/08/2018 22:41

I've had a few teeth falling out ones but they just keep coming and I can't breathe because there is so many.

And I used to have a dream about my mum being sucked into an air vent under a chair, jumanji style. Me and her friend managed to get away and we would just watch from the door. I'd wake up and run half way to her room before I realised it as just the dream.
Pretty sure they stopped when she died and the weird thing is the friend was the one who collected me from school the day she passed away.

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Frosty6611 · 14/08/2018 22:43

Not a dream as such but have any of you had the falling sensation when you’re almost asleep? I occasionally think there’s a spider on me when I’m half unconscious too and will end up jumping out the bed and waking myself up

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MoonageBowie · 14/08/2018 22:48

I definitely get that weird falling sensation when I'm half asleep, my limbs just jolt for no reason. My recurring dream is always being chased. The thing chasing me is random, but the weird part is I actually enjoy being chased? And I'm usually partly lucid so I can do things like jump incredibly high to escape them, or freeze time.

FASH84 · 14/08/2018 22:51

I've been having a recurring dream that I have my baby and it's a cat, no one else seems concerned about this or to really acknowledge it, and when he jumps off the bed and runs down the stairs, I say that babies shouldn't be able to do that but DH thinks it's fine because he's clearly capable. I still love the cat though...

NorthenderNamechanger · 14/08/2018 22:55

I have recurring places. My whole life there have been places I go back to in my dreams. A city, a market town, a village somewhere rural and hilly, a country walk through a valley down to the shore, train stations and bus routes.

I could draw maps of them I know my way round so well. It's almost as though they are real places I've been going to all my life. I actually really love some of them.

suchasoftersin · 14/08/2018 23:01

I have two:

  1. I dream that I am packing up stuff to go home. Sometimes it is packing up my old uni room, sometimes packing up a hotel room to return to home. And no matter how much I pack there is always more and more stuff appearing and not enough space and and time to pack it.

  2. I dream I am being chased but for some reason my legs will not hold my weight and I end up crawling on all fours to get away. I have had this one since childhood.

Fstar · 14/08/2018 23:08

Giant frogs chasing me and they have huge suckers on their feet, i think im in Florida in my dream as the frogs on the front doors at night freaked me out when i was younger.

Also needing to pee but not being able to, wake up bursting

Goth237 · 14/08/2018 23:27

Recurring dreams, dreams in general, are not actually about what's happening in the dream but rather a symbol of something else that your brain is trying to communicate to you. They recur when you have the same issue or your subconscious is trying to tell you the same thing as before. You just have to work out what the dream symbolises.

Goth237 · 14/08/2018 23:28

I studied Psychology

Saracen · 15/08/2018 00:02

My dad's recurring dream became a family joke. He used to wake up in a cold sweat. He knew he had murdered someone, but couldn't remember whom or why. Crucially, he had no idea what he'd done with the body, but he had a hunch he hadn't concealed it very well, so discovery seemed imminent.

It was so vivid that he was half convinced it was true. We used to enjoy speculating around the breakfast table about the identity of his victim and location of the body. Nobody had heard from Great Uncle Jack for a few years. Maybe he was in the back of the garage and that's why Dad never got around to going in and and having a good tidy-up?

Purpleartichoke · 15/08/2018 01:21

For 20 years I had a frequent dream about something hunting me. It’s form varied. Sometimes it was a witch, for a few months it was King Kong. One day I realized the dream was really about a childhood encounter with a tornado and I never had the dream again.

Recurrent dream about not being able to find any of my classes and failing everything. One day I actually managed to get a copy of my schedule in the dream. I haven’t had that particular dream since then.

ToeToToe · 15/08/2018 01:33

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

I have this dream all the time. I always wake up really disappointed that they're actually isn't an extra wing in my house. I'm a sahm, so maybe the dream analysis makes sense!

I also have, and have had since I was 14, nuclear war dreams. I was 14 when I watched Threads on TV (don't watch it) and it' always the same, I' always outside my childhood home, trying to get to safety, and then the bomb goes off, and I'm thrown to the ground, then I can't breathe, and I wake up. It's horrendous.

I also have the teeth falling out, and the naked in public dreams - which are fairly classic.

ALongHardWinter · 15/08/2018 03:18

Just remembered another one that I've had quite a few times over the last ten years or so. I dream I have to get in a lift,and the lift is huge,like the size of an average double bedroom,and it has one of those gate things on it rather than the usual doors. When it starts moving,it keeps juddering and shuddering in a frightening manner,then starts going faster and faster and I end up absolutely petrified. It's odd because I have no fear of lifts at all in real life.

SteviaStephanie · 15/08/2018 03:36

Does a recurring dream mean you dream it over and over the same night, or that you dream about the same thing frequently? For the latter, I have, on a fairly regular basis, dreamed that:

1 - a tooth or two has/have fallen out

2 - I am at university and there is a huge part of the course that I haven’t even started studying and I don’t know where to start and there’s a deadline/exam

3 - i’m at the airport about to catch a plane somewhere lovely, but somehow things like missing my suitcase keep preventing me from actually getting on the plane and it’s about to take off

4 - i’ve broken into the house of the man i fancy to sneak around and have a look, but he’s coming back and I can’t get out in time (note it’s always someone I had a crush on 25 years ago, whom I haven’t seen or thought about when i’m awake since - And yet, i never dream this dream about any other boy/man I fancied!)

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