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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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serbska · 15/08/2018 07:11

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

Oh I get that one too!!!

serbska · 15/08/2018 07:14

@ShinyMe that’s interesting you had packing dreams and then they stopped when you changed job.

stressedtiredbuthappy · 15/08/2018 07:18

Have started to regularly have a dream I've lost my 2yo dd, searching everywhere and can't find her. Very scary. Glad to wake up!

YippeeKayakOtherBuckets · 15/08/2018 07:18

I always, like at least a few times a week, dream that I can sort of fly. I can hover at a few feet, sometimes above people’s heads, but if I try to go higher I get dizzy and can’t breathe.

I always feel like it’s so easy and convenient to glide along and I don’t understand why everyone else isn’t doing it.

God knows what that says about me.

YippeeKayakOtherBuckets · 15/08/2018 07:20

I also have recurring dreams about the same house. It’s def not a real house (it’s far too trippy for a start) but it’s always the same place. A big two storey bedroom up a hidden staircase, a bar/restaurant in the middle, a dining room down a couple of steps and a large curved kitchen.

liz70 · 15/08/2018 07:47

"i dream I'm trying to climb a huge/precarious structure."

"I was kneeling on a ledge just wide enough for my two knees, hundreds of feet up in the sky and had to edge forwards until I arrived at a connecting ledge and then shuffled down it"

(My own) "I am endlessly climbing up an eternal, spiral stairway"

There seems to be a theme here of struggling upwards or along a way - presumably this is symbolic of a RL struggle or difficulty?

Not so much exams but I have dreamed of being back at school (as an adult now) again.

WeirdAndPissedOff · 15/08/2018 07:53

I used to have three as a kid - one where I was running from something (usually a dinosaur! So perhaps less meaningful and more a child's imagination). And two were slightly more obscure - in one I would walk up the stairs to my bedroom and see a moving shadow, when I get round the corner I see something which terrifies me, then I turn and run, often falling down the stairs which is when the dream ends. I can never remember what it is that I saw.
In the other, I'm running down the stairs from my bedroom, and try to run out the front door, but there's a ball of light there. (Quite crackly/electrical light). It talks to me in a harsh crackly voice, and I can't understand what it's saying but again it really scares me.
They always really puzzled/unnerved me, but I did have a pretty active imagination when younger.

Nowadays my dreams are less obscure, and I can usually link bad dreams directly to the cause - eg I'll dream about a beloved pet or relative dying, something going badly wrong at work etc. The only odd one is when I dream my life - so I'll wake up, get ready, go to work etc etc etc, and then halfway through the morning I'll suddenly wake up and realise I'm still in bed. (And usually that I've overslept as well!)

LuxuryWoman2018 · 15/08/2018 08:04

I too have the toilet dream, filthy loos each cubicle worse than the last.

Also the hidden rooms dream which I quite enjoy.
I sometimes dream I have to attend school again and it's an inconvenience and I feel a bit silly in my uniform.

minisoksmakehardwork · 15/08/2018 08:10

Yes! More so as a child. But occasionally now. I love dreams!

Childhood ones were;
Extra rooms/floor at my grandmas house. Although I wouldn't always find it but would search for it every time.
Dreaming my grandma's bathroom was on fire when I opened the door.
That a local church was a children's home whenever I walked past, through it still looked like a church.

Obviously I still remember them but I no longer have those dress.

I do have quite graphic dreams and often remember them when I wake up.

liz70 · 15/08/2018 08:27

"Driving a vehicle up a hill which gets steeper and steeper until it's totally vertical"

Ooh, missed this one in my post about difficult journeys above.

liz70 · 15/08/2018 08:30

"It’s surprising how many dreams are common to everyone"

Perhaps because ultimately we are all one mass interconnected consciousness?

rainbowstardrops · 15/08/2018 10:01

I've just remembered another one of mine.

I'm usually sat high up on a wall or something and because I'm afraid of heights, I wonder how on earth I'm going to get down or it wobbles and I'm terrified I'm going to fall off. Horrible.

Also, sometimes I can get down but I have to tackle obstacles like squeezing through gaps or climbing over things. Bizarre

Asthenia · 15/08/2018 10:15

I dream constantly about finding extra rooms in the house; being pregnant and a weird recurring anxiety dream that I have a big important party to go to but I sleep through it or can’t get ready quick enough and have to go unshowered with greasy hair and no makeup...bizarre

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 15/08/2018 10:28

I had the tidal wave dream a few times, but it was after a dreadful one in Asia decades ago.
The recurring dreams I still have are,

Exams! Many decades later I still have exam-panic dreams - usually German lit and not only have I not read any of the books, I don't even know what they are. Don't know why, since I did OK in last German exam (A level).

Christmas shopping! It's about 4 pm on Christmas Eve and I haven't bought any presents, a tree, or anything.
Pretty sure this dates back to many moons ago, when dh and I came back last minute from abroad for Christmas, and I had just one day to buy presents for a lot of people.

DarlingNikita · 15/08/2018 10:42

mydog, I've no idea what yours means but I love it. An airship? Smile If I was that way inclined I might say you were remembering a previous life.

I must be the only person in the world who doesn't have water dreams. Lots of people I know IRL have them too. Doesn't really happen to me.

LeafcutterAnt · 15/08/2018 11:03

There seems to be a theme here of struggling upwards or along a way - presumably this is symbolic of a RL struggle or difficulty?
Yes, i dream it when I'm finding something tough/insurmountable

imazebra · 15/08/2018 11:09

@MotsDHeureGoussesRames I have the teeth dream where they crumble, it actually makes me feel sick just thinking about it.

When I returned to work after DC, I'd dream every night that the baby was rolling off an unusually high bed. Just as baby got to the edge I'd wake up and half asleep grab DH (as if he were the one falling) and start screaming or shouting, which he didn't find pleasant. Stopped once I left work - for childcare reasons, not scary dreams Grin

mydogishot · 15/08/2018 12:09

@DarlingNikita

I do feel very glam in the dream!
Could be previous life but shouldn't I really be queen Victoria I? Or a servant? Cleopatra? Isn't that what everyone gets with regression hypnosis!?

Maybe I wake up because I'm on the Hindenburg?

DarlingNikita · 15/08/2018 12:13

Yes, that's who everyone thought they were Grin I've no doubt that I was a scurvy peasant scraping a living in the mud.

You should totally try regression hypnosis! I don't really believe in it all but I'd be intrigued if I were you; your dream is so specific and sounds so vivid.

mydogishot · 15/08/2018 12:31

Unfortunately I can't be hypnotised I'm not gullible

I'll never know...until next time round...

twoblackdogs · 15/08/2018 12:33

Yes to the toilet one.
Yes to the teeth one.
Another one is about how I need to move/catch a plane, I try to pack my things, but there are too many books/clothes, I have nowhere to put them, and so I miss my plane.
A while ago I used to see a dream about a city. It was not a city I have seen in my life, however, I used to see it every night, and I perfectly knew all the streets, the layout of the church, where the shops were and such. I just walked about and knew where everything was. Every night. For about a half year. And then it stopped and I have never seen it again. Not in my real life too.
And then there was another recurring one about a hotel. I had no place to stay, and I knew the hotel, and there was always a room I could sneak into to spend the night. I never paid and always was afraid I could get caught, and never was.
And the phone dream too. It was usually a button one, and I tried to call somebody, and couldn't, because I pressed wrong buttons or something.

twoblackdogs · 15/08/2018 12:38

As to the my previous message: I googled once, and there are lots of people who dream about strange cities, and it was quite scary.

unyummy4amummy · 15/08/2018 13:24

As a child, I used to have night terrors and scream a lot which scared the life out of my parents! Smile I also used to dream that my walking doll was coming to strangle her so took to leaving her upside in a cupboard in a bag with other toys on top.

I had one really horrible dream for over five years. Intruders had broken into our house and kept my sister and I hostage. They then starting slicing bits of us off ie. ears and fingers to send through as ransoms. I would escape and think I had got away when a man would jump out from behind a wall and slit my throat. I would then wake up.

One day I ran in the other direction, got to safety and weirdly never had the dream again. No idea what that was all about!

DarlingNikita · 15/08/2018 13:48

That's a pity, mydog!

Toomuchgoingon · 15/08/2018 13:55

I dream about one particular house....always the same one. I've had the dreams dozens of times over the years, in fact I dreamt about it last night. Never been to this house but I feel like I know every single detail of it.