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?

kurrikurrie I wonder if that's the 'killed someone' dream you have? I've had it 3 times that I recall. I suddenly remember I killed someone by accident just at the point it will be discovered years later. It's horrible, in the dream it's like I've managed to bury the memory (as if) but I do find it terribly disturbing.

There is often someone in my dream that I have never seen before IRL but in the dream I know them well. Anyone else get that? How do you invent an actual person?

Yeah had a dream like that once only. Was a boy that as far as I know I've never met or known, he had very curly hair and I don't know anyone that's male with curly hair. But in the dream I was convinced he was real even though I knew it was a dream and that one day I would find him and marry him. Was so odd, considering I'd never wanted to marry anyone. Wonder if I'll ever find him.

And I have the one where I killed someone but don’t know who or why and it always makes me wake up
Incredibly sad and disturbed. Hate that dream.

@LuxuryWoman2018 @KurriKurri The killed someone, forgot and now I'm going to be found out dream is quite common too I think. I've had it and DP had it the other night. It's horrible!

Teeth crumbling and falling out definitely

But also frequently dream that I've failed my A Levels, not just for the first time but the attempt is my 4th or 5th and I have to do Year 12 again even though I'm in my 20s and it's just embarrassing now

Oh I'm glad it's not just me (not glad that others have the dream but glad I'm not a secret psycho !) Mine is that I have murdered someone when I was a child (not sure how) and buried them in the garden, the house is about to be sold and I know the murder will be discovered.
A variation is that I murder someone (again when I am a child) and bury the body under snow - and know the murder will come to light whne the snow melt (I have a clear image in the dream of exactly wher i have hidden the body in the village I used to live in - where we did have very heavy snow one year when I was about 12 or so)

I find it a really disturbing dream, and when I wake up I am in that kind of half conscious state where you have to think hard whether it is true or not. (It isn't - I've never killed anyone (obv!)or even hurt anyone - I find violence quite abhorrent. But the details of the murder are always very vague - it is the 'digging up terrible old secrets' aspect that is the main thrust of the dream.

I do still get the 'unprepared for an exam' dream which started around the time I was doing A levels and has continued ever since (so for 40 yrs - even though it is many years since I took an exam)

Yes! It involves an extension to my parents house that they had built.. it's massive, think country pile.the trouble is you can only go in the first couple of rooms because it's starts to wobble and could fall down. So they can never use it. I've been round all of it but had to crawl in the floor to stop it moving. In my dream I'm really cross they spent all this money but can't use it. Probably have this dream a couple of times a year

This sounds weird, but I often dream of another place, the place is where I live in my dream, but not somewhere I know or have knowingly been, in the dream I am always just going about my day, nothing out of the ordinary, and in this particular dream I am in it without my actual family but with other people. Its very strange, its not the same dream ever time, each time is like another chapter.
I have another dream regularly where at some point in the dream I look at the night sky and see very strange lights and moving spirograph type shapes that in my dream I know are some sort of alien invasion! It's very scary that one!

Ooh I love the house with hidden rooms dream! For me, the house somewhere I am staying for the night and I go off on an adventure. The rooms have often been out of use since the 50s/60s and are like exciting time capsules. I'm still searching my house for evidence of a secret cellar

Yes I have absolutely crazy dreams most if not every night. The hidden rooms is my reoccurring dream it changes it is fun.

I had a dream I found 100,000.00 in cash, I was about to go on a spree when DD woke me. I got back in bed started to have the same dream, reminded myself it is only a dream it is not real money, the other part said so what enjoy the dream and spend it so I did. Although my dreams are crazy and scary I have a weird control over them.

I frequently get the ‘haven’t finished my A-level coursework and it’s due in today!!’ dream (even though my a-levels were 25 years ago and I’m now an A-level examiner, not a student!).

I also get the crumbling teeth dream- I’m always very relieved to wake up to find it’s not real!

In one of my rooms dreams, I was staying in a house where, in the attic bedroom, there was a low door in the eaves wall (think that's what it's called?). I opened it and had to crawl through a passage way, then it opened up into a full sized bedroom and ensuite bathroom, with lovely bedding and decor etc., all old style but pristine. I was so excited to find it!

I had the plane crash one again last night. I was on a long haul flight and when we had to make a crash landling on a runway. The plane kept going onto motorways and roads until it eventually stopped and I survived.
Must have had a very similar dream to this about 100 times

"Although my dreams are crazy and scary I have a weird control over them."

That's lucid dreaming, then.

Aliens invasion, usually over London. All. The. Bloody. Time

The one I have most is that I either get on the wrong train and can't get back to where I'm supposed to be going, or I'm in a station and I know the platform I'm supposed to be on but I can't get to it.

Last night I dreamed that nuclear war was coming

I don't think I have ever had the loo dream or teeth falling out dream or exam dream (but I quite enjoy a good exam, so they're mostly not associated with anxiety for me.)

I used to have running away dreams a lot. As a child, I had a lot of nightmares about being chased by wolves, but when I was about 7 or so, I learnt to lucid dream (not that I had any idea it had such a term,) and could rewind the dream a bit until I could climb a massive wall across the path and make friends with the wolves. Though in real life, even as an adult, I'm not a fan of wolves.

As an adult, I had many running away dreams where I was running away from various people. Never sure why or who. The terrain varies - sometimes grassy green countryside, other times more sandy, rocky, rough ground. Haven't had one of those for ages, though.

I used to dream about my father dieing. Haven't had one of those since he actually died, though.

I've also had many dreams about extra rooms. Never the same house, as far as I'm aware.

Water also features a lot in my dreams, but as it also features a lot in my life (I swim a lot,) this has never seemed remarkable. The nature if the water can vary a lot - swimming in cold seas near cliffs, paddling about in clear chalk stream with it sparkling in the sun, driving down a steep road to the sea, floating along a river - all sorts.

I'm quite often naked in dreams, too, but it's not usually in an embarrassing way, just that I don't have clothes on and it's absolutely fine (and I tend to be slimmer with clear skin and fantastically conditioned hair in my dreams, not quite like real life!)

My dreams can be very active with a cast of thousands, and I can wake up feeling exhausted. And always in colour.

I quite often dream about work colleagues. A few nights ago, I dreamt about our lovely Dutch director coming into the office when I was the only one left working - he had a red shirt on, but when he got closer and sat next to me, I realised he was wearing a red dress, and it wasn't a good fit, so was pulling all out of shape. I woke up quite upset because he normally dresses well, so I was annoyed that he wasn't putting the same care into wearing a dress. I am also not sure why I was dreaming about him wearing a dress at all, or what my subconscious is trying to tell me about what I currently think about him. Nice shade of red, though.

In the weeks before I sat my drivers license I had recurring dreams about driving an out of control car around my home town mowing down my friends and loved ones left right and center. My subconscious is not exactly subtle.

I get this sensation in my dreams it's like I can't stand up, I'm dizzy... I stagger and fall over. Almost slow motion. I should add I get this dream even when I've not had a drink! I've frequently wondered what that's about.

Also teeth falling out, tidal waves, driving a car on road that turns into rollercoaster or just higher and narrower and more precarious... Hidden rooms...

I have never had the dirty look.one though!

I used to feel like I was wading through water just walking around and I physically couldn't run, my legs just didn't work. After I started couch to 5k and a couple of years of gym and running that dream disappeared. I remembered how to use my legs in real life!

Dirty loo! Not look.

There is often someone in my dream that I have never seen before IRL but in the dream I know them well. Anyone else get that?

Yes, and also I sometimes 'substitute' people – usually for a celeb. So in the dream I'm talking to someone who in dream-world is e.g. my brother/colleague/friend, but the tiny part of my brain that's awake and rational is going 'That's not your brother, it's that guy who reads the news.'

Liz70 That is interesting Lucid dreaming, I had a read up there it makes sense. I am pretty outgoing in RL but my life is mundane lately so I enjoy my dreams. I have always had wild dreams even as a child.