To ask why I'm dreaming this repeatedly?

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I have never drunk driven, nor would I - BUT I keep having dreams (nightmares really) that I've had a few then I'm driving. Usually I'm trying to get somewhere important but the car is out of my control. Brakes don't work or I'm not feeling safe (of course as I wouldn't be). I wake up all sweaty, upset snd anxious. Heart palpitations and takes a while to calm down.
Analyse that anyone?
I'm peri, generally anxious and stressed but why is my brain making me dream such an awful thing, recurrently ? ☹️

Can't help sorry sounds awful though!
I also have a recurring dream where I'm on the ledge of a very tall building, sometimes I fall off ! They're awful and feel so real

Dreams about being out of control in a car tend to mean anxiety. They can also be linked with a sexual meaning.

The fact that you're doing something reckless makes me wonder if you have a crush on someone you shouldn't? Are you feeling out of control?

I often have a similar dream. No alcohol involved but driving out of control, far too fast, dodgy twisty roads. I think that this dream is caused by a feeling that things are out of control. I woke from it once thinking clearly about a real life situation I was facing in which I felt I was losing control and I finally understand the metaphor my brain had been trying to tell me for months! I was heading for a crash if I didn’t take action.

Love a bit of dream analysis! Here are my thoughts...

Definitely an anxiety dream

Are you tried to achieve something at the moment but can't? (The journey and barriers)

Are you concerned at being caught out/found out about something? I don't mean you've actually done anything - just worrying about it!

Do you feel some part of your life is out of your control at the moment? (Health, family, relationships, work, finances etc)

I’m a psychotherapist and when I trained we read a lot of Freud who thought dreams were unconscious thoughts trying to break through to the conscious mind.

You’ve pretty much explained your own dream here. You say you are peri menopausal, anxious snd stressed. In this dream the car represents your out of control body taking you on a frightening journey to an unknown destination - the menopause.

If it’s any comfort, reaching menopause isn’t so bad. As you are discovering it’s the journey that can be a nightmare!

Work is very stressful and I keep waking thinking of things I've not done - I do 4 days but regularly work on my 5th day at home.
Like I say I've never and would never drive and drink but have also dreamt of being in a car and not being able to brake or stop or steer too.
Lack of control is a theme!

I wonder if some of the peri symptoms (feeling flushed etc) remind your body of what it feels like to be drunk, and that puts the idea of drinking in your mind.

Then the out of control csr is an obvious metaphor for feeling out of control of your life and unsure what future direction/ everything going wrong.

Combination of the perimenopause physical symptoms with the pandemic affecting your mokd I mean we’ve all felt v out of control the past yr…

Sorry about your bad dreams hope it ends.

I have had that same dream for years! I can see myself now, careering around the famiar roads here.

In waking life, I haven't ever even learned to drive! 😁

I am a bit of a control freak though.

Could it be because the dream was so horrible originally that now you’re panicking about it? There’s a horrible dream I often have that I’m trapped in the house and need to get out but the kids are in another part of the house. Sometimes before I go to sleep it pops into my head and I think I hope I don’t have that dream - then I always have it! I think because I’m thinking about it then it gets stuck in my head as I fall asleep.

Maybe you could try listening to an audio book as you fall asleep so you’re thinking of something else. Or a short podcast or something like that. On a deeper level maybe looking at reducing stress where possible.

I used to have similar dreams as a kid but it was a bus full of other kids and I didn't know how to drive. And it was night. And the cops were after us lol