Still dreaming of an Ex?! Why??

[LariyahSpen]

I'm in a serious relationship with a man I love & we have a baby daughter together. It's been a very happy loving relationship. Before him I was in a longer relationship with a guy I loved but it just didn't work out...took me a while to be fully ok but I was single for 2 years before I met my now partner.

Why then do I keep dreaming of my Ex it's probably happened twice per week since we split up 4 years ago

Sometimes I'll dream that he's just around in the dream & other times the dreams are very in depth & intense, I've dreamt we are getting back together, that we are sleeping together & more shockingly occasionally I'll dream that my daughter is his in the dream!!! What the hell!!

I wish I wouldn't dream of him! Any dream experts out there with any advice or someone with similar experience it's driving me mental!!

Dreams can reflect fears and insecurity. Was the break up left unresolved? Did you never get a response emotionally from him? I found it difficult to stop thinking of one ex where he just didn't reciprocate my feelings. It it my confidence quite hard. It was to fo with how i saw myself though. Not so much hung up on him as how could he not think i am anything other than fantastic .

I wouldn't try to discern any specific meaning about the dream as they can represent any number of things going on in your current or your past. If it was a relationship that took its toll, i.e. you had to take a while out to feel ok then it's perfectly natural. Your mind processing those thoughts and feelings as you sleep. Is all fine in your current relationship?

I don't think that it's because you miss or want your ex back. I have experienced dreaming about my ex and it was so vivid is was rather disconcerting but again, I don't think much of it as I also vividly dream that I am married to the moon but Earth won't let me leave in order to get to the moon.

Dreams are just that. Don't worry - your mind takes you to random places; I dreamed about a dragon the other day!

Maybe you miss you ex.

Thank you so much for all your responses. My relationship with my current partner is good & we love eschother it's a stronger relationship than the one I had with my Ex.

I do think the break up was awful though and he was very unemotional about it until 2 years later when I randomly bumped into a close friend of his who hinted he had struggled at first but was 'finally getting over it' which I had no idea about. I guess after four years I never got closure...maybe that's why...

Don't beat yourself up about this or worry about this AT ALL. It's only a dream. I'm happily married and often dream about my first ever boyfriend and sometimes about completely fictitious men but I'm sure that it means absolutely nothing. Sometimes I think it's about remembering the particular intensity or feelings in a relationship (the ex I dream about was my first ever boyfriend and if I dream about others it's always in that "are we or aren't we" exciting stage of the dream relationship) and while I used to wonder about it too now I just enjoy it (especially the flirty ones! They're fun!) If it meant anything then I'd also have to worry about the dreams when I can fly / give birth to marzipan children (yeah I know) / get engulfed in a sulphur storm etc..... You are happily married. Dreams are just night time weirdnesses. Don't let it trouble you. The important part is who you wake up next to!