Recurring Dreams! What's yours?

[Bok_Tukalo]

Mine is transportation accidents. I've had about one a week since I was 12. About 90% are airplane crashes, the rest mostly train wrecks (the odd boat sinking and car accident thrown in). I've never figured it out but about 5 or 6 years ago, I started becoming a passenger instead of an observer.

[xmas74]

1. Mine is from old memories.

I dream that I am back with my ex and that he is knocking me around again. I try to fight back but he comes at me with a knife-and then I wake up.

[Bok_Tukalo]

3. That's an unfortunate dream to keep having

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[xmas74]

9. It is.

But I think that it is a reminder of what I left behind. It reminds me that no matter how bad things seem to be now, I have still been through much worse.

[fudge stripe cookays]

2. Zombies.

Freaking zombies. I HATE it.

First had it the night I very first saw Night of the Living Dead in HS. My dad had been dead about 3 years at the time.

I dreamed I was Barbara, trapped in the farmhouse. And when the zombies bashed in the door, i saw my dad.

"Daddy! Daddy! I'ts daddy!" I yelled, and ran toward the door. then my dad leaned down and took a big chunk out of my shoulder, and I woke up screaming.

I still have it from time to time, and it still freaks me the f#$% out!!

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[Bok_Tukalo]

6. Wow. Doesn't anyone have good recurring dreams?

BTW, mine are not emotional. I am never scared or concerned or anything. It's just there.

Generic Person: "My God! We're going to crash!"

Me: "Yes. It appears we are."

[Ariana Celeste]

18. Zombie dreams...

NEVER fail to scare the crap out of me.

What's worse, is I usually wake up from those types, and then get even more freaked out with every creak or noise I hear- and those are numerous, I live in an Apt.

I usually end up turning on a night light. :scared:

[fudge stripe cookays]

24. Wow, were we separated at birth?

I do that too sometimes. I absolutely cannot go back to sleep sometimes, no matter how hard I try.

I'm in a house, with BIG WINDOWS! (And not much lumber for nailing over them!) ;-)

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[Ariana Celeste]

28. Lol.

I do it a lot, as embarrassing as it is!

My S.O. has trouble with my thrashing, and than has to deal with me squirming while I try to go back to sleep, and then has to deal with the night light. LOL. I am a BIG wimp when it comes to bad dreams!

[Southsideirish]

4. I'm in a house where I keep finding new rooms. I think I'm done exploring

and then around the corner I find another room - then another. Weird!

[Bok_Tukalo]

11. I like that one

Unsettling.

[Ariana Celeste]

19. My S.O. has the same type

of recurring dream- he is lucky, he gets recurring dreams that he actually enjoys! His are usually set in the house he grew up in, in Michigan.

[yellowdogintexas]

34. I have that dream from time to time. I usually wake up sort of

disoriented, and trying to figure out where the hell that house is, anyway. There is always something a tad familiar about it, just enough that I am sure I know the house...

[Blue Diadem]

38. mine is similar

had it since I was a kid, and when I run out of rooms there is always a stairway and another floor.

The dreams have become less frequent and the last time I had the dream, the stairway was broken.

[AuntiBush]

I awaken to the America I knew 4 1/2 Years ago!

It's a pipe-dream at this point.

[boneygrey]

10. Oh good God

could you at address the subject?

[boneygrey]

5. Mine is missing classes

and having to show up for a final in a class I signed up for but never went to. I graduated from UNC in '86 and still have those dreams. Just weird. When I wake up, I'm relieved to realize that I did get my degree.

[Bok_Tukalo]

14. When I was 14, I caught chickens in Arkansas

I mean being the beginning cog in the entire poultry processing system. 15,000 chickens to a house, sometimes three houses a night.

For several years I would dream that I was lying in my bed (where ever that bed was) and the room would fill with chickens; the room extending out in an almost Maurice Sendak way with the walls disappearing to be filled with an uncountable amount of chickens. A rural Arkansas fringe working class guy would tug on my arm and try to get me to help him catch them all until I got fed up with him and told him he didn't exist and I would wake up.

[MidwestMomma]

16. Oh my, I have that one too

That is too weird. :)

[RevCheesehead]

26. Yeah, but it was from Carolina!

(proud Blue Devil grad here!) :hi:

BTW - Roy Williams is the best thing to happen to the Heels. Even I can't hate him! :)

[boneygrey]

46. Your're right about Roy

Thanks. Ought to be a helluva a game on Sunday. Anyway Reddick could catch the flue by then?

[RevCheesehead]

49. you wish.

He was on fire with Wake Forest...like he couldn't miss if he tried!

What time is the game on? Cause I'm ordering pizza for that! :)

[boneygrey]

54. UNC VS DUKE

Sunday at 4 EST. Please Reddick get the flue.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

29. Wow, I have that one a lot...

but I am usually in high school (even though I graduated college years later). Also a similar dream...I was a nurse for thirty years and I still dream about having a hall full of patients that I have to pass medications to and I am running way behind and I know that I just won't have time to get to all of them. I think they just mean that we take our obligations seriously.

[Philosophy]

31. I have that one too

Weird.

[yellowdogintexas]

35. I have that dream a LOT, and I graduated from college in 1969!

so don't feel bad. Usually I have never been to class and it is time for the final exam. Sometimes it is compounded by can't find the class, don't know where the building is, etc.

[boneygrey]

50. That is exactly mine.

Too weird. As I mentioned in a previous post, a shrink friend of mine explained it as men placing too many expectations on themselves. Fear of failure and not fulfilling duties.

[yellowdogintexas]

52. well, I am not a man, most definitely.

[driver8]

42. I have that dream all of the time...

I graduated in 1985 and always wake up in a cold sweat.

[Ariana Celeste]

7. I had a few..

But there are two that I had most frequently.

When I was young, I had recurring nightmares, where I was watching the wolf attack and eat my Grandma, little red riding hood style.

When my older brother died, I was 9, and I had recurring nightmares that I was in the car with him when it happened- safe, unscathed, and incapable of stopping it.

[BuyingThyme]

8. Good: Flying bicycle.

Bad: Paralyzed legs.

[DemoTex]

12. Very interesting!

As an ALPA-trained airline accident investigator I have never, ever, dreamed about that "nightmare." I have seen nightmare crashes and, more often, listened to nightmare raw CVR and ATC tapes, but it has stayed out of my dreams. As a pilot for 43 years, I have never dreamed of being in a "crash" either.

[two gun sid]

13. Hmmmm, trying to think what happened 5-6 years ago.....

oh! Rise of George W. Bush! He's your problem. If we get rid of him you'll probably get a good nights sleep.

[boneygrey]

21. Jesus H Christ

talk about a real dream.

[Jack Rabbit]

15. It usually involves an out-of-control car

I'm either trying to drive it or run after it.

[vixengrl]

17. Wow--I am full of recurring dreams.

My most popular ones are:

1) late to work/school. I'm seriously late to work--or is it school? (I graduated college ten yrs ago, but this does not matter in dreams.) My clock reads some ridiculously late hour (noon?) but I'm going anyway. I open the closet--Halloween costumes, all. Cheerleader outfits. Bathing suits. Nothing truly appropriate. Then, once I've finally gotten dressed, I hit the highway--either on the bus or driving, depending on whether I'm going to work or school. I end up on the detour from hell (what exactly am I doing in the PINE BARRENS!?!?!?) I make it to work or school--and the building seems renovated. I wake up at three a.m.--far to early to get ready for work.

2) I haven't done my homework/studied for exam. I am finally at school, presumably after a late start and one detour through hell. I haven't been in class since the beginning of the semester, oh, about twelve yrs ago. I'm not even exactly sure what class this is. But I do know I have an exam. And if I do not pass, I'm not graduating. I'll even have to do all four yrs of college over. I wake up and fret over whether I've paid all my utility bills.

3) The mall-oriented pub crawl. Not all my recurring dreams suck. I seem to keep arriving at some mall which is not the Franklin Mills Mall, or King of Prussia, or even the Quakerbridge Mall, but a combo with elements of the shops at the Venetian and the Bellagio thrown in--got it? Good. I end up in eatery after eatery, and bar after bar--all of which are full of great cheap food and drinks--like a permanent Happy Hour. This resembles my notion of the ideal afterlife. If I'm not reincarnated taller, thinner, and richer, instead. I wake up wanting to go back--my quesadillas haven't shown up yet.

[boneygrey]

27. Your dream

2) I haven't done my homework/studied for exam. I am finally at school, presumably after a late start and one detour through hell. I haven't been in class since the beginning of the semester, oh, about twelve yrs ago. I'm not even exactly sure what class this is. But I do know I have an exam. And if I do not pass, I'm not graduating.

I have this a lot. Based on your name I will assume you're female. I've only met one other woman who has this kind of dream. A shrink friend of mine says it is most likely to affect males.

[yellowdogintexas]

39. The Pine Barresn, I am weeping with laughter. you describe

the dread late dream and the equally dread unprepared dream with incredibly devastating hilarity. I hurt from laughing.!!!!!

And guess what? I nreally needed that too. (wiping tears )

[verdalaven]

20. My husband and I are on our way somewhere

and halfway there we realize we forgot the baby. So we have to rush back home before she is a) kidnapped, or b) taken away by social services. Always we are seconds away from losing her.

When I was a kid I used to have this dream about what I later realized was a battlefield in the middle ages. I am on my back unable to move and I see arrows flying high over my head against a clear blue sky, first from one side, then from the other. In the background there was tremendous noise that always ceased the moment I woke. I think the quiet in the house used to scare me more than the noise in the dream. :) I remember starting to have that dream as far back as five years old (linking dream to certain toys I loved, so age approx) and usually I had it in December, I used to call it my Christmas dream.

[Bouncy Ball]

22. That I'm made out of foam.

Another is falling out of an airplane at 25,000 feet. God, I hate that one.

[RevCheesehead]

30. LOL! Sorry, Bouncy...

I just found the image of a bouncy ball made of foam kinda funny, but when you added falling out of an airplane, and I could think was "Gee, I wonder how high she'd bounce?"

[Huckebein the Raven]

23. I have several:

The typical nuclear war dream

A "Twin Peaks" type of dream

*'s America a few years from now mixed with Minority Report

A dream set in Paris with me speaking French.

[bloodyjack]

25. Having a bottle of brandy swung at my head by the same woman

She always seems to deliberately miss a few times before I always wake up at the very moment when my head will meet the bottle

Also a lot of dreams that involve feces for some reason or other

[Philosophy]

32. I dream that all my teeth fall out

Like for some reason I clench my teeth so hard that they shatter and fall out. If I'm a little lucid I try to wake myself up to see if I'm grinding my teeth, but as far as I know I don't.

[RevCheesehead]

33. I'm in my dream house.

Very similar to the house dreams above. But it's kind of a Frank Lloyd Wright style, low ceilings, broad, expansive rooms that flow one into the other, live trees and running waterfalls. Everywhere I go, I discover something even more beautiful.

I think I heard once that dreaming about a house is a common image of your inner self. If so, I really like this dream even more! :)

[n2mark]

37. Mine is

I'm in bed sleeping with my bedroom door closes and someone enters and stuffs a pillow over my face. I can't scream, just freeze. I wake up trying to scream and I can't scream.

[Philosophy]

36. I also dream that I'm carrying a huge solid metal sphere

Over my head. It's like at least 10 feet in diameter and solid metal and it must weigh tons, and somehow I am able to carry it, but it is extremely stressful. Sometimes after this one I have to get up and walk around for 20 minutes just to clear my head enough to get back to sleep.

[yellowdogintexas]

40. one of mine: my grandfather who died in 1966 is still alive, and

I keep running into him at strange places. We have all this great fun, and I AM THE ONLY FAMILY MEMBER who knows he isn't dead. Like I am the only one who can see him, or get to where he is staying, which is usually some town that he never lived in, ever.

Often there is a sub plot involving being sure he gets some kind of medication that he needs or to a doctor so he doesn't die for real. I never have this dream about any other relative, either.

I also have one that involves driving around backroads in the country where I grew up. There are just tons of little skinny farm roads that intersect and connect and diverge and so on. Usually I am trying to go to a friend's house who lived even further back in the sticks than I did and I keep making turns but not ever getting where I want to go. ( Which is pretty funny because you can get out on these old back roads and if you just keep turning right every time you hit an intersection, eventually you will find something you recognize. )..Usually when I have this dream, it is the spring monsoon season and everything is really lush and green and the ditches and creeks are full of water.

[driver8]

41. I have a couple of recurring dreams...

One dream I have a lot is that I am in college and supposed to be taking an exam. The problem is that I have not been to the class or studied the material and know I am going to flunk the test.

The other dream that I have is I am driving a car but I am having a problem driving...my ability to see is impaired or it feels like I am drunk or about to fall asleep.

[neebob]

43. I've had dreams about watching planes crash

Not too many, maybe two or three. I have several that recur more frequently:

Looking for a toilet, but they're all messed up or there's no privacy

Trapped in an elevator that goes every which way and has weird gravity effects

Wandering around a mall, a hotel, or a hotel/mall combo (I have a lot of these lately - I'm supposed to be somewhere but get sidetracked)

Exploring an unfamiliar house that's mine

I go back to college, am late, can't find my class (sometimes I rollerskate, almost out of control, around the campus)

I'm back with my ex-husband, he seems happy but I'm going WTF - how did this happen, it will never work, how can I get out of this

Scumbag internet boyfriend who nearly ruined me is back, won't leave, and is usually trying to hurt me

I decide I'm going to fly, jump up, bust through the ceiling of whatever building I'm in, and fly for a minute, but something brings me down - I can't ever sustain flight for very long.

I meet this blonde guy who's like a soul mate or someone I belong with who's waiting for me. I can never see him very clearly, except that he has longish blonde hair and is younger than I am - he's like in his twenties - and being around him feels wonderful. We always get separated after a brief encounter and I spend the rest of the dream trying to get back to him.

Oh, and how could I forget trying to drive a car from the back seat. I have a lot of these, too.

[Bok_Tukalo]

47. The had the toilet dream alot when I was young

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[RevCheesehead]

53. Wow. You echoed a lot of mine, too.

The toilet dream is always in some kind of public place.

The anti-gravity elevator goes sideways, diagonally. I don't feel trapped, but I do wonder where we're going.

The wandering dream. I'm always in some familiar territory, but it's also different. Sometimes it's at a mall, or driving in the country, or scenes from family drives in the country.

And the house one I already posted.


I once kept a dream journal. Write down your dreams right away when you wake up. Those recurring dreams are there, too. Very insightful if you compare it to what's going on in your life.

[Hello_Kitty]

44. Mine's sad but kind of sweet too

My father died in 1989 and I still miss him so much that I dream he's still alive in the present. I fill him in on how my life is going and he tells me how proud he is of me and that he loves me. Sometimes I wake up crying but I also feel kind of good because I really think that's how it would be if he were still here.

[Seabiscuit]

45. What Rainman said about his first kiss:

"wet".

[sir_captain]

48. The girl who got away

I dream about her almost every night

[Merope215]

56. Wow

That must be terrible.

[sir_captain]

57. Heh...

Not too much fun. Ironically, in the time since I posted this, she sent me an artfully ambiguous "i miss you" email. Hadn't heard from her in six months.

[Merope215]

58. Well, we women are awfully good

at artful ambiguity. Is she available? Because if she sent you an email, she probably really does miss you...

Not that I'm even remotely qualified to talk. You don't even know me...sorry for being so rude!

[sir_captain]

60. Not rude at all!

We're on an anonymous internet message board after all?

And yeah, she's available. And I have no doubt that she really misses me. But unfortunately it's a bit more complicated than that... She's a bit of a loon in this regard, I fear. Ah well...

Thanks for being a shoulder, though! :-)

[Merope215]

61. Sure thing

Maybe she's just having a tough time figuring out what she wants. If she's the one who got away, you should make sure she doesn't really get away for good. That's just my two cents, and what do I know. But I think you should keep it in mind. :)

[borlis]

51. I have three over and over.

The first one is that my teeth are falling out by the handful. This one scares me and always wakes me up. I mentioned it to my Dentist once and he (of course) told me it's because I don't floss enough. The second one is going back to college days and I have a huge term paper due the next day which I didn't start yet. The last one takes me back to my first full time job where the owner of the small company I worked for was a total asshole. I tell him off over and over in this one which makes me feel really good. I really wonder what all this means deep down???? :shrug:

[Bok_Tukalo]

55. I notice the task due at school/work dream is common

The teeth falling out is kinda weird.

[last_texas_dem]

59. Several

Probably my most interesting scary one is where I am on a roller-coaster and going fast when I suddenly see that the track just ends out of nowhere and everyone on it (including me) is about to go sailing off into mid-air. I always wake up at that instant.

I have a number of anxiety dreams involving missing classes or forgetting a test, even now that I'm currently out of school. I also have several involving flying (actually more like sailing) through the air and sometimes and sometimes not figuring out how to control where I go.

And then there's my regular recurring nightmare that involves a mob of a hundred or so dogs coming at me walking on their hind legs. And I love dogs! But dogs swarming at me walking zombie-like on their hind legs I do not love!!