Re-occurring dreams.

cliffandclare · 23-05-2012 08:22PM

i have a few recurring dreams

i am very lonely and ringing all my friends wanting to hang out and i cant get to any of them, i can see them but they are not responding, this has been recurring since i was 20 about 8 ,9 times a year a horrible dream i wake very upset

in this dream i am hopelessly in love with a guy , never my husband, the guy changes in the dream though. it is a very very happy dream full of kissing, holding hands and if i am lucky hot hot sex this dream recurs maybe 6 times a year since i was about 16

this is my favourite, the flying dream where i soar above everything and wake up feeling fab, recur bout twice a year, not yet this year though

some random drunk · 23-05-2012 08:26PM

meoklmrk91 wrote: »

That last one :eek:

I know, it's pretty horrific alright. In another version I was getting it on with a hot brunette model. We were doing it doggy style and I was really enjoying it until she turned around, yelled "surprise!" and pulled off her wig, to reveal my (blonde) sister with a big grin on her face

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I've had sex dreams with people I really don't want to have sex with for years. My school principal, the elderly school priest, my old boss at work, good friends...etc. I reckon I must hate myself subconsciously or something, so my brain creates these horrible scenarios.

Anyway......let's move on. Another re-ocurring theme in my dreams is the inability to turn on lights. Like I'll be in a dark, haunted house or something and be being chased by a ghost/murderer and I want to turn the lights on to help myself escape/frighten the ghost away. I press the lightswitches but they never work, or the lightbulbs have all blown. I think I read somewhere that it's next to impossible to alter the light level of your surroundings in a dream without waking up. Sounds hard to believe, but it's true at least in my dreams. Anyone experience this or heard anything about it?

Dudess · 23-05-2012 08:31PM

Seachmall wrote: »

Don't believe that hippy ****, most dreams have no relevance to your emotions and there's certainly no standardised method for determining what they might mean (if anything).

But why can they recur? And why are there certain common dream types - like the teeth falling out/exams ones?

cynder · 23-05-2012 08:33PM

I had a few re occurring dreams, one lasted 3 years and I had it every night, myself and a group of friends would go into a derelict building and I would find mutilated bodies in the rooms, the dream was in black n white. I was aged 4-7 and still remember it vividly.

I also have dreams and I can't dial 999 or drive my car, for some reason the car won't go the clutch keeps going funny.

Other dreams are where my teeth fall out or crumble, I also have flying dreams I am aware I'm in the dream and can change it. If I dream the same dream twice I know I'm dreaming and can change the dreams path if I want. I ve had a few erotic dreams and it's always with my husband..

My favourite dreams are when I'm dreaming that I'm in the army or I am an FBI agent. I could make films out of some of my dreams. I also die in my dreams, i die at least once a week, normally from a gun shot, Or die in a plane or car crash.

My worst dreams are when I dream my kids die... Don't like those ones....

After watching prime time one night I Drempt that my house was falling down from pyrite.

I've had supernatural dreams too, I've been that scared I've told myself to wake up and I do.

I can sometimes make myself dream a dream that I've had before.

southcentralts · 23-05-2012 08:36PM

won the lottery in a dream once - noting quite like the disappointment in the morning, ashamed to say I spent some time looking for the ticket before I fully woke up. SICK.

cynder · 23-05-2012 08:44PM

some random drunk wrote: »

I know, it's pretty horrific alright. In another version I was getting it on with a hot brunette model. We were doing it doggy style and I was really enjoying it until she turned around, yelled "surprise!" and pulled off her wig, to reveal my (blonde) sister with a big grin on her face .
I've had sex dreams with people I really don't want to have sex with for years. My school principal, the elderly school priest, my old boss at work, good friends...etc. I reckon I must hate myself subconsciously or something, so my brain creates these horrible scenarios.

Anyway......let's move on. Another re-ocurring theme in my dreams is the inability to turn on lights. Like I'll be in a dark, haunted house or something and be being chased by a ghost/murderer and I want to turn the lights on to help myself escape/frighten the ghost away. I press the lightswitches but they never work, or the lightbulbs have all blown. I think I read somewhere that it's next to impossible to alter the light level of your surroundings in a dream without waking up. Sounds hard to believe, but it's true at least in my dreams. Anyone experience this or heard anything about it?

You secretly fancy your sister :eek:

Never had the light switch thing, but then again I love the dark.

23-05-2012 08:44PM

2 dreams which kept repeating....

I was being chased and my legs were as heavy as lead and i could not run. Always woke up before i was caught.

A repeat dream that I was able to fly. I absolutely loved the dream and used to get upset when i woke up and realised it was a dream.

Haven't dreamt these in a while but they are still vivid in my memory.

Shryke · 23-05-2012 08:47PM

I lie in bed for about an hour every morning just thinking about boobs and stuff if that counts.

hairyprincess · 23-05-2012 08:50PM

Shryke wrote: »

I lie in bed for about an hour every morning just thinking about boobs and stuff if that counts.

I believe that's called fapping

Shryke · 23-05-2012 08:54PM

hairyprincess wrote: »

I believe that's called fapping

Ah now, it's a kind of fugue state. I don't go pulling myself off.

It's been a while since there has been a woman in there with me. I might be starting to suffer from some kind of horny delirium.

af_thefragile · 23-05-2012 10:25PM

some random drunk wrote: »

I know, it's pretty horrific alright. In another version I was getting it on with a hot brunette model. We were doing it doggy style and I was really enjoying it until she turned around, yelled "surprise!" and pulled off her wig, to reveal my (blonde) sister with a big grin on her face .
I've had sex dreams with people I really don't want to have sex with for years. My school principal, the elderly school priest, my old boss at work, good friends...etc. I reckon I must hate myself subconsciously or something, so my brain creates these horrible scenarios.

Anyway......let's move on. Another re-ocurring theme in my dreams is the inability to turn on lights. Like I'll be in a dark, haunted house or something and be being chased by a ghost/murderer and I want to turn the lights on to help myself escape/frighten the ghost away. I press the lightswitches but they never work, or the lightbulbs have all blown. I think I read somewhere that it's next to impossible to alter the light level of your surroundings in a dream without waking up. Sounds hard to believe, but it's true at least in my dreams. Anyone experience this or heard anything about it?

Freud would have a field day if he was around to read ur posts!

some random drunk · 23-05-2012 10:41PM

af_thefragile wrote: »

Freud would have a field day if he was around to read ur posts!

I'd rather have Freud read them than my sister!

meoklmrk91 · 23-05-2012 10:52PM

some random drunk wrote: »

I'd rather have Freud read them than my sister!

Yeah never thought if that if I was your sister I'd be keeping well clear, doubt the parents would like it too much either, ya sexual deviant ya:p

Battered Mars Bar · 23-05-2012 11:10PM

Have one where I happen upon a fox curled up neath a bush in an idyllic country setting.

The fox has his back turned to me but seems to be agitated with something. I begin to notice a stench so I inspect further. The sounds of crunching bone come first before I notice the fox is devouring itself. It's rather graphic and I usually feel disgusted with myself when I awake for conjuring up such images.

What that mean then?

shopaholic01 · 23-05-2012 11:28PM

Battered Mars Bar wrote: »

Have one where I happen upon a fox curled up neath a bush in an idyllic country setting.

The fox has his back turned to me but seems to be agitated with something. I begin to notice a stench so I inspect further. The sounds of crunching bone come first before I notice the fox is devouring itself. It's rather graphic and I usually feeling disgusted with myself when I awake for conjuring up such images.

What that mean then?

You hate the fact that you want to eat yourself

Shryke · 23-05-2012 11:30PM

Nature scares and confuses you...

Battered Mars Bar · 23-05-2012 11:48PM

shopaholic01 wrote: »

You hate the fact that you want to eat yourself

Lo'feckin'l....brilliant

Teyla Emmagan · 23-05-2012 11:56PM

I have loads of recurring dreams. Some of them I've been having for a good 30 years now. Themes include:

- Flying. Though 'flapping' would be more accurate, I have to pump my arms really hard to get any height/velocity. Generally I don't move very fast, it's hard work for the most part.
- Teeth. Endless teeth dreams. I have lost thousands and thousands of teeth in my sleep. Splintering teeth when you spend the whole night spitting them out are the worst.
- Toilets. Think 'Trainspotting'. I have endless dreams about having to use the loo and the loo being overflowing and horrific and slipping it in, generally over and over again before I can get as far as the door and make it out. So, I basically dream about swimming in sh(t a lot.
- Locations. Not real places, places that only exist in my head. I am dreaming and suddenly I realise I'm in a place I've been in before, and I know the layout etc, and I will remember what I was doing the last time I was there (in a dream) but still know it's not a real place. I have about 10 of these, some of them only pop up every 5 years ago.

I dream nearly ever night and almost always remember what I've dreamed, even if it only pops into my mind at 3pm making coffee. A lot of my dreams tend to be pretty prosaic, but some of them are completely mental. I love a good dream I do.

Fbjm · 24-05-2012 12:48AM

I usually dream about stuff that actually happened.

Like last Thursday I got a bus, which I regularly do. Last night I dreamt I was on a bus, with the same people, going to the same destination.

Another time I dreamt I was driving to Croke Park, the night before I actually did drive to Croke Park. But this one had a twist! ...In real life, I was a passenger in the car. Wow, slow down, subconscious.

Seachmall · 24-05-2012 09:00AM

Dudess wrote: »

But why can they recur? And why are there certain common dream types - like the teeth falling out/exams ones?

No idea, although dreams progress based on your expectations of how they will progress*.

For example, if you find yourself walking down a dark alley after watching a horror film that dream will likely turn into a nightmare as you expect something bad to happen.

If you find yourself walking down a dark alley after watching Singin' In The Rain you'd be as likely to find yourself in a musical in the dream or something.

That's why, for example, in a dream the physical laws typically apply despite the fact your dreams aren't really limited by the physical laws. You don't know you're dreaming and so expect gravity to function accordingly. Of course any scenario where you'd expect those laws to stop applying would cause those laws to stop applying.

So in terms of repeating dreams, if you find yourself in a similar environment in your dream as in a dream you've had before you may expect it to play out the same and thus it does. That's why Lucid Dreaming has been shown to be beneficial in reoccurring nightmares**, it allows you to control your expectations of the dreams.

Same could be said for teeth falling out, you know that's a common dream and so it becomes a common dream (self-fulfilling prophecy).

* "So it constructs a world that shows us what we expect, fear, wish for, need and all that." - Stephen La Berge interview

** Lucid Dreaming and Nightmares (WIKI)

Giselle · 24-05-2012 09:25AM

I used to have the turning up in school naked dream a lot.

Now I have the turning up at biggest-meeting-of-my-life naked dream.

Insultingly, nobody seems to notice.

Nothingbetter2d · 24-05-2012 09:26AM

Giselle wrote: »

I used to have the turning up in school naked dream a lot.

Now I have the turning up at biggest-meeting-of-my-life naked dream.

Insultingly, nobody seems to notice.

your dreams are telling you to join a nudist colony.

Nothingbetter2d · 24-05-2012 09:28AM

Teyla Emmagan wrote: »

I have loads of recurring dreams. Some of them I've been having for a good 30 years now. Themes include:

- Flying. Though 'flapping' would be more accurate, I have to pump my arms really hard to get any height/velocity. Generally I don't move very fast, it's hard work for the most part.
- Teeth. Endless teeth dreams. I have lost thousands and thousands of teeth in my sleep. Splintering teeth when you spend the whole night spitting them out are the worst.
- Toilets. Think 'Trainspotting'. I have endless dreams about having to use the loo and the loo being overflowing and horrific and slipping it in, generally over and over again before I can get as far as the door and make it out. So, I basically dream about swimming in sh(t a lot.
- Locations. Not real places, places that only exist in my head. I am dreaming and suddenly I realise I'm in a place I've been in before, and I know the layout etc, and I will remember what I was doing the last time I was there (in a dream) but still know it's not a real place. I have about 10 of these, some of them only pop up every 5 years ago.

I dream nearly ever night and almost always remember what I've dreamed, even if it only pops into my mind at 3pm making coffee. A lot of my dreams tend to be pretty prosaic, but some of them are completely mental. I love a good dream I do.

eat cheese before ya go to bed... it always makes my dreams really wacky

the_syco · 24-05-2012 09:31AM

Have a dream every so often in certain buildings. I'd usually know where I''m going in said building having "been" in them in past dreams, but never in real life. They can be the weird dreams that bring me from A to B, and then there are dreams that I'm swimming. Although I sometimes know it's a dream, and spend the next while swimming underwater, without having to hold my breath. THe dreams that I'm going from A to B in are loosly based on somewhere I used to work, but then there is a long stretch of corridor that I been in, but don't know where it's from.

Dreams are weird places sometimes!

fishy fishy · 24-05-2012 09:31AM

had a few dreams about being chased and I was doing my best to run away, frantic. However my legs were like lead and couldn't get very far. always woke up with a fright before I got caught.

24-05-2012 10:09AM

haven't had the teeth or LC ones thankfully

af_thefragile · 24-05-2012 10:12AM

This morning I had another one of them dreaded pre exam "oh **** i'm screwed!!!" dream.

I had my exam at 8am this morning and so last night I dreamt I missed the alarm on my phone and when I woke up it was 7:30am. I was like oh shi- shi- shi!!!!!! but I can still make it, gotta get ready in record time... Then somehow by the time I got ready and left my home it was 10:30am! I was wtf?!!!?!?!! I missed the exam!! How the bloody hell did it freaking happen!!!!!! Now I'm gonna fail the exam and will have to do the repeats and that'll be my summer gone!!!!

And as I was trying to get to terms with what had just happend, I woke up! Checked the time on my phone. It was 3am. I was never so relieved to wake up at 3am!! But then I had a very paranoid sleep where I kept waking up every 30mins or so...

Why does my brain like to fvck with me like that?!?!?!!!!!

BigFatGiant · 24-05-2012 10:21AM

I have the same two dreams. Teeth falling out and doing exams. Paid a lot of money to get the meaning of these dreams explained to me by a dream interpreter.
Teeth falling out dream = You hate teeth.
Doing exams dream = You love exams.

Sorted.

Dub Ste · 24-05-2012 10:42AM

Not had this one in years,but it was one I had quite often.

My eldest brother died in a car crash over twenty years ago,and I had this dream so many times.

We lived in Leeds and in my dream I was in grannies kitchen in Cavan,(now she died in 1971),and we were talking then she said she had someone who wanted to see me.Then my brother would come into the kitchen,and I'd be so delighted to see him,I'd be hugging and kissing him,thanking God he wasn't dead.

Then after a while I'd ask him how he was here,he'd say(this bit changed from dream to dream) the tax man was after him/he owed someone a load of money/he just had to get away.

Then after all the tears had stopped,I'd get really angry with him,asking him how the f*ck could he do this to us,let us all believe he was dead,all the hurt and pain he caused,then we'd end up fighting.

When I had these dreams,it would leave me exhausted,I'd wake up feeling awful,and my girlfriend at the time always knew when I had these because I'd be crying and screaming out in my sleep.

Thankfully not had any of these for years now.

Had kind of pushed them to the back of mind until that bloke from England who "died" after going missing on his canoe,his sons actually went through in real life what I went through in my dreams.......................it's a crazy world I tells ya

Nothingbetter2d · 24-05-2012 10:52AM

BigFatGiant wrote: »

I have the same two dreams. Teeth falling out and doing exams. Paid a lot of money to get the meaning of these dreams explained to me by a dream interpreter.
Teeth falling out dream = You hate teeth.
Doing exams dream = You love exams.

Sorted.

suckered

Re-occurring dreams.

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