Recurring Dreams

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#1

I’m generally not a vivid dreamer. I usually fall asleep quickly, dream seldomly, and get out of bed as soon as Im awake. When I was a kid I used to have recurring dreams about monsters, or not being able to run away from dangerous situations, but most of those disappeared after puberty.

But even now, a couple of years short of sixty, there is a dream segment that recurs once or twice a year, and it recalls a time when I’m back in college taking a full load of courses. The fear/anxiety within the dream comes from cutting most of my classes. I have to struggle to get by one course, and think I’m doing OK, until I realize there are four other courses that I never even attended class for except the first few times. The thought of the big “Incomplete” or “Withdrawal” on my transcript freaks me out every time, and I usually wake up to get out of the feeling.

Seemingly insurmountable deadlines at work this month is definitely the main cause of the subconscious anxiety, and too much beef this past weekend didn’t help getting a relaxful sleep last night. But it’s interesting that when I have fears about failing or letting things get away from me, even chores that I’m supposed to get done around the house, the college transcript dream always comes back.

Any other nightmares on elm street out there?

#2

wow again

thanks for sharing ff…i used to have pretty much the same dream, i.e. i’d be showing up to a class and getting stuff done for ONE of my classes and then suddenly realize i had about 4 others that i hadn’t done anything for or attended all semester…wierd.

i haven’t had that one in a while, it was mostly towards the tale end of college, and even moreso in the months following college before i found a job.

damn, that is crazy.

#3

i have few recurring dreams that i can think of right now, but i have recurring themes in my dreams. only until very recently, whenever i would be with a girl in my dreams, i would always wake up before i got to have sex, or any other sex act. always. something would always prevent it from happening in the dream, and then when its about to happen, i wake up.

#4

I rarely have dreams and when I do, they aren’t one I’ve had in the past…

Sorry…

I wish I had dreams, but I don’t…

#5

wow again is right. just when you think you’re the only maniac in the world who gets worried about such things enough to dream about them, there’s someone else as close as the OKP who’s had the same type of dream almost exactly. pretty cool.

#6

I STILL have recurring dreams where I’m in high school and one of the following takes place: I can’t find my class, I didn’t do the assignment, I’m late and can’t get my locker open, or I bring the wrong books/folders to school with me.
I have similar dreams about college, but it’s mostly not being able to find the building where my class is/where my room is at or not having a huge assignment done.

#7

When I was a kid I had these dreams once a year it seemed, about big, evil dogs (I was scared of Pit Bulls, terrified, thats where it came from). I love big dogs now, but then not so much. I’d have this dream and I’d wake up with my heart pounidng, sweating, it was scary, dont remember all the details now.

i had forgotten about that.

#8

Zombie dreams. I have recurring zombie dreams. Nothing scarier than having to fight them off.

#9

^ Zombies are super-creepy for sure. I never have dreams about them, but the concept sure does scare the shit out of me in real-life.

There is only one dream that I remember having more than once. Maybe five times in the past ten years. I’m in the locker room getting dressed before a hockey game in high school. I can only move very slow. Everything around me is happening at normal speed. I wake up when it’s time to leave the room for the game, but I’m not ready to go. I would think that it’s somehow related to stress (perhaps a feeling of “not enough time”) in real life. I don’t recall the exact times in my life that I had the dreams. I’m sure I could correlate the dreams to actual stress. If that’s the case, then I should be having this dream tonight. AAAAHHHH!!!

#10

When I was little I had a dream that I woke up and found E.T. in my closet. I opened the door, and when he saw me, he let out this horrific scream. I panicked and struck him on top of the head with a closed fist. He crumbled to the ground in a pile of bones. And then I woke up. It was incredibly vivid.

Thankfully that wasn’t a recurring dream. It scared the shit out of me.

#11

I’ve got the craziest reoccuring dream dream - I have it about once a month for a long time now.

I’ll tell you all about it, but it’s pretty long and VERY vivid, so… I’m just warning you.

It always starts out with me walking down a tree lined road on the most beautiful sunny day. I’m wearing a white gingham dress and I’m obviously very happy to be alive on this day. Then, out of nowhere, I come across this field of wheat and as I"m looking out on the field I see the mosy gigantic cement skyscraper ever. right in the middle of this sunny day, a black cloud forms only right above this building, like you have never seen.

I don’t know why, but I feel drawn to it and I have to go in. So I race through the wheat until I reach the building and right as i get to the base it starts pouring - so I run inside. the lobby of the building looks like something out of a horror movie. Flickering neon lights, standing wather on the floor, rust stained walls and stuff hanging from the ceiling. I look to my right and I see an elevator and I get on. I push the button for the 11th floor and ride the elevator to the top. When I get off the elevator, the hallway is immaculate. It looks like a brand new apartment building with plants and nice carpet. Almost instinctually I head right for this one particular apartment, and just as I’m about to knock on the door it opens and a guy who I feel I know, (but I don’t really) says “Hey! THere you are! we’ve been waiting for you!” There’s a party going on and everyone knows me, and I feel as if I know them, or at least should know them. then the guy who opened the dor says to me “Go look in the back bedroom… I’ve got an awesome surprise for you” so of course I oblige. As I walk into the room there’s a strange smell and then I realize what it is…

The guy walks over to the bed, which is only a matress and boxspring unmade, and lifts up the mattress to reveal a flattened little girl. She is wearing a dress just like mine, shiny black maryjanes, bows in her hair… but there is blood everywhere. It’s coming out of her ears, out of her eyes… everywhere. the guy looks at me as if I should be pleased and says “Well? What do you think? It’s awesome, right?” to which I turn around and sprint as fast as i can out of the apartment. This is where everyone starts chasing me, or at least I think they’re chasing me, I don’t think I’ve ever really looked back to check, but it sure feels like they are.

I run out of the building into the rain until I reach the main road, which is when I feel a hand pulling me backwards.

this is always when I wake up.

The only thing I can think of is that it must symbolize me mourning death of my childhood, and how young I was when things started happening to me that grew me into an adult pretty quickly.

This is just one of the many I have…but we don’t have time for all of those too.

#12

Wow that is crazy. Most nights I don’t even dream these days…it’s sad, I love dreams.

#13

the “high school/college anxiety dream” must be contagious or something, becuase i have very a very similar dream as those stated above every once in a while.

i also have recurring dreams where my teeth are all loose and about to fall out and i have to be very careful talking or eating. it sucks. i’m sure i’m either conciously or unconciously insecure about some things and that’s the resulting dream.

i have another one where i’m blind. well, not blind but it’s like the sun is constantly shining in my eyes and i can’t see anything. i’m usually driving too. weird.

#14

Never wanted to admit this but i have had recurring dreams since 1993 that my mom is on tour with me. She is a total tour mama and it’s weird!

#15

i had a dream the other night where i was going to go to a friends house in atlanta but chose not to becuase i remembered i had already visited there in another dream that i specifically remembered in that dream…weirrrrd

#16

vagina

#17

^clitoral hood?

#18

I had recurring dreams for years about me seeing my at the time current wife with some other dude, and me driving by the house we had together but, in the dream I didn’t live there anymore. Just her and some dude.

Well, this fall we got divorced and she’s got the damn house. No guy living with her yet, but she’s on the move for a guy already.

I quit having that dream once I got divorced. God Damn! I need another beer!!!