What are your weird recurring dreams?

[nadine_mn]

I have a common one - teeth are falling out or crumbling. Hate that dream!

But I also have one where I am on beach by a lake looking for agates (used to be my favorite pastime growing up the shore of Lake Superior) - it's like I am soothing my self in my dream.

And one where for some reason I skipped college and went to law school, got my degree then went back to college for my bachelors (I did go to law school so that part isn't weird). I've had that dream so often it's starting to feel like a memory.

[Solly Mack]

1. I walk into a huge patch of kudzu, with the sun shining overhead and the sky a beautiful blue.

Upon entering the green covered hill, I shrink like Alice and become very small. The creatures living in the vines can talk. Some are friendly, some not so much. I make friends with several and we go on an adventure together. Primarily how to get me out and back to my own world.

We ride kudzu leaves through streams of rain water running down the hill. The tiny rivulets of water look quite large, of course.

There is always an insect war going on of some sort and I am always with the rebels. Some aspects have changed as I've gotten older, but not the main parts.

I've had this dream since childhood. While riding, driving or walking, I'd see a particular large patch of kudzu and fancy an entire other world underneath. I also really love bugs. So...it's not really surprising for me to carry that into my dreams.

[nadine_mn]

6. Somehow riding kudzu leaves sounds relaxing

that is a really cool weird dream!

[Solly Mack]

13. I'm always a little sad to wake up.

The fun and magic is over.

[OriginalGeek]

2. Just the one where I'm naked in various public situations

But then I wake up and I'm jealous of my dream-self because he gets to be naked in various public situations. :/

[MosheFeingold]

3. I used to dream

About Shabbos dinner conversations with family members I've never met and who died in the Shoa.

After my father died, he'd be there, too.

They were so real, I'd be confused if they actually occurred.

[nadine_mn]

7. It's the part about the dream seeming so real that always gets me

some dreams are obviously "fake", but some dreams have so much detail and emotion that I wake up feeling like it really happened.

[MosheFeingold]

11. We would always be drinkng wine

You know, good Shabbos meal and all.

I would wake up buzzed for a few seconds. Not sleepy but buzzed.

Very strange dream.

[Mendocino]

4. I'm rock climbing

and fall, but always wake up before impact.

[MosheFeingold]

12. Had a few falling dreams

And hit the ground. It would hurt.

Contrary to popular belief, I did not die.

[True Dough]

5. Like you, Nadine

I dtream about being back in school but I forgot about a class for an extended period and then realize it and have a huge backlog of studies to catch up on, if i can overcome that deficit at all. It's that sinking feeling brought on by a dream.

The other one that I've had more often is witnessing a passenger jet crashing. A couple of times I've had dreams that I'm on board a jet going down, but several times I'm on the ground looking up when I spot a plane rapidly losing altitude. It's disturbing. Doesn't stop me from flying though, and doesn't stop me from watching Mayday (the dreams precede watching that program, BTW).

[nadine_mn]

8. the jet crashing dream must be terrifying

I sometimes have one where I am about to drive off a bridge or overpass or I am witnessing it - but always wake up before anything bad happens.

I am not sure I could still fly though - you are braver than I would be

[True Dough]

9. Did you ever see this footage?

This is the sort of thing my nightmares are made of!

[nadine_mn]

15. oh my goodness

no I have not seen that before - how terrifying

[mexit]

17. Have several variations of the missed class dream

Sometimes I don't know where the class is. PANIC ensues!

[sakabatou]

10. I don't think I've had a recurring dream

[Skittles]

14. what does that teeth one mean?

I have that one too

[nadine_mn]

16. someone is about to get their ass kicked? It's usually about anxiety

or powerlessness. I think it happens to women more.

I have really soft teeth and poor dental care early in life has made this stupid dream all too real. I lost a piece of a tooth one night and had to ask my husband to pinch me because it seemed just like the damn dream.

I hate it

[demon in basement]

18. I keep having this dream that my fellow Americans stop voting against their own interests

Now that's freakin' weird!

[Bucky]

19. a compassionate world

[Thor_MN]

20. Had one where I went under the ice near the Lester River in Duluth.

Used to dream of tornadoes, which was silly as Lake Superior pushes away any tornado systems. I blame that one on the Wizard of Oz. Haven't had the one where I can't find my locker, or forgot the combination to the lock, or couldn't figure out what class I was supposed to be in for years.

[jpak]

21. Tornadoes - sometimes multiple vortices

Probably Wizard of Oz trauma from my younger days...

And not being able to dial 911...

[pfitz59]

22. Riding a bicycle up a steep hill, strainng hard.....

and the chain breaks. I fal forward over the handlebars and wake up..

[betsuni]

23. Often have ones where I'm on some form of public transportation.

Bus, train, airplane. I want to get off at the next stop but realize I've an enormous amount of stuff to gather up: books, papers, bags. I can't get it together and miss my stop. If I'm on a bus or train, the next stop is far away, over a long bridge or something, and if it's an airplane, in addition to panicking about all my stuff, the airplane crashes. I suspect I have these dreams when I have to pee and because I eventually wake up to go I remember them, but unless I record this scientifically there is no proof.

[nadine_mn]

27. I actually dream I have to pee

and I am peeing everywhere in my dream... I am worried one of these days I won't wake up in time.

[raccoon]

28. Me too. nt

[raccoon]

24. One I call "the exam dream." I'm in college, and it's the end of the semester

and I haven't cracked a book. Haven't had that one in a while, thank goodness.

When I was younger, I used to dream of walking on the beach or being near the beach, and seeing great big waves that came up higher and higher.
Haven't had that one in a long time.

[nadine_mn]

26. oh yeah - I have had a version of that - turns out I never

went to a class all semester and now I have to take the test... that dream sucks. I wake up all panicky

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

25. I dream I'm at work, and wake up tired.

And I'm retired, haven't worked in years.