Swirlie

Not sure if this is the right forum, but since there are other dream threads...

What are your re-curring dreams?

Mine is that I have one side of my body somewhat paralyzed... it's a TREMENDOUS effort to get my right leg to work... it feels like it's about 200 pounds.... and moves in slow motion.

It's so real, and I have had it so many times that sometimes I *honestly* wonder if it happened to me in real life... and that comes out of the blue... I don't actually remember the dream when I first wake up... usually it's in the afternoon or evening... and suddenly it comes flooding back to me... I think that is why sometimes I think it wasn't a dream...

Anyone else?

pinklily

I don't have an exact recurring dream, but I continue to have dreams where I am trapped in a school, any of them that I've been in in my life, and I keep running and running without being able to get out, like I'm being chased by something that I don't have a sense of.

KellyC

I have two same dreams in the past week.

It starts with me watching some tv in the den, then my little brother come down and for no reason changed the channel. I got mad and slapped him across the face. He just stand there staring at me...then I woke up...

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John Henry

I used to get those dreams loads when I was a kid. You're right to wonder if it really happened. In fact it did. When you go to sleep, your brain does all its standard maintenance. This requires it to pretty much shut off all your less vital functions, such as movement (otherwise you'd go round sleepwalking all the time etc. However as your awareness isn't completely shut off all the time, you can sometimes be in a partial dream state but still be partly aware. This means when you send signals to your legs to move they are still turned off, but you're aware of it, which you wouldn't normally be.

I think that's about right, anyway. This is what happens to people when they have all these angel dreams, alien abductions etc.

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BrassSteve

i had dreams of big tests and shit in school, however, this all started after i graduated my senior year in high school.... i kept having dreams like i was late for a final or something, it sucked

fillips

sounds like you have a fear of school

todd

When I was younger, like around 10 or 11, I constantly had dreams where I was moving in slow motion/in a strobe light. And like, the walls would sway back and forth with the slightest head movement, and all this crazy shit. I probably had that dream 10 times or so.

Recently i've been having dreams that occur in the same location: some train station. Each time is like a differant episode, but happens in the same place. I even remember things about the train station and remember my "previous visits." I've had 3 or 4 of these. I also discover a new parts of the building each time, and know the place so well I could map the entire place out. I've never been to any place like this becides in these dreams.

qtpye4u84

I keep having dreams about playing craps and winning big time, the thing is I don't know how to play.

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bookerV

I've had a couple of cases where I've had the same dream. Usually though the repeat of the dream occurs shortly after the original. I remember once (when I was fairly young, 13 / 14) having a dream about a white tiger at a car wash two nights in a row. I've had the same dream about losing track of my ex at a party in a high rise building twice in one week (this was a couple of years back). For the most part though I don't remember my dreams so I don't tend to have too many recurring onces.

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StickODynomite

This is going to sound strange, but I keep having dreams that I'm having sex with a black man..! A stranger.

Not only that but I keep having dreams that a woman is following me, i dont see her, but i can feel that its a woman somehow and I fear her so much, that when i wake up, im paranoid and i can feel my heart beating rapidly. I try to go back to sleep and the same dream keeps coming back to me. Over and over. Eventually I move out to the couch in the living room and it doesn't happen there. Weird.

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Raw Kuts

I used to repetedly have dreams of needing to run somewhere, but when I started to run my legs would get really heavy and I could barely walk. Like the capsule corp gavitation ship. I started exercising and they stopped.

I still have a dream about running on a rickety dock that spirals inward with a couple other people, and when we get to the end (center) I get picked up by a bird or something. When I wake up my stomache is usually hurting.

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dirtyrascal7

i haven't had any recurring dreams that i can remember, but a few months ago there was about a week and a half where i'd have a dream set in this made-up town, and then the next night i'd dream about the town again, only i'd add onto it and the plotline would be different, so by the end of the 10 days or so, the town was friggin huge and there were about 30 different characters. i can still remember parts of what the town looked like and a few characters, but i can't remember any of the stories...

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GakFace

I don't have reoccuring dreams unless I'm having a Nightmare... those are the only reoccuring ones.

I DO on the other hand have dreams that happen in the same place. Its a whole 'nother world when I dream. So many times I do things as another life. There are cities and locations that I visit regularily in my dreams... that don't exist in this life.

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Jack Ruby

I have a recurring dream that I suppose is pretty easy to explain. It's me wandering around in what appears to be a very large version of my grandparents' house. Huge stairways and doors, strange secret passages and weird rooms full of neat and scary stuff : a giant tree to climb, boxes full of strange money and gold, a maze of bookshelves and tiny closets ...

I practically grew up in that house when I was a small kid, so I guess it really left an impression on me. They're very nice dreams, coming back every few months or so.

My nightmares are usually really fucking terrifying, so I'm thankful I don't have any recurring ones.

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omid

i had the weirdest dreams about 8 years ago... they were like a story. every night a new chapter. i would hate going to sleep because they were all nightmares. it may sound funny now (and it is...) but they were dr seuss' characters gone bad. it was realllllly scary back then lol.

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Gizmo

I have strange and eirie reacurring dreams ! iam @ my grandmothers trailor and iam sitiing their then a hand like out of the family show thingie come out with a bunch of ats and they try to kill me! then Mr.Monkey saves me ! but once he didnt i think Mr.Monkey forgot about me or left me to die ! i never saw my stuffed monkey after that night !

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Hwed

The only recurring dream I have (that I can remember) is that I can fly. Not Superman-type flying... it's more like swimming through the air, and I have to scoop air with my arms to stay aloft. The higher I go, the harder it becomes to stay in the air.

The other weird thing about this dream is that I often get tangled in power lines, or fall while trying to avoid them. It never hurts when I hit the ground, though.

I love that dream... whenever I wake from it, I always want to go back to sleep and continue. I feel a bit sad when I'm back in reality, firmly grounded.

todd

Sort of off the subject, but I don't want to start a new thread for it.

I've been trying to have lucid dreams the last couple nights. I can't seem to do it. I've remembered my dreams perfectly, I just don't realize it's a dream at the time. What I need is one of those 'lucid dream machines' that detect R.E.M. and gives you cues with sound or light. I can see how it would work, as long as it doesn't wake you up. Anybody know where I might be able to find one?

asterjolly

i can understand the being paralyzed dream..

often my dreams end by me running (usually trying to catch something or reach something but sometimes running FROM something). the catch is i can only run in super slow motion.. and im trying so hard to really run but i cant and its so frustrating.. like being paralyzed. everything else in the dream is moving at normal speed, but i cant make my body move any faster. and it only happens when im running.. i move normal speed doing other things. weird.

Amnesia620

My recurring dream is Zombies...always with other people, some clueless, some indifferent, some not...they always find us...and usually it's always one that comes after me...grabs a hold of me, a grip I cannot break, and just before he goes to bite, I wake up. And people wonder why I stay up for 24-72 hours at a time...

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Spanxxx

I used to have hallucinations as a kid. They happened more frequently when I had a fever, but not always. They would always start with a certain "feeling" just as I was drifting to sleep. It felt like I was falling backwards with everything spiraling around me and lots of colors and then if I went to sleep from that state, I would "wake" with hallucinations sometime during my sleep. When I would wake I would be completely aware of what was going on enough to go get my parents, and tell my mom what I was seeing. I was always scared to death and would always try to "wake" myself up by getting water and splashing it on my face, or putting a wet washcloth on my face. They would last as long as 30 minutes or more and the whole time I could see things happening in my house that weren't there. They were the freaky scary crazy things you only see in dreams but they manifested out of whatever was around me in the house.

They were recurring for several years. I finally associated the feeling when I was going to sleep with them occurring and ever since, I've never had them again. I always force myself fully awake before I can fall to sleep in that state.


I also have very weird dreams.. more so than most people I talk to. They are extremely bizarre apparently, because when I tell people my dreams they often just kind of stare at me and don't say anything, then shake their head and say something like, "Dude, you are seriously fucked up" to which I can only reply, "Yah, I know"

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Swirlie

fever dreams are always bad... I hate them. usually it's huge rolling shapes coming towards me - opaque shapes... circles, squares ( yeah - I know... a square is NOT supposed to roll smoothly) just slowly rolling towards me...

I hate that dream...

wonderwench

I have this horrible recurring dream during periods of extreme stress. I am still in graduate school. I show up to class and am unprepared for an enormous test. I have also failed to complete a paper which is due that day. This is supposed to be my final class in order to graduate; and I feel panic that I will have to retake the class.

I hate this dream.

macmanmike6100

My recurring dreams typically happen during periods of stress or sickness. Either way, they're all very disturbing.

Even stranger, sometimes I'll have dreams that continue or build off of past dreams. This can happen whether or not I'm sick or stressed, but only happens with dreams that were vivid and memorable.

Sargeman

Back when I got out of the Navy, I kept dreaming that I couldn't get off the ship or naval base or that I had re-enlisted without realizing that I had done that.

I kept having those same dreams a couple of years after I got out.

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WarriorBuddha

Well Sarge, I must say I'm glad I didn't have dreams like that when I got out of the Navy. I've had all sorts of recurring dreams that I've seen listed here as well. The flying, though my flying style was much like that of Hwed. I've also had dreams of being in fictional places and remembering what had happened last time I was there, but only when there in a dream. I also had some pretty scary half-asleep hallucinations when I was a kid as well as some recurring nightmares. Don't generally remember much of these, just remember having them.

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ManWithAPlan

it could have to do with your leg falling asleep when you're sleeping, it happens to my arms all the time, and once with my leg....

if you cut off circulation for a long time, you lose control over the body part, giving you the paralytic effect.

whether or not this was a dream is questionable, but it could be like when your bladder fills and you have to take a piss in the dream.

Trisk

Recurring dreams usually just mean that there is something in your life that's bothering you but you're not dealing with it.

ManWithAPlan

dreams often allow for a heightened sense of focus of the mind, sadly the conciousness is generally inactive (only passively active if you can remember the dreams) so you don't really get the full effect of them.

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cheeterbo

i used to have a recurring dream that i would jump up, and keep rising higher. it was torture every second because if i started falling, i would splat. when i would start to fall, i would wake up just as i hit. with each dream, i progressively went higher, fell faster & farther and started to scream as i woke up.

finally, i read about controlling your dreams in the NYT magazine section and i concentrated before each dream that once it started happening, i would tell myself, in the dream, that it was just a dream.

i fucking worked and i started actually controlling myself flying around once i started rising.

i never had the dream again.

ManWithAPlan

i only have dreams if i lie down and kind of hope to myself that i have one.

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jay-g

I have two recurring dreams. One is, i lose all my teeth, because the top and bottom row get stuck together, and then i try to pull them apart. And when i do a couple rip out, then i repeat over and over, until they are all gone. Sometimes i have woken up, feeling my teeth to make sure, they are still there. And the other dream, well a nightmare, is Michael Myers, from the movie Halloween, chases me, and tries to get me. Different scenarios and locations, but he's always trying to kill me. Both of those dreams i have had more than 3 times. The Michael Myers one though, i have had at least five times. Cooky huh?

Dirty

i have a dream about my dream woman i guess. There is no sex involved, but it seem so perfect. She is everything but i can't ever remember what she looks like.

ManWithAPlan

it's kooky, not cooky..

michael myers is pretty cool.. i used to like those movies.. but anyway yeah... repeating dreams are creepy

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WarriorBuddha

I had a dreem the other day about a city created completely in my dreams. I've visited this city many times in my dreams and it grows and evolves each time. I know little or nothing about it when awake, but I know every detail of the place and the people in it when I'm dreaming. I've also had a few dreams this week in which wherever I go I'm only wearing what I happen to be sleeping in that night, my boxers. It's rather strange.

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theusername

I use to have a recurring dream of being in the holocaust and chased by Nazis and escaping, hiding..etc. A Nazi would always come up to me at a train station and accuse me of being Jewish and I'd respond telling him i'm Irish. (I happen to be Jewish but look Irish.)

Not a fun one but it was great to wake up and realize I was in my own bed. The way i stopped it was by thinking about something directly before i go to sleep i dont dream about it.

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ManWithAPlan

it's an interesting phenomenon, but rather than knowing the details, you know THAT you know them... and then you make them up as you go along (your mind, that is)

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jay-g

Thaink you Englissh majour, i apreciate the hellp.

ManWithAPlan

just thought i'd tell you:-D. english major nothing, it's not a real word. btw were you trying to prove a point by misspelling every word in your post? i assure you you only mocked yourself

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jay-g

Chillax there buddy, it was just a joke. Ha HA? And i assure you, you are being a litte up tight about it.