Did you ever have a recurring dream/nightmare?

[The_J]

I'm surprised that so many people have recurring nightmares.
I never had many, and always thought that was normal.

I can only remember one recurring nightmare, only twice in consecutive nights. Actually it wasn't recurring, but the theme of it was recurring, which shocked me even more, because it meant that it kept my brain busy in different ways.
Basically in the first night I dreamed that I witnessed the accidental killing of an at this time female class mate of mine. I do not remember what the first night was about, just that she died and that I couldn't save her.
In the second night, we were in a Taxi, she was pregnant (what?), and was giving birth there. We didn't manage to get to the hospital, and I saw her dying again.
This had freaked me out for a few days. First day was already weird enough, but that the same thing happened in the second night, that made it extremely weird.

I somewhat connected this later to having missed a chance there. It directly happened after we finished high school. We had a nice prom at the end of high school, and we both had a good time. She said something along the line that I should call her so that we could hang out a bit before she goes 2 months later to Canada. I didn't. I saw that chance die there.

Or maybe I'm interpreting complete nonsense.

But who would've that this would be about girls ?

 

[Perfection]

I have a recurring nightmare where Donald Trump is president.

 

[Terxpahseyton]

As a child, I repeatedly dreamed of monsters and witches coming through my window into my room at night.
After a good horror movie expierence, alone in a dark room, I still can imagine it and feel a pinch of that horror, but more like entertainment than anything actually threatening.

 

[Kyriakos]

I have a recurring nightmare where Donald Trump is president.

It will last for years still

 

[Yeekim]

I have a recurring nightmare where Donald Trump is president.

But wait... you mean you get to wake up from it?

 

[rah]

My reoccurring dream is more a frustrating one. I'm on a golf course standing on the first tee and I tee up the ball and don't have a clear shot, so I have to re-tee it, and I still don't have a clear shot. This keeps repeating so I never get a chance to play. Needless to say, in real life, I don't play 100 times a year like I used to and I think this is my way of telling my self that I miss it.

 

[Fippy]

I sometimes had nightmares about home invasions, or situations that would lead to them if not waking up.

Stuff like going to my door, watching thru the spy hole and seeing people outside who are either about to break my door open, or looking back at me (sometimes evil, sometimes laughing..usual dream nonsense )

In other dreams i heared them inside already, those were scary after waking up still cos they are situations that could happen..and so i sometimes really checked my rooms in fear before fully realizing it's just that stupid dream again.

 

[Mechanicalsalvation]

I have a recurring nightmare where Donald Trump is president.

Bush was a real nightmare and the proof is that anyone after Bush was bound to recieve Nobel peace prize simply for not being Bush. Trump is actually hillarious and entertaining.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

So I just realized I have been having a recurring nightmare for years after having it twice just this week.

I'm in college and about to take an exam. I'm completely unprepared and have no idea what's on the test. I haven't even prepared the allowed cheat sheet and I end trying to spot patterns in the questions and answers to bluff my way through. It's always a different classroom and a different class altogether. Sometimes I try bargaining with the professor to be given a reprieve. Usually I also realize that I haven't been going to class or doing assignments for weeks or even months and have missed tons of deadlines. It all feels very real and I'm 100% convinced that I've ruined my chances at graduation until I wake up.

I don't know why I never realized this was a recurring nightmare until today. I guess because while I was in school it was just a symptom of my anxiety and misery so I didn't put much thought into it. But I've been out for 2 years and I'm still having these dreams. They are not usually panic-inducing but they are not pleasant at all.

 

[Kyriakos]

So I just realized I have been having a recurring nightmare for years after having it twice just this week.

I'm in college and about to take an exam. I'm completely unprepared and have no idea what's on the test. I haven't even prepared the allowed cheat sheet and I end trying to spot patterns in the questions and answers to bluff my way through. It's always a different classroom and a different class altogether. Sometimes I try bargaining with the professor to be given a reprieve. Usually I also realize that I haven't been going to class or doing assignments for weeks or even months and have missed tons of deadlines. It all feels very real and I'm 100% convinced that I've ruined my chances at graduation until I wake up.

I don't know why I never realized this was a recurring nightmare until today. I guess because while I was in school it was just a symptom of my anxiety and misery so I didn't put much thought into it. But I've been out for 2 years and I'm still having these dreams. They are not usually panic-inducing but they are not pleasant at all.

From time to time i dream that i somehow never graduated highschool but managed to get my uni degree. In some of those dreams i am even half-way through an MA, but then am forced to return to highschool ^^
One facet of a possible explanation would allude to undeveloped parts of personality, but a dream tends to have myriad explanations, all of which co-exist.

(edit: apparently i already mentioned that in the previous page )

 

[Lexicus]

I have a recurring dream where I'm running away from something but my legs just feel like jelly and I can't move and then I wake up. I haven't had it in a while though.

 

[Kyriakos]

^That is more like a motif, though, no? I mean it can exist as part of a larger dream, though i suppose if the dream is strictly that then it is a dream itself.

Yesterday i saw an interesting dream. One of the parts i recalled was about myself going to a telephone booth (which may have not even had a phone, or a working phone) and entering it so that i could use a phone i obviously had taken from my house (it was a house line, but those still transmit if you are quite close to the house), AND also finding that the phone booth had my actual -apparently lost in the dream- MOBILE phone left there.
Seems to be about communication and different means. Pretty chaotic.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

So I just realized I have been having a recurring nightmare for years after having it twice just this week.

I'm in college and about to take an exam. I'm completely unprepared and have no idea what's on the test. I haven't even prepared the allowed cheat sheet and I end trying to spot patterns in the questions and answers to bluff my way through. It's always a different classroom and a different class altogether. Sometimes I try bargaining with the professor to be given a reprieve. Usually I also realize that I haven't been going to class or doing assignments for weeks or even months and have missed tons of deadlines. It all feels very real and I'm 100% convinced that I've ruined my chances at graduation until I wake up.

I don't know why I never realized this was a recurring nightmare until today. I guess because while I was in school it was just a symptom of my anxiety and misery so I didn't put much thought into it. But I've been out for 2 years and I'm still having these dreams. They are not usually panic-inducing but they are not pleasant at all.

A common variation on this dream is that I'm not taking a test but instead I'm at home and I all of a sudden realize that there is a class that I forgot I was enrolled in and haven't been attending all semester.

The real hot take though is that college itself was the recurring nightmare for me. Man oh man did I hate college.

 

[Lexicus]

though i suppose if the dream is strictly that then it is a dream itself.

It's that. That's all the dream is, it's not part of a larger sequence.

 

[Lexicus]

My dreams are really weird. Like most of them I realize midway through that I'm dreaming and I can choose to wake up if I want.

 

[Yeekim]

I recently had a dream that was scary... in a sense.
I was walking on a street, when suddenly it became really hard to move my legs and keep balance in general.
Started to wonder whether I'm having a stroke or smth. Waking up was quite a relief.

 

[Hrothbern]

I have a recurring dream where I'm running away from something but my legs just feel like jelly and I can't move and then I wake up. I haven't had it in a while though.

You could search for that one on internet, because it is a standard dream situation.
It belongs to a misfit in time of your physical body awakening (too slow) and your mind awakening
So it is not really a dream as well, more a moment in dreamstate

 

[Snerk]

I've never had a recurring dream no. I've must have had some repeats over the years but nothing that stands out. Doesn't help that I usually don't remember the darn things anyway.

 

[stinkubus]

When I was a child there was this run down house on my school bus route. I used to have a recurring nightmare that the bus would leave me off there and the house was haunted like in Amityville.

 

[Berzerker]

I used to have a recurring dream when I was young. Basically it was always me lying in my bed, and deciding to tug on my sheets, to get a but more comfortable. Something pulled back, and the harder I pulled, the harder my sheets were pulled back.

I was still pretty young when this started happening, so I was usually scared and never pulled on the sheets too hard. But over years, as these dreams kept happening every couple weeks or months or whatever it may be, I got more and more bold, and got more and more pully. It got to the point where the bedsheets started pulling me down towards the end of my bed and the more I did this, the bolder I got, the longer I hang on, and eventually it got to the point where I was almost sucked in under the bed.

Then it happened. I'm not sure how or why but in one dream I did it. I went all the way. I got sucked under the bed and I faced whatever was down there. And.. nothing. There was a brief period of lucidity and understanding (that I was dreaming), but I woke up almost right away. Turns out there was nothing under the bed pulling my sheets (in the dream), nothing was there, it was just.. nothing.

Did you sleep with your sheets tucked in?