Your most common recurring dream

[Ecofarm]

Do some research about dreaming. It should be something you enjoy. I sometimes go lucid and study for an exam or edit a paper. It's a shame to waste 1/3 of one's life in nightmares and darkness.

 

[eastsidebagel]

Do some research about dreaming. It should be something you enjoy. I sometimes go lucid and study for an exam or edit a paper. It's a shame to waste 1/3 of one's life in nightmares and darkness.

I bet my sleep/awakeness ratio is definitely less. Insomnia can also be positive by increasing your imagination and creativity though, but for the most time it sucks!

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

I rarely have dreams.

 

[Neomega]

Do some research about dreaming. It should be something you enjoy. I sometimes go lucid and study for an exam or edit a paper. It's a shame to waste 1/3 of one's life in nightmares and darkness.

I had to rid myself of nightmares as well, after experimenting with LSD. It was not fun being afraid to sleep.

 

[scherbchen]

I want to have the one about flying/swimming at the beach. only time I was ever in the air was when I was lying in my bed and fell, along with it, down the middle of a skyscraper in the place where an elevator ought to have been. had that one a lot as a kid.

had the one about weird/faulty teeth quite a bit. always put it down to the fact that my very first dentist was nothing more than a glorified butcher, really, because my teeth turned out just fine.

Not a recurring dream per se but a recurring theme is that I dream of old friends with myself there as well but it is a completely different setting and totally different from anything I ever experienced. sort of like alternate universe dreams. those are a ton of fun.

 

[Luckymoose]

I haven't had it in a while, but I use to dream about being in a medieval town square on a foggy morning with the town folks staring at a big black box with chains around it. I always woke up before opening the box.

Now I have one about being a resistance fighter in an ostrich invasion, on snowy winter days.

 

[eastsidebagel]

I haven't had it in a while, but I use to dream about being in a medieval town square on a foggy morning with the town folks staring at a big black box with chains around it. I always woke up before opening the box.

Now I have one about being a resistance fighter in an ostrich invasion, on snowy winter days.

Cool! You are on an acid trip every night without paying anything for it!

 

[Quintillus]

The only really recurring theme is there being Insects of Unusual Size or Strength. As in silverfish that are 8 or 9 feet tall. Most recently it's been spiders - I woke up two nights ago thinking there were spiders in my bed (conceivable, since it's next to a wall, but false), and last night I thought a spider was biting me, but there was no evidence of it when I woke up. The silverfish that was 8 or 9 feet tall and cornered me with no escape was probably the worst one, though. That was when I was 9 or 10 years old, and I still remember it.

Usually I don't recall my dreams. This week has been an unusual exception - perhaps reading Dostoevsky is getting to me.

Oh, and excellent xkcd. I usually find myself thinking that while I'm perfectly awake, though (and it's not usually quite as bad as in the comic). Don't know if that's better or worse than while asleep.

 

[Rub'Rum]

As in silverfish that are 8 or 9 feet tall.

I hate silverfish. On top of that, I had an entomology class once where the entomology professor said he loved all insects, except silverfish.

Screw silverfish and their slithery ways, and their powdery escapes. My apartment block is sort of invaded with them too. But they're completely harmless. Most of the time you don't see them, they don't hang around in food or your kitchen stuff since all they love to eat is constituents of soap and glue. They hang around humid stuff and eat soap. So basically you'll see them under the kitchen sink or sometimes around in the bathroom. They're just unpleasant to watch. I've lived in many places that had silverfish. Never had cockroach though (*touches wood*).

 

[Annex]

I hate silverfish. On top of that, I had an entomology class once where the entomology professor said he loved all insects, except silverfish.

Screw silverfish and their slithery ways, and their powdery escapes. My apartment block is sort of invaded with them too. But they're completely harmless. Most of the time you don't see them, they don't hang around in food or your kitchen stuff since all they love to eat is constituents of soap and glue. They hang around humid stuff and eat soap. So basically you'll see them under the kitchen sink or sometimes around in the bathroom. They're just unpleasant to watch. I've lived in many places that had silverfish. Never had cockroach though (*touches wood*).

I wont ever forget the one time in my Home Economics class in Middle School where the whole class was over by one of the sinks learning to make coffee cake. Several silverfish began to climb up out of the drain and into the sink all of a sudden, and our teacher just turns the faucet on full blast and forced them all back down the drain. I dont know how I didnt have nightmares after that

 

[Rub'Rum]

I wont ever forget the one time in my Home Economics class in Middle School where the whole class was over by one of the sinks learning to make coffee cake. Several silverfish began to climb up out of the drain and into the sink all of a sudden, and our teacher just turns the faucet on full blast and forced them all back down the drain. I dont know how I didnt have nightmares after that

Out of the drain? Wow, I've never seen that happen to me though. I guess I'll start putting the plugs in all my sinks before I go to bed, hehe.

 

[sourboy]

I often wake up completely paralyzed, it's always one very unpleasant minute while my body wakes up. I heard it's because there is a function of your brain that stuns your body so that you don't actually move in your bed during REM or active dreaming phases.

That happens to me too. It's never lasted longer then a minute. Its really annoying I try to move my legs or something or open my eyes but I can't even though I'm awake. Frustrating stuff it's been happening more frequently these days too I never had it before until recently.

I too have this one as well. It can become quite scary the further you get into that minute. Sometimes I start to think someone is in the room. I can see how this would make some believe in abductions.

 

[Nordstream]

I too have this one as well. It can become quite scary the further you get into that minute. Sometimes I start to think someone is in the room. I can see how this would make some believe in abductions.

I actually hear people talking. I thought someone had broken into my room and I tried to move but I couldn't. The first time it happend it was creepy but now it doesn't bother me much anymore. Other times I wake up and I see a dark figure or figures looming above my bed and coming toward me and I can't move and that's the worst.

 

[JustinianVII]

Same theme, different representations. About a woman I know...sometimes we're in each other's company, but neither of us acknowledges each other (sometimes the chance doesn't happen). Sometimes I try to say or start something, but nothing happens. And then there's times where she's happy to see me, and me her. Sort of all over the place, but about the same person.

Doesn't happen all that much as far as I can remember my dreams, but I seem to remember those the most with her in them.

 

[Rashiminos]

The one that has recurred most prominently is a tsunami that I have outrun or in some other way escaped. Hasn't happened for many years.

Speaking of teeth, has anyone else had them grow out of their hands?

I fly backwards, as well as upside-down.

I can interact with objects telekinetically, even teleport people.

I should really write more of them down.

 

[Annex]

Out of the drain? Wow, I've never seen that happen to me though. I guess I'll start putting the plugs in all my sinks before I go to bed, hehe.

I actually hear people talking. I thought someone had broken into my room and I tried to move but I couldn't. The first time it happend it was creepy but now it doesn't bother me much anymore. Other times I wake up and I see a dark figure or figures looming above my bed and coming toward me and I can't move and that's the worst.

Wow you guys see and hear things? I have that frozen thing happen to me about once every month or so, but I know what causes it and recognize that its not an abduction or anything. However sometimes my nose is too close to the sheets or pillow and I kind of panic if I dont think I can breathe well enough.

 

[Rashiminos]

Wow you guys see and hear things? I have that frozen thing happen to me about once every month or so, but I know what causes it and recognize that its not an abduction or anything. However sometimes my nose is too close to the sheets or pillow and I kind of panic if I dont think I can breathe well enough.

That part may happen when I'm still dreaming...

 

[Nordstream]

It's like I'm awake but not fully. It's like my dream was transported into reality and I can't move. It's not fun at all.

 

[Dachs]

Speaking of teeth, has anyone else had them grow out of their hands?

Eyes - it should be teeth in place of eyes! *mumbles about Corinthian*

I don't have dreams. I am Dream.

 

[MagisterCultuum]

I don't believe I've had a recurring dream in a really long time, expect for the dream about schoolwork/tests that I'd already finished. That one pretty much only happens within a couple weeks after whatever it is I'm rushing to get done was due though, and is never exactly the same.


One recurring dream I remember having when I was much younger involved me stabbing a fork through the head of particularly annoying child character from some stupid early- or mid-90s sitcom, which ended up killing him but not until several characters tried their hardest to get the fork out, while blood gushed everywhere and the laugh track kept playing. That one was a rather disturbing. It was mostly from a 3rd person point of view, and each time it was like I was watching a rerun of an episode of the show, without a single detail changed (except occasionally commercials).


I dreamed about losing the same tooth over and over again a lot. I actually had an extra tooth in that spot, so I lost that tooth twice in real life and at least 20 times in dreams.


4 or 5 years ago I had a several of dreams about following the girl I was in love with through some rather odd environments (mostly amalgamations of real places I've been and ancient Greco-Roman ruins, much larger than in real life and involving a lot of structures that had walls on only 1 to 3 sides and had large sunroofs and stained glass windows) and trying to get her attention. I'd usually loose track of her in a crowd (just about everyone I'd ever met would be traveling in either a chaotic mass a very formal procession for no apparent reason) and end up stuck in a really boring conversation with someone else. When I'd given up she would find me and start a friendly conversation, but I'd ruin it by trying to kiss her. I'd always wake up after a firm rejection.