Do you have recurrent dreams or nightmares?

Question

Do tell

Answer 1

I have had two which have stayed with me since childhood. IN the first I am running against the wind, i am being chased but i never know by whom , the wind is so strong that my legs become so heavy and i am unable to move them and i am getting slower and slower....just as whomever is about to catch me i always wake up with a start.
In the second i am sat on a pouffe in an empty room....the walls are turning slowly round but as they do so they are slowly closing in on me ....this continues until I have my feet on the walls trying to stop them closing in on me and crushing me...it is at this point that i wake....WEIRD...I HAVE NEVER UNDERSTOOD THEM.

Answer 2

When I was younger (about 8 years old) I would have a reoccuring nightmare where my family and I had to walk across this long beam over the water. I was the last one to cross and I would always fall in and be struggling to live. I had that dream more times than I can count. The details are fuzzy now but I stopped having it around age 12.

The last few years I have had another reoccuring dream. It is not bad, it just is. I am living in a house (not where I live now). It is a HUGE house and I almost get lost in it. When I go around a corner, I know what it will look like because, well, I've had this dream before and this is my house in my dreams. It is a beautiful, peaceful, well decorated home, and there doesn't seem to be anything "special" about it other than I love it and am so happy to be there.

I don't know what these dreams mean if anything, but find them interesting, especially the dream about the home I continue to have over and over again. I've never seen this home in "real" life. Who knows?

Answer 3

I dream almost every night and I remember most of my dreams. The most recurrent ones are:

1. with rivers (most of my dreams have rivers) (I do not live near a river nor I go often to one)
2. also me saving sheeps and goats from the water
3. with stairs that never end. I just go up and down them. Im not scared, just dont know where I am and are curious and keep looking.

Almost never I have nightmares and my dreams are "movie like" very realistic and with a lot of details.

Answer 4

When I was a young boy I always had nightmares, or atleast I would never remember the good dreams. I had a recurring dream for years (almost every night) that i was falling, and when I hit I would wake up with a start. My heart would be racing and my skin would be sweaty. Not cool. Now I rarely remember my dreams at all. I'm twenty.

Answer 5

I used to have this recurring dream when I was a kid.

I'd just be walking along nice and dandy and then all of a sudden I would look down and realise that I was on a sort of bridge. This bridge would be about 6 inches wide and about a mile long. Also it would be a good few hundred feet above ground level.

Then I used to try and balace myself and get to the end of the bridge without falling off, but to no avail, I always fell off the bridge and then woke up.

I had this dream that many times, that it got to the stage where when I realised I was on this bridge, instead of trying to get to the end of the bridge, I used to jump off because I knew I was dreaming and I knew I would wake up.

Answer 6

Yes, I have had the same recurrent nightmare for forty years! It is very strange. Some of my dreams mean allot to me- This one, I still don't think makes sense!

Answer 7

I have had recurrent dreams of being stuck in dark, ominous bodies of water or in boats about to tip into the dark water. I also have had recurrent dreams of being in a different city often near very dark water) on a trip and I cant find my family.

Answer 8

I used to have a nightmare when I was young that came back every year or so.

Something about needles or boulders, and a smarmy face. Mock sympathy. They came towards me slowly but with such intensity. I only woke when my parents shook me and I'd have been moaning and sweating.

Years later I looked at a photo of myself and believe it was my own face, though older, that scared me. The needles may have been because I had a lot of injections as a kid due to travel.

Answer 9

Yes, I dream I'm in an old 3 story house and there are doors and passageways that lead to something that scares me. I feel alone, vulnerable, and impending doom as I walk through the house, seemingly, trying to get out...but every door I open has flesh or something dead and tangling like intestines or something you'd see in a Nine Inch Nails video (or other creative nightmarish rock video). It scares the hell out of me, and I dream it over and over again

Answer 10

my answer would mirror Tom C up there ^

They are always about resolving things that happened to me as a kid.teen..and then adult, blank memories that surface when i sleep,
things in my now waking life get scrambled with the past, my own kids take the form of me and my old step brothers,

my brother takes on the role of my step dad and i become my own mother...
the dreams are too ******ed up to relay.

if i can crack what they mean and resolve the reason they go away.

right now i'm having a lot of nightmares, very draining on your mind during the next day.

Answer 11

Since I was a teenager, I've dreamed that I am driving across a bridge and I lose control of my car and run off the bridge into the water. Of course, I am trapped in my car and I am fighting to escape. I always awaken before I drown.