What causes reoccuring dreams?

Answer 1

Good question. Your spirit is trying to tell you something!

One theory says most dreams contain messages that serve to teach us something about ourselves. Most of us forget what we dream about as we go about our daily routine. With recurring dreams, the message may be so important or powerful that it just will not go away.

The frequent repetition of such dreams forces you to pay attention and confront the dream. The dream is trying desperately to tell you something.

Recurring dreams are quite common and are often triggered by a certain life situation or a problem that keeps coming back again and again. These dreams may recur daily, once a week, or once a month, but whatever the frequency, there is little variation in the dream content itself. It usually points to a personal weakness, fear, or your inability to cope with something in your life - past or present.

The repetitive patterns can reveal some valuable information on yourself. It may point to a conflict, situation or matter in your waking life that remains unresolved or unsettled. Or some urgent underlying message in your unconscious is demanding to be understood.

Following are some tips in overcoming your recurring dreams.

1. In understanding your recurring dream, you must be willing to accept some sort of change or undergo a transformation.

2. You must be willing to look within yourself and confront whatever you may find no matter how difficult it my be.

3. You must be able to look at the dream from an objective point of view. Try to get pass the emotional and reactive elements of the dream and get down to the symbolic images. Many times dreams are masked by elements that are disturbing, preventing you to delve any deeper. This is a defense mechanism that your unconscious may be putting up.

4. Be patient. Do not get discouraged if these dreams still recur even after you thought you have come to understand them.

5. Learn to accept yourself truly and fully.

Often times, once you discover what your recurring dream is trying to tell you, these dreams will change or altogether disappear.

Answer 2

What Causes People To Dream Is The Problems That They Have In Life, Because When You Dream You Solve Things Out Without Even Knowing.

Answer 3

I had a reoccuring dream as a child about sinking sand, and how I could see my self slowly drowning and all that was left of me was a buckled up leather, red shoe that remained on the surface of the quicksand.

Many years later I understand the dream, my father was abusive and he was slowly drowning me with his aggression and rampant alcoholic binges. Once I left the home, the dreams stopped and I have never had one like it since. I still dream of red often, but thats my life colour.

Answer 4

They reoccur because there is something you need to pay attention to, but are not in waking life. They have important messages of something you need to look at. They are about a problem or issue that keeps reoccuring in waking life.

Answer 5

something that constantly is in your mind. like if you have a constant fear of water, you may have reoccuring dreams about drowning

thats i i think

hope it helps

Answer 6

it is usually the dreams that affect you the most that you remember. which make you think about it. and if you think about it enough you may have it again

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreams#Recalling_dreams

Answer 7

check out 'recurring dreams' at

Answer 8

it is normaly what u think or worry about the most