What does it mean when a recurring dream for 7 years and then it kind of changes?

Question

I've had the same dream (which is really hard to explain) for about 7 to 8 years now and I have it a couple times a week. Now throughout the entire time, no one I know has ever been in the dream, EVER. Now, my boyfriend is in the dream with me everytime. I didn't realize it then, but I realize it now that he's there in the dream, it isn't scary anymore.
What does this mean?

Answer 1

The dream is about a problem or issue you have that needs to be looked at and worked on, but since you have never fully resolved it, your dreams keep showing it to you, until you can unravel whatever it's about, and resolve the problem. My guess is that your boyfriend is helping with your healing in one way or another, and your dream is less scary because of his help and support. Either that, or you have elected to bring him in to this dream as a figure of comfort and support while you try to work it out... In any case, if you are having the same dream for years, then it is changing, I would say that your attitude toward the issue presented has changed, or you are finally beginning to face it and work on whatever it is you need to work on...... You should post on both dreams for interpretations, in a detailed story line, if you can get a line on what the original dream, and the new version are about, you might be able to resolve things quicker.

Edit: Joseph, I got a chuckle out of your solution to your recurring dream, sounds like you were pretty tired of having it...but it also sounds as though at the time, you felt you weren't in the "drivers seat" of your life, and didn't feel in control of your life's direction, and couldn't see your direction clearly. When you decided to take the wheel in your dream signaled when you decided you had had enough of the situation that was causing you to feel out of control of your life, and it sounds like it was rather "drastic", and some people around you were overturned by it, when you took your life back into your own hands........You weren't only tired of having that dream, you were tired of the situation that was causing you to feel that way, and when you resolved to take the steering wheel in your dream, you also resolved the situation, so there was no further need for you to have this dream......

Answer 2

Recurring dreams can be very annoying. I've noticed that if you resolve to change the dream yourself, you will actually remember to do it once you have the dream again. I used to have this dream in which I would sit in the back seat of a car with no driver. The steering wheel would turn, the engine would be on, and the windshield would be opaque. I knew that I would be able to see through the windshield if I got in the driver's seat. The dream was really kinda scary. Nothing ever happened until I resolved to fix the dream myself. I got in the front seat, hit the gas pedal, grabbed the steering wheel, and destroyed half the town. I've never had that dream since.