Ever have a recurring dream or nightmare?

Question

I used to dream that kingkong was chasing me through the cornfields. I would fall be paralyzed and as his foot was about to crush me, I would wake up. Weird, huh? LOL!!

Ummm....angel's smile, nice basic theroy but I was a kid when I had that dream.

Answer 1

Our brains can process 7 messages at the exact same time: our brains are in constant activity.

Different states of consciousness vary the number of pieces of information we process. the more focused on a single task, the fewer things our brains work on. Which explains why, when we are thinking so hard about being late for work and what we'll tell the boss...we might forget where we left our keys.

Our conscious mind, the part we think with, takes up a very small portion of our brain activity.

Other areas control things like breathing, heartbeat, converting light to vision, sound to hearing, balance when we walk, etc.

I like to think theres a specific area that governs our imagination as well. The more artistically inclined we are, the more vivid our imagination.

I read on the internet that when you look at clouds and see shapes, or wood grain and see images, this is the "order from chaos" part of your imagination.
I liked that - it made sense to me.

Then there is memory. I think memory is a separate function because it's divided by short vs long term...and it's part of what defines us as humans.

These brain functions bring us to dreaming...which, like memory, is multi-faceted. We dream all the time: even while awake! But the process takes place in our subconscious mind. During certain cycles of brain activity while asleep, we can "view" these dreams with our conscious mind and record them in our memory: which is why we sometimes remember them.

Remember when I said our brain is constantly active?
When we sleep...it's still "on"...it just rests. It has very little to do and work on:
...it doesn't have to decipher body language or listen for information
...it doesn't wonder if someone we're chatting with likes us
...it doesn't have to remind us to go someplace at a certain time.

and so, it works on unanswered questions; the "whats and whys" and even the "what ifs".

YOU are the best person to decipher your own dream.
But here are some potential explanaitions you might consider...

I don't believe for a second that we associate symbology with our parents. If you have issues with a parent, your parent will appear in your dreams.

However, with someone...or even some THING...in your life, that might be a little difficult to assign an image to, we often times give it a symbol.
Ol' Kong is a great symbol for kids to be afraid of...larger than life...eats pretty girls (virgins no less)...roars...alot.
It could be a stranger that visited and scared you, it could be someone not so foreign but unable for you to picture, it could also be a horrible thing you have left to do, have done, or suffered...
all in all, it's your mind simply assigning an image to.

Being chased is traditionally symbolic of a life stressor that you haven't yet recognized. BUt I also think that it's a reaction to the "symbol" and what it means...

So in your dream, if your heart begins to race...your brain might imagine that it's running...
If you have a sense of fear...your brain might feel that you have to run away from that something.

Cornfields...ehh...some people might think this relates to "mother" as in "mother Earth".
I think thats kind of flakey. It could also be directly related to the movie "Children of the Corn" that scared you or even be a place you might find safe...especially if you live near or work with cornfields.

Paralysis is a sense of powerlessness in your dream and may also reflect what your brain perceives.

Crushing you.
I like this.
Kong doesn't crush...he picks up and eats.
So stepping on you could be a reflection of his victims in the movie getting trampled - your brain recognizing that you've been victimized in some manner...
But it could also be associated with a sense of powerlessness...
AND just as easily, if you suffer a heart condition or had a bad chest cold at these times...it could have been that pressure....difficult to breathe as a result of the panicky all put together to make you feel like you were being crushed.

Repetition of this dream can be an obsession of sorts...like picking a scab or wiggling a tooth...harmful...but we just gotta do it.
Or it can be the lack of resolution.
No longer having the dream does NOT mean you've discovered any resolution at all...as we mature, we cope with things differently...symbols and images become defined and lose their "power"...life experiences stop being so horrible...
A study done on the PTSD kids that suffered and survived the Coalinga bus accident showed the traumatic event simply became part of their memory and that...it wasn't so horrible and tragic...they even recall fond memories of comforting or nurturing others through it.

Waking up from that IS wierd.
You should have tickled his feet!!

I just realized I'm rambling.

I apologize.

I hope I've helped to answer this question.

Answer 2

I used to. It was always the same dream, night after night. I was driving through the desert, in the back seat, stacked from the floor to the top of the seat were gas cans, all full. I drove until there was no one else in sight, tossed a cigarette into the back and woke up when it exploded. By the end of the second week of this, not getting sleep I finally saw a shrink and got some time off from work and some meds to help keep balanced. No more nightmares since then. No more thoughts about suicide.

Answer 3

Okay...Kingkong is basically an over sized characterized Gorilla right??

To see a gorilla in your dream, suggests that you may be too "over the top" in your behavior. Perhaps you are compensating for your rigidity and stiffness in your waking life. Alternatively, the gorilla symbolizes your primitive impulses, wild nature and repressed sexual energy.

To dream of foot or feet basically means lack of progress and being crush...simply, under tremendous stress to make a decision.

So, something in your life needing some good and mature decisions and don't procrastinate.

Answer 4

Weird indeed lol. I'm having a recuring dream about losing my teeths but apparently that dream is very common. I must get it at least 7-8 times per year.

Answer 5

There's a landing in my house (kind of like a second floor, only a lot smaller), and I used to have this dream when I was little that I was falling off from the railing and into my living room. It scared me a lot!

Answer 6

Your kingkong in your dream was a mother or a father who was crusing you But I am glad for you it seem you had resolved those issues

Answer 7

i have the same dreams all the time. my most common are hanging out with certain people, characters from scary movies, and running (to and from i have no clue lol)