Do you or have you had a recurring nightmare?

Bretrick

Bretrick

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I had this same nightmare on and off for at least 5 years, from age 15 to 20.
I was running away from something, running for my life, across flat ground out in the countryside. There was a tremendous roaring noise and just as the noise became almost unbearable, I looked around and there was a plane about to hit me. I tripped and the plane went off into the sky.
Rather mild, I suppose, but still I experienced real fright, enough to always wake me up, shouting.
 

My recurring nightmare after my father passed away many years ago was that I was being chased by something/someone. I read a book on dreams and interpreted it as no longer having my "protector". When I was working, my recurring nightmare was always that I was unprepared for a speech or meeting or that I was undressed in a business situation. :oops:

Since I've retired, I rarely have nightmares. Just bizarre dreams.
 

dseag2 said:
My recurring nightmare after my father passed away many years ago was that I was being chased by something/someone. I read a book on dreams and interpreted it as no longer having my "protector". When I was working, my recurring nightmare was always that I was unprepared for a speech or meeting or that I was undressed in a business situation. :oops:

Since I've retired, I rarely have nightmares. Just bizarre dreams.
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I think everyone has bizarre dreams :D
 
When I was a very young girl my aunt lived at the end of a road hers was the only house on the short road. Across the street was a eucalyptus forest. I walked it fairly often. I would dream a half man half big bird would come out of the trees and chase me. Needless to say it never caught me.
 
I have recurring dreams about being back in college and not being prepared for an exam, which is odd since I was always prepared for exams and got good grades as a result.

I often dream about some of the jobs that I've had and going back and forth between being a mechanic and being a software engineer where I'm switching between the greasy machinery environment and the sterile office environment, to which I never fully adapted.

From these dreams, I often wake up soaked in sweat.
 
Bretrick said:
I had this same nightmare on and off for at least 5 years, from age 15 to 20.
I was running away from something, running for my life, across flat ground out in the countryside. There was a tremendous roaring noise and just as the noise became almost unbearable, I looked around and there was a plane about to hit me. I tripped and the plane went off into the sky.
Rather mild, I suppose, but still I experienced real fright, enough to always wake me up, shouting.
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Maybe you should check with your Doc. There could be a physical reasons for this and may be a vitamin deficiency. Best of luck. :)
 
Bretrick said:
I had this same nightmare on and off for at least 5 years, from age 15 to 20.
I was running away from something, running for my life, across flat ground out in the countryside. There was a tremendous roaring noise and just as the noise became almost unbearable, I looked around and there was a plane about to hit me. I tripped and the plane went off into the sky.
Rather mild, I suppose, but still I experienced real fright, enough to always wake me up, shouting.
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perhaps you'd watched the film North by Northwest prior to first having the dream...
 
I started having the same dream from age 16.. long before I could drive...or had ever attempted driving a car.

I can visualise myself driving down a mountain road in a white car. Oddly even at 16.. the visual was not me at 16 but how I eventually looked when I got older and in my 30's or 40's, and in the dream I'm driving alone, down a very steep mountain road . Half way down I lose control of the car and go through a fence and over the side, where I can see my body , and exactly what I'm wearing.... and I'm slumped over the steering wheel obviously dead.!

Once I passed my test..I never would buy a white car, and even when travelling abroad on holiday I would never accept a white rental car...

Then my daughter moved to the top of the mountains in Spain... and the visual was exactly as it was in my dream. The drive to her house was horrible, and terrifying .. the road was unmade, just enough room for one car , and a 1600 feet sheer drop on the one side , so if any vehicle was coming the other way it was curtains... .

My own cars weren't powerful enough to drive those horrible track roads very well, so I always had to hire a car to get up there.. and again it was essential that I didn't get a white one, but they also were rarely powerful enough to hold the road well.. . Finally we bought a grey Jeep Renegade to tackle the road
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and then, the ayuntamiento ( town hall), opened another tarmac road towards her home, and although for the final 2 miles we still had to drive on the horrible track at least the worst was protected by railings...

My daughter returned to live in the UK 12 months ago..and despite having that dream since I was 16... I've not had it since...
 
hollydolly said:
I started having the same dream from age 16.. long before I could drive...or had ever attempted driving a car.

I can visualise myself driving down a mountain road in a white car. Oddly even at 16.. the visual was not me at 16 but how I eventually looked when I got older and in my 30's or 40's, and in the dream I'm driving alone, down a very steep mountain road . Half way down I lose control of the car and go through a fence and over the side, where I can see my body , and exactly what I'm wearing.... and I'm slumped over the steering wheel obviously dead.!

Once I passed my test..I never would buy a white car, and even when travelling abroad on holiday I would never accept a white rental car...

Then my daughter moved to the top of the mountains in Spain... and the visual was exactly as it was in my dream. The drive to her house was horrible, and terrifying .. the road was unmade, just enough room for one car , and a 1600 feet sheer drop on the one side , so if any vehicle was coming the other way it was curtains... .

My own cars weren't powerful enough to drive those horrible track roads very well, so I always had to hire a car to get up there.. and again it was essential that I didn't get a white one, but they also were rarely powerful enough to hold the road well.. . Finally we bought a grey Jeep Renegade to tackle the road
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and then, the ayuntamiento ( town hall), opened another tarmac road towards her home, and although for the final 2 miles we still had to drive on the horrible track at least the worst was protected by railings...

My daughter returned to live in the UK 12 months ago..and despite having that dream since I was 16... I've not had it since...
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I am sure you are glad that your daughter returned and also that the dream stopped
 
Bretrick said:
I am sure you are glad that your daughter returned and also that the dream stopped
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yes well of course when the dream first started my daughter wasn't anywhere nearly born.. and even when she was little and we'd go on holiday to the greek islands , and many other places abroad, and drive up many mountains .. I was always very wary of renting a white car. I wasn't to know that she would be 30 before I'd see that vision in my dream for real when she bought her home in the Spanish mountains and it was exactly as in my dream .. ..and yep I'm glad she's back in the UK now..I never did get comfortable driving up that cliff road....beautiful as it was...
 
I have a recurring dream/nightmare. Always happens when I am putting off dealing with some issue. I am in a building or a city square, which I know very well, but still cannot find my way out!
This will happen each night until I tackle the problem. Then no more, until next time I procrastinate about something. Uncanny!
 
That sort of symbolism is why i feel more people need to pay attention and learn their personal dream 'language', symbolism, and not just look thngs up in books or online. While there are some general possibilities, because the subconscious can be overly literal, we each develop some standards of our own.
 
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My husband says I have a recurring dream that he has to wake me from, because I'm yelling "get off me, get off me!" and thrashing around. I have never been able to recall what it is I'm dreaming about though.
 
As a teen i had apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic dreams but most of the time i realized they were deams and knowing i could wake at will they never rose to the level of panic inducing 'nightmares'. By my 20's i knew they were 'lucid' dreams and i could exert control on how they played out.
 
caroln said:
My husband says I have a recurring dream that he has to wake me from, because I'm yelling "get off me, get off me!" and thrashing around. I have never been able to recall what it is I'm dreaming about though.
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Odds are you will continue to have it till you do identify.what 'it' is. There are various possibilities. Has your DH ever noticed whether you sound more angry or scared? And is there any pattern to when you have it? When feeling stressed in waking life for example?

If you have a dislike of any insect or animal that even approaches phobic levels your subconscious could be using the image of a heavy stress inducer to sound alarm you need you reduce or find better coping stategies.

There are other, more complex and disturbing possibilities but to figure them out or even rule them out would require asking personal questions i would not feel good about askng a virtual stranger publicly on the internet. I will say that if one is aleady talking to a therapist for any reason this is the sort of 'dream' they should be advised of.
 
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I heard a loud roaring noise in the middle of a dream, early this morning. Finally, it woke me up, and I realized it was the snow plow outside of my building, creating an unbelievable racket. I wonder how many drreams it got into!
 
I had a long-time recurring dream years ago about dialing "0" for the operator to ask to be connected to the police, fire, rescue, and she would say "that number is xxx-xxxx" and I'd beg her to connect me. She'd say that I had to dial it myself and, of course, I'd forget it and have to call her again. She'd once more refuse to connect me and the same thing would happen.

This was in the days before 9-1-1 dialing of course.

My neighbor then had a heart attack and I dialed 0. I told the operator I needed an ambulance and she immediately connected me to emergency services. I never had the dream again, not once. My subconscious was assured that it would not happen.
 
feywon said:
Odds are you will continue to have it till you do identify.what 'it' is. There are various possibilities. Has your DH ever noticed whether you sound more angry or scared? And is there any pattern to when you have it? When feeling stressed in waking life for example?

If you have a dislike of any insect or animal that even approaches phobic levels
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I hadn't thought to do that. I'll have to pay more attention to what's going on in my life when I have this nightmare. All my husband says is that I'm loud and wake him up! The only insect that really turns my stomach is spiders, but not to the point of dreaming about them...I don't think. :unsure:
 
caroln said:
I hadn't thought to do that. I'll have to pay more attention to what's going on in my life when I have this nightmare. All my husband says is that I'm loud and wake him up! The only insect that really turns my stomach is spiders, but not to the point of dreaming about them...I don't think. :unsure:
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Even if it were a spider it might not be about spiders but about the emotions you're feeling-- spider might be a symbol.
Oh and i hadn't finished when accidentally hit post on my kindle.
 

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