Do you or have you had a recurring nightmare?

[Knight]

Only recurring dream not a nightmare is while changing duty stations in the Navy my uniforms are stolen.

 

[feywon]

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!

Probably lots. Most people don't realize just how much sensory input does come thru to our dream states. It is a survival thing, meant to alert us to potential 'threats' or just things like needing to close a window we left open when house warm but a rainstorm has blown in.

 

[caroln]

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.

I would need a thesaurus to describe how I feel about spiders...gross, disgusting, creepy, revolting, etc. etc.! I'm trying to think of something in my life that parallels those words and be a symbol for a spider, but came up dry. That's a good thing I guess! Maybe I watched a movie or something that grossed me out at the time but my subconscious held on to.

 

[feywon]

I would need a thesaurus to describe how I feel about spiders...gross, disgusting, creepy, revolting, etc. etc.! I'm trying to think of something in my life that parallels those words and be a symbol for a spider, but came up dry. That's a good thing I guess! Maybe I watched a movie or something that grossed me out at the time but my subconscious held on to.

Repeatedly? Please, for your own possible understanding, because often once we interpret the message correctly the bad dream stops, ask your DH to think about whether you sound more angry or scared.

 

[caroln]

Repeatedly? Please, for your own possible understanding, because often once we interpret the message correctly the bad dream stops, ask your DH to think about whether you sound more angry or scared.

Yeah, I'd say repeatedly...about half a dozen times during the past year. Is that a lot? You sound really knowledgeable about dreams and such. Is interpreting dreams a special expertise of yours? I've had others that I'd love to know what they mean! I'll try to nail down my DH about how I sounded.

 

[feywon]

Yeah, I'd say repeatedly...about half a dozen times during the past year. Is that a lot? You sound really knowledgeable about dreams and such. Is interpreting dreams a special expertise of yours? I've had others that I'd love to know what they mean! I'll try to nail down my DH about how I sounded.

Yes, i have a good deal of experience in dream work. My own, my kids (who i taught at early age to look at own), friends.

As you might have guessed from my responses to you, i don't tell people 'the dream meant this/that'. i ask questions because i feel the dreamer is the final authority on the meaning of a dream because they are essentially conversations with ourselves.

Sometimes just thinking about my question will lead someone to an insight about the meaning if the dream, whether they tell me their answers or not. Understanding our dreams can help us be more balanced, understand ourselves better. Not every dream has an important message for us but ones we remember for years and reccuring ones generally do.

 

[Gaer]

I have dreams of future lives all the time and they are INCREDIBLE!
I have wonderful recurring dreams all the time. (over and over and over)
i learn a lot from my dreams.

I have never had a nightmare in my life, unless it's a dream of not finding my vehicle.
But, That's not really scary.

 

[Islander]

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.

I think that is a fairly common dream, at least similar to one that I have had for years. In my dream, it is near the end of the term and I realize that I am registered for a class that I never attended. I didn't even know where the class was held, what texts were used, or even the name of the professor. In one version of the dream, I don't even remember the location of my residence. I found that I could modify the dream by creating a set of notes including all the pertinent information and I could reference those notes to find anything that I needed. It worked for a while, but the dream always created scenarios that I had not anticipated. Ultimately the dream would defeat me. The dream, of course, was entirely created in my subconscious, so I knew that there was some underlying cause. Probably stress produced, but it made for an interesting game of finding ways to outwit my subconscious.

My best dream related to the only course that I flunked in college. I always enjoyed math and made a point of signing up for the advanced classes. In graduate school, one course that I signed up for gave a lot of freedom to the professor to pick the topic. He chose n-dimensional tensor theory. This is a very powerful notation that assists in manipulating equations with many variables. The professor would go through use of the notation to perform transformations between coordinate systems and would use orthogonal and spherical coordinates to illustrate. Only problem was that he used elliptical coordinate in the assignments. I simply didn't get it and when I opened the final exam, I found that I had no clue. I couldn't begin to answer any of the questions and left early. Needless to say he flunked me. This bothered me for years until a couple of years ago I sat upright in bed with the realization that it was just a mathematical abstraction. Truly a eurika moment. As long as one followed the methodology, it worked. I took the course again the next semester under a different professor who never mentioned the topic. I aced the course, but it was evidently still bothering me 50 years later.

The subconscious is a strange thing!