Do you remember your dreams?

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Glinda

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Shortly after a dear friend and co-worker died, I dreamed I was standing in his office just chatting with him about mundane, ordinary things as we often had. Suddenly I became aware I was dreaming and I said, "Don, I know you're dead but this seems so real. We're talking just like we used to." He smiled warmly and replied, "That was a dream. This is reality."

Have you had a recurring dream, a flying dream or a prophetic dream? What was your most unusual or memorable dream?
 

Yes, I usually do. Other night I had one where I looked out my windows and there were no people - just dinosaurs that kind of looked like kimodo dragons. Weird.
 

Nothing very exciting here. Typically I will dream about some activity or job I was involved in during the hours before I went to sleep. In the dream I'm aware there is something I need to accomplish but try as I may I make no progress. I wake up go to the bathroom go back to sleep and once again I'm struggling with the same problem and making no progress. In the morning I'm exhausted.

As far as recurrent dreams are concerned, finally more than half a century after successfully completing my education I've at last stopped dreaming about taking a final exam in a course for which I somehow neglected to attend the classes or read the text book.
 
Josiah said:
I've at last stopped dreaming about taking a final exam in a course for which I somehow neglected to attend the classes or read the text book.
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Wow! I was just going to post that I have the exact same recurrent dream, except I never get to the final exam.:eewwk: Just continually worry over
whether the teacher will be good-hearted enough to give me a W instead of an F. Glad to find out it might finally go away some day.
 
Very common, I've been having it for years, I hate that dream. Not only that, I'm always short some credits and never received my high school diploma either in one of my recurring dreams. And for some reason, I can't ever seem to get to those classes I need the credits for and I'm running around frantically trying to obtain what I need to complete them or find out why this mistake happened when I know I already completed them. I know why I have that one over and over. I understand why I have most of my dreams, there's only a few, I haven't any explanation for, but, I try not to think on it much anymore.
 
Josiah said:
From what I understand the final exam recurrent dream is extremely common. Very primal.
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It's good to know I'm "normal."
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(seriously)
 
A number of prescription drugs often prescribed for seniors have as a very unwelcome side effect the production of very disturbing dreams. I remember my mother was bothered by this problem and feared going to sleep.
 
I did the final exam/course credit anxiety dreams for years, thankfully haven't done those in a long long time.

Most memorable dream, realistic dreams of a romantic nature...
 
I have a similar dream, where I'm getting ready to graduate and they discover I'm missing some vital thing.

The one I mostly have lately is I am trying to catch a plane, but something is always going wrong and I can't get to the airport on time, or I go to the wrong gate, or have the wrong ticket. These dreams are more stressful than they sound -- I'll wake up with heart pounding and sometimes get up and turn on lights and sometimes TV.

Back when I was working at a particularly stressful job, I used to dream I was being chased by Nazis and I'd always climb up something and then realize I had nowhere to go and they were gaining on me. Terrifying, realistic dreams . . . . I'd wake up in a cold sweat. After I quit that job, that dream went away.
 
Butterfly said:
I have a similar dream, where I'm getting ready to graduate and they discover I'm missing some vital thing.

The one I mostly have lately is I am trying to catch a plane, but something is always going wrong and I can't get to the airport on time, or I go to the wrong gate, or have the wrong ticket. These dreams are more stressful than they sound -- I'll wake up with heart pounding and sometimes get up and turn on lights and sometimes TV.

Back when I was working at a particularly stressful job, I used to dream I was being chased by Nazis and I'd always climb up something and then realize I had nowhere to go and they were gaining on me. Terrifying, realistic dreams . . . . I'd wake up in a cold sweat. After I quit that job, that dream went away.
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Butterfly, I believe you said in another post that you worked in a law firm. So did I so I can relate to the overwhelming workload, the frenzy to meet deadlines, the unreasonable demands, the endless stress. Well, the nightmare is over! We survived - nothing but pleasant dreams from now on! :)
 
I remember many of my dreams, often in great detail. I dream in vivid colors, have lucid dreams at times, and have had recurring dreams and one prophetic dream when I was young. When my dreams are good, they are fantastic, like paisley printed cats and lilac colored chow chow puppies. My nightmares can be intense, I've told my husband, who likes horror movies, that I could make a fortune on a few of my nightmares if I could make a movie from them.

When I was young, three nights in a row I dreamed that I was sick in bed, and my friends were around my bed visiting me with presents. I told my mother I thought I was going to come down with the flu or something and be in bed according to my dream. A few days later, a drunk driver nodded off at the wheel going 45mph. I was waiting to cross a street at the light, and he came right up on the sidewalk. Luckily he just clipped me with the corner of his bumper, so I just had a few broken/cracked bones and had some stitches. Needless to say, I spent time in the hospital, and my relatives and friends were there visiting me with gifts.

When I have lucid dreams like flying, I can control how fast and high I go, and it's great. Sometimes in a nightmare, I'm aware that I'll be okay regardless of the situation, and that I'm just dreaming. I often try to yell loudly in the dream on purpose, and end up waking myself with a vocal noise.

I've had a lot of pretty wild and unusual dreams, too many to list them all. If I take Melatonin before bed for sleep, my dreams will be more intense.
 
Glinda, that's a very strange dream.

I don't like dreams. I think they are weird. Most of mine are rather distorted but not scary (I've had the didn't study for a test dream) I don't remember most of them after a time.

When I was young (maybe 6-8) I had a recurring dream about an ambulance that I had to hide from. It was scary and I still remember those.
 
Josiah said:
A number of prescription drugs often prescribed for seniors have as a very unwelcome side effect the production of very disturbing dreams. I remember my mother was bothered by this problem and feared going to sleep.
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I was given A blood pressure tablet that caused bad nightmares ...I soon put that in the bin
 
I remember my dreams. I kept a dream journal in the early to mid 90's when I was trying to become lucid, which I did a few times but it never lasted long. I have had some really, really weird dreams. I stopped keeping it when I hit 1,000 dreams.

When I had the patch for quitting smoking back then, I had very vivid dreams every night, seemed like all night. I often dreamed I was smoking and I sometimes could smell the smoke! I haven't dreamed about smoking for a very long time, but a few month ago I did. And it's been 22 years since I quit.

One dream I remember having as a kid was when I was 7. I was in heaven with my mother and lots of angels, standing on clouds. I was asking all the angels whose angel they were (guardian angel, maybe for a friend or family?) and they frustrated me by saying they were god's angel. My mom was just walking around talking to them. I'm very sure this would have been the time my mom had a stroke and was in the hospital for months. I may have overheard from someone that she could die and this prompted the dream. ?
 
Josiah said:
A number of prescription drugs often prescribed for seniors have as a very unwelcome side effect the production of very disturbing dreams. I remember my mother was bothered by this problem and feared going to sleep.
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When we lived in Uganda we had to take an anti-malaria pill once a week (mefloquine). It was known as the nightmare drug. Many people can't take it due to the side effects, nightmares being one of them, and depression or anxiety being another. One alternative was a daily drug that is also a weak dose of antibiotics, the other was a very expensive drug which is normally used by tourists for short term stays. Fortunately, the drug we took didn't cause either of us any problems or nightmares!
 
Like you SB I have very lucid dreams, every night and yes I remember them clearly in the first half hour after I wake up.

For the past few months I seemed to be having regular dreams that include my daughter, but she's not an adult she's always about 3 or 4 years old... I can only think it's because I feel so far from here now she's been living in another country for a few years, and extremely independent of me...I expect I miss her 'needing' me.. :(

Lately oddly, I have been dreaming regularly of my own mother who died when i was 18 (something I rarely did since she died all those years ago)...I kinda feel her presence around me much more since I've been ill lately...and I don't know if anyone believes in it..but I've had some pretty desperate times emotionally the last year or 2...and whenever I'm at my lowest ebb, a white feather appears. Could of course be co-incidence..but I like to believe that it's her way of telling me things will get better..
 
hollydolly said:
Like you SB I have very lucid dreams, every night and yes I remember them clearly in the first half hour after I wake up.

For the past few months I seemed to be having regular dreams that include my daughter, but she's not an adult she's always about 3 or 4 years old... I can only think it's because I feel so far from here now she's been living in another country for a few years, and extremely independent of me...I expect I miss her 'needing' me.. :(

Lately oddly, I have been dreaming regularly of my own mother who died when i was 18 (something I rarely did since she died all those years ago)...I kinda feel her presence around me much more since I've been ill lately...and I don't know if anyone believes in it..but I've had some pretty desperate times emotionally the last year or 2...and whenever I'm at my lowest ebb, a white feather appears. Could of course be co-incidence..but I like to believe that it's her way of telling me things will get better..
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I dream about my mother sometimes and did so often just after she died in 1998. I'm not religious but I like to think that although my mom's body is gone, her spirit isn't and she's enjoying watching her family live their lives.

I also dream about my boys being little again.
 
hollydolly said:
Like you SB I have very lucid dreams, every night and yes I remember them clearly in the first half hour after I wake up.

For the past few months I seemed to be having regular dreams that include my daughter, but she's not an adult she's always about 3 or 4 years old... I can only think it's because I feel so far from here now she's been living in another country for a few years, and extremely independent of me...I expect I miss her 'needing' me.. :(

Lately oddly, I have been dreaming regularly of my own mother who died when i was 18 (something I rarely did since she died all those years ago)...I kinda feel her presence around me much more since I've been ill lately...and I don't know if anyone believes in it..but I've had some pretty desperate times emotionally the last year or 2...and whenever I'm at my lowest ebb, a white feather appears. Could of course be co-incidence..but I like to believe that it's her way of telling me things will get better..
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I at times dream about my brother, when he was quite young like 4/5 years old. He passed away at exactly 14 years and 11 months old. From epilepsy.
 
hollydolly said:
Oh I'm glad it's not just me Annie...especially about the children being little..
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I do that often. One is not very good about keeping in touch, so I miss that. They never stop being your babies no matter how old they get.
 

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