Recurring dreams and nightmares

[Nathan]

That is purely evil, and no doubt a personal attack cloaked in bullship. Glad you survived but sorry to hear this one particular teacher has had such a negative lasting impact on your life.

Well just for the record, it wasn't personal- the whole class knew about the Final exam rescheduling, I would have too, had I not skipped class.
This teacher actually had a positive lasting impact on my life, the dream only reoccurred sporadically, maybe for ten years.

I've had other reoccurring dreams, like having trouble reloading a weapon while under fire, inspired by a real life incident while in Vietnam. I haven't had that one for a long time, thankfully.

 

[gennie]

What do you remember about your grandparents home ? My Scottish grandma in Windsor was always reciting Shakespear she learned as a school girl, cute as a button. Grandpa was a 100% grump but he was the only one who could push down the lever on the 2 slice toaster and took great pride in that ability LOL, and he loved whirlygigs, remember those?

Your grandparents sound like so much fun. I was a depression baby (1933) and life was difficult then. I loved them dearly and spent a lot of my younger years with them. I often dream of being in their house and yard or the large wooded area around it that I roamed freely.

 

[OneEyedDiva]

I rarely have bad dreams. I remember when I was a little girl having one that a lion was attacking me. I screamed and my parents came running. A recurring dream I had when I was very young (and sickly) was one of a gray cemetery at night and there was one pink flower that stood out. I've had only a couple of bad dreams as an adult, not recurring. I just wake right up and that takes care of that.

@Camper6 I wonder if the method of writing a happy ending really works. Interesting theory about nightmares causing heart attacks thus people dying in their sleep.

 

[Camper6]

i have a similar dream/nightmare but it's where I'm walking across train tracks and then suddenly there's a train coming in another direction on an additional track so i run across it to find another track with another train coming in the other direction. Same kind of confusion and fear. probably the brain reminding us to stay alert wherever we go whatever we do?

It's more like overcoming one obstacle after another. That's more like what life is.

 

[WaskaleeWabbit]

Trying to find a number in the phone book while the phone numbers make no sense. Looking for my car, my house, my purse. Being able to pull out my teeth. Being able to jump really high. Looking in the mirror and seeing someone else's face instead of mine. Wandering an unfamiliar street at night. Walking around my house and realizing it is rotting away. That one is very upsetting.
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that's very interesting.

Then, according to your post, I would have both types of PTSD. Without elaborating, I can tell you that my dad would have been in prison today for the things families got away with back when, to the outside world, we all had to look like those happy families on TV. The number of times I have seen the local news with a parent being arrested for something s/he did to the kids, and I would comment to my wife that my dad that too, are too many to count.

However, that being the case, I wouldn't attempt to compare the two types of PTSD. Unless you were in a combat situation in WWII, Korea, the Middle East, Vietnam, and wherever else we have tussled, such discussion is purely intellectual and missing the experience.

Tony

it's entirely possible to have both types at once. PTSD type 1 is not just from a combat experience, it's from anything from a car accident to a plane crash or military. You could be a kid suffering from PTSD type 2, totally messed up from how you were raised, join the military and have even just a single combat event experience and get PTSD type 1. there are PTSD forums on the internet if you need to join one, although most center on PTSD type 1 and suicide prevention.

Then, according to your post, I would have both types of PTSD. Without elaborating, I can tell you that my dad would have been in prison today for the things families got away with back when, to the outside world, we all had to look like those happy families on TV. The number of times I have seen the local news with a parent being arrested for something s/he did to the kids, and I would comment to my wife that my dad that too, are too many to count.

However, that being the case, I wouldn't attempt to compare the two types of PTSD. Unless you were in a combat situation in WWII, Korea, the Middle East, Vietnam, and wherever else we have tussled, such discussion is purely intellectual and missing the benefit experience. However, I have never heard of different types of PTSD so what do I know.

Tony

entirely possible as PTSD type 2 is mainly from long traumatic experiences, abusive family type stuff, PTSD type 1 is mainly from a catastrophic or traumatic incident.

 

[WaskaleeWabbit]

Recurring dreams usually occur when there's something in a person's life that they need to resolve.
As for "dream interpretation," "symbolism," etc., what something means to one person isn't necessarily the same as it means to someone else.

I don't know that i could resolve anything about what happened 30 years ago. Especially with regards to school. Maybe i could just practice meditation and self forgiveness and that would begin a process of clearing out the debris?

 

[tbeltrans]

that's very interesting.


it's entirely possible to have both types at once. PTSD type 1 is not just from a combat experience, it's from anything from a car accident to a plane crash or military. You could be a kid suffering from PTSD type 2, totally messed up from how you were raised, join the military and have even just a single combat event experience and get PTSD type 1. there are PTSD forums on the internet if you need to join one, although most center on PTSD type 1 and suicide prevention.


entirely possible as PTSD type 2 is mainly from long traumatic experiences, abusive family type stuff, PTSD type 1 is mainly from a catastrophic or traumatic incident.

Thanks for your responses, WaskaleeWabbit. I have learned some things from joining this thread that I had no inkling of prior.

Tony

 

[tbeltrans]

A guy I used to work with years ago, said that he always got weird dreams after eating pizza. He never told me where he got his pizza, so he left me wondering if that pizza was entirely legal.

Tony

 

[Ruthanne]

I had a nightmare last week where there was something strange in my little birdies house and it jumped out of the bird's house and came after me and turned into a man that started trying to kill me and I grabbed him by his neck and tried to hit his head on my coffee table but I woke up and wow was I ever scared.

 

[wcwbf]

a version of the dream/nightmare... I'm in university and i thought i dropped a class and it's exam week and now i've found out I'm still enrolled and i have to take the exam in a few days... just one of the many gems i have recurring dreams about. I think it feeds my deep sense of regret over things I've done in the past? or maybe everyone has these dreams of past life events that never leave us, even when we sleep?

be patient with me fumbling my way around a new board. LAST semester of college, i had physics?!? i was an elementary ed major but physics was a requirement. very little of it was making any kind of connection in my head. i'd dream/nightmare that i didn't graduate because of one class and having to face my dad!

 

[WaskaleeWabbit]

Last night i had a very bad dream about my last pet who was by far the most interesting and loving pet i've ever had, a cat rescue who died 2 years ago and i've been pet free ever since. alone and pet free the dream was like 'where is Walter the cat, did you leave him behind? no there he is, now you can sleep!' woke up to empty bed ... my dream telling me i need to have a critter in my empty home. time to adopt a new cat/dog?