Recurring Dreams/Nightmares

[Cachoo]

Do you have them? Or have you had them in the past?
It has been some time ago but during finals week I would dream that I was late to class and arrived just in time to take the exam only to realize I was wrapped in a towel with wet hair.
Also do you ever have vivid dreams that seem to pick up occasionally from one night to the next night?

 

[Wyliefan]

My own variation on the "test where you haven't studied the material" nightmare is the "dance recital where you don't know the choreography."

 

[oleada]

Some sort of loss of control. Like I'm driving and suddenly I can't see or my brakes won't stop.

 

[tony]

When I used to be a server, it was a constant nightmare of getting so far behind with my tables and basically just walking out of the job because I didn't know what to do. Endless times I had this happen.
I've also had dreams about my tooth breaking and I promptly wake up to check, but I know that one is common and signifies something you are powerless to control/avoid.

Completely random- but I've had such outlandish dreams that sometimes I wake up right in the middle of it cracking up at myself. Has anyone else done this?

 

[Japanfan]

I inexperienced an extent of housing insecurity when I was younger, and have had many dreams in which I was looking for a place to live or without a place to live. Or dreams in which I'd find myself living in a certain city and wonder what I was doing there.

 

[Peaches LaTour]

For years I had a recurring dream where I was sitting on the back-end of a caboose, dangling my legs over the side. The train was meandering, slowly, through the woods. It was always a very short dream, almost like a segment. Without fail, within a couple of weeks of my having this dream, somebody I knew, died. I've had psychics tell me I had "power" so perhaps that was one way it manifested itself.

Also, while living in Southern California, I had a recurring dream that I had to leave, suddenly, & return back East due to family issues. In this dream, I realized I couldn't get back to Southern California where I wanted to be and where I considered my home. Sometimes I would wake up crying from this dream. Sadly, it came true.

 

[Susan1]

Way too many different recurring bad dreams over the years. I'll spare you so you don't feel the need to psychoanalyze me!

However, not a nightmare, but back when I was in the end of the year rink recital, I woke up in the middle of the night standing on the opposite side of the bed from where I get in and out, with my arms out shoulder level because I was dreaming about the group finale where all the groups did a routine (like a precision routine) together, and I was standing in line. Sadie looked at me like I was crazy.

And I woke up at the exact time my aunt died - 2:15 a.m. - in the middle of a dream that she was driving and my mom and I were getting out of her car in my parents's driveway like any Saturday. We all said she woke me up to say good-bye. The next day at work, my phone rang (before we had caller ID) and I said that's somebody calling to tell me my aunt died. And it was.

 

[mjb52]

I used to always have one nightmare about an out of control classroom a week or two before the semester started. The unusual part to me was that it was always just once, rather than a recurring thing, and toward the end of my time teaching, I would sometimes realize it in the dream or as I was still waking up like "oh this is that one dream I always have one time close to the beginning of the semester." It wasn't the same every time, but it was always the same scenario.

 

[modern_muslimah]

I occasionally dream that I am in school and that I don't do the work necessary to get to the next grade.

 

[Winnipeg]

For some reason, even though I finished university years ago, I have recurring dreams of being late or missing a final exam?

 

[merrywidow]

I am inclined to have nightmares if I get too warm during the night. When I was in my teens ( a long time ago) I would have a recurring dream of being lost in a swampy area but coming upon a creepy old house. Never went in & never found my way out of the swamp.