Recurring dreams

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Another one is that for whatever reason my tooth will come loose and then all my teeth start falling out.

That one is extremely common, or so I hear. I've had it a few times. Not very fun.

I've also had the tornado one. That one was really interesting because I truly felt like I was going to die. A near death experience without having to actually get near death. zomg thread crossover.

Admittedly, outdated, but rather fun to read nevertheless!

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Original post by ChurchSkiz I have another dream that happens a lot where some of my classes didn't count and I have to go back to high school to get my diploma. So I'm like a 28 year old guy in HS with a bunch of 16 year olds.

I believe this xkcd comic applies here.

Also, I've had three different parallels of the same dream that were spread at least 4 years apart; all of them ended the same way: After the usual dream sequence of somewhat coherent nonsense, I walk out of the room only to find myself looking at another me from another parallel of the same dream, creating a time-paradox of some sort, and waking up shortly thereafter.

Climbing a hill that's at about a 90 degree angle (probably back from the summer vacations we used to take, where we had to cross the dikes to get to the beach).

Being the only one able to fly but nobody seems to notice.

Flying too high and starting to drift into space.

Realizing I'm dreaming, but still being unable to guide my dream.

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Original post by ChurchSkiz I have another dream that happens a lot where some of my classes didn't count and I have to go back to high school to get my diploma.

I know that one. Scary.
Another dream I had quite often is me walking along a pier but somehow there seems to be an ever increasing slope towards the water and I'm having a hard time not falling into the sea.

Another one: Being at a sprint contest or generally just trying to run but not being able to move forward, like being pulled back by a rubber band or something.

O_o

Deep thread is deep.

I used to have a recurring dream where I'd run up an infinite flight of stairs but it just kept feeling like the building was sinking. Then I'd get to the top and there would be a window I could float out of. :
That and the zombie dreams. I have a lot of lucid zombie dreams where I'm going through possible zombie apocalypse plans and meeting up with people. Some of them seem like they last a long time. Like searching for supplies and losing survivors to zombie attacks.

Double dream! What does it mean? heh

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Original post by ChurchSkiz Another one is that for whatever reason my tooth will come loose and then all my teeth start falling out.

Google turns up thousands of references regarding this dream. This article offers several possible meanings: Interpreting Tooth Loss as a Dream Symbol. "In many dreams of teeth falling out, the dream starts with just one tooth falling out followed by the rest. Dreamers often try to stop the teeth from coming out but to no avail. These dreams may signify a waking life situation that one feels powerless to change or stop."


I had a crazy dream a month ago where I went with a girl on a date to a biker party and the bikers performed some witchcraft that conjured up a demon ghost car that roared through the party killing a few hangers on (like Ghost Rider crossed with Sons of Anarchy). Then I became worried that they were going to kill me and steal my girl and I woke up.

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Original post by _fastcall Quote: Original post by ChurchSkiz I have another dream that happens a lot where some of my classes didn't count and I have to go back to high school to get my diploma. So I'm like a 28 year old guy in HS with a bunch of 16 year olds. I believe this xkcd comic applies here.

Wow that's freaky lol. That's the exact same conversation I have with myself. Even stranger is that I read xkcd religiously and I don't remember that one.

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Original post by irreversible Admittedly, outdated, but rather fun to read nevertheless!

Let me paraphrase:



Meaning: You want to bone your mom.

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Original post by LessBread Quote: Original post by ChurchSkiz Another one is that for whatever reason my tooth will come loose and then all my teeth start falling out. Google turns up thousands of references regarding this dream. This article offers several possible meanings: Interpreting Tooth Loss as a Dream Symbol. "In many dreams of teeth falling out, the dream starts with just one tooth falling out followed by the rest. Dreamers often try to stop the teeth from coming out but to no avail. These dreams may signify a waking life situation that one feels powerless to change or stop." I had a crazy dream a month ago where I went with a girl on a date to a biker party and the bikers performed some witchcraft that conjured up a demon ghost car that roared through the party killing a few hangers on (like Ghost Rider crossed with Sons of Anarchy). Then I became worried that they were going to kill me and steal my girl and I woke up.

I've had that one. Once.

Now, this is probably going to sound seriously freaky. I had a dream where I got my grades in the mail. I saw the grades in my dream. Here's the freaky part, I got the exact same grades in the mail a week later! Freaky or what?

I had many dreams about zombies, although it wasn't the exact same scenario in the dreams. One time I was all hyped up, grabbed a pumpgun and hunted all the zombies down, that was cool. Another time, the zombies were caused by some medicine that was supposed to heal something, sort of like Resident Evil I guess. Another time I was one of the zombies and actually lived with them, I was rather disturbed when I woke up.
I don't know why, but I love zombie games and stories :D.

And another from xkcd.



I love the alt text on that one.

I had dreams about our old television: I can't switch it off in any ways, and I can only switch to very freaky horrors, I can only mute it and cover my eyes. These are actually nightmares. I don't have them since I can wake up from bad dreams (lucent dreaming).

I have a dream about the actress Annette O'Toole three times :

1 - me and her at a beach, just a moment before tsuname
2 - me and her at a hospital, she's on the death bed
3 - i was complaining about something and she give a smart solution to it (better goggle keyword, with her being american and all that, knowing what i want to look for actually).

1 - once with michael mckean (her husband). as i writing this, i can't rememmber what we're doing. fishing? watching off road? but it was something.
and i was like saying, "I can't believe it was you!", for a reason.

earlier this month, right after i was released from the hospital, i was on bed, and the medication make me sleepy. it was known here not to sleep at sunset as it make your brain goes haywire (sleep at day, wakes at night). the dream was scary like hell. it was dark, and i was in my apartment. all the lights are not working. (interestingly, my apartment IS dark as I didn't switch on the light at day, and now it's obviously dark). i felt like there is a little or dwarf - monster or devil inside the apartment, and everytime i tried to flick the switch, it come closer, saying things like "you never care about the light, why worry now?" i don't know why but it doesn't feel like a dream, it felt REAL. I think it was like inception - if the top is spinning, it's a dream, if it fall, it's real. In most dream, I felt like i'm in a movie. i'm there, but i can't feel it. you know, like in VR. but in nightmare, you feel like you're touching the switch, you can feel your heart beating, you feel your short breath. you feel everything - it's like it's REAL. I knew light can defeat the demon but the lights are not working.

Suddenly I hears the adzan. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adhan) and it causes bad effect on the demon / devil / whatever. So I keep on repeating it. And I woke up. There is adhan being called in real life - for mahgrib prayer. my apartment was dark, so i switch up some of the light. i felt like i just went for a jogging. even to get out of my bed is hard at first.

http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/sleep-paralysis-what-it-is-and-how-to-avoid-it/
http://www.medhelp.org/posts/Sleep-Disorders/Shaking-in-Dreams-waking-up-and-I-cannot-move/show/12884

Now that I put in that link, I realize that it only happens after nightmares, not dream. I wakes up from dream just fine, except for the first and second dream above, i wake up crying :-(

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Interestingly, wikipedia explain it better - even with a dwarf demon! Don't tell me it as popular as falling teeth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_Paralysis

I had a weird one when I was little. I had to go through this cave full of obstacles-the only one I remember was a free-standing wall of water with a shark in it. Then I climbed a huge staircase to find a giant ape with a whip holding a woman hostage. I'd wake up as soon as the ape swung the whip at me. I must have had this exact dream a dozen times.

Then one day I dreamed I was in the same cave except the obstacles were gone and the woman was with me. When we reached the top of the stairs, she started shrieking and strangling me, and then I woke up. I never had the dream again.

I have no idea what any of this means.

My dreams can get very long... one actually took 3 pages in my dream log. I once even had a "mini-series" of dreams where a pyramid was always in the horizon. The last time I saw it, I was right at it's base, on fire.

My subconsious and I have a love-hate relationship. It shows me beautiful worlds so I have something to draw or write about, but it likes to kill me. I almost only have nightmares, and I now expect to die (Sometimes more than once).

Here's some of my "plop" moments off the top of my head.

• Something "shutting me off"


• Being eaten (most frequent. My attacker is always an abomination)


• Rapidly rotting


• Here was a weird one: being crushed by some matter distortion induced by a glowing egg. When I squeezed the right side of the egg, a giant bend in space approached me to my right. Someone came in the room, took the egg from me, and smooshed it.

There are also times I witness the deaths of pets or even those I know.

I've actually grown to like my nightmares, since I get to see some seriously neat stuff outside of the twisted imagery that a childhood of needless medication and family issues likely contributed to.

More amusing subconscious adventures use English words inappropriately. I recently dreamt that I was "milf hunting", but all that happened was that I encountered walking fish in a forest that dismembered me.

But none of these dreams were as annoying as the one where I dreamt that I wanted to achieve lucidity and I succeeded in the dream... Then I died through rotting.

Sorry, I know that was drawn out... I just love to talk about this stuff!

My "favourite" kind of dream
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I'm a lucent dreamer, so I know I'm dreaming most of the times.
But there's a kind of dream when I don't know for sure: when I'm dying in a horrible way.
Ran over by a train, beaten to death, shot to death. And I never know why is it so dream-ish: am I dreaming or is it the shock?

obviously the the post didn't deserve a title, but akshfbasjhabsdjshb

Anyhoo: beaten do death, ripped to pieces by animals, shot, run over, fall to the ground, etc.

An interesting thing to lucent dreaming. I can wake up from dreams whenever I want. So I don't have nightmares any more. But waking up requires concentration. Once, I dreamed that the Christmas-tree caught fire and fell on me. It was so painful that I couldn't concentrate and couldn't wake up, only on the second effort....

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Original post by _fastcall Quote: Original post by ChurchSkiz I have another dream that happens a lot where some of my classes didn't count and I have to go back to high school to get my diploma. So I'm like a 28 year old guy in HS with a bunch of 16 year olds. I believe this xkcd comic applies here.

Biweekly for me. Actually, I get a few HS-related ones.

Others:
-Waiting for a ride that never comes. (Scary)
-Trying to turn on a light that never comes on.
-9/11 (Watching the events on TV in Chem class. Sometimes I'm in Manhattan, though.)

I frequently dream of living in a police state dystopia. The dreams are wildly different in the details, but the common theme of finding a group of freedom fighters (aka terrorists, depending on your perspective) and hiding from the government is always there.

As for the high school / having to retake important exams theme, I can relay an interesting story of my father, who had this type of dream all his life until he was around 50 years old. At that age, he had the dream one last time, with the crucial difference that during the dream, he thought to himself that even he failed that important exam, it wouldn't matter, because all his work experience would surely balance out that one exam. He hasn't had that dream since then.

Curiously enough, I've never had that dream myself. Since I finished university, the only exam-related dreams I've had were when I realized that I phrased an exam question incorrectly or ambiguously in an exam I was responsible for. Being responsible for that kind of mess is not fun.