Do you have recurring stress dreams?

[zoidberg]

I have two, and I have them whenever anything big is going on in my life.

1. My sister dying. Just her, never anyone else.

2. I realize that I still have an old house or old apartment (it is usually my current place - 2) that has a bunch of my stuff still in it and maybe also some pets. And I have just forgotten about it for years and suddenly have to do something about it.

Last night I had a terrible one about my sister and woke up sobbing. It was awful.

[jaycee]

Sorry you had a rough night.

Once or twice a year, I'll have a dream about my mom or dad dying. I wake up crying. Half of my sadness stems from losing him/her and the other half is from watching the surviving one live without the deceased one. They have an awesome relationship.

[nsl]

I still have that dream where I've been registered for a class all semester, forgot to attend, and have to somehow take (and pass) the final exam.  The kicker is that it's always something stupid like pottery.

Oh, and I have another one where I'm trying to close the bookstore where I worked in high school/college for the night, only customers keep ducking under the gate and hiding in the stacks. I hate that one.

[Deleted]

1) it is either chemistry or French class. It is towards the end of the semester and I am freaking out that I have not done any of my assignments and I know nothing and I am going to flunk the finals.

2) I am old and lonely and realize that everyone I know are dead. I am sitting there thinking that I literally have nobody in this world.

[melindafelinda]

I have the school ones about being unprepared, and family dying. Last night I had one about a spider biting a baby and I didn't know who the mother was to tell her.

[Deleted]

Feb 28, 2014 22:16:29 GMT -5 killercupcake said:

Yep.

1: I'm back in high school and I can't remember my class schedule or my locker combination. A variation of this is that I'm in choir again and I don't know the music, but my teacher still wants me to sing.

2: I find out at the very last minute I'm going on a trip and I can't pack and get to the airport in enough time.

Omg I have #1 all the time. Also that I have to pick up DS from school and I'm late. I get there and the school is closed and I can't find him.

Oh and DH cheating. I always try to punch him and fail miserably.

[sushi]

Yes. I have many recurring themes. Being involved with the end of the world (think like a bond movie or DH Lawrence horror stories), being pinned and trapped by my mom, dangling off drawbridges either while walking or driving (I've had that since I was a little kid), being stung by bees (I'm allergic). Recently I've been unable to walk or balance in my dreams. I get dreams within dreams and can sometimes lucid dream, so it can be terrifying to be trapped in the external dream, trying desperately to wake up to prove what's real and what isn't.

Um, so, there's a medication for this if it gets really bad. Ask me how I know! It's actually a bp med, but they found it helped people with PTSD either not have as many nightmares or else not really remember them in the morning. At least I no longer wake at 3am screaming and in a cold sweat.

Hopefully you can work on your stressors and get some good sleep soon.

[jane6672]

I dream about being late to work, but almost always for my previous job (which was 3+ years ago).

I dream about needing desperately to do something, but there is always something interfering, and it's usually my family. Last night it was trying to shave my legs. =/

[flex]

a few reoccurring themes:

I've fallen off the wagon and drank at some point. I never dream about the actual act of drinking but somehow I lose my sobriety and I'm like "OMG! I can't tell anyone about this!"

I'm still married to my ex-dh. Not happily married, but we're still living in the same house, and I think "this has got to stop. We HAVE TO get a divorce very soon!"

Oh and being late for a flight somewhere.

I used to dream that I had to go back to high school to finish my senior year, but I haven't had a dream like that in 20 years. I guess high school is too far back in my past now. lol

[DotAndBuzz]

Yes. I'm driving and press the brakes, but they don't work well enough, and even though I'm pushing my foot all the way to the floor my car isn't stopping fast enough and I wake up right before my car slams into another car. It is always at the same intersection where I used to live in Cincinnati.

I know there's another one, but I can't remember it (which is weird, because it is recurring, but whatever).

I'm sorry you had such a bad night.

[cville]

Yes. In one my teeth are crumbling and I need to tell someone something important (not sure what or who, but I feel in the dream that it's life or death). And I can't talk because the pain is so excruciating.

In another I find out on exam day that I'm registered for a class I thought I'd dropped and I never went to a single class.

[circa1978]

Tornados. Always tornados.

[Deleted]

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[sushi]

Oooh, I've gotten the teeth dreams. They turn all soft and fall out. This happened much more when I lived in Japan, though. I saw some seriously traumatizing smiles there.

[eb777888]

Ugh. I'm sorry.

I always have the same dream that H and I break up and they are always so real. And it's always my fault and I'm always devastated. It's usually because I push him over the edge (lol) or I cheat on him. Horrible.

[eb777888]

Oh, also, sometimes I have dreams that I'm an adult in school again. I'm at college, have no idea where my class is and when I finally find it, I have no books and there's a test that day but I haven't studied for weeks becasue I'm blowing everything off.

God, I wish I'd just have sex dreams instead. I never have those!

[marylennox]

Being back in school and I can't remember my locker combination, or even where my locker is.

Being late to work. Like, oversleeping by hours, or going somewhere and then realizing I was supposed to be at work instead, and frantically needing to call and explain/ rush to get there.

Driving and not being able to control the car.

[shoeless]

As of lately, yes.
All dreams are about the IF process in some form or another (ie: disowned by family, kids running off to genetic Mom, parents telling me they always knew I'd never have kids, etc....)

[rex]

yes. they're the worst.

1: my h leaves, tells me he's leaving, or that he doesn't love me or like me anymore. I always try to convince him to stay or try to talk to him and he's emotionless and matter-of-fact like there's no changing his mind.

2: my teeth crumble into pieces and fall out.

[open24hours]

My version of the school one: I'm in college and it's the day of the final for a class I have never attended.

I'm 13 or 14 and pregnant. Everyone thinks it is wonderful except for me. I spend the dream wondering terrified and wondering WTF is wrong with anyone else.

I can't walk. I'm walking with someone and suddenly my legs stop working. I feel like I'm walking but I'm not going anywhere and the person I'm walking with gets farther and farther away.

[olegregg]

Feb 28, 2014 22:17:03 GMT -5 nsl said:

I still have that dream where I've been registered for a class all semester, forgot to attend, and have to somehow take (and pass) the final exam.  The kicker is that it's always something stupid like pottery.

Oh, and I have another one where I'm trying to close the bookstore where I worked in high school/college for the night, only customers keep ducking under the gate and hiding in the stacks. I hate that one.

I seriously have this dream like once a week. 

Most of the dreams I can remember are some variation of being lost/late. I sometimes dream that my husband and I split up.

[janegold]

I used to have recurring dreams about tornados. Apparently it is reflective of going through some sort of turmoil. I rarely have them anymore, and I'm grateful for that.

[scorpion]

Ugh, I have them way too often. Usually it's a situation where I can see where I need to go (like a particular building), but can't get there. Interesting one recently was trying to get out of doors but they were all locked.

[kirra]

Yes. Two.

1) The floor is wet, or the sidewalk is icy, or the stairs are slippery, and I fall, and the fall goes on forever and I vividly feel each ligament, tendon, and bone as it tears or breaks.

2) I find out I'm registered for a class I didn't know about during final exams, and if I don't pass the test the school is going to kick me out.

[scribellesam]

I've had two, mostly only the second over the past several years.

1. I'm in water with a large shark and trying to escape it while it hunts me.

2. I'm trying to survive the zombie apocalypse along with several members of my family. Sometimes we're actually fighting zombies, sometimes we're simply hiding from them.

[eb777888]

This thread is so fascinating.

[Deleted]

Mostly I just have recurring dreams about one guy I went to hs with. They're never exactly the same, but they always have the same story line. It's weird. I never ever think about this guy, then some random night I'll have a dream about him.

I had recurring dreams when I was with my exbf that I would be trying to call him and I can't remember his number, or dialling the right number but I could never reach him for some reason.

[jek]

I'm at work or at a store and suddenly realize I'm not wearing a bra (I have big'uns and would NEVER go without a bra - no one wants to see that!). In the dream, I can't do anything about it so I'm trying cover myself or hide it somehow without making it obvious. No one ever notices but there is so much anxiety.

ETA: ugh, the teeth crumbling sounds horrifying! I once had a dream that I was plucking mine out one by one but luckily it's not recurring.

[pt716]

The majority of my dreams include being chased and never being able to get away, but never quite getting caught, or chasing something and never being able to get to it.

[MixedBerryJam]

I am in college and it's finals week and I haven't gone to any of the classes. I probably have this dream at least twice a year. Even when I think about taking an actual course I can't make myself do it because I'm afraid this is what will happen.

ETA: Oh, and I have the being chased dream, too, and I try to scream but can't. I wake up for real upset from can't scream dreams. Being in trouble and not being able to call out for help is probably pretty normal, but I think it terrifies me to an abnormal degree.