What Re-Occurring Dreams/Nightmares Have You've Had?

[Gizmo j]

Literally like 30 times in my life I've had nightmares of losing a bunch of my teeth.

Like my teeth would be wiggling.

 

[Red Squirrel]

The teeth one is apparently common, I get that too. It starts off with one tooth being loose, and I'm like "oh crap that's not good" then I check the other teeth and they are all loose and in some cases even start to crumble the more I touch them. Sometimes I'm like "I hope this is just a dream" and at some point wake up. There's also times where I've had a dream like that, but involving my hair. I'll be noticing that I'm thinning and I start to touch my hair and it all starts to fall out.

One reoccurring dream I get a lot is school related, they vary but typically it's high school, but sometimes college. Typically at some point in the dream I'm trying to find my locker, or trying to remember my combination or trying to find a classroom. Some varieties of the dream I'm just in the cafeteria with friends, and getting food. There's also some versions where I'm actually on the bus on the way to school. There's also one version where I'll be sitting in class, then suddenly come to the realization that I have not been to math in a long time and then I'm scrambling to try to find my schedule to see if I've been missing it or what. It's always math too. Then I wake up from the dream, and will be pondering it for a bit until I wake up enough to realize I'm not even in school anymore. Apparently dreams like this are also common for many. I guess the school system gives PTSD lol. The few last times I had this dream, specifically the ones where I can't remember my locker combo, I'll be in the dream and thinking "weird, this is like those dreams I always get.. I wonder if this is actually a dream too!". One time I went lucid and just started exploring parts of the school that were restricted. Basically went into the backrooms.

One thing I find interesting in dreams is that there seems to be a common world that all dreams happen in. Buildings, roads etc are different than they are IRL, but they are consistent within each dream.

 

[IBMJunkman]

I have been retired 11 years. Lately I have dreamed about the company I worked for a few years before my last employer of 10 years. I liked working there. The dream was a 2 parter. Covered 2 nights.

 

[JM Aggie08]

Been out of school for 12 years -- I still have a monthly, stress-induced dream of being at the end of the semester and realizing I've not attended a single lecture or turned in an assignment for a specific class. Either that or I'm back in high school marching band and don't know my steps/music for our show.

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

Lots of school-related dreams.

Lots and lots of dreams of dying. Spoiler: the dream doesn't end when the 'death blow' happens.

 

[KLin]

I walk around my high school and I have no idea what my next class is. I can't find my schedule either.

I've read that usually means you have no goals in life and are wandering listlessly. Damnit.

 

[SKORPI0]

Recurring dreams that I vividly remember upon waking up. Maybe I should have a log/note of what my dreams are. 😀

1. Going back to college(graduated May 1981) and take 1 class (English 101) that I needed to repeat (failed the 1st time) to graduate. Walking around the building complex trying to remember where the various engineering departments are. Commuting either by car (same car I currently have) or bus, about 8.2 miles away.
2. Reporting to workplaces that I quit 18/25 years ago (morning shift), then reporting to current work place (night shift).
3. Car (past and current) repeatedly stolen from my parking place not knowing who did it and where it is. Suspects were neighbors who had chop/car repair shops.
In reality never had those kind of neighbors.
4. Childhood house with varying states of renovation/disrepair, sometimes made of wood or concrete blocks, sometimes small, sometimes with plenty of rooms.
Either there is a garden or just a mud pile.
5. Losing/misplacing my current Samsung Tablet/phone, sometimes car keys. In reality I have one place to put them all to, when coming home.

 

[pmv]

For some reason I fairly often dream about the London Underground. Usually it involves traveling on an underground line that in reality has never existed, or travelling to a distant tube station (one that also doesn't actually exist). Sometimes it involves being lost in the tunnels.

 

[pete6032]

So there I was on skid row passing out flyers showing jobs that paid more than the median wage and did not require a college degree...

 

[nakedfrog]

The only one I can really think of is wandering around my house and finding extra rooms that aren't actually there, and continuing to explore and just continually finding new spaces, impossibly large basements or attic areas, stuff like that. Mostly happened in the house I owned from the mid-2000s until late 2010s.