What are your recurring nightmares?
Question #856 Nightmares
posted March 5th by ching
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phil
// Mar 5, 2010 at 9:15 am
Mine is pretty standard: I’m back in high school even though I’m an adult and my classmates are a completely random collection of people I’ve known throughout my life and it’s my last chance to finally graduate and I’m fucking it up by being in the wrong room.
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MissBella
// Mar 5, 2010 at 9:44 am
Mine include me driving and doing weird things. One time I drove around the block BACKWARDS and one time I drove a really huge white van instead of my sedan.
Others include me at some party talking to some dudes and maybe wanting more but actually remembering that I have a boyfriend. I realize that I have one in every single dream like that and therefore nothing happens. Not much of a nightmare on this one though.
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c lo
// Mar 5, 2010 at 9:52 am
For years and years I had a recurring nightmare that I was in 7th or 8th grade and was going to this Halloween haunted house thing in my home town, except they built it in an existing cave in the country and the cave had a stream through it. As me and my friends are going through the cave, there are what we think are fake zombie bodies floating through the stream in the cave. As I go through I notice every time I turn around one of my friends is gone. By the time I get to the end of the cave, I realize all my friends are gone and the fake zombie body that was just floating at the end of the stream is gone to. Then it it’s me all of the sudden that the whole thing was a set up, all my friends have been eaten, and I’m next. I take off running out of the cave and I hear the last zombie behind me. I climb a tree and it starts to climb up too and thats when I always wake up.
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jake
// Mar 5, 2010 at 10:53 am
I have Phil’s dream a lot, and I’m always like “Phil, what are you doing in this classroom?”
My most frequent bad dreams these days involve me remembering that I quit smoking while half-way through a cigarette, or my girlfriend breaking up with me for no reason (and she’d never have one).
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April
// Mar 5, 2010 at 11:16 am
Mine tend to be just me in this white room an the people closest to me are telling me that I’ve ruined my life. And no matter where I turn in the room someone is there. I don’t think its that scary but its that fear I wont make some thing of myself or my life. And yeah I guess the fear of living in New Jersey the rest of my life. Which is an honest fear to have. If you’ve been here any exstended time you would know.
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Tiffany!
// Mar 5, 2010 at 11:47 am
When I was really little (kindergarden and first grade ish) I had this recurring nightmare that my best friend and I were trapped in a “monster making factory” and it was being run by another kid in the class. And when we would find a good excuse to get out of the factory before we were washed with monster-making shampoo and turned into monsters, we’d find my little sister already changed and I’d cry and the kid from my class would laugh.
the rest of my life, I would get these nightmares that always involved a killer and me having to wake up and figure out how to outsmart them and then go back to sleep and trap the murder and turn them into the police.
I haven’t woken up from a nightmare (Recurring or otherwise) in a few years. I think my life has had enough drama so my imagination just chills out when I sleep.
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prof. fancy pants
// Mar 5, 2010 at 1:29 pm
i have a recurring anxiety dream. it starts with me noticing my tooth is loose. then i tug on it, or it falls out when i take a drink of water. then another tooth falls out. then i’m spitting out chunks of teeth into my hand which ends up being ten times the actual volume of my teeth. then something stupid happens. then i wake up.
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Tiffany!
// Mar 5, 2010 at 1:37 pm
A friend just had a dream like this and was told that he should stop spreading rumors or lying. I’m sure you are an upstanding professor; I’m just passing on the info.
I try not to read too much into these things.
Maybe you just haven’t been to the dentist in a while?
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dav
// Mar 5, 2010 at 1:54 pm
I just went to the dentist today! First time in two years, and I am proud to say I have a clean bill of dental health.
As far as bad dreams, they usually more resemble spooky horror movies or actually more like suspense thrillers where someone is after me.
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prof. fancy pants
// Mar 5, 2010 at 2:21 pm
yeah, @tiffany, i’m pretty sure it’s stress related. losing teeth is a common nightmare during stress time.
oh, look, it’s almost 2:30, time to see the dentist!
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beth
// Mar 5, 2010 at 2:25 pm
I have had many nightmares that involve missing, broken, falling-out teeth and my research has always said that it is a common dream of someone who is having trouble communicating or being heard by others. I have also dreamed that I’d seemingly lost my voice; although I could hear myself, no one else could.
However, my most reoccurring nightmares are different. The first involves fireballs raining down from the sky that are bright orange in a scene of black and white in which my classmates and I run, through open-air courtyards from one building to another, trying to avoid the fire. This particular dream also involved a labyrinth made of marble, dragons (?) and riding on the back of a John Deere harvester, in a high speed chase, holding on to a friend’s hand as she falls off the back. That bad dream started when I was about 9 and stuck with me through high school.
The second bad dream is harder to explain and used to seep into my waking life, which used to really upset me. I would have nightmares about a construction site with particularly horrible instruments of destruction, which I somehow knew would be the cause of my demise.
In my waking life, I would get the same feeling of doom and desperation when I went through certain aisles at Home Dept or Lowe’s (any of the aisles with heavy duty equipment, plastic tubing for underground ducts, etc.) This dream started sometime around 6th or 7th grade and stuck with me through college. When I was in Jr. High, I was convinced that the dream meant that I would die in a construction site, or be buried in one. I thought I was having visions of some sort. Pretty morose I know…welcome to my pretty little head.
Thankfully, I no longer have bad dreams. Probably the most recent one involved teeth – but I don’t consider my teeth dreams to be reoccurring.
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beth
// Mar 5, 2010 at 2:28 pm
Disclaimer: I remember every minute detail in my dreams. They are usually in color and I often have trouble deciphering between reality and dreams because I sometimes dream I am carrying out daily, mundane tasks or conversations. Sometimes I even dream in “animation.”
Because of my vivid dreams, it was something of interest to me during college and I researched and wrote a bit about the psychology and meaning of dreams…however, I don’t necessarily believe in dream interpretations.
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Stace
// Mar 5, 2010 at 3:11 pm
I don’t think I’ve ever had any. The most horrifying ones to me are usually at the hospital or similar places where someone elderly dies and being there while a relative dies. The worse ones are when I dream my Mom dies. But I have these ones probably less than once a year.
Oh, typing this makes me remember I have the world is ending dreams but they aren’t (to me) nightmares in terms that it’s scary. They’re usually just really weird. I almost always know in advance the world is end and usually my parents don’t want to hang on our last day, once I was out trying to buy a rug during the final hours and another one I can remember is my brother going to like Boston to buy a house on our last day.
Of those the weirdest was a nuclear winter that happened at Disneyland and some of us that were in a certain building were just suspended in time until it was safe and we emerged to find Disneyland had created a park around everyone who had died, since they were standing up and mummified and were now the attraction. And everyone who was on the tram thought those of us were lying and we’d snuck into an off-limit zone. People from the future still suck.
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jon
// Mar 8, 2010 at 10:13 am
I have been having the same nightmare for as long as I can remember. It is basically me being caught in public wearing just a t-shirt. The shirt is just long enough to kind of cover my stuff. It takes on different permutations. The last time I had one the scenario was me having to get home through the streets of San Francisco at dawn.
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