does anyone have any recurring dreams or nightmares?

United States
May 31, 2012 1:53pm CST
as a young psychology student i was fascinated by the subject of dreams and the unconscious and enjoyed reading books and articles about the subject by such learned psychologists as dr. jung, as well as some books on the subject found on the extreme sales rack in local book stores. i have had times in my life when i experienced recurring dreams or nightmares, but then they left suddenly and later i realized why. has anyone else experienced recurring dreams or nightmares and how significant do you think/feel they are? is is scary or frightening to you?
2 people like this
11 responses
@GemmaR (8517)
31 May 12
I have recently started having dreams that I was stuck somewhere with somebody and we are not able to get away from that place. I don't know what it means, because I am very happy in the life that I have at the moment, and I don't really think anything needs to change right now. I had another nightmare the other night that our house was being robbed, and the robbers were trying to get my laptop from me and I didn't want to give it to them. I was very shaken when I woke up and was unable to get back to sleep for a long while, but that dream hasn't come back yet so I am very pleased about that.
2 people like this
• United States
31 May 12
i know you are pleased that dream hasn't come back! sometimes it is difficult to determine the reasons for and motives behind dreams. i didn't know until years later, but i had a recurring nightmare from the time i was about six until i was driving myself at sixteen that my brother and i were left in a car on a bridge and it fell over into a big river. it was a very frightening dream. the dream stopped after i learned to drive myself, and i didn't realize it until a couple of years later, really, and then made that connection.
1 person likes this
@ajk111 (2495)
1 Jun 12
i have been fairly lucky as i have never had recurring nightmares while asleep. Unfortunately i wake up to a living nightmare day in, day out. Rubbish job, minimum wage and bad weather all year round. Still, could be worse, i could be Sarah Palin.
2 people like this
@SIMPLYD (90722)
• Philippines
1 Jun 12
Actually i don't have recurring dreams but dreams of the same manner though. I would dream that i am late for appointment or i would still be putting on make-up while the party of a friend is already starting. That kind of dream are my dreams. And sometimes because they are almost of the same manner, i would be afraid. However, i know that dreams are dreams and have no meaning so i don't mind them anymore.
2 people like this
@syramoon (654)
• United States
1 Jun 12
There have been several nightmares that I've had for long period of times that have eventually went away. Most of those are related to my P.T.S.D. (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), but besides those I have noticed thinking back on dreams I've had since I was young, and looking through the dream diaries I've kept through out my life, off and on, that snakes are usually in my nightmares. In the wake world, I do have a phobia of them but not a horrible one, my room mate has pet snakes, and it doesn't bother me. It's something I've never understood, but even as a child I remember waking up and screaming from nightmares about snakes. As an adult, now I wake up and am usually okay as soon as I set up and have the half a second it takes to realize that I was dreaming. Another reoccurring dream that most people say is sleep paralysis related, is that I keep having horrible gory night mares, and in my dream I 'wake up' over and over again only to find that I'm still dreaming, and in these dreams I figure out I'm dreaming, but can't wake myself up, and I'll 'wake' up a few times in during these dreams for real and can't seem to make my body move to get up so I stay awake, although I'm never sure if I dreamed that or no too. Those are the dreams that leave me feeling shaky and in the fight or flight mentality for hours after I wake up, even if it's in the middle of the night, I'll get up and stay up.
• United States
1 Jun 12
I have three recurring dreams and nightmares. My nightmares are always of me being raped and abused by men but i guess that's because that actually happened, and then my dreams are of having a loving husband and beautiful kids we are all happy and financially stable and then I have dreams of being a successful massage therapist who owns here own healing and holistic shop lol. I have lots of other dreams too but these are the main ones that happen a lot at night while i'm sleeping.
@PageTurner (2825)
• United States
31 May 12
I have had a few times in my life where I've experienced recurring dreams. When I was a child, I had several dreams in black in white, with words interspersed, like silent films. They even ended with, 'To be Continued...' emblazoned across the inside of my eyelids. Another recurring dream I had was of Godzilla destroying the city, but he wasn't really. He was just trying to travel through town and he was too big and cumbersome to properly navigate the streets. People were mad at him because they didn't understand. In my dream, this Godzilla wore a bright orange PFD. He was really nice. Another recurring dream I had in childhood and on into adulthood was about my former life as a nobleman many centuries ago. I don't think this one is a dream so much as a remembering of my past life.
1 person likes this
• United States
31 May 12
pageturner, i think that perhaps your dreams have revealed truth unto you and that godzilla is really nice. fred g. sanford was certainly a fan of godzilla's, and he was a man of sartorial tastes, i would think. perhaps godzilla was misunderstood in the manner of mighty joe young. it must be exciting to know that you were a nobleman in a former life. did you have a noble consort, and in which noble country did you abide?
• United States
31 May 12
Yes, the Godzilla dream seems fairly self evident. Indeed, I did have a consort. But I fear that she did not end well. That is what the dream is about...her demise, and mine. Although it appears that I have been both genders through the years, my heart has remained the same, my thirst for justice unabated. Although the span of centuries has ensued, the price for such living is just as costly.
1 person likes this
• United States
5 Jun 12
Without going into any detail, I used to have the same nightmare from age 7 til about 13. Later in life I would have the same dream over and over where I was sleeping ina room where others were sleeping all aroud me . And it was in a tall building. The dream ended when.... I went on my trip to New Orleans where we stayed in a hotel, a tall building. I have seen dreams as signs ever since.
1 person likes this
@sukumar794 (5040)
• Thiruvananthapuram, India
1 Jun 12
If nightmares or bad dreams recur there really must be something wrong.Many psychologists have interpreted dreams. The onset of dreary feelings while sleeping is most often caused by those frightful experiences of the day in question. It is best if one lies to down to sleep brushing aside all those ill happenings experienced during daytime. It is perhaps the best alternative not to have scary nightmares.
1 person likes this
@kingparker (9673)
• United States
31 May 12
No, I never have any recurring dreams or nightmares. As matter of fact, one of my co - workers have such dreams. He always dream about encounter a beautiful girl in his dream. I don't know whether he is too horn* or he is in need of girl. That just weird, and he talk it out loud to every one at work. For me, I won't have the same dream though.
@mercvict (127)
• India
1 Jun 12
I used to dream about certain incidents happening around me or to my relatives and the fact is that it will happen!! So, I am scared to dream now-a-days. Luckily, for the past few months, I am not dreaming.
1 person likes this
• Philippines
26 Jul 12
No. I have never had this experience. Maybe there was one time when I had similar dreams but they are not really related. Different people were involved in the other dream