Question of the Day | 12/01/2008 11:00 pm
What recurring dream (or nightmare), if any, has come back to you time and time again?
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That I become a best selling author known for a controversial book that takes the world by storm. Oprah sings my praises on her show and it is listed on her Book Club list.
I do believe in my dreams as some are very prophetic and have helped me during my daily life but for 2 years now I dream that I am on my way home from a trip and I just can’t get on the plane. Usually I lost my luggage or passport, often I lost my money , there is enormous frustrations. I see the plane or train or bus go without me. I travel with different relatives at different times but whenever my husband is with me I always tell people “he has Alzheimer so watch over him”.
I find it odd that his illness always is with me even in dreams.
So , ok, guys what is your take on me not being able to get home?
I have 2 dreams that scare the heck out of me.
The first is that I am a baby and my parents are carring me up the isle in church to the priest. The priest is standing at the altar with sheets spread in front of him. My parent’s hand me to the priest and he lays me down on the sheet. Then the priest pulls a knife and is ready to offer me up to God. Then I wake up is a ball of sweat and grasping for breath. Maybe being brought up as a Catholic has something to do with this one.
The secound is I lose my teeth. No reason, I’m just sitting somewhere and a tooth falls out. Then I move my tongue across the other teeth and they just fall out.
Wonder what that means?
I have read that dreaming about losing your teeth means you are afraid you are losing your power.
Thank you so much. I have been looking on the internet for what that dream means. It’s kinda funny because when I answered the other wowOwow on how would you like to be known, I picked “strong”. Not like in lifting weights but strong willed, strong minded and in control. So it’s probably true.
Thanks again.
I don’t really have recurring dreams, but my dreams have recurring themes. Houses is the pleasant one. I find myself in a familiar house, and then I go through a door or down hallway and it opens up into some magnificent, unfamiliar place…like the balcony of a gilded theater or a huge underground lake, or this opulent gallery. Those are wonderful dreams.
The bad ones occur amid equally varied circumstances, but in each of them, I can’t talk. I can’t say what I need to say. There’s a real panic attached to it, and invariably I wake up to the sound of myself letting out some unintelligible groan. It’s a horrible feeling.
I have nightmare of sitting in a exam room ready to take the exam knowing fully well that i have not prepared for it at all. I dream that either i cut classes or never opened the text book. I guess, i must have fear of failing.
That is kind of how my drive in the dark dream affects me. It feels like I am not prepared for something.
Is the “love of your life” a person you actually know to be the love of your life, or is it someone you don’t know, but when you meet up with them in the dream it’s as though you are re-uniting with the love of your life whom you had forgotten but are so happy to be with again? THAT dream I’ve had twice, once as a teenager and once as an adult. Both times the person looked different in the dream, but it was the same feeling.
I dream that I still work at a job I had over 35 years ago. I keep not showing up and dreading the trouble I’m bound to get into for not reporting in. Sometimes I do show up and just hope nobody noticed I’d been gone. I also find out just before high school graduation that I don’t have enough credits to graduate. On top of all that, I keep forgetting to not go around topless. I only notice I am when I’m already somewhere else and people start staring.
As a 26 year old with children 6, 2, and 1, I was bereft when my mother died after a long illness. I started having a horrible dream about a week after her death which still occurs from time to time (she has been dead for 48 years).
In the dream I am visiting a souk in Morocco and I am carrying my one-year old from shop to shop trying to find help for him as he is ill. Nobody can understand me and I can’t understand them. There are many people pointing me in all directions and I continue running from place to place begging for help. I look down and I am carrying my mother and I cannot find my baby. Still running I wake up.
I have had several dreams that I am a passenger in a car or in a plane even, that someone else is supposed to be driving, but they are not doing their job!
I just thought of another recurring dream. I’ve had this one many times, where I find an extra room, or more often a whole wing, attached to my house that I had forgotten about.
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