Recurring dreams

Does anyone on here get recurring dreams or recurring themes in dreams at all? I have two that get up every so often

The first one I have been getting this one since I was about 14 years old. Pretty much what happens is my dog that died due to cancer when i was 13 will show up in my dream, but it will usually take place during current times. One time he was playing with the dog that I have now and it seemed really normal until I woke up.

The second one is pretty strange. Basically, I will be in a public setting, and for no reason I will just start fapping, and absolutely no one will say anything about it. I really don't know why I get this one, or when it even started (I think it started before the first one I mentioned but not sure), but I find it kind of funny but kind of disturbing that it keeps coming up.

Annnnnyyywaaaayyyy.... I'm sure I'm not the only one who gets recurring dreams on here. What are some of your guy's recurring dreams, and what does it mean if you are having dreams like this anyway?

Usually recurrent dreams are things that you think about on a subconscious level. You may even realize you think about them from time to time, but they are more on your mind then you know.

The one with your dog is a pretty rooted memory for you and it probably relates to your desire to have your companion back or relating the good times with him in your current self (past meets present). It's a comfort dream that allows you to keep the memory your dog alive and shows he must have been precious to you.

Second one is a repressed sexual interest/desire. You may have a curiosity for doing something along that nature, but repress it since it's morally wrong to do so. This doesn't mean that you have to do it to get rid of the dreams, just means that it's an interest and you can either accept it or try something outdoors. I've had dreams along these lines before and I do so even now occasionally, but I just leave such things in my dreams. I don't really care to do some of the things in my dreams because once I wake up the rational side of me kicks in and such.

The recurrent dreams I do have are usually of an imaginary friend I had as a child that was a comfort to me. Dreams of bugs killing me (I have a fear of them). And some kinky ones I don't care to go into (strictly for my bf's ears). They are all sides of my subconscious (solace, fear, and desire), and people will have them occasionally.

Thanks for the explanation. I was really curious as to why they happen.

I have had a few dreams where I'm in a nice hotel with some of my friends. Every time I have his simi-lucid dream, at one point I have to wait in an elevator and have a quick chat with interesting people, aliens, mythological creatures, and the like.
Some of the more memorable characters I met in the elevator:
A female centaur who was the librarian.
Battle ready firefighting robot force, like Voltron, but with red hats
An angel and demon who were joined at the hand
The sun god and moon goddess and their 36 children named Pike

And one time an exact duplicate of me if I were sad and depressed, and I can remember she wanted me to brutally kill her so that she didn't get in the way of my happiness like she "always does." And that she deserved the worst possible fate. I didn't do it, no I hugged sad me and though it didn't make her happy I know it did something.

I can control what I do in the dream but not exactly who I meet and why other than I had to take the elevator. But I feel like I learn about myself through these odd characters, such as no matter how much it hurts, I would not give up the emotions of sadness and pain.

And I recall the chat with the centaur being about why I only check out specific kinds of books from the library. I still don't know what I'm supposed to interpret "books" as but perhaps I am a bit picky about certain things and I should try and "read more books"

It doesn't happen anymore but two years ago , every week, at least twice I'd have dreams where my teeth were falling off. I would either pick tooth by tooth off of my mouth or they would fall off but themselves. Some dreams got quite bloody and I would feel pain as well in real life. It was possibly the worst period of my sleeping life , fortunately it hasn't happened in a very long time

You probably already know this, but appearantly when your teeth fall out in your dreams it's a sign that you fear losing something important.

I remember seeing that when looking up for possible meanings. It also had something to do with stress which I was experiencing a lot back then

O.o So that's why I kept having that come up a while back. I was afraid of losing an important friend of mine (who in the end... I ended up losing anyway. *sob*)

I had no idea the fear of losing something would make that happen in your dreams...


I've had lots of other recurring themes too, I should see if I can remember any so I can post them here. Maybe they'll mean something as well.

EDIT:

Now that I think about it, there are a few themes that seem to come up more than others, but sometimes not always consistently.

1. Flying

I remember constant times where I've been able to fly in dreams, usually I have wings on my back when it does happen. When it does occur, sometimes I'm in control of when I can actually fly, sometimes it happens at random. I do know I'm dreaming when it happens though. As generic as this theme is, perhaps this represents me wanting freedom in a way?

2. Seeing, Interacting and/or Becoming Certain Characters

Usually when this happens to me, I usually end up seeing or becoming characters from games I've played, or animes I've watched. However, most of the characters I do interact with are my own characters, like ones from the MMOs I've played or the characters I created for RPing. This turns especially interesting if you become a character that is not entirely human. :P

3. Becoming the Opposite Gender

I'm interested to hear if anyone has had this happen. Usually when this happens in dreams for me, it usually follows in suit with the previous post. Most of the time I end up a female, I end up being Astra, my Miqo'te character from FF14. To put it simply, she's a catgirl. Also, when this does happen, there is very little, if any, sexual thought about who I am at the time. I think most of the interest stems from being something I will never become. (The fact that having cat ears and a tail, while having them feel real at the same time, overshadows the fact that I'm a girl at the time. :P)

A dream that I used to have that was reoccurring was when my life was turned into Silent Hill. So one time I'd been in New York grown up, another time in California, and more recently in South Korea. People would be showing realistic loss of hope, or changes in insanity. How it always would end though is my vision would fade, and I'd see my body become a monster.

Recently I've been having this reoccurring theme to my dreams. Not really the same exact dream with same people, setting, etc. But mostly same theme.

Basically the dream involves me having a lot of fun, playing random games, walking through parks and having just in general a really good time. All while doing this with a bunch of good friends (I'm assuming that they are friends since we are all together and seemingly chummy). As far as I can remember, none of these people are based off actual friends of mine though. Which is a little strange and concerning. But the main part of this dream is that there is always a woman out of this group of friends that is either: in a new and playful relationship with me; someone who likes me but is seemingly shy about it; or someone that I am just meeting and getting to know.

Usually with a dream like this, I'd just enjoy being able to remember parts of it when I wake up, and not make anything of it. But lately it has been reoccurring and sometimes it is the same woman. I can't really remember any features of the woman though, so I'm assuming that it is not someone I know, but still....

Can anyone shed any light on this for me?

I had a recurring dream last night. Picked up where it last left off. It started to get creepy so I had to wake up for good. I also get recurring themes about going back to high school or college.

A lot of unpleasant memories from my past tend to reappear in my dreams also a lot of Alien scenarios.

I also keep getting dreams involving me attempting to watch VHS porno movies, but always failing to do so.

I don't really remember if I have any recurring dreams at all, but for some reason back in 2010 and 2011 I used to have nightmares for several days in a row, and boy did that sap my strength. It's NOT fun at all to have nightmares over and over again; literally made me try to stay awake as long as possible.

Then there's those dreams where real-life happenings are incorporated into my dreams. For example, I had this dream where an alarm kept going off somewhere, and no matter how I searched I could not find it. When I woke up it turned out that it really was my alarm going off. Then there's the time when my right leg was cramping up and I dreamed of myself spawing as a Zergling with a defective right leg that didn't budge.

I remember back in 2005 I joined my school's soccer team, I played on it that year and thought it was the coolest thing. Before I started playing soccer I put all my time into WoW and playing soccer really helped me to learn how to talk to people and it was all I thought about for a good 2 years. But in 2007 TBC launched and I played it constantly and eventually stopped practicing for soccer at all. I ended up getting kicked off the team.

I didn't mind that I got kicked off the team at the time, because all I thought about night and day was trying to be one of the best warlocks in the game. I met this like 24 year old girl and a high schooler and we ran 3's constantly. Ending the very first season with like nearly 700+ games played on a single team. I started having these dreams where I messed up every game and we just lost a ton of games. I pretty much lost faith in myself for a while. But then Cici (24 year old) gave me this crazy good advice. "If you doubt yourself, then you aren't putting everything you have into what you're doing. To be the best means that you never make a mistake, that means having zero doubt in your mind that you are ever doing something wrong.". That advice gave me this weird obsession with playing with the same teammates over and over throughout multiple seasons. We ended up getting Rank 1 every single season and soon arenas were the only thing I dreampt and thought about.

We ended 6 seasons in a row with the Rank 1 title and then on the 7th the rogue brought in someone new to our little circle. We all got Rank 1 again, no big deal. About a month after the season ends I start getting theese weird pop-up dreams. Where i'm just having a normal dream and all of a sudden all I see is these random images of Cici. I would try my hardest to try to dream or think of something else but for some reason I just couldn't. No matter how badly I wanted it to stop. I wondered, I haven't played with her in so long why am I dreaming about her in this sort of weird way. I didn't even think about and hadn't spoken to her in months.

A few weeks after I start getting those weird pop-ups I get this skype call from her and I instantly say before she can say anything "Oh hey we haven't heard from you in a while, I heard you didn't get rank one. I'm really sorry about leaving you like that. Could you really not find any good partners?". Right after I said that her roommate (I used to talk to her roommate cuz she made jokes about me and my friend all the time just strolling through.) replied, "Hey, I have to tell you something serious don't make a joke.". I said ok and she continued, "Cici died. She got ran over by some drunk driver after we were coming home from a club."

At that point I didn't know what to say, I just hung up. She ended up calling me back like 5 seconds later; But I had kinda realized that maybe my dreams meant something and those images of her popping up were because we had (pretty much) abandoned her and deep down I really wanted to play with her since we were the original team.


Sorry if this post is incredibly long, I just didn't know how to condense this without really taking away from the entire story o.0

yo i have soooooooo many fucking recurring dreams yo

i have one dream where this shadow nocturne[some champ in league of legends] bitch keeps chasing me until it wants my dead

i have this other dream where i wake up behind the girl i really liked in bed with her and then she tells me to close my eyes, and then i wake up

i have this other dream where i walk this girl i really liked to class and then she says i'll call you later, and then i wake up because i knew she wouldn't

i have this other dream where im in the car with the girl i really like, and then she tells me to wake up, and i wake up to me colliding into another car, and then i wake up

Most recurring dream theme: my vision suddenly stops updating. Imagine this: you look outside the window and see a tree below. Then you turn your head back into the room, but you still see the tree! You try to shake your head, move your eyes around, but all you see is that image of a tree. Then something happens around you, that demands your urgent action and, most of all, demands your VISION, but you simply can't see what's in front of you. You move your eyes, open them as wide as you can, but you only see that image of a tree stuck in you eyes.

In my dreams, my vision could become stuck like this at any moment, focusing on pretty much anything. Then I'd need to dodge something or jump around avoiding pitfalls in this sad state of affairs or some such thing.

Most important dreams to me are the ones, where my subconsciousness talks to me directly, when I either encounter a mirror or a mask. These are precious and I try to remember and record all of them. The meaning might be strange at first, but you get used to it.

I used to have a recurring dream, when I end up in some building with a lot of vent shafts, which would eventually close and I had to get to some spot through those vent shafts before they close.
Every dream I would choose a different route, but end up in the same room. It was fun exploring those, but after 3 or 4 dreams this one stopped. Another dream came up in the same building later, but the events would transpire in the cave below the building, with origami-swans being the queens of the Universe and red paper soldiers being their helpers and what not.

Another one was a nightmare when it happened first. Next time I visited the place, I killed the object of fear (I think it was a girly ghost of some description) by throwing it into some machinery. By the third time my dreams led me to the same location, me and that ghost were good friends, standing on the balcony thinking deep thoughts.

Generally, I have a few locations that I would recognize, when dreaming. The events that transpire might be different, but the more I see those places, the easier it is to become lucid and try to affect what's happening in the dream. My mind is getting the memo though and it forces me to wake up from one dream into another, so that I loose control over the dream process. It's an interesting battle.



I am having nightmares on about weekly bases. There is a way to overcome nightmares and that is to force yourself to stay in the dream when you want to wake up and then force a change on a dream. I found that beyond some point, the dream just stops generating plausible fear. It simply becomes ridiculous, as if it can no longer sustain itself, as if you were meant to wake up, but refused to do so.

One of my dreams was about me being stuck in a room with a guy whose flesh was rotting. He would rip his eye out of his eye socket, through it at me and laugh uncontrollably. This was scary as hell and forced me to wake up. I then forced myself back into the dream (wasn't too difficult, since I just woke up from it and the memory was fresh) and just stood there and waited. The guy was just stuck, he didn't know what to do next. I picked his eyeball, threw it back at him and walked away. My nerves calmed down after that and I had a good night sleep.

tl;dr: stuck-vision dreams, vent-traveling dreams, chained-progression dreams, recurring nightmares, common dream locations.

I always find myself visiting a white room, watching murder scenes on various televisions stacked on top of eachother. It's quite horrifying. I got no idea why it happens either

I been haveing this weird dream since i was 12, where im being chased by a frigging panda...and im not shitting you, its a panda. I have woke up many times thanks to that bastard. Im not scared of pandas or bears,for that matter, but it just started one day. Its a once a month thing.