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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2009 12:37:43 GMT
I have recurrent dreams,one in particular involves finding money (always in coins). This a.m. it was a paltry amount but a recurrent theme none the less. Goes back as far as childhood.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2009 12:48:19 GMT
I have an enormous variety of recurring dreams, but I have always found coins all over the place, too. However, I have upgraded over the years and have even found wads of bills.
My nudity dreams have upgraded over the years as well. When I was in 1st grade I would dream that I had forgotten to put on my shoes and would be mortified to be wearing my socks in class. As the years went by, I would have on less and less clothing until I finally arrived at full nudity, often in places such as public transport or even the office. It used to be a thoroughly traumatic experience, but then I noticed that nobody seemed to care and acted as though nothing was out of the ordinary. So even though I now sometimes wonder why on earth I am walking down the street completely naked, I have decided to pretend that everything is okay and I have never been challenged.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2009 0:12:42 GMT
Taking decision in a dream.. you must have some mental power that I have not.
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Post by Aussielover on Feb 18, 2009 1:00:03 GMT
I used to have the anxiety dream of arriving at school in only my underwear - or missing the bus home (which happened to me once in real life, and must have left me permanently scarred.)
But the dream I have recurrently - at least once or twice a year - is that I wind up married to Paul McCartney. Now that he's 65, I don't even fancy him the way I did when he was much younger, but I still have the dreams none-the-less. Funny thing is, he and my husband share the same birthday (if not the same year.)
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2009 1:03:28 GMT
I have three recurrent dreams. The most frequent is going naked in public places, especially work. Nodody tells me anything but I'm embarrassed because I'm sure people are talking behind my 'back'.
In another dream I discover that I can fly just by moving my arms like a bird (its wings). It's a pleasant experience.
In a less frequent but totally bizarre dream I take my motorbike to the repair shop. I more or less forget about it and I buy a new one. A few weeks/months later the motorbike breaks down so I take it to another repair shop, and again I forget about it and I buy a new one. I end up having three or four motorbikes. I finally take them back, pay the repair bills and wonder what I will do with all theses motorbikes. Actually I have two totally rational explanations for this dream. First, I must admit, I am very negligent in handling my personal affairs. Second, I think I have been traumatized by my experiences with mechanics (I HATE them) when I had a motorbike. I have had so many problems with them that I could write a novel about the subject.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2009 10:17:40 GMT
More dreams of late involving finding money. Still coins though
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Post by tillystar on Oct 13, 2009 12:04:43 GMT
I have 3 that I can think of ONe is an anxiety dream that I am in my secondary school and I haven't been for ages and can't find my timetable and I don't know what class I am supposed to be in or what books I am supposed to have, I suspect it is games and I don't have my gym kit. I think this is because I spent most of school in this state it still hangs over me The other two dreams are wonderful, I dream often that I can't fly but I discover I can hover for long periods of time and catch a current and move around like that, its such fun! I also often dream that I can swim underwater for miles without needing air and there are always lots of interesting fish but different places - amazing swimming pools, clear rivers, oceans. I always wake up realy happy from those two!
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Post by imec on Oct 13, 2009 12:28:23 GMT
Ha! tilly, I hover too! When I was a kid it was flying but now it's this wierd hovering thing. Also, for years I used to dream I'd find myself in a class half way through the semester and didn't have the faintest clue what was going on - it was like I missed all the other classes and all the work - very stressful. Also used to have frequent dreams of the elevator in the building I worked in dropping - it never actually crashed but the sensation of falling was terrifying. It was so realistic it disturbed me for years - the memory is so vivid that I had to ask a friend and co-worker if it did in fact used to happen.
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Post by livaco on Oct 13, 2009 12:46:35 GMT
Also, for years I used to dream I'd find myself in a class half way through the semester and didn't have the faintest clue what was going on - it was like I missed all the other classes and all the work - very stressful. I've had that dream, too. Probably because it's something I'm afraid really will happen. I'm not in school anymore, but I need to take post-grad classes periodically to renew my teaching license. I almost think that I could sign up for a class and just forget to go because my life is so busy. Of course I wouldn't -- I'm pretty good at writing things on the calendar. At least I think I have my life together enough. Or I hope I do. :-)
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2009 12:49:40 GMT
I have had the underwater swimming dream as well tilly. Not for a while now though. Maybe this will spurn one on. The middle of the semester nightmare you mention imec is also a recurrent one with me. Panic attacks.
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Post by imec on Oct 13, 2009 12:55:50 GMT
More dreams of late involving finding money. Still coins though Check em, maybe they're gold coins...
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2009 14:12:55 GMT
The school dreams are a general classic, and I have had them as well, although for me it is already the very end of the school year and a realize that I have completely forgotten to go to any classes and the final exam is tomorrow.
However, once again I have been able to modify my feeling over the years, because now I can find myself in a class where I don't understand a thing, and the back of my mind tells me "Who cares? You finished school years ago, so just play along because nothing bad can happen."
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2009 16:03:48 GMT
I used to have a recurring dream, it went like this: I was in a very tall elevator. And no matter what floor number I pressed, I would go right to the top floor, above the building. It was kind of scary because I thought I would never stop going up and end would up in the sky somewhere. Strange I know.
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Post by spindrift on Oct 15, 2009 15:55:36 GMT
The only recurring dreams I can remember are the Sleep Paralysis ones......I haven't had one for years and I hope to goodness they don't happen again. Sleep Paralysis is most unpleasant if not terrifying. You dream that you are wide awake in bed but you cannot move a muscle and someone is about to enter the room and find you that way. I eventually learned to close my eyes and go back to sleep knowing I'd probably wake up feeling normal.
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 15, 2009 20:11:47 GMT
I had those a lot when I was a young teenager, Spindrift. Mine were always accompanied by a rushing sound and yes, they are terrifying.
I have often wondered if those people who think they were kidnapped by aliens weren't prone to the sleep paralysis dreams. The accounts I've read of these "abductions" sound strikingly like sleep paralysis.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2009 17:41:48 GMT
In recent years, I have had dreams about plane crashes regularly. Generally, since they are quite stressful, they end before certain death.
However, I may be mastering the problem (just as I did with the nudity issue), because this last weekend I was in a 747 that was crashing, and the plane managed to land in a potato field or some such with no casualties. (But it was still rather stressful and work me up.)
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Post by hwinpp on Oct 20, 2009 2:47:57 GMT
I can't even remember the last dream I had as an adult.
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Post by rikita on Oct 20, 2009 20:06:12 GMT
i do occasionally dream that i am back to school and want to prove that i am much smarter now, but then there is math class and when i look into the book i have no idea at all what it says in there, and i suddenly realize i keep forgetting to go to that class or study at home and i plan to do that from now on but i still don't. or there is an exam and i plan to study and never do and then i am suddenly there in class and don't know anything.
also i often dream about being somewhere with beautiful landscape or animals and i really want to take photos, but my camera won't work. i keep pressing the button but it just doesn't react.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2009 20:31:30 GMT
At a certain time, I had dreams that lasted for a long period of time, for example being marooned on a desert island and organizing my life for several years. I was always so incredibly disappointed when I woke up, because it was like getting a super bonus of life -- living for months or years and waking up just one night older.
I haven't had such a dream in a long time, but I really wish they would start again, even if living on a desert island is not the easiest thing in the world.
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Post by spindrift on Oct 21, 2009 15:11:55 GMT
hwnpp - no recall of dreams may be an indication that you are low in vitamin B6! that's a fact!
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Post by rikita on Oct 21, 2009 15:21:25 GMT
really? my bf never remembers his dreams...
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Post by fumobici on Oct 21, 2009 15:54:43 GMT
I went through a couple of years of almost no dream recall, but have been having pretty vivid recall the past year or so. No significant dietary changes to attribute it to though. I prefer remembering, though I find most of my dreams pretty uninteresting in retrospect.
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 22, 2009 1:04:33 GMT
Does anyone ever have the experience of suddenly remembering a dream out of the blue? You get up in the morning, probably dreamed but with no memory of it, and you go about your day. All of a sudden something makes you remember the whole dream. It's a strange sensation that always makes me think the dream must have been Significant.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 22, 2009 2:07:37 GMT
That's never happened to me, but I wish it would. I'd really like to recall some of my dreams. I must dream I'm sure, but I very rarely remember any at all.
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Post by hwinpp on Oct 22, 2009 2:29:17 GMT
I'll have to look into what food contains B6...
I don't know whether I don't dream or not, I just don't remember anything.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 22, 2009 3:14:07 GMT
Quite often I'll see or hear something the next morning that will trigger a memory of a dream I had sort of like B. mentioned. I don't think it's necessarily "out of the blue",it's similar to olfactory recall. A memory trigger. From there, I can usually piece together the whole dream.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 22, 2009 5:06:33 GMT
I often dream about going on trips with my parents, with them appearing more or less how they were 10 or 15 years ago (while damn it, I'm the same age I am now!). My father seems to spend a lot of time criticizing my driving or how I park the car, just like in real life. That's what he was doing again in last night's dream.
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Post by spindrift on Oct 22, 2009 8:42:31 GMT
These days all of my dreams are very unpleasant.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 22, 2009 14:09:32 GMT
I have a feeling mine are too, it's just as well, I can't recall them.
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Post by rikita on Oct 22, 2009 15:37:24 GMT
i often have that too, that i don't remember a dream at first but then later on the memory is triggered. don't usually remember the whole dream then, though, but bits and pieces. my dreams often aren't one logical story anyway, but lots of strange things that all are one dream but don't make that much sense to each other when i am awake.
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