what the hell is up w/ recurring dreams? i dont really have the same dream over and over, but i definitely have several themes that happen again and again..
1. not graduating- i’ve had tons and tons of dreams where i’m still in either highschool or college and am really messing up in my classes so bad that i’m not gonna be able to graduate. i’ll usually spend the whole dream totally freaking out about what i’m gonna do if i can’t actually pull through school, and yet making millions of mistakes over and over that make it more and more inevitable that i wont actually graduate. there’s also the variation where it’s already a few years after college, and i’m trying to figure out how to go back to college since i didnt graduate. these kinds of dreams have happened so many times and are so realistic that very often now, even when i’m awake, i’ll wonder to myself “wait, did i actually graduate? or not?”.
2. teeth – even more often, i’ll have dreams where i have a loose tooth. it SUCKS. i’ll spend the whole dream worrying and freeaking out that my tooth is eventually gonna fall out and i’m gonna spend my whole life with a big gap in my mouth. every time i close my mouth, i’ll feel the loose tooth and keep hoping that maybe, just somehow, it will stay in. but it falls out in the end. it always does. in an even worse variation of this dream that i had recently, i somehow smashed my teeth up, and as the dream went on, more and more of my teeth slowly disintegrated into gravel in my mouth.
3. hand eye coordination – the most common theme in my dreams though, is not having any kind of hand eye coordination. i will try to do the same physical task over and over and over, but even though it’s just a simple movement, i wont be able to do it right. for instance i’ll be parking my car, and i just cant gas or break correctly and i keep crashing over and over. or i try over and over to push something that’s in my way, but my hand keeps missing the thing completely even though it’s just a foot in front of me. or i’m trying to walk and yet keep tripping on my own feet.
none of these dreams is pleasant. not quite nightmares or anything that bad (though i do have plenty of those too), but just really disconcerting. all of these 3 types of dreams are filled with being worried the whole time and a feeling of not being in control. is this supposed to be some kind of reflection on my life?
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I have recurring dreams too. My top three recurring dreams: Sharks, probably because I have an intense, irrational fear of them; my teeth falling out, probably a result of my grinding my teeth during my sleep; and law school / the bar, for obvious reasons.
I have the school dream, too. Never highschool, but college yes. It sucks… I’ll wake up hella confused and I’ll have to keep reminding myself that I have graduated.
I also have the loosing teeth dream. But, it is never one tooth. It will start with one loose tooth, but it will end up with many teeth lost. I never lose just one, and the teeth will end up being grinded to gravel…
The graduating one doesn’t bother me too much. In fact, I end up being really happy when I finally put together that I am done with school.
The teeth one really disturbing and it really bothers me…
With both these dreams, though, I always go through a period where I think I have woke up, but I’m still in the dream. I hate that part…
so weird… all 3 of us have dreams of our teeth falling out? is this like a super common thing? ugh… it’s always sooo hatin’ it… although the one where all of my teeth crumbled was wayyy worse.
Yeah, and we’re not alone. Chris said he has similar dreams. I really think it has something to do with teeth-grinding.
I have these crazy dreams where I can’t stop clenching my jaw. I’ll try to stop, but I can’t – eventually, my teeth just shatter and fall out of my head. What the fuck?
I think Freud theorized that these kinds of dreams have something to do with feeling insecure about one’s sexual abilities. I’m not sure how one and the other go together…
i have the teeth dream from time to time too! crazy. check this:
http://www.experiencefestival.com/dream_dictionary_teeth_falling_out
Yeah, the teeth-falling-out dream is ridiculously common. Every single “dream interpretation” book and website has something to say about it. My two major recurring dream themes are having to go to the bathroom really badly but every place I try to go is disgustingly filthy, and walking through hospitals for no apparent reason. I’m not staying in the hospital, and I’m not visiting anyone there, but I’m just walking through.
yeah, but freud thought everything having to do w/ psychology had to be abouot sex…
it’s so weird that people have been studying dreams and sleep for ages, yet there are still no definitive answers for why either of them are necessary. someone needs to invent a cure for sleep… i wouldnt mind having an extra 8 hours per day to have fun.