{"id":765,"date":"2006-07-21T10:56:13","date_gmt":"2006-07-21T17:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/archives\/2006\/07\/21\/recurring\/index.php"},"modified":"2006-07-21T11:15:41","modified_gmt":"2006-07-21T18:15:41","slug":"recurring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/archives\/2006\/07\/21\/recurring\/index.php","title":{"rendered":"recurring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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..<\/p>\n<p>1. not graduating- i&#8217;ve had tons and tons of dreams where i&#8217;m still in either highschool or college and am really messing up in my classes so bad that i&#8217;m not gonna be able to graduate.  i&#8217;ll usually spend the whole dream totally freaking out about what i&#8217;m gonna do if i can&#8217;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&#8217;s also the variation where it&#8217;s already a few years after college, and i&#8217;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&#8217;m awake, i&#8217;ll wonder to myself &#8220;wait, did i actually graduate? or not?&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>2. teeth &#8211; even more often, i&#8217;ll have dreams where i have a loose tooth.  it SUCKS.  i&#8217;ll spend the whole dream worrying and freeaking out that my tooth is eventually gonna fall out and i&#8217;m gonna spend my whole life with a big gap in my mouth.  every time i close my mouth, i&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>3. hand eye coordination &#8211; 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&#8217;s just a simple movement, i wont be able to do it right.  for instance i&#8217;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&#8217;s in my way, but my hand keeps missing the thing completely even though it&#8217;s just a foot in front of me.  or i&#8217;m trying to walk and yet keep tripping on my own feet.<\/p>\n<p>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?<\/p>\n<p>*v<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;ve had tons and tons of dreams where i&#8217;m still in either highschool or college and am really messing up in my classes &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/archives\/2006\/07\/21\/recurring\/index.php\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;recurring&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-san-francisco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}