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Posted by LiLi80 on March 20, 2002, at 15:29:52
everyone has flying dreams right? But can you say that you always needed a running start to take off? I can
Posted by Penny on March 20, 2002, at 15:47:55
In reply to name your weirdest re-occuring dream, posted by LiLi80 on March 20, 2002, at 15:29:52
I used to dream that my whole family (mom, dad, brother, me & our pets) was in this maze and there was a madman chasing us with two big dogs, and the dogs would eat everyone starting with the pets & then brother & then mom & dad and then...I would wake up before the madman got to me. I had this dream off and on for years while I was growing up. Haven't had it for a while, tho'.
Penny
Posted by IsoM on March 20, 2002, at 15:50:18
In reply to name your weirdest re-occuring dream, posted by LiLi80 on March 20, 2002, at 15:29:52
Not me. I just go on tip-toes & keep lifting. I can take these gliding steps around others without ever touching the ground. It feels so real that I'm convinced I can do it. I've tried a couple of times when I woke up, even though I knew I wouldn't be able to. Other times, I soar over housetops & hydro wires, free of the ground. Yet in real life, I'm freaked of heights, but in my dreams they're wonderful.
I keep having dreams about going back to this one house - it's a wondrous house but a little eerie at the same time. There's rooms inside rooms & different worlds in them sometimes. None of it's patterned after any movies as I'm not much of a movie-goer, I prefer books, so I have no idea where my house comes from. But I look forward to the dreams where I revisit it.
Posted by kid_A on March 20, 2002, at 16:03:55
In reply to name your weirdest re-occuring dream, posted by LiLi80 on March 20, 2002, at 15:29:52
Posted by Dinah on March 20, 2002, at 18:20:54
In reply to name your weirdest re-occuring dream, posted by LiLi80 on March 20, 2002, at 15:29:52
I always need a running start too. In fact I'm always running very fast for another reason and then I take off. And I always end up going higher than I intended and scaring myself.
I don't dream often any more, but my only recurring dream since starting medication is:
I enter my therapist's office with my therapist as usual. There is someone else sitting in the extra chair (a woman I think). He explains that he will no longer be my therapist (the reason varies) but that this will be my new therapist. I don't listen any longer, but start yelling at him and then turn to run off. I tell him it's no longer his concern what I do.
I've been having this dream for about six months. I had it this week. Then today my therapist tells me that he is going for a job interview but has no plans to discontinue his practice, at least on a part time basis. No plans. Not entirely reassuring, but not too bad I guess.
Posted by trouble on March 20, 2002, at 19:27:45
In reply to name your weirdest re-occuring dream, posted by LiLi80 on March 20, 2002, at 15:29:52
Robyn Hitchcock in wading boots and bloody butcher apron, slaughtering my family members in the basement of the house I grew up in.
Get it?
Robin
Posted by Rach on March 21, 2002, at 5:47:10
In reply to Re: name your weirdest re-occuring dream, posted by Dinah on March 20, 2002, at 18:20:54
To take off all I have to do is jump, and then to actually fly I swim breastroke through the air.
My reoccuring dream when I was little was that to get to my house (a very fairytale gingerbread type house) I had to walk a plank across a boiling red lava filled moat. The moat was also filled with ghosties and goulies who tried to drown you. It was also filled with the sad spirits of people who had been drowned. I get pulled in, and the monsters are trying to drown me, and I say "don't kill me, I'm too beautiful to die."
I stopped having that dream when I was about 7.
Posted by LiLi80 on March 21, 2002, at 16:28:16
In reply to name your weirdest re-occuring dream, posted by LiLi80 on March 20, 2002, at 15:29:52
Ok i am 8 yrs old, and my parents have always talked about moving and buying a house, yeah we still havent. Anyway, So in my dream my mom wakes me up and says come on lili, we have to get moving, we are moving today. I accept this answer tho we never moved. I pick up a box, that is open on top. My barbie was in the box, and suddenly she came to life. She started yelling at me, she said this was her room and she aint moving. She just kept yelling at me and waving her arms around. And thats when i wake up, I have had this dream from 8 yrs old to about 14 yrs old. Stupid barbie bitch!
Posted by ST on March 21, 2002, at 16:55:46
In reply to name your weirdest re-occuring dream, posted by LiLi80 on March 20, 2002, at 15:29:52
I've only been having this type of dream in the past 6 months...I've already analyzed it. Yes, I feel I'm behind everyone else, I don't have the success I want...(I spent my twenties in a big pot of depression stew, so it's no wonder)
I'm back at school - the 4-year acting conservatory I went to - and I can't graduate because there's some music history or theater history or dumb dance class I never took; I find this out like the day of graduation. Everyone's getting ready for graduation and I'm freaking out....
Or I'm at school again and I have the lead in something (it's usually anything from "Funny Girl" to "The Cherry Orchard") and I can't remember rehearsing the damn thing or the lines or I lose my singing voice or I can't make my costume change in time and I miss a major entrance and I walk on stage and every one is staring at me....WHEW...I'm getting excited just relaying this...I need to go take a nap...AAAAAAAAUGH!
ST
Posted by beardedlady on March 22, 2002, at 6:27:10
In reply to BACK AT SCHOOL, posted by ST on March 21, 2002, at 16:55:46
I know that one! I have been having the same dream in three versions since 1980!
It's the day of final exams, but I've never been to a single history class, and I haven't read word one of the textbook. I am late because I can't remember my locker combination. I am going to take the test anyway. (In longer versions, I wind up with a B for the course.)
Or: I'm in college, but we still have lockers. My coat and all my books are inside, but I can't remember the combination, so I have to go to the principal's office to get it. Once I get my stuff, I can't find the room I'm supposed to be in. I don't have my sheet with the room numbers and classes. I don't know if I'm supposed to be in English this period or Math, and there's no way for anyone to help me. I never go to one of the classes because I never know I'm supposed to be in it!
Or: Once I get in my locker, I can't get out of the building. The building has so many floors and only steps to get to them; it's a maze. One room in the school has really low ceilings, so you have to crawl through it to get to the gymnasium. Once I'm there, though, it becomes a loading dock, and I try to get out of school that way, but there's a huge fence. Once I climb it, I'm in a multi-story, pitch black parking garage. I have no idea where my car is.
Don't we all have this anxiety dream?
beardy : )>
Posted by beardedlady on March 22, 2002, at 6:33:15
In reply to Re: the flying bit » LiLi80, posted by IsoM on March 20, 2002, at 15:50:18
When someone chases me, I can do the breast stroke, and my body lifts up to the sky. I fly doing the crawl. (I was on a swim team for 9 years when I was a kid.)
I, too, am afraid of heights (phobic, actually; I could vomit!), and I am even afraid of them in my dream. I will only go high enough for the person to not reach me--not as high as the top of any tree. If I get that high, I have to stop swimming and wait until I get lower.
This is actually a good thing, my therapist says. We are people who know how to get out of sticky situations--even in our dreams. He has clients who have terrible dreams, and he says he's able to explain to them that if wolves can chase them, the dreamers can make the wolves disappear. They just have to know that anything's possible in a dream and that nothing can hurt you there if you don't let it. They usually "practice" this by a gentle reminder at night, and their dreams become safe. Sometimes the wolves stay gone.
Beardy : )>
Posted by IsoM on March 22, 2002, at 14:23:29
In reply to Re: the flying bit--metoo! metoo! » IsoM, posted by beardedlady on March 22, 2002, at 6:33:15
You know what?? I can't swim!! Oh, I want to so bad, but I can only swim with goggles on & underwater. I can't stay afloat for the life of me. But my swimming dreams are so sweet. I can tell by my dreams how I feel. When I swim in the wide, warm Pacific (so warm in my dreams), I know I'm doing good. When I have trouble reaching the ocean & there's obstacles to get through, it such a fitting analogy of my life. But I'm always heading towards the warm ocean. So I know it means I'm never giving up.
I used to have very frightening dreams, terrifying sometimes. I found bit by bit, I could wrestle control of them & change them. One time, I was trapped in an upstairs room unable to leave, & something dark & terrifyingly dangerous was crawling up the outside wall to the bedroom window. I changed it so when it entered the window, it was a playful monkey & my dream became good.
I think because I am now able to control most dreams, I no longer have any frightening dreams. The most frightening now involve my exhusband trying to force me to return to where we used to live & I tell him to get lost. :-)
Have you ever dreamed you were other people? I have. Once I was this old man in my dream - a different persona completely, not even the same sex. One son has dreams like me too. Unfortunately, my dream life is often more exciting than my real life, but I don't mind. I don't think I could take all that excitement in real life.
Posted by beardedlady on March 22, 2002, at 15:32:00
In reply to Scary Dreams Changing to Harmless » beardedlady, posted by IsoM on March 22, 2002, at 14:23:29
I've never dreamt I was someone else, but I am never me in a dream. The Serzone makes my dreams very scary sometimes. (I never used to have very scary ones, but I always could remember them.) I have dreamt I was raped and robbed. I've dreamt horrible things have happened to my daughter. I have dreamt of nuclear war (I saw the red sky and everything in the dream) on the first night of Hanukkah. I also dreamt that our truck skidded off a bridge and into the reservoir--I hit the water and everything! That was the most real dream I have ever had.
The other night I had the scariest dream of my life, but I think I got out of it. I was in the car (maybe it had a sunroof or a convertible, because I could see a lot of the sky. The traffic was completely stopped. I could see an airplane overhead, and it was flying funny, getting lower and lower, circling us. Four men parachuted out of it and landed behind my car. They had a metal lunchbox with a bomb in it. They opened the box and threw its contents to the street directly behind my car. Lots of cars were behind that, unable to move. The bomb didn't go off! The terrorists were surprised, freaked out! They picked up the bomb and looked at it a bunch to see what was wrong with it. At that point, I got out of the car and screamed at them that they were assholes and that I was going to kill them, but then I thought they must have guns if they're terrorists. So we drove away, because the traffic wasn't backed up in front of us anymore. I went straight to this new building I'd never been to where I supposedly had a job at a newspaper called the "Alternative." (I think it's a Gay and Lesbian newspaper for real, though I'm not sure.) But we were a political paper. I tried to tell members of the press what had happened, since I was the first to make it out. No one would believe me. I told them they would just as soon as the people got out of the traffic jam. Then I woke up.
Creepy, huh?
beardy : )>
Posted by beardedlady on March 22, 2002, at 16:27:55
In reply to Re: Scary Dreams Changing to Harmless » IsoM, posted by beardedlady on March 22, 2002, at 15:32:00
Posted by IsoM on March 22, 2002, at 19:24:25
In reply to Re: Scary Dreams Changing to Harmless » IsoM, posted by beardedlady on March 22, 2002, at 15:32:00
Not boring at all - now you stop being hard on yourself. Your dream sounds like an adventure novel (or movie in your case), too bad it felt creepy instead. I've had adventure-filled dreams, but while they're really exciting & enjoyable, they don't sound as interesting when I try to relate them. My son just rolls his eyes & says "sorry Mom, but they're not exciting to me." So I've learned to keep my dreams for my own enjoyment.
Long before all this crisis in the Mid-east started up, in one dream I was an Iranian princess that was being smuggled out of the country because of political turmoil. It wasn't me - my personality or anything, but I played the role, so to speak. So I do understand loving to talk about some dreams.
Posted by beardedlady on March 23, 2002, at 5:46:44
In reply to Re: Scary Dreams » beardedlady, posted by IsoM on March 22, 2002, at 19:24:25
Are you Iranian? It's so weird to be someone else in a dream. I'll have to ask around if anyone's had that happen. I suppose metaphorically we're all someone else in a dream--the person who flies through a fear of heights, etc. But this is simply bizarre. Is the son who doesn't want to hear your dreams the same one who dreams he is someone else?
The reason I said the post was boring was the same thing as what your son says. I think my dreams are really exciting, but I'm not sure they make a good story. It's more interesting to the other person if he or she knows you AND is in the dream!
So, Iso, last night's dream was wild. I often have pee dreams--I have to go to the bathroom, but all the stalls are full, so I run around looking for an empty one. Or else they're up high, and I have to climb. Or I just don't fit into the small space for the toilet area. Sometimes the peeing area is just a big room with toilets, showers, and tubs, and there are no curtains or anything.
You don't have to read any further. This is just helping me to remember the dream!
So last night, these two girls were behind me in the line, but I was first, so I went first. But I couldn't fit in the little stall that was up high, and the big stall was kind of dirty, so I went to one in a "dangerous" area. Lots of big men were using the pay phones next to this lone, free-standing stall, and I got in the door on the other side of them without anyone seeing me. Before I pull my pants down, this big guy starts peeking under the stall, so I kicked the door opened and shook my finger at him. Then he grabbed me, and I screamed for someone to help, but the others just turned around and looked the other way. I got free and ran down the hall, screaming.
Then the police came and were going to shoot him while I and a friend and my daughter waited outside. I was afraid she'd get hit by a bullet, so we walked in the dark until we found a place to hide until the man was dead. But there was a possibility that the cop would die, instead, and I'd never be able to get my car keys out of the building. So we sat on a step in front of a great clothing store, and we smoked one of my friend's cigarettes.
THEN MY HUSBAND STARTED SNORING, AND I WOKE UP. FIVE TIMES!
So I've been up since ten of five (I went to bed at 9:15, though, so it's okay).
Bye.
Posted by beardedlady on March 23, 2002, at 5:49:27
In reply to Re: Scary Dreams » beardedlady, posted by IsoM on March 22, 2002, at 19:24:25
not being able to find a clean toilet or one that's the right size or one that's private? I'm not that anal (pardon the pun) about where I "go," but in my dreams, comfort, privacy, and cleanliness seem about as important as having to do the deed itself!
What does it mean?
: )> beardy
Posted by IsoM on March 23, 2002, at 13:32:15
In reply to Does anyone else have dreams about..., posted by beardedlady on March 23, 2002, at 5:49:27
Because we're different people, what I know the dream would mean to me, would probably be a completely different reason for you. Really - the interpretation of the dream (and most dreams have no interpretations at all - brain reclassifying info & sorting memories) depends much on the previous background, memories, & experiences of the dreamer.
But you can try to figure it out for yourself. For example for me:
going to the bathroom = a private necessary act, not something you want to or should share with others.What ever it is, you're having difficulties finding a suitable place or way (the privacy?) of doing what does need to be done in your life. If you hunt around in your mind, does that suit anything? But the way you figure out your dream may not be the same as I just did. It's only how I would view the dream.
Posted by IsoM on March 23, 2002, at 13:39:36
In reply to Re: Scary dreams about toilets » IsoM, posted by beardedlady on March 23, 2002, at 5:46:44
No Beire-dei, I'm not Iranian. I have almost black hair & dark, but blue, eyes & one time at work, a young Iranian couple asked if I was Iranian. I laughed & said "with these blue eyes?" & they thought they might've been contact lens. I think it was them that triggered the Iranian connection.
My son who has unusual dreams is the one that loves sharing them but he doesn't live real close so I don't see him often. My oldest who lives with me, never recalls dreams. I think that's why he doesn't think they're interesting. My dreams where I'm not me at all are really something - like viewing life through another's eyes.
Posted by ST on March 24, 2002, at 4:18:36
In reply to Re: Scary Dreams » beardedlady, posted by IsoM on March 22, 2002, at 19:24:25
A teacher I once had was making a point about something...can't remember...and said: "It's like when you excitedly tell your husband or wife the next day about an elaborate dream you had the night before. No one but you will ever find your dreams interesting." I always remember that and so I ususally don't mention my dreams to people. So I love this thread!
Sarah
Posted by IsoM on March 25, 2002, at 19:24:26
In reply to Dreams boring? Not to me!, posted by ST on March 24, 2002, at 4:18:36
Thank you, Sarah, from Beire-dei & me both. I'm quite fascinated by others' dreams too. But only the interesting ones, not the mundane ones.
Posted by beardedlady on March 26, 2002, at 6:07:34
In reply to Re: Dreams boring? Not to me! » ST, posted by IsoM on March 25, 2002, at 19:24:26
he likes my violence in them. He likes that I beat up all the predators and hit murderers and kidnappers in their heads with hammers. (My Serzone induces nightmares, but I have learned to take control of them and become the hero!) He thinks this shows I am getting stronger.
beardy : )>
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