Recurring bad dream/Nightmare that you have

[MarchHare]

I have a recurring one where I suddenly realize I am taking one more class at college and haven't shown up all semester. I now have a essay due and final exam on the same day.

I get variations of that one too.

Another recurring one I have is all my teeth falling out. It will start out gradually...like I take a puck to the mouth or something which loosens one tooth. As I wiggle it around, it falls right out, and then all my other teeth slowly start to fall out too.

[Super-Rye]

I wish I had recurring dreams, then I'd probably understand them. My dreams are incredibly screwed up and I think are trying to tell me something. Sometimes I can pick up some foreshadowing my dream did, but not till after the event happened. Coincidence? Or is the brain really that good? Who knows.

[JiriHrdina]

Originally Posted by MarchHare

I get variations of that one too.

Another recurring one I have is all my teeth falling out. It will start out gradually...like I take a puck to the mouth or something which loosens one tooth. As I wiggle it around, it falls right out, and then all my other teeth slowly start to fall out too.

Funny. I have that one too. Apparently you and I share the same inner fears. Which involve school and teeth falling out.

I had someone tell me once that you dream about your teeth falling out it means you are afraid of dieing.

First - yes I am afraid of dieing.
Second - having your teeth randomly fall out is scary too. I don't think it symbolizes anything.

[Dion]

Shot gun wedding.

The gal i'm supposed to marry is an Oilers fan.

Then there's the dream where i'm falling. I always wake up before I hit the ground.

[Otto-matic]

Originally Posted by Frank the Tank

Without fail, I am always fighting some kind of war. Always. A lot of the time I am on my own, fighting off a massive invading force. I've been dreaming like this for the better part of ten years now.

Forgot to mention that I ALWAYS win. ALWAYS. But I always get injured as well.

I always have a dream about Bastonge for some reason. Mostly my war dreams take place in WWII.

[bigtmac19]

Originally Posted by MarchHare

I get variations of that one too.

Another recurring one I have is all my teeth falling out. It will start out gradually...like I take a puck to the mouth or something which loosens one tooth. As I wiggle it around, it falls right out, and then all my other teeth slowly start to fall out too.

Hey, I have had the teeth falling out dream too.
A friend at work I talked to said she has had that dream too.
I wonder what that's about.

[stuck_in_chuk]

I still have the dream about going to an exam for a class that you have skipped all semester (I graduated from school about 15 years ago). I also occasionaly dream that I am still working at an old job which I hated. Creepiest is when I dream that I have killed someone, and have to cover up/live with the guilt. That's happened more than a few times (the dream, not the reality).

[Robbob]

Originally Posted by Burninator

I never remember my dreams. But funny story, my ex girlfriend would have dreams were she caught me cheating on her (I never did in real life) and she would wake up mad at me.

Glad to know my wife isn't the only crazy one out there.

I never remember my dreams either and on the rare occurance I do it is never a nightmare.

[Daradon]

Many of these dreams center around feelings of change, or feelings of being unprepared. Feelings of loss are close by.

Very common though the situations often change.

[Eddie Bronze]

So what does it mean if you don't dream or if you do, you never remember any of it and awake with no idea you had a dream?

[Eddie Bronze]

Originally Posted by fotze

I think it means you sleep well. If I actually have a good full sleep.

I must be doing okay then because it's been many years since I had a dream/or at least remembered one.

[lifer]

Originally Posted by fotze

I am the exact same way. I never dream of humping supermodels, no, can't do that. I dream about my teeth falling out. First it is one tooth you feel on your tongue and you think "that is weird my tooth just fell out" then the next one and all of a sudden you have a mouthful of teeth on your tongue, its horrible. It is a similar feeling to when Scully from X-Files gets the nosebleed and you know its cancer.

I also get the exam one too and the forgot one course to finish university. I still think I forgot one university course "in the real world", that is how pervasive that dream is.

Both of these dreams are quite common. My girlfreind has the dream about school, so does my brother and a few other freinds of mine. I never have the school one, but I have one where I'm getting ready to play a hockey game (an important one to me) but I can't get my equipment on. My skate laces keep breaking, I forgot my jersey, the straps in my pads are missing...things like that, and I NEVER get to the ice to play. I hate that.
I also get the teeth falling out dream. That one really really bothers me. I wake up physically disturbed after the teeth dream every time. It makes me really uncomfortable.

When I was really young I used to have a dream all the time where I was on a really tall swingset on the top of a hill, and the whole world around me was on fire. Terrifying at the time.

[jammies]

I usually don't have the same nightmare, but different ones with a selection of the same recurring elements:

- zombies
- sunset
- all buildings leaning every which way and looking melted
- people I know talking normally and not paying attention to all the horrific things going on around them
- enough guns to supply the American Army or all of South LA blazing away at random
- girls that transform into monsters

I'm sure it all points to either serious psychological disorders, or else too much late night snacking...

[JiriHrdina]

Here's another more recent one I've been having. Since my knee injury I've been on crutches. From time to time I'll have a dream where I'm walking along noramlly, then in the dream I realize I don't have my crutch...so I fall over.

[Bobblehead]

I've heard that you can "train" yourself to realize when you are dreaming then take control of the dream and fly, or do whatever.

I'm sure it is not something everyone can do, but it sure would be neat.

[edn88]

Originally Posted by lifer

Both of these dreams are quite common. My girlfreind has the dream about school, so does my brother and a few other freinds of mine. I never have the school one, but I have one where I'm getting ready to play a hockey game (an important one to me) but I can't get my equipment on. My skate laces keep breaking, I forgot my jersey, the straps in my pads are missing...things like that, and I NEVER get to the ice to play. I hate that.
I also get the teeth falling out dream. That one really really bothers me. I wake up physically disturbed after the teeth dream every time. It makes me really uncomfortable.

I get the not being ready for hockey one (missing skates, stick, etc) and my team needs me, and I really want to play but just cannot get out there - not really scary - just frustrating.

I read somewhere once that the teeth falling out dream means you are worried about your health - I get it from time to time - and I have the perverse feeling of enjoying the tooth falling out and the dread of what it means.

[Wookie]

I've had the teeth one as well. Weirdest thing..

Other than that not much that I remember. Although recently I dreamed about my buddies wife - I didn't like that. It was creepy. So I'd say that was a bad dream.

I also dream about tornadoes every now and then.

[Ford Prefect]

I was in an MVA back in the mid 80's. My injuries included breaking about half of my teeth. When I came to in the ditch afterwards (I was thrown during the roll), the first thing I realized was that I had a mouth full of broken teeth so I started spitting them out. And I've been haunted in my dreams by that ever since. I dream that my teeth are crumbling and I have to spit them out piece by piece. It's disgusting. I don't dream about anything else from that accident, despite sustaining worse injuries than broken teeth.

[Biff]

Haven't sufferred from bad dreams much but did occassionally have a recurring one where I'd spend what seemed like the whole night trying to solve work-related problems. Every once and a while, I dream that someone who has passed away, and should be dead and gone, is alive and carrying on as normal. That one creeps me right out.

[Wookie]

Originally Posted by Biff

Haven't sufferred from bad dreams much but did occassionally have a recurring one where I'd spend what seemed like the whole night trying to solve work-related problems. Every once and a while, I dream that someone who has passed away, and should be dead and gone, is alive and carrying on as normal. That one creeps me right out.

Yeah that would creep me out!! shudder...

I have the work or problem related dreams - they're more awake dreaming or on and off sleep dreaming. Kinda when I've been doing something all day - it continues in my thoughts all through the night and I can't sleep. Used to happen with Nintendo* dreams
*(xbox, PC, playstation)