Question of the Day: Dreams

Do you have a recurring dream or nightmare?  Please share.

[question via Manic Monday]

[art from The Octonauts by Meimo]

Comments

[Vikki]

My recurring nightmare is that I am driving up a steep, curvy mountain road in the dark and miss a turn and go straight off the mountain. I've trained myself now that, when I have that dream, I say to myself while sitting in the car plummeting to my death, "This is likely a dream". It helps.

[Frannyo]

Yes. I consistently dream that the neighborhood I grew up in is flooding (not at all unrealistic, I grew up near a bayou in Beaumont). I go over what had been a pothole, but it's now a sinkhole and my car goes down, down, down under the water.
Like Vikki, I have it so often that I can actually talk myself out of getting too freaked. But in real life in Houston, when it rains, I do everything I can not to drive in unknown depth water. As soon as it starts flooding, I head home in a hurry.

[Jack]

Mine is snakes. They chase me, they bite me, they get on me, and I can't get them off before the strike. UGH I just got the heebie jeebies thinking about it. I wake up a couple of times a month thrashing at the sheets trying to get said dream snakes off. Thain doesn't really appreciate that too much.

[Crystal]

I don't have the same dream, exactly, but I do have repetitive elements. For instance, I occasionally dream about tornadoes. Sometimes I'm running from one, sometimes one sucks me inside (where it's wonderfully calm and quiet) and sometimes I'm chasing one (usually with a few other people). Maybe I should start cataloging those dreams to find the pattern.

I've always blamed it on Mexican food.

[RaJen]

two of them: (1) my teeth crumble in my mouth, the consistency of pebbly sand in my mouth. (2) in airplane crashes, slow motion, and I'm always trying to figure out how to save as many injured as possible, triaging as the plane goes down. Only once have both recurring dreams happened in the SAME dream sequence.

[Debra]

Like the ones above mine are different dreams (nightmares) with recurring elements. I will be somewhere doing something and realize that I was supposed to be watching my kids and suddenly I can't find them. Or I'm watching them and then I'm not and then I am and then they're gone. Sometimes there are other kids too and I'm supposed to be watching them all but I didn't know that when the dream started or one can fly or 2 are invisible or something like that.

My best recurring dream theme is being able to fly.