Re-occuring dreams

**CHANDLERS WISH** · 04-17-2008 10:01 PM

Or Night Mares.

Often over the years, not just recent, i seem to have a re-occuring dream that comes along every now and then and i find that i wake myself up, so i can escape.

And that is what i am doing...

I am always trying to get out of my house, and the house depends on which house i am living in at the time.

Then i always jump the back fence, then continue jumping fences so that i seem to be in a completely different street and then often crouch down in some grass.

This way i feel that they can't find me, and they being the people trying to break in!

It is bazare, more so because i don't just exit out another door and run to the neighbours but jump fenses to get away.

I can only put it down to "jumping obsticles/hurdles" as it does seem to happen when i am a bit under pressure where work is concerned.

Has anyone else had simular dreams?

Curious if this is a pattern and therefore, my theory makes sense.....

CW

**Little** · 04-17-2008 10:07 PM

I had CONSTANT dreams about being attacked by a black animal (usually a dog) since I was little, until last year during Spring Break I was bitten by a dog.
It went away until a few months ago, I had one "black dog" dream and then no more since.
My luck, I'll have one tonight. I don't think it's anything but anxiety.
I also have dreams of people breaking into my house. My parents have a thing for houses with sliding glass doors, so when I stay with them it's inevitable. I just don't trust those doors!

**CHANDLERS WISH** · 04-17-2008 10:31 PM

Probably right, seeing as i never remember any other dream other than that one.

Hope you don't dream about that dog tomorrow or else i'm not coming on here.

Actually, for the first time the other night, i was pinching clothes of the neighbours line, i must have been in a hurry getting out the house on that occasion and forgot the dressing gown..

True story, but perhaps subconciously i wasn't in a real "deep sleep" this time and remembered to get dressed...

Hope i also don't dream of that tonight and it frightens me enough for me to wake up.....

CW

**SamIAm** · 04-18-2008 03:52 PM

I dream every time i sleep. Often nightmares with people chasing me and trying to kill me. I have a re-occurring dream of being in a bedroom in my house, and struggling to shut and lock the door so no one can get in. But for some reason the door is ALWAYS only half the size of the door frame, and i can never close it properly. And the dream just fades at that point. So stressful!!

I heard that if you end up "dying" in one of your dreams that's a bad sign.

**Little** · 04-18-2008 04:01 PM

Well, good news, I don't recall any kind of dreams last night, and I even slept straight through earthquake reverberations from Illinois! So, you can rest easy, CW

**CHANDLERS WISH** · 04-18-2008 05:30 PM

Originally Posted by Little

Well, good news, I don't recall any kind of dreams last night, and I even slept straight through earthquake reverberations from Illinois! So, you can rest easy, CW

Ha, thank god for that!!!

For a morning laugh, i had one, different, must be because i bought it up, go figger, and this friend of my ex-husbands was with me, she handed me a letter from him, and said i don't think you two will talk much any more, i am civil to him as i don't hate him, as i don't hate people... But at the bottom of the letter was ChandlersWish, oh no!!! I started seeing all the things i had written about him, lol, and then i was trying to work out why he would have tapped into this Forum anyway?

Now that, i put down to this guy reading my threads i think... Funny....

SAM I AM
I dream every time i sleep. Often nightmares with people chasing me and trying to kill me. I have a re-occurring dream of being in a bedroom in my house, and struggling to shut and lock the door so no one can get in. But for some reason the door is ALWAYS only half the size of the door frame, and i can never close it properly. And the dream just fades at that point. So stressful!!

I heard that if you end up "dying" in one of your dreams that's a bad sign.

I have a dream book i am a little spiritual bunny, seen ghosts or the unexplained heeps in my youth so who knows?

So i looked that up because i am sure i have before, years ago, but it said, "If you dream of being dead, it signifies a release from your troubles and recovery from illness".. Well that makes sense? But your dream in reality is identical to mine, you are trying to run away, you can't find a way to get out, for me i get out, jump fenses but then hide in the grass, waiting for them to find me... same thing.

I am of the opinion that it is what is going through our lives, stressful times and that's all and we are trying to jump the hurdles.

Only because, for me, it happens only when i am with alot on my plate.

Although last nights dream? Geee.......

It's all i can put it down to anyway.......

CW

**CHANDLERS WISH** · 04-18-2008 08:40 PM

Mmm, it would be interesting if a few more people read this, i was thinking:-

Being chaced by a dog.
People braking into houses.
People chacing trying to kill.
Someone breaking into the house, so jumping fences and running.

They all say the same thing? Chaced..... and running.

Just different methods, so wonder what we dream when we are happy!!!!! I never ever remember those...lol...

**anonymouswhitefemale** · 04-19-2008 07:25 PM

When I was a child, up until about age 15 or 16, I had a recurring dream where I was in a hut, in the middle of a battlefield (muskets and stuff, with the two sides slowly coming together, with the hut in the very center. Inside the hut, was a never ending drop, like down a pipe. The top of the pipe was a smooth funnel that tapered all the way to being flat. Me, and several other soldiers (I don't believe I was a figher, just caught in the middle) were tied up, and sat on this smooth slippery slope into the never ending fall of this pipe... Any movement and you'd slip that little bit further, I'd watch the others slip all the way down and hear them scream until the sheer distance of the fall silenced them, until obviously in the end I'd slip down too, which would be when I'd wake up. It was so real that it truly terrified me at the time.

I think if you write down your dream, and actually analyse it from any sort of objective point of view, it's pretty easy to tell what your dreams are actually about.

I kept a dream log for a while once, that was an interesting exerise, while I was trying to teach myself to lucid dream (control your dreams, be an active participant rather than a viewer). It got to the point where I was intentionally breaking up my sleep by setting alarms, as that's when you dream the most (or at least are able to remember them). It was very interesting overall, and I'd recommend it to anyone, for a short while at least.

**CHANDLERS WISH** · 04-19-2008 10:13 PM

ANON
I think if you write down your dream, and actually analyse it from any sort of objective point of view, it's pretty easy to tell what your dreams are actually about.

From where i am sitting that would be "fear", even your dream was "fear", the dog, "fear", the chase, "fear" and that terror when you wake up scary as....

Mmm, i like your idea of waking up at intervals, it is kind of, a better way of keeping a good dream, without fear.

I actually agree with the logic in that, as i originally used to leave a pen and paper next to my bed and when i would wake up, write down what i remembered, i had to be quick as your mind is a funny thing and gets sidetracked real quick and next thing you know, you forget.... But that was quite interesting, and i would analyse.

I did this for a while and all dreams were different, but i could see the links as to what was happening in my life at the time.

What is amazing, with your brain, is again, i wrote a thread about bad dreams then you reminded me about how i used to write them down, more out of curiousity of what i could retain, what i dreamt about as i could, i am sure, like most people, not remember any of them...

I guess i just love to think.... All the time..... which makes me not sleep......much......which then makes me ahhhh.....tired.......lol....

**SamIAm** · 04-19-2008 10:59 PM

I remember hearing a professor explain once that the reason we are not able to remember dreams well is because the part of our brain which is involved in memory functioning is significantly deactivated during the dreaming stage of sleep.

Anon (or anyone else too

)- I'm curious to know if you were/are ever able to wake yourself up when having a nightmare? I mean without using an alarmclock or anything, just using your own awareness of the fact that you are dreaming and wanting to stop it..

I can do this when i have nightmares that become too disturbing/graphic/stressful for me. Its like when it becomes too much to handle i can suddenly remember that i am only dreaming and can choose to stop the dream.
Reason i ask is because i think this has some relation to lucid dreaming, although i cannot really control what happens in the dream.. just can control if i want to stop it. Is anyone else able to do this?

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