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What's your recurring dream(s)?

Some people interpret their dreams as an exercise in self-discovery. Some let their dreams inspire them in the waking world. Others regard them more simply as a novelty of the human mind. Still more do a fourth or even a fifth thing I can’t think of (my list felt incomplete). Whatever your experience or opinions of dreams are, I think dreams are neat. We go to sleep and our brains hallucinate for a while and sometimes we remember it. I think we often forget how incredible that is.

If you’d be willing to share, I’d like to know about your recurring dreams.

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Failing my studies as I am simultaneously naked.

For me it’s everyday scenarios in my life but always having the worst outcome.

The sort of recurring dream I have involve this girl in college I really liked. The details change but she is there. And these dreams are always bad because of the guilt and regret I harbour. I don't recall seeing any other people in my dreams. Maybe I see them and forget. Can't say. It is a bit strange really.
- 9/10 times I am dreaming about either:
  Childhood and teenage loves (wishful thinking, made up scenarios).
  Arguing with my abusive parents.
  Fighting for myself with classmates or just school people/trying to protect myself.
  Lecturing people or speaking up for myself.
  Being humiliated in some way.
  Trying to figure out ways and using dreams to solve my IRL problems.
  Being assaulted by my old teachers.
  Living through my fears in terms of for example failing maths in highschool, while I finished with a grade 3 (out of 5).
  Different types of heroic (ik it sounds lame) ways of dying, implying that I am now gone in a worthy way.
  Or a combination of some of these.
  I had several nightmare periods (which seems to be gone by now apparently, with the "healing" of time) years back, they were horrible, you can imagine it in a similar fashion to what you may see in the O.A. series, if any of you are familiar with that. My phycologist couldn't do shit about my case back then.
  I also have a physical sensation, which is rarer by now and it's not necessarily tied to an equivalent visual in the dreams. It's that I'm falling. Like when we still had snow and climate change wasn't making winter the way they are currently, we were sledging down big hills and there was a bump in the way, which we purposefully used to jump over with the sledge thanks to the high speed we were reaching. And that short flying feeling, that time in the air, the falling, I relieve that so many times, however in the dreams instead of quickly landing, I always see a big dip in the hill, like the RedBull ski event type bs and I just fall into a idek 40-50 meter flight. Whatever, this always ends up in me getting up in the bed, sweaty, gasping for air, feeling like something heave came off of my chest. This happens in other scenarios too, like jumping off of a bridge, being pushed over windows, etc. FYI I love heights IRL, so this is about some trauma, or medical condition, fuck knows.
  
  I wanted to reply to the whole thread, my bad, missclicked.
- I can relate. I had* a crush in college who periodically appears in dreams, along with the same intense feelings.

One of my earliest memories is a reoccuring dream I had for a few years. I remember waking up in terror when I was like 3 or 4 and my mom coming to calm me. I had the dream a few more times and I think I had it before the time I remember. The dream stopped when I was like 10 but the images are still there decades later.
I'm walking along the edge of an indoor public swimming pool and I fall in face first. I don't slip or get pushed or anything. It's literally like 2 seconds. I'm just moving along looking down to the left at the tiles of the edge of the pool and the water and then I fall in and wake up just before my face hits the water.
- I had a dream like that when I was little that I still remember too. I only had it the one time, but I’m not gonna forget the dream where there were rats in my bed.

Tornados, nukes going off, teeth falling out.

Always a highway with some non-conventional road-design. Talking about weird, angled loops and multiple high-way bridges going 4 high above each other. I'm either walking along it or in a car driving/being driven, which is funny because I despise driving (don't mind it on ebikes).
It's usually night-time, with late-dusk being the earliest. Sky is painted with a brilliant ruddy hue with a thin, bright yellow line hugging the horizon where the sun just dipped below. I always end up at my grandmother's house, but she is never there as she moved away a long time ago. Various things can occur there, where I meet old friends. Random events can seem to happen; most common I've noticed is zombies and I haven't watched much zombie media in the past two years. Sometimes though, it's just silence and being alone in a house that's no longer inhabited.

Worldwide liberation, global communism, total decolonization for all colonized peoples and the washing away of any and all colonial culture.
Oh. Oh, right, you mean stuff that you dream while you sleep. 😛
There is one recurring one I remember having, I don't think I have as much anymore, but it's one where I'm driving and am extremely anxious because in the dream, it's suuuper hard to properly brake the car. Feels very sluggish and so I'm worried I'm going to crash into someone. I've also had dreams about driving on roads that don't make sense or are very scary, where I'm afraid I'm going to go off some edge. But it's not particularly surprising to me because I resent having to drive for the most part and find it to be a pointlessly dangerous activity that is forced on a lot of people because something something oil companies. The actual act of driving a vehicle is not so bad, but road design tends to be slapdash nonsense, other drivers can range from sensible to "are you actively trying to get us both killed", and underneath it is the knowing that we could have high speed trains instead and don't because profits and power.

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