primitives attempt to muse on recurring dreams

[BattleHymn]

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Thu Jan 7, 2016, 07:27 PM
Star Member raccoon (24,080 posts)

Have you ever had recurring dreams?

I've had two. One, I'm on a beach, or close to one, and great big waves keep coming up. I had this one as a young person.

two, I'm in college and it's almost the end of the semester and I haven't cracked a book. I rarely have the "exam dream" any more.

Yours?

Thu Jan 7, 2016, 07:33 PM
Star Member Paladin (13,515 posts)
1. I had that "exam dream" for years after I graduated from college.

It was weird, because in reality, I was always pretty well prepped for college exams and I did well. It's apparently a pretty common occurrence.

Thu Jan 7, 2016, 07:37 PM
Star Member The Velveteen Ocelot (42,289 posts)
2. I graduated from college in 1969

and I still have exam dreams. In fact, I had one last night where I dreamed I'd fallen asleep during a timed exam and woke up with most of the exam uncompleted (it was something complicated and technical), and the time ran out and I flunked the test and the course, so I wouldn't graduate. Exam dreams don't go away....

Thu Jan 7, 2016, 07:53 PM
Star Member UTUSN (40,749 posts)
3. Have always had nightmares of anxiety things (like the "exam" thing), but in the past several

years, in addition to THOSE lovely things, there have been the type of recurring or *repetitive* TASKS - obsessive tasks and situations that replay (in the same dream), some troublesome thing you can't get out of. Take a filing cabinet drawer with files/folders that have to be in some kind of unattainable order, ending up stymied and then repeating until finally waking up.

Thu Jan 7, 2016, 07:59 PM
Star Member The Velveteen Ocelot (42,289 posts)
4. Yeah, those dreams too.

Like trying to make a phone call and mis-dialing over and over, or, in another one I had recently, I was supposed to go somewhere and forgot the address, so I tried to look it up on my iPhone but there was no internet service where I was. Then I went outside and there was no cell service. I get those sorts of dreams all the time and I don't know why.

With as old as this primitive is, that probably wasn't a dream recollection at all.

Thu Jan 7, 2016, 08:24 PM
Star Member charlie and algernon (13,315 posts)
6. My current recurring dream is that I'm in a resistance force

Or hiding from an occupying or oppressive military/police force. Sometimes I'm running from them in the woods or watching a large air battle take place overhead.

I'm sure a psychologist would have a field day with THAT recurring dream, lol.

Cavers, what do you think? 

[franksolich]

I've had a recurring dream, and Tanker here analyzed it for me years ago.  He seemed to have it right, but that's neither here nor there.

On a fine spring evening I'm ready to walk down the steps of the front porch, but then slip.

Upon hitting the ground, I suddenly pop back up; it just happens.

And then I discover that once I'm airborne, I can fly.  Actually fly.  Soar, coast, glide, through the air, as high and as far as I want.  All it takes is for me to keep my arms extended straight out.

Suddenly I'm always flying everywhere around here, and it's great, this feeling of freedom.

Friends of mine see that I fly, but they're not impressed; after all, they've seen me do lots of extraordinary things in life, and while this is pretty good, it's still only pretty much run-of-the-mill, in accomplishments.

But one time, while floating through the air rolling around, a bunch of primitives showed up on the property.  Looking up at me, they shook their fists and yelled at me.  "You can't fly!  You're not really flying!  It's impossible for a human to fly!  You're faking it!  You can't fly!  It's Bush's fault!"

Uh, I'm deaf.  The primitives are yelling at me, but I can't hear them.

So I glide downward to get closer to them, to hear what they're saying.  And then I crash into a tree.

[Carl]

Thu Jan 7, 2016, 07:27 PM
Star Member raccoon (24,080 posts)

Have you ever had recurring dreams?

I've had two. One, I'm on a beach, or close to one, and great big waves keep coming up. I had this one as a young person.

two, I'm in college and it's almost the end of the semester and I haven't cracked a book. I rarely have the "exam dream" any more.

Yours?

It means your demented mind knows you are a lazy,useless reject.

[Duke Nukum]

I used to have a recurring dream about the Munsters and Addams mash-up. It was like a yearly dream TV special. A lot of times I was watching it in the third person but occasionally I would flip into one of the characters.

The dreams stopped when I flipped into the perspective of Pugsley that me and Wednesday were in Grandpa's lab but he started acting on his vampire tendencies and it became too scary.  I woke up and  never had that dream again.

[I_B_Perky]

I have a recurring dream:  The dummiies commits suicide en masse after Skinner posts that it is the in thing to do.  Usually occurs after eating a large pizza and drinking a 12 pack of Yuengling. 

This happens quite often for some reason. Haven't figured out why yet.   

[FlaGator]

They should cut down on the late night excursions to the liquor store and Taco Bell.

[thundley4]

I'll go the DUmmies one better. I've had serial dreams, that occurred months apart, but would take up where the last one left off.

Also have had a nightmare, within a nightmare within a nightmare. Not fun.

[tanstaafl]

I have a recurring dream:  The dummiies commits suicide en masse after Skinner posts that it is the in thing to do.  Usually occurs after eating a large pizza and drinking a 12 pack of Yuengling. 

This happens quite often for some reason. Haven't figured out why yet.

Hmmmm. Sounds like you suffer from a recurring psychosis. Perhaps a year or ten in a FEMA re-education, err, resttlement camp surrounded by tens of thousands Syrian and Iraqi refugees. Just remember to keep your back to a wall at all times.

It sure as hell ain't the Yuegling.

[SVPete]

Also have had a nightmare, within a nightmare within a nightmare. Not fun.

That was no dream, that was a visit to DU.