The only recurring dream I have anymore is an ever growing collection of dogs that are in various stages of neglect, some of which are family pets that have since passed away.
I fucking hate it, there's never any food to feed them no matter how hard I look and there's almost always a fight or an escapee that I have to deal with only to be done with that and be missing (or gaining) even more dogs.
I'm always in a panic when I wake up.
I'd like to say that I have never neglected a dog, and only have one which I love very much, strangly, she is usually not present in the dog horde.
That sounds horrid. I'm sorry that's your stress dream. My fast-food-worker-can't-keep-up-with-the-rush recurring seems like a dream by comparison.
Dang am I supposed to be dreaming?
My cat recently passed away, and I get these dreams all the time. It's always like I'm going about my normal day, and then suddenly he's there, and my dream self knows he's gone but I start freaking out. He's usually in bad shape in the dream and I start feeling really guilty, then I wake up.
Mine died almost 3 years ago and I still get those. I like seeing him again but it always goes bad at the end.
Oh, my brain has cooked up a much bigger menu of recurring awfulness. Like a weekly pop-up restaurant, here's what's on offer from time to time:
Appetizers
- forgot to study for exam
- forgot locker combo
- forgot where next class is
- wander endlessly through the backrooms
- sampler platter (a little bit of everything on this list)
Entrees
- teeth fall out
- show up naked to class
- can't pull anything together at work
Dessert
- car completely disintegrates while driving on freeway
- standing in a skyscraper as its falling over
- elevator floor drops out
Clearly there's a theme around helplessness and anxiety. I am indeed in the process of sorting that out, but it's a long process.
Ooh, I get the "forgot to study for an exam" stress-dream as well. It's awful.
forgot to study for exam
Can't forget to study if you never studied.
I tick lots of these. I also have a fear of heights so it's like sometimes the dream stage turns into the roof of a building and obviously I have to look down
Oh god, same for half of these, just gave me PTSD
My dreams are just me working a whole day and then waking up to do it all over again
Either that or my car breaking down
I'm just living double shifts in the real and dream world
God, thats the worst. particularly when you already hate your job. Dreaming about a regular-ass shift and then waking up and having to do it again. Sucks big time...
Its worst when I dream that i finished a task for work just to wake up and not even be done with it
At least your dreams give you the option of "or". I usually get an "and" plus frequently somehow lose my dogs.
My dreams are basically country music plots. lol
Top two posts are about pet-related nightmares. I swear to God if my brain takes this as an opportunity to say, "That's a great idea! Let's do that!" I'm coming back here and ... whining. I guess.
I hate the teeth dreams
I drilled a hole all the way through a molar in a dream not too long ago. I apparently did this to my self on purpose. I have distinct memories of swishing water through the hole. All I could think about in the dream was needing to get it filled like a cavity. I hate the teeth dreams too.
Hmm, could I get the dream where I am back in high school and have to open the locker to get my books. I know I don't have the actual locker combination, but I try a random one and am pleasantly surprised when it works.
but I try a random one and am pleasantly surprised when it works.
While I'm not at all a lucid dreamer, I'm gonna try my hardest to recall that one; maybe that'll work. Thank you.
Let's relive that job you loved and the coworkers you liked, but that boss that kept trying to blame you for his poor actions you advised him to not attempt until he was harassing you on a daily basis and everyone just also wanted you fired just so he'd stop doing this shit everyday forever.
My dreams of hs are consistent with me going back to hs as an adult to get a diploma even though in the dream i have phd. Im always frustrated and trying to get out of it. My God i hate hs sooo much.
I get those too its always some dumb technicality that means my high school diploma didn't count and I have to go back and take a few classes as an adult
The teenagers in the dreams make fun of me for being old too.
good to know its not just me.
Thanks Morningstar
Also you’re falling now
My recurring stress dream is someone chasing me and it’s like I’m running into a gale force wind, try as hard as I might I can barely move. I’ll be tipped forward struggling to put force into my legs and just, no result. Each foot goes down right where I picked it up from, or maybe a few inches forward.
Then of course they catch me, and my ability to fight back is equally shit, like full force punch barely grazes them sort of stuff.
I’m fairly certain it’s all due to the lack of actual bodily response in my sleeping self, because I’m pretty aware of that sort of thing (I’ve used my pulse to determine lucid dreaming status for decades, as it doesn’t exist in dreams, and on the occasions I’ve tried to wake myself from them I can feel the sleep paralysis preventing willful movement)
I also dream that I get chased ,somehow I miraculously get away only to keep getting chased.
It's always an unstoppable force kind of entity, sometimes ghostly, sometimes it's like a cryptid thing.
Yes.
There is a dreams community: !dreams@redlemmy.com
Somehow I can't see it's posts from my client tho, but webbrowser and posting into it works.
My greatest hits:
Grind my teeth until they start ripping out
Shirtless at school and trying to escape
Trying to get somewhere but constantly detoured and delayed
