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I always used to dream that all my teeth would fall out, until I finally figured out what it meant (teeth = your innocence). Then I stopped having the dream (thank God).

Do you have any recurring nightmares?

No, all of mine are completely different.

I have that tooth dream, too, and another frequent anxiety dream I have is that I'm driving at night and suddenly can't see because my headlights have gone out and I can't get them back on again yet for some reason I can't stop driving, either.

I have two: needing to call for help desperately and I keep messing up dialing the phone, and the one that I signed up for a class and forgot to go to any of them and now I have to take the final. And it's almost always a German class!

I have a lot of table waiting nightmares.

Running for someone, someone killing me.

I used to have recurring dreams about elevators and airplanes. The dreams were different but the themes were the same. The elevator was always unstable and about to plunge at any given moment. As for the airplane dreams, I either witnessed a plane crash or was on a plane that was unstable and unsafe. I always took them to mean that I felt my life was out of control and going in a direction that wasn't safe.

Oh that makes me think. I have dreams about hotels a lot. Often the walkways between rooms, sometimes inside a room. Usually I know we're on the beach or near a beach, I can see or hear it.

I often also arrive to or leave one of these places through a recurring airport dream.

I used to have a recuring dream when I was little. I think I was about 4 or 5.

I was with my family walking to church. My Grandparents, my parents and my older sister. I was too slow to keep up and fell behind. A wolf would chase and catch me, and use me for a pillow (I don't know, it was a dream okay, they aren't supposed to make sense). The nightmare was exactly the same each night. I would wake up scared to death, afraid to go back to sleep. When I had it the first time I woke my parents, they were unimpressed.

Parents never get it, do they?

Gail "cyborg" wrote: "I used to have a recuring dream when I was little. I think I was about 4 or 5.

I was with my family walking to church. My Grandparents, my parents and my older sister. I was too slow to keep up..."

That's a pretty typical kid's dream, isn't it? Being separated from those who take care of you and being preyed on by something as a result...I remember one where my parents took me to a grownup party and all the kids were sitting facing the wall and a scarecrow came out of the wall to get us. I used to have lots of fears about monsters of various sorts coming out of walls.

I am sure you are right Rebecca. It's funny how permanently they are imprinted on you. I can still remember mine so vividly, a squillion years later.

My recurring stress dream is that it's my senior year of college, and the class that I thought I had switched to audit (a really cool history class that looked at archaelogy and the bible) had never switched over, and I was responsible for all of the course material and the exam even though I had only popped in on occasion.

Lately it has been replaced with a nightmare of a bar and restaurant full of customers who keep complaining and switching tables and ordering things we don't make.

It's been a long time since I've had nightmares with the same plot, but I still frequently have nightmares that end with me unable to wake up and knowing that if I keep sleeping I'll die of suffocation.

Aynge wrote: "(teeth = your innocence)"

That's not the only thing it means... :)

My recurring nightmare -

I have to take a math exam to finish high school, but all sorts of things get in the way of my getting to the school (and this is what changes from dream to dream) -
my alarm clock doesn't go off, I can't find my clothes, my family is moving away on the day of the test, a tornado is coming, I'm nekkid, friends/family stop by to visit and ignore me as I tell them it's urgent that I take this test and they'll have to wait... blah, blah, blah

I'm also nekkid in alot of my nightmares and running from serial killers on the loose.

The TMI and the Favorite Band, Top Five Tracks threads.

my recurring nightmares are usually about me killing other people or of me being on the run from killers. i also get lost in weird places.

i had a great dream a few nights ago where i went to a concert by sarah pi. it was awesome!

janine wrote: "my recurring nightmares are usually about me killing other people or of me being on the run from killers. i also get lost in weird places.

i had a great dream a few nights ago where i went to a concert by sarah pi. it was awesome! "

Excellent! (Naturally). Did I play anything you knew?

i don't remember what you played, i just remember you were good.

That would be awesome.

I have these two types of recurrent-themed nightmares. One type is the end of the world. Usually, it involves the moon. Either it explodes, implodes, spins away leaving a slipstream pulling us towards the sun, or it gets pulled in by gravity and crashes into earth and off we go, into space. Had the worst one yet just two weeks ago, when huge pieces of rock broke off the moon and came down in flames. In the dream I was holding my breath and waiting for death. (Ah, what a pretty rhyme!)

The other, less frightening series involves me realising that I am just married. (Just married, as in it's either at or just after the reception.)It's always to someone I know, and someone I don't want to be married to. And then I'm forced to smile and pretend that everything's fine, and I'm wondering: how the hell did I let this happen?

But earlier today, a friend told me about the funniest dream he's had: he dreamt he was reading the paper, and saw a sex ad which his cat had put there reading: Hot Siamese, looking 4 ..

that cat ad is priceless.