<p>There have been a few times when, after a loved one has passed away (I mean months after), I have dreamed about them—realized in the middle of the dream that they are HERE—and awoken literally crying tears of joy. I love those dreams!</p>
<p>I have put off redoing my kitchen for dozen years, so now if I dream of additional rooms, I wont be surprised.</p>
<p>Like csdad, I wake with thoughts of things I haven’t done, and write them down. Early in my career, I had a few instances where my fears of a client attempting suicide turned out to be spot on. In one case, I was worried about an inpatient young woman. I called the hospital, and found out they gave her a day pass to be with her b/f, who I knew was out of town. I called the police to go to her apartment, and she was able to be saved from an OD. Another time I dreamt of another young patient. I felt my unconscious mind put together pieces of a suicide plan. I called her mother to check her bedroom. When mom found it neat and all bills paid, quite un characteristic of her, i met with the family and put this gal in a hospital. And so on.</p>
<p>The worst dreams for me is that something awful is happening to the worm, and I’m not there to yell “duck” or “run”. Every time some young person commits suicide or shoots others, these dreams begin anew.</p>
<p>My recurring dreams always involves planes - I am either on one and it’s crashing or I am on the ground - outside - and one is crashing and I cannot seem to get out of it’s way… I don’t like to fly!</p>
<p>Ever since I can remember, I’ve had this very distinct dream that I was someone else and got into a boating accident and drowned. I’m a very strong swimmer but I hate swimming where I can’t see the bottom and I hate motor boats and jet skis. I’ve had that fear my whole life. </p>
<p>I firmly believe in reincarnation and I think this was my death in my last life. Other than that, I don’t really dream.</p>
<p>Has anyone else experienced prophetic dreams? I have had several. MOst of them are about silly mundane events. I will dream about it and then it is in the news.</p>
<p>The most striking one I had, though, was a dream about two small planes colliding over a river. They hit and broke apart and all the parts fell into the river. The next day I told my husband about the dream and said that there were no survivors. I said that we should watch the news because I sensed it was going to happen. Two days later a helicopter and a small plane collided over the Hudson river in New York. There were no survivors.</p>
<p>When I was in college I had a vivid dream in which my grandfather entered his house through his front door, started choking and collapsed. It bothered me enough that in the morning I called my mom to casually ask how everyone was doing. Four days later, my grandfather was coming in to his kitchen from outside and had a heart attack and died.</p>
<p>Why is it we have these college based dreams all the time? I just dreamed this weekend that I was going back to college for fall term and when they gave me my housing assignment, it was miles away from campus! What do people dream about if they didn’t go to college!!? I also often have the one where I’m about to graduate then realize that I am credits short or totally forgot to attend a class I was signed up for.</p>
<p>I used to have the plane dream all the time - that I would be in the way or area of a plane that was about to crash or that I am taking off as a passenger and upon take-off the plane wants to nose down. Hate those dreams!</p>
<p>Last night, I dreamt I was taking the SAT (probably brought on by seeing S’14’s huge blue SAT prep book on the kitchen table). I bombed – I took too long on the “acme is to zenith as nadir is to zoroastrianism” section. </p>
<p>It was so real – the proctor came over and pointed at my test and said I only had a half hour left and I hadn’t even started the essay. At which point I said: what essay??? They didn’t have that last time.</p>
<p>It was terrible.</p>
<p>I woke up one night to my mother’ voice calling my name about 6 months after she had died. On the same night my sister had a dream where our mother came to her door knocking. She was lost. It didn’t happen again.</p>
<p>I call it “the school dream”. I’ve had it many times. It’s not always the same circumstances but in every case I’m always in a panic situation…can’t find the class, run around fractically looking for the right room,forgot it was test day, can’t remember the combination to my h.s. locker to get my project out,etc. I hate “the school dream”.</p>
<p>I’ve had one that comes up from time to time that involves the first house we owned. </p>
<p>The general idea is that I’m in that area, and decide that I need to go inside the house that I no longer own…for some reason that is not clear in the dream. The new owners are not home, but later they arrive and I’m caught in their house trespassing. Odd. Kind of like Goldilocks or something. Not sure how I get into the house all the time.</p>
<p>I have the school dream, too. Awful.</p>
<p>As long as I can remember I have flown in my dreams… flapping my arms to gain altitude and gliding when I get high enough. It feels absolutely real. It is wonderful.</p>
<p>I used to have recurring nightmares about the need to rescue my children from dangers of all sorts. They began during pregnancy, but finally stopped when the “children” were all grown up and I felt confident they could take care of themselves.</p>
<p>Count me among those who have the school nightmare. Usually, I dream that I have just forgotten about being signed up for the class and it is past the deadline to withdraw. Other times I dream that I needed an additional credit of some sort to graduate. Recently, I broke the mold somewhat and dreamed that it was only a few weeks into the semester, and I had a paper due shortly. </p>
<p>I also frequently have dreams about missing the school bus.</p>
<p>I have the school dream too…or alternatively, one where I’m supposed to perform in a play, have never rehearsed, and need to go on NOW. Which is odd because I’ve never performed in anything onstage.</p>
<p>My recurring bad dreams have to do with plane crashes. I’m in one, almost in one, witnessing one, etc. It’s gotten to the point where even in my dreams, I say “Oh, another plane crash dream…I wonder what will happen”. I live near an airport and LOVE to watch planes, I’m not afraid to fly…kinda strange.</p>
<p>I also have had a couple of very, very vivid, realistic dreams that my dad was in shortly after his death. He’d try and tell me why, why (he committed suicide). During the dream, I was soooo happy, then to wake up and realize it was just a dream…very bittersweet.</p>
<p>My recurring <em>good</em> dream always revolves around someone who is DESPERATELY in love with me :rolleyes: Don’t ask me who it is, I don’t know. Or where H is in all this, I don’t know that either. All I know is in that dream, I am the LIVING END for someone!!!</p>
<p>Do you all dream in color? I do. I always remember colors when I wake up.</p>
<p>Wow justamom - it sounds like your dreams are a powerful way to revisit and work through some very weighty emotional experiences.</p>
<p>To answer your question, I don’t necessarily remember colors. I do know that my happy dreams all involve water, and my scary dreams all involve rushing toward something cold and hard and my foot is off the brake.</p>
<p>With your dad, do you feel like during the dream, he is speaking to you so clearly and he’s telling you why he did what he did (committed suicide), and it makes perfect sense and you and he have the same bond you always did, but when you wake up, you can’t remember the words he used, or how he said them? </p>
<p>It’s like dream time is how we travel through our emotional past, and sometimes, it’s the most heartbreakingly beautiful place to be.</p>
<p>I have the recurring school dream about statistics class.
I also have a recurring dream that i have to sell my current home and live in my former starter house. The house is different, larger and updated. but I am sad.</p>
<p>I have that horrible dream where it’s the end of the semester and I haven’t even located one of my classes.</p>
<p>I had the previous house dream too, but I solved that one by buying my first house back at a HUD auction 
Problem solved…except now I own the house!</p>
<p>“Dreams” sounds like such a nice word. Mine are all nightmares, all in living color and I’m exhausted when I wake up. H never remembers dreaming. He also falls asleep as he hits the pillow. Don’t I wish–on both counts!</p>
<p>I had the walk into class and there is a test I had no idea about dream for years. Now that I teach, I have had a dream that I cannot find my classroom.</p>
<p>I had the school dream for years, too. When it was time to move my first-born into my alma-mater, I dreamed that I was the one returning to college because for some reason I had never finished my degree. </p>
<p>I also have the dream where I’m trying to get someplace important on time, and one thing after another comes up to keep me from getting there. SO frustrating!!</p>