<p>Never had the teeth dream, but I wonder if those who have grind their teeth in their sleep? And the only time I had a bathroom dream was when I awakened and realized that nature was calling and I had to use the facilities. </p>
<p>Oh, gawd, I’m sure many of us have had the dream where we thought we were in the bathroom. </p>
<p>Any dream with water, I usually wake up and have to go to the bathroom. I had a dream I was on a boat that was sinking and woke up to find I really, really had to go! LOL</p>
<p>I think I get the murder mystery dreams because of the books I enjoy reading 
John Saul, James Patterson, Patricia Cornwell, etc. </p>
<p>MsMommy, I’ve never had that dream. </p>
<p>I still have school dreams pretty often! I have either not attended class all semester or can’t find the building where a final exam is being given. The dreams always seem SO real, too!</p>
<p>I just remembered another dream I have from time to time. Folks in the NYC tri-state area might identify. Others, maybe not so much.</p>
<p>I dream I’m trying to commute from my suburb into Manhattan for my job. But I can’t park close enough to the train station, so I have to walk a ways, and I have to walk over the train tracks, and through some thorny bushes . . . . Then, if I’m still in the dream, I can’t find money to pay for my cup of coffee, or I’m carrying too much stuff to pick up both my coffee and the newspaper, and the train is coming, and I have to run to catch it . . . . </p>
<p>I did commute from my town to the city for a total of around 17 years, so I know whereof I speak. I mean, dream.</p>
<p>I actually do also have some very convoluted, complex plot types of dreams – but they wouldn’t be considered “repetitive”. And they do seem to sometimes be as if I am watching a full-length feature movie in my sleep - those dreams are often focused on the actions of third-person characters other than myself. </p>
<p>Here’s an interesting article about lucid dreaming - <a href=“Lucid dreamers 'better at problem solving in reality'”>http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/281015.php</a> — the gist is that new research shows that lucid dreamers are better at solving some types of daytime (waking) problems. </p>
<p>I am a sometimes lucid dreamer-- but more likely to have that ability in the long, complex narrative type dreams than the repetitive anxiety dreams. That is, I never can use the lucidity to simply find a clean bathroom --but I have used lucidity to resolve issues such as being delayed on the way to the airport because my car won’t start. And I definitely can use lucidity in my lawyer-dreams to deal with trial strategy – so it might be that the lucid part tends to kick in when I am dreaming about the types of solvable problems that are more similar to those I have already encountered and dealt with in real life. </p>
<p>I don’t know if it’s some sort of a memory issue or not, but if I did nothing, I forget 99% of the dream within 5 minutes of getting up. About the only thing I can recall by then is that such-and-such was in the dream and very little else. </p>
<p>When I read “Dreams” by Freud and also the book by Ann Faraday, for a while, at least on weekends, I made it a point to actually write down what went on in the dream immediately after waking up, when I could go over more of the dream. Even with that, subsequently I could never tell if I was remembering the actual dream or what I had written down. So while my friends would go over their dreams in the greatest of details, the best I could do was to say, “I think I had a dream last night, or maybe it was the night before”, but nothing more.</p>
<p>Often when I have the college finals dream, I am left with lingering anxiety that I can’t graduate even though I don’t recall the dream at all. I have to remind myself that I graduated from college in 1971.</p>
<p>When I have the college finals dream, sometimes I’m aware that I went to graduate school and am gainfully employed. So I tell myself it won’t matter if I don’t pass college. </p>
<p>Somehow I never quite make the connection that I actually DID pass college!</p>
<p>So this morning I fell back asleep and dreamt that there were large snapping turtles and alligators in an apartment I was in, and I was getting cornered in a bedroom. What’s that about? </p>
<p>In order to remember dreams, you have to wake up (fully or partially). On one of the sleep apnea discussion boards, people sometimes comment that they miss dreaming (sleeping better, so not conscious of the dreams.</p>
<p>I was having a dream when DH’s alarm went off this morning. Six hours later, I can’t remember what it was about.</p>
<p>I have the crumbling teeth, filthy/no privacy bathroom, running with leaden legs, can’t correctly dial the phone. </p>
<p>One I haven’t seen mentioned is where I am a passenger in a car and it goes speeding off a cliff or a bridge. I know I am about to die. Hubby is usually driving!</p>
<p>“Please share…if I’m the only one I’m going to be worried…LOL!”</p>
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<p>My crazy dreams:</p>
<p>Can’t find my way home or there are many delays getting to my destination
My legs won’t work right…or can’t move quickly to get away from something
Trying to scream for help, but no sound comes out.
Car breaks won’t work or feeling like my car is going to go off the road and over a ledge.
blurry vision
can’t find a private bathroom…potties will be in open areas. lol
back in high school, but as an older person (weird!)
being naked or very underdressed in public
someone is chasing me
back in college and realizing I forgot to attend a class that semester.
my mom is alive…and she is pregnant or has just given birth again as an older person. So, I suddenly have a new baby brother or sister…and we are all excited. </p>
<p>discovering that I have an extra room in my house that I didn’t know I had…a second kitchen! (and fabulous)…or another pool! or another set of washers and dryers!!! I have one recurring dream where I climb thru a maze in my attic and find a whole bunch of other rooms! I like that dream. I love how all the rooms are decorated. lol</p>
<p>I have had the teeth dream, but usually after I have been to the dentist. </p>
<p>can’t correctly dial a phone number…keep making mistakes</p>
<p>We need a post where common dreams are listed…and what they each mean.</p>
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The other odd thing I experience is that when I’ve had a bad dream, I will wake up from it and if I fall right back to sleep, I go back into it. I hate that.</p>
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<p>This used to happen to me until I tried completely changing sleep positions before falling back asleep (turning over, etc). That stopped this from happening. </p>
<p>I have the back in high school dream quite often and there’s always a twist - like my sons are my classmates, or my brother is now my son, etc. But the dream usually involves driving the car I drove in HS and college. </p>
<p>@Shrinkwrap…LOL! Thanks a lot. I’ve accepted that it’s probably residual from my repressed, shame and guilt laden German Catholic upbringing! Actually glad to hear that there aren’t more of us out there!</p>
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my guilt-laden French-Italian Catholic upbringing probably causes me to have dreams (nightmares!) where someone walks in on H and me having sex. </p>