<p>Mine is skidding. On an icy road. Toward a busy intersection. Haven’t had it in a while, but right now, that’s about as apt an analogy as there is. With all D’s apps in, and most (not all) of fin aid submitted, I feel like there is nothing more I can do, but I kick myself for all the stuff I didn’t do (get on cc sooner; find some EA schools she could have applied to; gotten my tax returns done).</p>
<p>Come April 1, I’ll probably have a new recurring nightmare. About unwanted pregnancy or something…</p>
<p>Can’t remember my nightmare, but I must be having one because I’m waking up at 3:45 pretty much every morning. I then proceed to start worrying about a lot of the same stuff as you!</p>
<p>I have 2. The first is plane crashes - either being in one, or witnessing one…I have them so often that in my dreams, I say to myself, “Oh, it’s another plane crash dream…huh…” Kind of funny, because I don’t fly a lot and I’m NOT afraid to fly.</p>
<p>The other is about my teeth getting loose and then falling out. HATE THAT ONE.</p>
<p>I have a very tiny under the enamel crack in on of my teeth. Every so often I have a dream where that tooth cracks and fall out and then the rest of my teeth follow suit. The dream continues until every last tooth is out of my mouth. To top the dream off, this usually takes place at some important event like a wedding. </p>
<p>It doesn’t help that my dentist tries to get me to think about capping the tooth at every visit! I know all my teeth will not crumble and fall out of my mouth, but there is a real possibility the one tooth will; well, it might crack and I will be a snagglepuss!!</p>
<p>I have been having basically the same bad dream for over 20 years.</p>
<p>There is some sort of emergency situation (the problems vary - don’t think it’s ever been the same emergency). I need to call 911. The call never goes through, or is a wrong number, or the phone doesn’t work, or some other problem with calling. I am NEVER able to get the help that is needed.</p>
<p>It’s not really a nightmare, but it used to scare me a lot. I couldn’t move. It usually starts off with the room spinning(I’m half awake) and then the room spins faster and faster. There’s buzzing in my ears which feels like they’re going to explode. I can’t scream or anything. I can’t move. Finally the spinning slows down and then I’m fully awake.
I can prevent it from happening sometimes when I’m half asleep and I feel like the room’s spinning. I just wake myself up. Other times I just let it be. It’s just something that occurs naturally now. It doesn’t bother me too much. I know when it’s coming so it’s not a big deal anymore. I used to get it more than once a night, bow it’s usually just a couple times or so a month. </p>
<p>I think it’s called sleep paralysis or something. And something with REM.</p>
<p>I have a few recurring ones…luckily not lately though.</p>
<p>The tidal wave…I’m on a beach or someplace where I’m obviously not safe. Thing is that the gigantic wall of wave is very beautiful, turquoise and gleaming, nothing like one in reality…but I know I’m not going to survive.</p>
<p>The not being able to run …my legs are very heavy or paralyzed and cannot escape the impending danger, usually very bad person or people. A variation is not being able to scream.</p>
<p>The plane crash…the most common one I’ve had. Usually a plane in the distance (I’m on the ground) which is coming towards me. Occasionally I’ve been in the plane that’s going to crash, and usually it tries to land on a highway.</p>
<p>A horrible one where my cats or my dogs are in trouble, in water, and I can’t save them.</p>
<p>I used to have one that involved my forgetting to pick up my kids from school or day care. And then in the dream once I realized I had forgotten them, there would be all sorts of barriers preventing me from getting to them. I continued to have that dream even when my d. was in college… but I haven’t had it since she graduated. I guess I finally figured out that the kids are now grown.</p>
<p>Mine is the first week of college when you don’t know anyone and you have no one to eat your meals with or do anything else with either. My actual first week was over 30 years ago but it must have left an impression on me because I still have this dream a few times a year!</p>
<p>My most recent recurring dream (last 15 years) is of me walking through an old building in an unfamiliar city. I’m supposed to meet my husband somewhere but I can’t find the way out. </p>
<p>For years when I was younger, I dreamt that there was a tornado in the distance and I was in charge of getting a group of people to safety.</p>
<p>The Teeth Dreams! From what I’ve read they are a metaphor for being overwhelmed. Too much to do and not enough time. Your teeth are falling out and there is nothing you can do about it.</p>
<p>Has anyone else had any prophetic dreams? Do those of you who have the airplane dreams, worry about being in a crash? I have the plane crash dream alot. I’m on the ground and I see a plane going down.</p>
<p>tooth dream is sooo common; my mother has been having that one for literally 70 years…</p>
<p>I have the one where I’m going into a test and I realize I never attended the class and I have no idea what’s on the test…and I haven’t stepped in a classroom as a student for over 10 years</p>
<p>I dream about tornadoes and tidal waves a few times a week. I’ve had the same kind of nightmare so many times that it doesn’t even scare me anymore. I usually know I’m dreaming because it’s so familiar. </p>
<p>Usually in the tidal wave dream I am desperately trying to get my mom off the beach and she refuses to move. Which is pretty funny, because there have been waterspouts just off shore in real life and my mom refuses to come inside no matter how bad the weather is. And at home, when there are tornadoes, she won’t go into the basement, either. Those dreams are very parallel to real life. lol</p>
<p>Years ago, I saw an episode of Oprah where she had a dream expert on. They were talking about recurring nightmares. The expert explained a method to make them stop. You lie down, fully awake, and close your eyes. Imagine the dream as it usually unfolds. As the dream approaches the most frightening part, imagine a new ending for the dream. A better outcome, a resolution. For instance, I tried it for my Tornado dream and imagined that I got a group of people to safety just before the Tornado touched down. Everyone was fine. I did this several times and it worked! I never had the dream again. When my D was little she had a recurring nightmare, too. Together we reinvented the ending and she tried the “Oprah” method. It worked for her, too and she was only about six at the time.</p>
<p>“I have the one where I’m going into a test and I realize I never attended the class and I have no idea what’s on the test.”</p>
<p>I used to have that one, too, but not in a long time. I have been out of college for more than 30 years and that is the only recurring dream I have ever had. I haven’t had it in about 15 years, though. I don’t remember any of my dreams anymore. I basically sleep like a rock. :)</p>
<p>For years, I had falling dreams. Then I had airplane dreams, not usually involving crashes although there were a couple of those. More commonly, there was some kind of problem – couldn’t take off, couldn’t land, couldn’t get there from here.</p>
<p>^God I had home invasion dreams so badly when I was a kid that my parents had to move our dog into my room at night. Thankfully I don’t have those anymore! Probably will tonight now. lol</p>
<p>I think I may be the only person who has /never/ had a falling dream. It kind of sounds like it would be cool once you realize you haven’t died. Like skydiving. :P</p>