Do you have recurring dreams?

Lawliet

Lawliet

As the title says, do you have dreams that repeat in your sleep over time?

Among others, I have three main recurring dreams:

1. I'm back in university and I have an upcoming exam I am not ready for. The subject changes from dream to dream; the most recent being chemistry. And I'm not ready for the exam each time. In fact, in all those dreams, I skipped the subject's lectures too, to top it off. Failing the exam means delaying my graduation, which is already overdue. I wake up with the utmost relief that I have, in fact, graduated and passed all my subjects :ganishka:

2. I'm packing my things to move to another place. My family moved around a lot during my life. I mean, a lot. I have lived in 3 continents in my life (North America, Europe, and Asia), and moved towns and schools and houses a lot in each of them. So in my dreams, I have an upcoming move and I'm packing stuff into my bags and the things I'm supposed to pack never end and I'm late in preparation. Again, I wake up with relief.

3. This one is more serious than the other two. Back in my early teens in 2004, I had a best friend I was super close to, like a brother. However, due to unfortunate circumstances and a misunderstanding, I had a massive falling out with the guy. The situation was awful. He sided with my middle-school bullies and I was basically verbally mobbed by a large group. We went our separate ways with mutual hatred afterward (sounds familiar doesn't it? I related quite strongly to this aspect of Berserk). It was awful and traumatizing - for the next 20 years I would dream about the guy from time to time. 20 years is a long time to hate someone, though, and it was choking me by the end. This April, I located the dude on Instagram and messaged him. We had an adult conversation and made peace. He didn't apologize per se (and I wasn't expecting him to), but we buried the hatchet, so to speak. I can't say it was joyful or anything. In fact, I felt like a deflated balloon afterward. But it's an issue in my life that's finally resolved and I feel much better. He occasionally pops up in my dreams nowadays, but in a mild context.
 
Lawliet said:
This April, I located the dude on Instagram and messaged him. We had an adult conversation and made peace. He didn't apologize per se (and I wasn't expecting him to), but we buried the hatchet, so to speak. I can't say it was joyful or anything. In fact, I felt like a deflated balloon afterward. But it's an issue in my life that's finally resolved and I feel much better. He occasionally pops up in my dreams nowadays, but in a mild context.
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Fuck that guy, you shouldn't have called. Just try to move on, life's too short to remain hung up on people like that.

Anyway, I sleep like a log and very rarely remember my dreams.
 
I have huge acrophobia, so one of my most recurring dreams since childhood puts me in very high places, buildings, stairs and such. It usually ends with the ground underneath me collapsing or slowly disappearing until I eventually fall to my death.

There's also some recurring nice dreams, like me going shopping or to a musical with some of my friends.
 
Yup.

Its when I'm in highschool, stressing about failing my classes and I can never find where the last class of the day is. I just keep searching in rooms with people giving me weird looks.
 
Because my mind is active all day, I have an 80% chance of dreaming at night. (You know how quickly dream memories fade, sometimes I only know I had a dream but no specific details, hence the 80%.) Rarely, I can remember two or more dreams. There have been two occasions where I remembered five dreams in one night.:troll:

As I mentioned, dream memories fade quickly, so I should record them in my notebook within the first five minutes if I wake up.

So far, I’ve written down over 200 dreams. Sometimes, writing dreams feels tedious, so I only jot down the key fragments briefly and preserve them in my dream library. Then, I write down the full details within the next seven days. If waiting longer than that causes me to forget many details.

Writing down my dreams is an interesting hobby for me, but it usually takes about 20 minutes to record a dream. So, when I’m feeling overwhelmed with work and study, I sometimes choose to writing down my dreams in my notebook to recovery my mental power.

Another interesting thing is that, as I write down a dream, related fragments often come to mind immediately, and I even remember long-forgotten dreams! :ganishka:That’s amazing! It’s like gaining an extra dream! Initially, I could only recall 7 dreams to write in my notebook, but as I wrote down more fragments, I remembered more forgotten dreams. When I write down those initial seven dreams, I can recall up to 30 dreams in total.:ganishka:

And since I can usually write about the previous night’s dreams, my notebook never runs out; there’s always at least one or two dreams to record.

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I seem to have misunderstood your context again. I only saw the title and focused on the word “dream,” but my former answer was completely off-topic.
I have two recurring dreams: one about my middle school years and another about high school. Each of these dreams has repeated more than 15 times.
Middle School Dream: My middle school class could be called the “Band of the Falcon” However, I suspect my classmates wouldn’t have such pure intentions now. I’ve avoided them for so many years, waiting for the right moment, never thinking of escaping. But I think I will go back again…? I’ve never given up on confronting the “Falcon.”So, in a few years, I might only contact classmates who I still feel I can get along with. Even now, I’m not in touch with any of them.

High School Dream: Because of the college entrance examination, most students in high school exhausted themselves studying. A schedule of 8-10-6 was normal (getting up at 6:30 a.m., sleeping at 0:00 a.m., six days a week). There were all sorts of reasons for this: invalid college entrance examination scores, the school mandating that graduates attend lectures, the sudden realization that I was in my third year, and so on. But the knowledge I crammed in high school is forgotten. So the score always not good.The first ten times I felt threatened, but later I realized that no matter what my scores were, the result would never change.
However, automatic thoughts like “I must use TNT to destroy the school to interrupt this story’s logic line,” “I should run to some classes and kill someone I dislike before I forget,” or “I mustn't went to high school and just stayed at home” .But it will take a long time for them to become deeply ingrained in my subconscious. When I enter this dream, only by recalling these “rules” can I execute them. Otherwise, I feel the urge to act on these impulses within the dream.
 
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My dreams are so weird, that I never have them again or fully remember them, I wish I knew how to lucid dream, even dreaming about Berserk is better, my dreams are more Bizarre than my second favorite manga/anime, which is about a Bizarre Adventure.
 
I don't know.
I rarely remember my dreams and a lot of it has to do with my bad schedule that am trying to fix recently. I used to have connected dreams but a connected/recurring dream is something that has never occurred to me since a year or so.
 
Shit. I took it for granted that people generally recall their dreams, so I'm a bit surprised by the responses here. I've got a whole mental catalogue of them going back to childhood :ganishka:

@IHeartCorkus, yeah, the majority of my dreams are quite lucid: I'm very often aware that I'm dreaming, and when I see shit I don't like, I just wake myself up. Too bad, my recurring dreams are never lucid though.
 
Lawliet said:
As the title says, do you have dreams that repeat in your sleep over time?

1. I'm back in university and I have an upcoming exam I am not ready for. The subject changes from dream to dream; the most recent being chemistry. And I'm not ready for the exam each time. In fact, in all those dreams, I skipped the subject's lectures too, to top it off. Failing the exam means delaying my graduation, which is already overdue. I wake up with the utmost relief that I have, in fact, graduated and passed all my subjects
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Strangely recently i've had so many repeating dreams, where i'm severely underprepared for an Exam and wake up extremely anxious, until i realise it's just a dream. Although i left education a few years back, probably due to the fact i did retake quite a few of exams, I did before that I was inadequately prepared for that did set me a back
 
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