Recurring Nightmare

I've always thought that dreams were made up of things that subconsciously you pick up during the day and they become sort of combined into a dream but the telephone one which others have had besides myself must have some other meaning i.e. perhaps we are trying to communicate and feel as though people aren't listening to us.......maybe that's a bit deep, but it could be a possibility.

No nightmares since I stopped drinking (worth a try)

I dream I am lost in a hospital I used to work at trying to find my way out. I take Bisoprolol and do have bad dreams particularly when been drinking wine

Has anyone ever dreamed they are falling from a great height but it feels remarkable like flying, except you get closer and closer to jagged rocks or buildings and realise you might fall onto to them, which is when you flap your arms to try to move yourself away.
I had this a lot in my 30s and 40s.
Never have the dream now.

Apologies typos.

This is an interesting theory:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expectation_fulfilment_theory_of_dreaming

I frequently have a version of the exam dream - finals, everyone else has been revising for weeks and I keep procrastinating. Also the theatre dream - about to go on stage and don’t know my lines. Both shriek unpreparedness but in reality I’m a great planner and organiser.

Dee1012

Aveline

Are either of you taking any particular medication? Sometimes that can be a side effect of certain ones.

I am taking medication but this is fairly recent, I did mention the nightmares to my consultant but he didn't feel there was a link. The nightmare does precede this too by a number of years.

Interestingly Indigo8, the nightmare is similar to what you have described.
I'm the passenger in a vehicle and sometimes the driver is a person I know, at other times I can't see them. We are on a long country road and the car goes off the road into water, the driver leaves and I can't undo the seatbelt or open the door....it then goes on.

Dee1012
This sounds like the classic 'Lack of control' nightmare. You say you are not under stress or trauma and you have had this for 10/12 years but maybe it pops up when something is bothering you that you feel a lack of control over. Maybe you are subconcsiously worrying about the problem you have had the medication for, or even the medication itself. We don't always realise we are under stress or trauma until much later.It doesn't have to be major trauma either, can just be something small but this couold be your brains way of wanting to take back control of the situation. I hope that isn't too garbled an explanation !