Who haunts your dreams?

I empathise with the Gma who said her first husband. Mine haunted my dreams for years. In these nightmares I was always trying to get away - on a train, but I couldn't. In reality I did, and have had a happy second marriage for over 30 years now. It just shows how deeply scarred I am by that first relationship - which lasted for 20 years - we met when I was just 15. Perhaps its my subconscious reminding me how much I value what I have now and how much I love my second husband.

Yes; usually my dad but sometimes my mum. And dreams of houses with lots of rooms [unfulfilled ambitions, I believe]. And several dreams in which I don't remember what happens but I know I've had THAT dream again. I desperately want to get back into those dreams so I can understand them; I can even get a 'feel' for that dream at any time [like now] but still don't know what it's about [does that make any sense?].

Does anyone else dream of people long gone. My mother died in 1969 at the age of 47 my grandmother died in 1977. Both these women were a huge influence in my life and even now I miss them both. Especially when my children were born and later when my marriage broke up. I've even dreamt about rowing with them. Probably because of unresolved issues or anger at my mother's early death.

I blame this thread. I had a dream last night that I had two children; one of them was a baby...it wasn't clear if they were my children or grandchildren...and I'd left the baby with someone while I was at work but they didn't know where I lived and I didn't know where they were. On top of this I'd actually forgotten about the baby for several hours. Perhaps this links in with the memory loss thread?

Well, I went to see Skyfall and Daniel C didn't even say hello!

George Clooney. I would kick Mr w out of bed for him any time

Hmm Reginald Maudling or Daniel Craig? Daniel Craig or Reginald Maudling? That's a hard choice. I'd have woken up upset too vampirequeen.

Now I wouldn't mind dreaming about Daniel Craig but last night for some strange reason Reginald Maudling was in my dream. Why Reginald Maudling? He's not someone I think about when I'm awake and there's not been anything on the TV or radio about him lately to have put a thought in my head.

I hate my dreams. I wake up tired and upset most mornings.

baubles I have that same dream/nightmare in a large building,dark usually, but not being chased. I'm always looking for someone and can never find them. I think it's an insecurity dream.

A couple of nights ago, I dreamt about Daniel Craig, and I don't even like him!

Presumably as a result of the Travelodge survey, last night I dreamed a kind of The Prisoner scenario, as in the cult television serial. However, instead of the big ball thing acting as a "border guard", Ann Widdecombe was rolling around Port Merion. Is there such a thing as a funny nightmare?

I have also had dreams entirely in another language - once I was conducting a court case in French (!) and once giving a lecture in German. I'm happy to say I could understand everything I said!

I dream in colour.

I first realised that I dream in colour as I was describing a dream jungle to my sister, I was about ten years old.

I've had a recurring dream since my mid teens. I am in a building which could be a hotel, school, office or totally unidentifiable. I'm being pursued by unknown person(s) but I don't know why. Every time I think a door will take me outside I find myself in yet another room, there are often staircases, sometimes leading nowhere. I'm always afraid and sometimes terrified, I've never been caught or seen my pursuers. Forty years of the same dream and it still has the power to leave me shaken!

I'd love to know why.

I definitely dream in colour! Vivid colour sometimes....

I've been told most people dream in black and white. I'm still trying to figure out whether I do or not. I have enough trouble trying to remember the dream. A bit like my waking hours really.

ha ha

I've never dreamed about a public figure.
I used to dream that I hadn't done any revision for an exam, though that has been replaced in recent years by lots of people turning up for a party and I haven't prepared any food or got any drink.
I've also had the sitting-on-the-toilet dream and so far managed to wake up in time [relieved emoticon]

It is interesting that, apart from the Travelodge survey, few people are talking about dreams involving public figures.

I still get the occasional dream where I am late for an engagement, I haven't got my instruments, or the right clothes or shoes... and in fact I haven't been a musician since about 1983...

And I recently dreamed that I was riding a bicycle - very fast and with total disregard for anybody else. As usual it was at night, and the roads were wet. The lighting in my dreams is always rotten.

That's very interesting vampirequeen The last toilet dream I had I managed to unblock it so hopefully that means my life is sorted now!

What happened to the o in sound?

I also regularly dream either that I am pregnant or that I have a baby which gets smaller and smaller until it disappears altogether. How screwed up does that make me s und?

gracesmum How odd. I've had all 3 of those dreams + going to school and then remembering in a lesson that I had forgotten I'd left the baby sleeping in the cot at home....

I have the toilet dreams along with the phone not working, dialling 999 but getting the wrong number, teeth falling out, forgetting to wear clothes and all the other insecurity dreams.

Theses are the meanings that lie behind the toilet dreams...well so the website says lol

To see a clogged toilet in your dream suggests that you are holding and keeping your feelings to yourself. Your emotions have been pent up too long and you need to let go of the negative feelings.

To see an overflowing or flooded toilet in your dream denotes your desires to fully express your emotions

To dream that you are in a public restroom with no stalls or that there are a lot of people around while you are trying to do your business signifies your frustrations about getting enough privacy. You are always putting others ahead of your own needs.

dreammoods.com/cgibin/dreamdictionarysearch.pl?method=exact&header=dreamsymbol&search=toilets

Years after I had retired from teaching I used to wake every Sunday night worrying what it was I had forgotten to do for the next morning. It was only when I was really awake that I remembered I was retired!