Horrible dream

No Brexit ones yet, thank goodness!

My worst recurrent ones are a) some exam coming up, often a German literature one, where not only have I not read any of the books, I don't even know what they are! Not sure why it's nearly always German - I actually did OK at A level.

Had yet another horrible exam one just a few days ago, not German, just non specific subjects I hadn't a clue about.

b). Dinner party nightmare, where it's nearly 11 pm and the potatoes still aren't cooked!
Though this is rare now, since I don't do DPs as such any more.

c) Christmas shopping one - it's late-ish on Christmas Eve and I've completely forgotten to buy any presents, let alone a tree, etc.
Though I do know where this one comes from. Early in our marriage, while living in the Middle East, we got very last minute standby tickets home on 23rd December (I was working at the airport so 10% standby tickets.)

So I had precisely one day to charge around finding presents for a lot of people. Still not sure how I managed it!

I am currently giving up smoking with the aid of nicotine patches. I did that a few years ago and gave up for a few years – so it is no surprise to me that I am having very vivid and very odd dreams now. Last night involved returning to university where my hall of residence room included a fridge with doors within doors, a wall that consisted of a garden fence, my current cat in residence with me (although, to my horror, I had forgotten to buy cat food and had no litter tray), plus a strange cat, plus four dogs and a man who looked like those Japanese monkeys that sit in the hot springs.

It isn't so much what you dream, but what your emotion/feeling is in that dream. Your subconscious is reminding you of that - and maybe prompting you to do something about it!

I have a recurring dream in which I am desperately trying to contact the emergency services but for a variety of reasons, it doesn't work.
Over the years there have been so many different hitches and glitches. I never know what the emergency is but I feel quite afraid.

You would think this indicates that I, in real life, might be going through some situation whereby I felt I needed help but I have catalogued these dreams and they don't coincide with any trauma or distress or even mild difficulties. When these do occur, I don't have the dream.

However, what is more unsettling is that twice I have had an actual need to contact the ambulance service, both because elderly friends were in a state of unconscious collapse - and on neither occasion did the ambulance turn up.

I don't often have bad dreams, but I have figured out over the years that I get them when I am anxious, or I'm juggling too many things. That, or after a horror movie.

Then it will be 'bad guy chasing me' type dreams. It may be a monster or wolf or something out of sight, just a bad presence, but I will be slogging through the forest trying to keep ahead of it. My husband will wake me up as I am yelling. Then I will thank him for saving me and try to get some sleep again!

My hubby loves scary movies, but even after all these years I warn him I might have bad dreams if I watch one with him. I'll end up leaving the living room, or put earplugs in and start reading a book!

Well that figures Dora!

Seems a lot of us have plenty to get rid of!

Yesterday my son visited us and was talking about a dream (nightmare) he'd had where he was driving backwards and couldn't stop or steer properly and I sometimes have the same dream - it usually ends with me hitting something .

My most frequent dreams are either coming downstairs or coming home and finding the house has been completely stripped bare and my handbag and computer have gone or finding the house completely surrounded by flood water. Both anxiety dreams I know. I also have the one where I'm desperately looking for a toilet they are either disgusting or I'm not able to be alone long enough to go!

I used to dream about flying a lot when i was with my first husband, i just flew over trees and even clouds
After i left him i never had those dreams again, so yes, definitely escape dreams

My dreams seem to be about the same things, losing my purse and not being able get the train back home? I have been told that dreaming you are flying is a freedom thing? used to have those. Lately my dreams seem to have all my family that have died, I also am either still living at parents home, or in my first home after I got married for the first time, also my ex turns up in them occasionally. oh I wish I knew what it all meant !!!

Apparently dreaming about toilets is about wanting to get rid of some “shit” in our lives.

I’m glad I’m not the only one Kittye, I really don’t know why I’m so obsessed with toilets! Especially the disgusting ones I dream about !

KatyK I have the phone dream too. They are usually dial phones and when I put my finger in the holes they stretch and I can’t turn the dial. If they have buttons they always stay down as I press them. I just wondered if I was crazy what with phone, loo and mansion dreams .
I do occasionally have flying dreams where I’m soaring through the air like the boy in the Snowman. Love those dreams!

I have the most wonderful flying dreams. I don't mean in a plane, just my body flying over countries.

I think dreaming you have actually woken up and believe this is reality is the most disturbing thing, then you realise it still a dream but when you do wake up there is still the fear you might be dreaming, if you see what I mean.

Sara65 they are my dreams too. Glad I’m not the only one who has them. I feel uneasy after the loo dream and disappointed after the mansion dream

Oh, and I still dream about being in front of a class and having nothing prepared and the sheer panic I felt - I retired from teaching in 2001! (And have never been at a loss in the classroom).

I used to dream a lot about falling down staircases - hence my fear of strange steps or stairs.
Before I had DS I used to dream about cuddling a baby; once I had a baby those dreams stopped.
Likewise I used to dream about driving a car - when I learned to drive and passed my test those dreams stopped as well.

I've had some horrible nightmares, most of them seem to have nothing to do with my real life. I think we only wake up from the horrible ones and not the good ones.

Sara Yes!

For years I occasionally had a dream where I was giving a lecture dressed only in a pink rayon vest. Everyone in the audience was interested in the lecture, nodding approvingly, laughing at my humorous asides, some taking notes. I was the only one aware that I was almost naked. The funny thing is that the props changed over time: at first it was a blackboard and chalk, then a whiteboard and pointer, then a PowerPoint and laser pointer. Apparently it’s called “Impostor Syndrome.”

I love dreaming, I always try and remember what I’ve dreamt

I’ve got a dream book too, but it’s too general, do any of you ever have dreams, that are so weird and embarrassing, you cannot tell anyone!!!

Had a dream that my move had taken place. One of my daughters and some g.children helped me on the day I moved - no problems. In the evening I treated us all to a take away fish and chip supper, then went to bed. Then woke in the morning absolutely devastated, thinking 'What Have I done?' Fortunately, I woke up at that point, but it has really worried me, as I am intending to move so far away from London.

I have a recurring dream that I have lost my handbag too. Another is that I'm in town late at night with no way of getting home. When I try to use my phone, the screen is distorted and won't work. I find a phone box and it's broken. Scary.

I love that it was a new crushed raspberry suede handbag how very chic and specific after arguing with someone who'd never been poor enough to only have a vest.

My dreams are complete rubbish.
I did follow them at one time with a dream book interpretation but now I just blank them.i can't even rem one.i did blank them for a reason....not insanity tho!