The Wonderful World of Sleep & Dreams

2 recurring dreams, one where I am driving but the brakes don't work and I usually crash into something, but I am xalm and never hurt. Another is where I am school or in my Nurses accomodation but can't find the room I am meant to be in, I am very anxious in this one 🤷‍♀️

I dream very often of being in libraries, also of a small shop with a big step up to go in, and years ago I dreamed constantly of being forced to migrate to Australia and being very homesick. Genetic memory, maybe, since so many Irish were deported in the old days to Australia.

One reoccurring dream - I love it - I’m walking through a lovely and interesting one-level home, owned by relatives (some are recognizable, some are not.)

Each time I’m staying overnight I’m shown to a new extension of the house, hidden and more interesting than last time.

The house appears to be set up like a labyrinth or a maze… each wing has more doors/rooms to explore.

I want to dream it again (it’s been a while) to see where I finally end up.

I used to have a scary dream about being held face down on a bed in hospital and someone pushing something sharp and painful in the base of my spine. I would often fly of the bed to escape (in real life) and had many black eyes where I hit the wall or bedside cabinet trying to escape the pain. Hubby noticed I had a scar on the base of my spine, so I asked mum about it, apparently I had a lumbar puncture for meningitis when I was about 3 yrs old. I asked if they sedated me, she said NO because apparently I would be too young to remember it!?!

Yes Gundi, that’s like a dream I have.

I used to have a lot of scary ghost dreams as a child, but one night I discovered that I could talk to the ghosts and after that they stopped being scary.

I do remember a ghost dream I had more recently, though. In the dream, I was climbing the stairs at my grandparents' house, something that had always scared me a bit as a child. I knew there was a ghost behind me, then suddenly it grabbed me around my waist and wouldn't let go, despite my frantic attempts to free myself. At this point I woke up and I found that I had my arms around my body and my hands tightly squeezing my waist - no wonder it felt so real in the dream! 😁

My daughter when she left home left her rabbits here with me to look after.
I often dream that one of her rabbits is living in our shed at the bottom of the garden and I forget to feed it for days and days.
Then I remember and go down to the shed thinking it must be dead but no, it's still alive.
I give my daughter a good telling off and tell her to bring some hay and clean the shed out and bring some food or she can take the rabbit back with her. I can't remember what happens after that.
Another recurring dream is that I'm in a multi storey shopping centre doing some Christmas shopping with my sister. The next thing I'm on my own trying to get out of the centre to go and catch a bus home. I go all through corridors, up and down stairs. Every which way but I can't get out.

I have a dream occasionally of being amongst lots of people .I’m in a little short vest and I can’t pull in down over my lady bit ..

I dream a lot about my daughter who Ihave been estranged from for 9 years now.

Oh, I have just remembered that I dream about having pets and neglecting them.
Leaving them in dirty cages, with no food or water.
They are really upsetting dreams.

I rarely remember dreams but one the other night was memorable! I was in the garden, as I used to be so often, with my late parents and my father was telling jokes. I can’t remember what he was saying but I woke up laughing so they must have been funny! I felt so happy until I realised I had been dreaming. Then I felt very sad to think we’ll never do that again.

I've always had dreams about once a week and started writing them down in the morning. But since I've started taking BP medication I dream vividly every night. All usually are quite happy stories.

I have very vivid dreams (usually of rushing to catch a plane, a train or something similar or having to get somewhere to pick a grandchild up but there are always troubles on the way and I get panicked. However I also have nicer dreams where I see my (deceased mum). I once heard a quote that said "sleep is where you find the people you've lost and the dead come home to you". I like that idea.

There does seem to be a couple if loosely related themes to our night time shenanigans.

Panic, rooms.

I still think it's just our brains doing a clean up though.

grannyro

sleep is where you find the people you've lost and the dead come home to you". I like that idea

Me too ❤️

I would love nothing more than to dream of my daughter, but apart from one absolutely horrific and gruesome nightmare, I never have.

I live in hope.

Some people keep a dream diary by the bed and as soon as they wake up they write down what they dreamed about. Memory of a dream often fades very quickly. There was a book published, I think, before the second world war, about dreams which suggested that some of our dreams are about what has happened recently (e.g. you are alarmed by a fierce dog and later dream about a fantastical frightening dog) but that they are also equally about the future. So in that case you might dream of the fantastical dog and a few days later be alarmed by a real fierce dog. I have never kept a dream diary but it might be interesting. I had a friend who had prophetic dreams of disasters which happened in other places in the world and several times she believed the disaster actually happened later on. She didn't like having these dreams. I wonder if anyone else has had prophetic dreams or kept a dream diary?

MissAdventure

I would love nothing more than to dream of my daughter, but apart from one absolutely horrific and gruesome nightmare, I never have.

I live in hope.

I hope you do have a dream about her and it's a sweet dream💐

I was dreaming last night that I was living in a house where there was a lot of woodchip wallpaper (nightmare of course!). On one wall there was a rectangular section where the wallpaper had mysteriously disappeared. For some unknown reason, I was using a small brush and acrylic paint to draw hundreds of tiny white squares with 6 dots in the middle, to match the wallpaper. When I finished, I had called my husband to admire my handiwork - then I woke up. I turned to my husband and told him about my dream, he was also just waking up. I cannot possibly type his reply. On reflection I suppose I shall have to get out more!

Thank you AGAA4.

I have very interesting dreams every night often including my old house and my best friend who is ignoring me at the moment.Its annoying as they vanish unfinished if I get up for the loo and I can't remember what they were about.

MissAdventure

I would love nothing more than to dream of my daughter, but apart from one absolutely horrific and gruesome nightmare, I never have.

I live in hope.

I hope it happens for you and it is everything you'd hope it would be 🤗

Thank you.
Fingers crossed.

Applegran

I wonder if anyone else has had prophetic dreams or kept a dream diary?

I have some notebooks with my dreams in from when I was younger. I keep thinking I'll read them and also start writing them down again. I've had lots of recurring dreams and I've also been to places where I'm certain I've either been before or been to in my dreams - weird, I know! My only prophetic dream that I've had is that many years ago I dreamt of a good friend of mine who had left school suddenly and didn't know what had happened. I dreamt that she'd had a baby and when I went round to see her, her Mum told me exactly that news and that she was now living with her boyfriend some miles away. This was, of course, in the days before mobile phones etc. We've since got back in touch and she is in a better place for so many reasons. And her gorgeous daughter is now in her 30s!

Lexisgranny

I often feel the need to tell my SO about my dream when I wake up. I'm certain he things I'm bonkers and that I too need to get out more!