Do you have a recurring ‘worry’ dream?

Kate1949

Another can't get home dreamer here. My phone won't work. I find a phone box and it's broke. I also dream that I've lost my handbag contaimy purse and bank cards

I get those dreams too, the can’t find the way home ones, and the lost or stolen handbag and empty purse.Also the looking for a loo dream! Eventually find one but it’s so indescribably dirty and awful as to be unusable or it’s clean and fine to use but no door on it and people passing by, or it appears to be a large and clean public loos but on close inspection turns out to be only showers that are guarded by staff who charge money to use it.😬
Then there are the running and hiding from enemies, trying to break into stranger’s homes so they won’t find me.
A recurring dream where a steep street of terraced houses ends in a four foot wall or thereabouts behind which a black and menacing body of water sloshes to and fro in the moonlight.It feels as if this is in the North somewhere 🤔
Oh and the driving a car like a maniac and just missing various obstacles and other cars, no brakes!
Then there’s the one where I’m waiting for a bus, it rolls up and my shopping bag immediately spills all its contents and they won’t fit back in and the bus conductor (!) says they can’t wait for me.
All probably standard sort of worry dreams.

I also have the dirty toilet dream fairly regularly and have for years. Often wondered what on earth it means?!
Also the packing one, or exam coming up and haven’t done any revision.

I haven’t had it for a while now, but the Exam Nightmare!
It’s always German literature, and not only have I not read any of the books, I don’t even know what they are!

Why it’s always German I don’t know - I studied 2 other languages at that stage and got the same A level grade for all of them.

Then there’s the Christmas shopping one - it’s around 4 pm on. Christmas Eve, and I’ve forgotten to buy a tree, or any presents, or anything.
I’m pretty sure what this one dates from - as fairly newly marrieds living in Oman, through my job we got last minute 10% standby tickets home - on the 23rd! Weren’t sure we’d be able to get standby seats but did, so a surprise for our U.K. families!

So I had just one day to go and buy presents for everybody.

First best wishes to Primrose's son.
I have been having recurring 'teaching ' dreams. I used to be special needs teacher in a college in the 90s. In my dream I'm in a strange building, new students with no information about them, no resources and no lesson plan!
I used to dream about finals at university- I'd walk in confidently turn over the paper and find it was all about agriculture. I studied history.

I used to get mine more when I was a lot lot younger, maybe early teens. I was on a deserted beach ,on a sort of inlet, and the water was surrounding me from all sides. I felt completely overwhelmed and swallowed up. I always had anxiety, maybe that was the start of it, I dont know.

I am on supply at the school where I used to teach. They have had so many new buildings that I can’t find the class I am supposed to be teaching. I keep wandering around getting more and more stressed.

Another can't get home dreamer here. My phone won't work. I find a phone box and it's broke. I also dream that I've lost my handbag contaimy purse and bank cards

Primrose I hope things go well for your son’s chemo. I understand as my daughter went through it too. Best wishes

I don’t often dream but when I do it’s always, without fail, me alone and lost in a strange place unable to find my way back. I ask people to help but no one can help. It’s very real and always upsetting.

The last week I have been waking up from horrible dreams worrying about chemo which my son is starting after Christmas. I dream that the unit is closed when we get there, that staff are all off sick and other horrible things. I am pretty much OK in the day, it’s just when I go to sleep.

Being in city I should know, usually Edinburgh, but which is suddenly not familiar at all. I then struggle to get home. Sometimes I end up at a bus stop or station, totally exhausted, and with nothing going anywhere near home and not knowing what to do.

Mine is where I’m being chased and I run into a house where I can lock one door, but then I have to rush to lock another door and they arrive at the door at the same time and I’m forcing the door to close against them so I can lock them out. Phew! Not sure what it means exactly. Plus I also have the toilet ones sometimes.

Oh, just the usual.

Walking down the street, look down, and realise I'm naked.

Teeth falling out.

In a lift that is falling down rapidly.

A couple of terrorist dreams.

Last night I wasn’t allowed to leave a shop unless I purchased a trinket box. It was square, blue enameled with silver stars on the top. I had no money and my credit card was grey, life like and seriouslynibbled….I woke up then .
It is still very vivid.

I used to have a recurring dream that I was blind but that I didn't want anyone to know, so I would dream I was at work trying to hide the fact that I couldn't see from my colleagues ... then I would get into my car and try to drive home. Totally ridiculous, of course, but I would be full of anxiety.

Then a friend suggested I tell myself I had a pair of magic specs in my pocket that I could put on and then see. Once I decided that, I never had the dream again!

However, it was replaced by the usual toilet anxiety dream which others have mentioned (always because I actually need to have a pee) and a dream where I am lost, usually in a strange town, where I can't find my hotel, or I find the hotel but can't find my room.

These dreams are always scary and anxious, and I believe they are related to low blood sugar which can cause wobbly anxious feelings. I now eat a small supper at bedtime which helps (I am not diabetic)

I also have one of those "can't get home" dreams. I'm out somewhere on my bike (used to cycle a lot) and quite far from home. It's starting to get dark, and I have no lights and it's a long way to go. These dreams are very vivid - different places- vaguely related to real places. I can still remember them - and the worry- years later.

Thank you, nanaK54.

Grannmarie

I still remember one of my earliest nightmares. It was around the time of the original Dr Who and the Daleks, maybe mid sixties? We used to watch Dr Who at our Nanna's house on a Saturday when we visited.
In the dream, my Nanna had sent my younger brother and me a message (errand) to the local shop which was across a road. We would be about 8 and 9 ? We saw the Daleks coming down this road, screaming ' Exterminate! Exterminate!' and we were terrified. I told my brother we had to lie down and pretend that we were already dead...that's when I woke up. I've never forgotten that fear.

Like Grandmabatty, I also have anxiety dreams about teaching situations. I retired in 2012 although I did supply teaching on request until Covid. Still get the occasional one!

I had a nice dream about DH last week. (He died in March). He was standing in front of me, wearing a new jacket. I was telling him that he looked good in it, just touching his shoulders and adjusting it slightly. He gave me a wee kiss and a cuddle and was gone...it was almost like a wee visit, I felt comforted because I'm finding this Christmas hard without him.

I hope things settle down for you, FGT, andyouget some restful sleep. Thinking of you and Himself. 💕🙏

Oh another where I have to complete tasks in a quite RL current type of situation or get out of one, but I can't see to do them, a sort of on/off blindness.

I think it's partly to do with refusing to see things for what they are because then I'd have to act.

Another toilet one for me. Always overflowing. The floor is so awful I have to hold my trousers up out of the filth while I tiptoe about trying to find one I can go in.

I don’t wake up needing to go so I don’t know what that’s all about!

I’m always hiding from someone who is chasing me….

I'm driving a car which is far too big for me; I can't reach the pedals or see over the steering wheel and I'm trying to stop it, but just can't. I presume it means that I'm feeling there's something in my life that I can't control 😵‍💫
My other recurring dream is similar to others on this thread - needing the toilet, no door, no seat, no toilet! No idea what that means 😲

Falling asleep whilst driving.

One I had a couple of nights ago …..
a grandson of a stranger asked if I would cut his hair, of course I said , having no idea where to start.
It looked terrible but I just kept on cutting chunks off. The grandparents were waiting for him but I couldn’t let them see him..
I woke myself up in a sweat. 😢

Mine is not being able to find my way home or being frightened but not able to scream.