I dream. I dream A LOT. They're very vivid and the plot lines are complicated. And I have several recurring dreams that I've had on a regular basis for, like, 15 or 20 years. So I thought it would be fun to share my weirdness with everyone in the hopes that I'd find out that you guys are just as strange on a subconscious level as I am.

Recurring dream #1: I am at my high school as a grownup, but for some unknown reason I have to repeat 12th grade. I realize that school has been in session for a few weeks, but I haven't been able to find my classes or remember my schedule, so I'm frantically trying to figure out which classrooms I'm supposed to be in, when, and what I've missed that I need to catch up on. Then the bell rings for the end of the day and I need to get to my locker but I can't remember where it is. When I finally figure out the general vicinity of it, all the lockers are locked and I have absolutely no idea what the combination is, or where to find out that information. Finally, I'm running to the front of the school to catch my bus, only to see them all pulling away, leaving me behind. I'm always devastated about missing the bus, and always surprised, but I shouldn't be because I've never caught up to it yet!

Recurring dream #2: This is a more general dream, not as specific as the school one. Something or someone is chasing me and if I don't escape I'll die. So I concentrate really hard and float up off of the ground. The harder I concentrate the higher I go. Soon I'm floating over houses, trees, and power lines, but I have to think really really hard about it or I start to drift down toward the power lines. But sometimes I think too hard and I get so high up I get scared. Note: I am not flapping my arms like wings, nor am I dressed in superhero garb ; I'm just floating up there. The view is usually cool but if I start enjoying it I lose altitude.


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Clever, I gotta wonder if we've passed each other in those school halls!! I have the same kind of recurring dream. It's usually my "stressed-out and feeling vulnerable" dream!

Your dream is a little more elaborate though. I just find myself in the hallways and wonder what class I'm supposed to be going to as all these other students are hurrying by looking like they know exactly where to go. Then, I start to wonder if I even attended any classes at all and how did I ever graduate if I was just wondering the halls all those years! My adult conscience has an argument with my dreaming conscience! Then the halls empty out and everyone but me (of course) is in a classroom looking attentive. I start going through all the teachers that I can remember having in high school and wonder if I should try to find that class. It's always the same.

I never do figure out where I was supposed to be, but I can said that somehow I did make it through high school.

Weird, I've got a recurring school dream too, but it's in college.

I HATED college-level Spanish and spent as many of the classes as I could at "The Pines" on Salem Avenue perfecting my pinball and beer-guzzling skills.

My dream is that I'm in Spanish class, the teacher calls on me and I don't know ANY spanish.

School must have been traumatic for a bunch of us!

The other recurring dream - that I've had since childhood - is that I'm stitching the hem of a quilt and I keep going round and round and round while my Aunt Nancy watches. Aunt Nancy has been ex-Aunt-Nancy since I've been about 10, so I can't understand WHY her and this damn quilt keep running thru my dreams.

I won't be much help because I've pretty much had the same High School dream too, almost word for word Clever. Weird huh? The other recurring dream I have is even stranger though. I have no recollection of what I’m dreaming, but I always and rather loudly wake up myself and my wife with what I'll call a horror movie type moaning and groaning.

Wow, too funny that you and Checks have the same sort of school dream that I do. And I've heard that moaning and groaning out of my husband, too! Once in awhile he'll wake himself up by doing it. Though he has no idea what he was dreaming about that caused the uproar.

Do any of you have a dream where your teeth are falling out? He has that one a lot. I've had it just 3 or 4 times maybe but it's pretty distressing.

Many people must have similar dreams. I have a very similar high school dream. I also have a dream of playing football as a 30+ year old and I am still a senior. Throughout the dream it is always an issue but I just barely make the cut off. The crazy thing is I never get off the bench. The reason this is funny is when I was in high school, I never left the field. Coming from Allegany County I played Offense, Defense, kickoff, punt ect....

I have the falling out teeth dream often, at least once a month. Not only do they fall out but some of them crumble. I actually had that dream last night. I always figured that I either am grinding my teeth in my sleep or I have closed off my airway with a blanket or pillow; so I need more air. But I don't know if I grind my teeth, wife has never said anything.

I've never had the teeth dream but did have an awful dream once where I was going out on the town, got all dressed up in a mini skirt (haven't worn one in real life since my teen years!) and then I look down and realize that I forgot to shave ONE leg. And it's a hairy one! Looked like a bear! Gawd that was an awful dream.

I actually did that :looking down in shame:

On a casual day at work, I wore shorts. I've got a bad habit of tucking one leg up under the other when I sit at my desk, and has I ran my hand casually up my leg, I realized that I had only shaved ONE LEG!

Oh god, how embarassing.

Needless to say, Jelsy didn't leave her desk often on THAT day!

I had a similar dream a few weeks back, all except I was signed by the Redskins. Hmmm never thought they would get that desperate.

I've also had a similar dream, though I'm not grown up when I'm in class. I always have dreams that it's the first day of classes and I don't have my schedule, I don't know where the classes are, I forget my locker combination, etc.

I think I have those dreams because that stuff has actually happened to me. I've had the bus pull away without me on it (they stopped it thankfully) I've forgetting my locker combination, and have been late to many classes on the first day because I don't know where the classroom is. I think it's just a general stress dream.

Have any of those things actually happened to you in real life Clever?


I used to have a dream all the time about white ducks, sprinkles, and fisher price appliances.




I bet no one had that dream before! Good thread by the way.

OMG! My wife has that dream all the time! Every every few months she tells me she had it again. I've never heard of anyone else having it. That's weird.

My wife says the same thing, that they crumble up and fall out. I can't wait to tell her that other people have the same dream.

You'd probably win that bet, Ith! What a bizarre combination of stuff to dream about. I don't even know where to begin trying to understand that...



No, I never missed the bus after school but I do remember that it was stressful when the bell rang, because my locker was on the other side of the school and you had to literally run to the locker, then run to the bus to make it in time (you had like 3 minutes). It was a photo finish sort of situation. I did forget my combination to my gym locker a few times, along with a bunch of other kids, especially at the beginning of the year. And I remember that the gym teacher was pretty annoyed about it. So I guess you could say that these things were just stressors, always working away in the back of my head during school days.

So we all have similar dreams, but no one has been able to tell us why or what the mean. HELP

Dr. Jels thinks all you "teeth gnashers" are too stressed.

Pay at the desk on your way out.

Wow, I just Googled "dream teeth falling out" and I hit the mother lode. Apparently this dream is extremely common. Here's a link to one of many articles on the topic: Teeth Falling Out in Dreams

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Read the article for more. There are several other reasons listed as to why so many of us have this dream.

I looked up the ducks and sprinkles thing in my grandmother's dictionary, I forget what it said. Let me look it up now.

Ducks: if flying=freedom, if swimming=unconscious mind

Um...mine were walking.

Sprinkles: No entries on 5 different websites

Fisher prices: (toys=To see toys in your dream, symbolizes childhood, domestic joy and harmony)

I used to have ducks as pets when I was younger, I had a fisher price toy oven/kitchen thing, I don't know about the sprinkles though (weird)

Clever,

Where is that website?

I probably would win the prize for shame dreams! ha. I've actually had many dreams of being places talking to others and then I look down and I'm naked. So, I try to figure out where I put my clothes and how I can graceful get out of this situation. Luckily, I'm young in my dreams and in good shape! whew!

Now the other dream is me on the loo and looking up to see that it's in the middle of the room and no walls for privacy. Nightmare!

In childhood, I use to have dreams of being in a dirty pond, swimming, and then seeing this crocodile swimming right towards me..... just the eyeballs and long teeth showing. Horror!!

Here is a different perspective on your teeth falling out dreams.

http://www.dreammoods.com/cgibin/teethdrea...arch=teethintro

Hmm.................teeth? I hate to say this; but quite a few sources say that this symbol in a dream often forcasts a death. I really don't place too much stock in this, since different symbols can mean different things to different individuals; but......teeth are one of the body parts associated with the Voodoo God, Baron Samedi, of death. All bones are sacred to Him. And the night before my brother died, I had a terrible dream that I lost all my teeth, and even went to the dentist, but there was nothing the dentist could do. I've had other dreams about teeth and not had any deaths among faily or friends, though.

Thanks for freaking me the F out!!! i'll be cancelling my dental appt. ASAP

I still don't know why I'm dreaming of sprinkles. I must be very strange.

I was just thinking about making a thread about dreams at work today, but then I thought, nahhh.

I have dreams all the time about losing my teeth. They always crumble and I always freak out. Another forum I visit has a wiccan or a nature guru or a white witch or whatever, and they told people it meant pregnancy! Gah. I really don't give much credit to dream interpretations because everybody says it means various things. Nothing seems to be consistent. I always thought my losing teeth dreams stemmed from me using teeth whiteners. Some people say they break down the enamel if you use them too much.

I often have dreams of people chasing me too. There are different settings and sometimes I'm in a car, mostly I'm in a building of various sorts and I just can't seem to get ahead. The person is always at my heels no matter what. I just figured this came from watching too many horror movies.

I have had some very complicated, intricate, vivid and horrible dreams. Those were never reoccuring, but once I had a dream that a family member's head split open like a flower and my mom said, "it's ok, Heather. We knew she had a birth defect."

As a child, I often dreamed that I was hiding in the racks of clothing in stores and when my mom didn't come looking for me, this thing did. No one heard me scream and I couldn't figure out how to get out. Obviously that came from my mom yelling at me to stop following on her heels and to stop hiding in the racks of clothes.

One of the weirdest dreams I think I have ever had, and I think I posted this before, was when I was in my parent's house and there was a snake trying to get in! OMG! I kept running around to everyone to tell them and they didn't care! Eventually it got in, somehow I knew it would, and I grabbed it up! The weird thing is, if I pressed very hard on it, it stayed in the shape of a dinner fork. If I loosened my grip on it, it became a snake. wtf To me the meaning is pretty obvious. My mom has always had a full blown phobia of snakes. She doesn't act like a normal person that runs into a snake: scared/cautious/curious. She freaks the hell out. I think this dream was my turning point. I never had an extreme fear of snakes, like my mom, until after I bought this house and encountered them in my own home. Before, I always laughed at her. I think that dream may have been symbolic of me inheriting my mother's phobia.

I've talked to some people on Chantex or whatever that pill is called that aids in quitting smoking. They say their dreams are extremely vivid and wild. I always wanted to try it, but considering I already have freaky dreams, I'm kinna scared to try it.

I've had dreams that scared me so much, that seemed so real to me, that I looked it up on the internet. I researched the thing called "night terrors." It's for children mostly, but there is a famous painting that depicts it. It's just this heavy sense of an evil presence. Sometimes it's felt physically. With me and my nightmares, it felt like this weirdo/nerd that I know was in my bed with a maniacal disposition. In real life, he's extremely religious and friendly. Not at all menacing. But in my dream, I was paralyzed and he was impish and devil - like. I can't explain it aptly enough. It was just terrifying and I knew I was dreaming and couldn't wake myself up. I've had other nightmares like that except the evil "thing" was just beyond eyesight, lurking around the perimeters of my bedroom.

It doesn't help matters when I purposely try to scare myself though. I do have a clear shower curtain for a reason. I still make myself imagine the Grudge girl hanging upside down from my attic entrance.