Recurring Dreams
I’m a very active dreamer and usually wake up remembering one or more dreams… And for as long as I can remember, I have had one particular dream at least once a month: I am in a large house with a lot of passageways and rooms, and a generally confusing layout. Most of the house seems normal, but there is one section that I know I am not ever, ever supposed to enter, lest terrible things happen to me. The times when I have peeked into these rooms or ended up there by accident (which happens a lot), I have an overwhelming feeling of dread. There’s no one in there, but I know it's a bad place.
In current years, it has been a large craftsman style house, where the “bad” part is a series of hidden rooms off of the master bedroom, filled with bunk beds. It used to be a huge Victorian house where the “bad” part was through a series of secret passageways, and if you entered the passageways, you would never get out. Before that, it was a multi-story apartment building, where the top floor was where the evil lived. And every time, I find myself going to these bad places by accident, and there seems to be no avoiding ending up there.
No matter what the building looks like, it’s basically the same dream over and over. Nothing really happens, there may or may not be other people who make appearances, but for the most part it’s me, alone in a building, trying to avoid the evil area. I’ve never learned what actually lurks there.
My other recurring dreams are a little more normal, at least: I’m on a very narrow ledge trying to avoid falling over the edge. The other is where I am underwater, trying to hold my breath. Usually in these dreams, though, I realize I am dreaming, and either jump off the cliff and wake up, or start breathing under water and wake up.
Anyone else have any weird recurring (or non-recurring) dreams?
Re: Recurring Dreams
I also do have some anxiety that I generally try to control with meditation, so maybe there is a correlation. I really need braces- I wonder if the clenching / grinding will be better once my teeth are better aligned...?
I ready in one dream interpretation book that it meant that you felt you "weren't being heard." I'd say when I was really having these frequently, that may have been accurate. I feel more head now and have also learned to care less about some stuff so I don't have the dreams as often any more.