dreams that recur ( that are evil ones )

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i had one last night and when i woke from it i knew i had been there before, and the same people in it had taken over my dreams the last few times too.
it was awful.
does this 'haunting' happen to anyone else?

― donna (donna), Sunday, 20 April 2003 16:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I never had a "recurring" dream but when I was a kid I had a dream that actually continued into the next night, like a two-part episode. It had something to do with witches and two of my aunts were standing around a cauldron and I was walking toward a playground slide ... The next night picked up at the slide and my aunts were still in the house standing around the cauldron and then other stuff happened. 'Twas weird.

― jewelly (jewelly), Sunday, 20 April 2003 16:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Rather than people, I sometimes return to a similar place, such as a series of roads, a desert, etc which can seem ominously sentient. Half the time I want to take it seriously and try to learn something from my dream, and the other half the time I just attribute it to too much t.v./eating sushi before bed/etc. ;-)
At least you aren't having night terrors!

― Ryan McKay (Ryan McKay), Sunday, 20 April 2003 16:44 (twenty-two years ago)

my recurring dream theme is i am somehow either back at school or back at my old supermarket/shelf-stacking job. oddly enough rather than panicking or being angry about this i always seem to be in grudging but calm acceptance that i'm 'trapped' in the past in this bleak, depressing way.

had a couple of dreams in recent months where i've woken myself up by the shouting in my dream becoming a muffled moan in the reality - i think this is just down to eating the wrong food too soon before going to bed tho.

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 20 April 2003 16:53 (twenty-two years ago)

after 9/11, i had recurring plane crash dreams (i wasn't in the plane). but the weird thing was that all of the planes were like cartoon-planes, shorter and fatter and slightly whimsical-looking.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 20 April 2003 17:02 (twenty-two years ago)

When I was young, aeons ago, I had a recurring dream that i could never clearly remember. There was at least one large stone block, a cube maybe three or four feet across, quite a lot of straw, and a long fall, which I think was what woke me up.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 20 April 2003 17:33 (twenty-two years ago)

When I was ten years old or so I read The Last Children of Schevenborn ('a nuclear holocaust novel for young people' according to amazon - what a great concept). I had a week's worth of nightmares filled with dust, ozone, burnt flesh and mewling Thalidomide children.

Last Friday I re-read the book in the course of an afternoon. Haha, can't be that bad, Poltergeist lost its edge too, etc. Boy was I wrong. The following night I lost about half a gallon of sweat, having exactly the same nightmares I had fifteen years ago.

Have been drinking lots of coffee since. I hope that ozone smell is coming from my computer.

― Frühlingsmute (Wintermute), Sunday, 20 April 2003 18:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I always have nightmares about the same things. Some are so vivid I wake up shaking. Textbook stuff, really; nothing too surprising. But I think a lot of this comes from seeing Rosemary's Baby and The Shining too many times.

-insects, spiders, rodents, small dogs
-being followed/chased
-cavernous, labyrinthine old buildings (sometimes w/ undiscovered/forgotten rooms)
-the apartment complex I lived in from 1976-1991
-my teeth (I'm told this is a common nightmare subject, but I'm anxious about my teeth in my waking life too)
-being suffocated/strangled/asphyxiated
-being confined in a small, tight space where I can't move

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 20 April 2003 18:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm not sure that that is all standard, Jody: I've never dreamed about the apartment complex you lived in from 1976-1991. Or your teeth.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 20 April 2003 18:30 (twenty-two years ago)

HA HA HA

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 20 April 2003 18:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't watch the Come to Daddy video.

― Frühlingsmute (Wintermute), Sunday, 20 April 2003 19:02 (twenty-two years ago)

I feel like I've had recurring dreams but I honestly think it's just a sense of de ja vu in the dream. I have general themes that run throughout (I have a lot of dreams about cyborgs) but no exact recurrances.

On the other hand for the first time in my life I had a waking up from a dream, dream. I had just watched The Ring while in bed and went to sleep. I opened my eyes sometime around 3 am and thought I saw a foot long, mechanical spider crawling on my boyfriend. So I yelled and shot out of bed. He woke up, yelling what's wrong. And I said Oh it was just a dream, sorry, sorry. He said don't do that again. And I stayed up a little because I felt bad for yelling in the middle of the night and freaking him out. The next day I asked him about it and supposedly it never happened. Which amazes me.

― Carey (Carey), Sunday, 20 April 2003 19:20 (twenty-two years ago)

He may have just forgotten about it.

― slutsky (slutsky), Sunday, 20 April 2003 19:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, I thought that too but I've asked all weekend long about it and asked our roommate if he heard anyone screaming. And nothing. We did check in the morning though to make sure there was no mechanical spider in the bedroom.

― Carey (Carey), Sunday, 20 April 2003 19:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I only have one recurring dream about not having started my dissertation. It's vaguely disorientating.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 20 April 2003 19:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I used to have a recurring dream where I'd fall out of a really tall buiding and my body would smash against the ground.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 20 April 2003 19:52 (twenty-two years ago)

If your body hits the ground in a falling dream you actually die. Therefore, Julio Desouza is posting to ILE from beyond the grave.

― slutsky (slutsky), Sunday, 20 April 2003 20:01 (twenty-two years ago)

He's a ghost! Boooooolio Desouza!

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 20 April 2003 20:03 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, that makes sense.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 20 April 2003 20:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Rattling chains - C/D?

― slutsky (slutsky), Sunday, 20 April 2003 20:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I had a reoccurring dream when I was about 4 or 5 that I was defeating a bad man known only as "Lewis". His main weapon was a flying room (two walls, a floor and a ceiling that somehow flew around in the sky) with a wet, shivering old man inside who had the ability to puke up from his big toes. In my dream there would be a big battle, and then I'd defeat him and fly out of the flying room (which would fall and crash on the ground) and I'd wake up not lying down but actually kneeling on my bed, with my arms held out in front of me in a kind of Superman pose.

― Chriddof (Chriddof), Sunday, 20 April 2003 20:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I still have waiter nightmares. You're never on top of your tables, people are running you to death, you keep finding new tables of freaks - then you wake up and don't know where you are for a few moments. And I haven't waited tables in over a year, damn.

They're spookier than you'd expect.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Sunday, 20 April 2003 21:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Chriddof: That's awesome. All of it.

I had one at a similar age, about watching some sort of burning, mythical bird on TV. I don't really remember more.

― OleM (OleM), Sunday, 20 April 2003 21:34 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

this reminds me of the this extremely scary thread. I can't believe so many ilxors have experienced night terrors

― Aaron A., Tuesday, 5 April 2005 22:52 (twenty years ago)

um what

― Aaron A., Tuesday, 5 April 2005 22:53 (twenty years ago)

This morning I realized I was asleep, but I was having a really hard time waking up. I was kind of like, well what do I do to wake up and really wake up? Because I had already awoken once in my dream and checked my clock and dreamed that I had overslept. One thing I did was to turn off a radio that was on, and I was very firm about it, thinking, roughly: I'm turning this off and it better stay off, none of this dream nonsense where you turn things off but they don't turn off. (Sorry this does not exactly fit the thread subject.)

As one friend very insightfully described it, I have a lot of dreams about "tricky situations," in a very physical sense, ending up on a ledge or something. I don't have them as much as I used to. I have had loads of dreams about horrible apartment situations, mostly absurdly boundary-less (sp? word?) arrangements, where my apartment really just opens up into a vast space where there are lots of other tenants. Even one where 3 foot high purple men were already living in my apartment. (I probably said all this above.) (Uh.)

― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 23:01 (twenty years ago)

Oh, also, related to the apartment dream, for a while there I had lots of dreams that I was somehow living back home with my father, and the realization was really horrible. (Just a little bit of unfinished business with my father.)

― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 23:02 (twenty years ago)

Also the common dream about having some class which I have inexplicably been blowing off all semester, and realzing that a paper do, or showing up for a test.

― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 23:03 (twenty years ago)

I have that one about HIGH SCHOOL CLASSES still!

― absolutego (ex machina), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 23:09 (twenty years ago)

so do I, fairly frequently. and i'm 5 years or so older than you.

― ()ops (()()ps), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 03:47 (twenty years ago)

wait no, mine is always about the first day of school, and trying to find my classes and figure out my locker combo.

― ()ops (()()ps), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 03:48 (twenty years ago)

Also the common dream about having some class which I have inexplicably been blowing off all semester

Yes, I have that dream too (in my dream it's always French).

In my other recurring unsettling dreams, either I'm riding a ski lift and feel myself gradually slipping forward/off the seat, or I'm driving a car that's going a little faster than I can control.

― j.lu (j.lu), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 04:17 (twenty years ago)

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