Everyone dreams (even if we don’t always remember them after the fact) and researchers have found that the majority of us have dreams with similar themes. For years people have tried to interpret the fleeting images that we see when we go to sleep – some interpretations are outright bizarre, while others are pretty understandable. This is a list of the interpretations that the Association for the Study of Dreams has given to the most recurring and common types of dream. Be sure to tell us whether you think it is accurate from your own experiences.
In these types of dreams you are usually in or near a car or some other type of vehicle which is out of control or has other problems that seem insurmountable. For example, the brakes may have failed, you may have lost control of the steering, or be heading over a cliff or crashing. You can either be the driver or the passenger. This is a very common type of nightmare and it occurs in all people – not just those who can drive. This dream usually means that you are feeling powerless over something in your life – or that you are heading for a crash (metaphorically speaking).
In the faulty machinery dream you are trying to operate mechanical equipment which either fails to work, or fails to work in the way that you expect it to. The vast majority of these dreams involve a telephone – either trouble dialing, losing a connection, or dialing a wrong number. It can involve a lost Internet connection, or something manual like a jammed or broken machine. This dream often means that you feel you are losing touch with reality, or that a part of your body or mind is not functioning as it should. It can also occur when you are feeling anxious about making a connection with another person in real life.
Dreaming about being lost is very common and will usually occur when you are having conflict in deciding how to react in a situation in real life. In the dream you are trying to find your way out of an area – such as a forest, city streets, a large building, or other maze-like structure. Another way this dream plays out involves you being trapped, buried alive, caught in a web, or unable to move for some other reason. This is often accompanied by a feeling of terror. This dream usually means that you are trapped in real life – unable to make the right choice.
In this type of dream you are rushing to catch a bus, train, plane, or other type of public transport – but you miss it – usually by a fraction of a second. Rather than feeling fear in this dream, you usually feel frustration. This dream can also occur in a different form, in which you arrive late for an important performance or sporting event that you are supposed to participate in, only to find that the event has already begun. This dream usually means that you feel that you have missed out on an important opportunity in your real life. It will often occur when you are struggling over an important decision.
This dream usually manifests itself in people who have been out of school for a long time. In the dream you are prevented from passing a test in a variety of different possible scenarios. In one scenario you find that you are unable to make it to the test on time, often through being unable to find the test room. In other versions you are unprepared (either through lack of study) or you are missing equipment. This dream usually means that you are feeling tested in some way in your real life. You may feel that you are unprepared for something or playing the wrong part in life.
In this dream, you (or a loved one) are ill, injured, or dying. It is a moderately common dream and, not surprisingly, occurs often at the onset of an illness. Aside from becoming ill, this dream can mean that you are emotionally hurt or are afraid of becoming hurt. The dream may also be warning you of an upcoming physical risk to yourself or a loved one. When it is someone else in the dream that dies, it can mean that you feel that part of yourself (that you see represented by that person) is dead. It may also mean that you wish the person would go away, or that you fear losing them.
Dreaming of being chased can be a truly horrifying experience. Most often the chaser is a monster or some person that is frightening, and occasionally it may be an animal. You may be surprised to know that this is the most commonly experienced nightmare theme. The meaning of these dreams is that someone, something (possibly something as obscure as an emotion) is making you feel threatened. One way to determine the root of the threat is to ask yourself who or what in your real life most closely resembles the “creature” or circumstance in your dream. It is also worth noting that sometimes this dream is a replay of an actual event in your life.
Teeth dreams are fairly common and they usually involve the discovery of extremely decayed or missing teeth in your own mouth. Sometimes you will dream that you open your mouth and your teeth begin to fall out. The fact that the majority of people today have reasonable teeth (perhaps with the exception of the British), it is not surprising that we feel so emotionally disturbed by these dreams. So, what does it mean when we dream about missing teeth? At the most basic level it means that we are afraid of being found unattractive. At a deeper level, it can signify a fear of embarrassment or a loss of power in real life. Oh – I was just kidding about the “British” thing!
In this type of dream you are in a state of undress, partial undress, or inappropriate dress (for example wearing pajamas to work). Occasionally you are the witness of another person who is naked while you are clothed. This is often accompanied by feelings of embarrassment and shame, but occasionally with the feeling of pride or freedom. The meaning of this dream is that you are feeling exposed, awkward, or vulnerable, or you are afraid that you have revealed too much of yourself (such as a secret or a very personal feeling) in a real life situation. An interesting fact about this type of dream is that it occurs much more frequently in people who are involved in a wedding ceremony in their real life.
We have all had falling dreams – it is such a common dream, in fact, that myths have arisen over them; the most common myth is, of course, that you will die if you hit the ground in the dream. I can assure you, having hit the ground in more than one falling dream, that this is not true at all. In the falling dream we are usually falling through the air and frightened. Occasionally we may be sinking in water (and in danger of drowning). Typically a person having this dream is feeling insecure or lacking in support in their waking life. These dreams often occur when you are overwhelmed in life and feel ready to give up. If you have this dream you should evaluate your current situation and try to locate the problem that is overwhelming you. Deal with it and this dream should go away.
I’ve never had any of these dreams.
i have never had a teeth or falling dream, but i do have alot of flying dreams…sometimes flying, sometimes trying to fly and more gliding! haha
I’ve only had a few of these…
what I have a lot are dreams of exploration and dreams of people at my windows.
Er….yeah.
i always dream about being chased by zombies or something. then i would hide in a building and try to escape. funny thing is, most of the time, i can control the way my dream pans out. whenever something happens bad in the dream i can rewind it then choose another way out. it sounds weird but does that ever happen in your dreams?
My grandmother used to tell me that when we dream about loosing a tooth, it means that a person near you will die soon, and the three times that i have dream about that, it has become real, so i’m kind of afraid of that kind of dreams.
BTW, it is a rural chilean belief!!
I haven’t dreamt any except the being chased one and that was only once.
Most of my dreams are semi-lucid dreams about alternate lives.
I very often dream the falling thing. I wake up when I hit the “floor” or whatever, but I feel like I just fell onto the bed from somewhere up high.. I almost feel like i’m gonna bounce a couple of times.. It’s a strange feeling.
Wow, Ive dreamt a lot of these. Sometimes, I have variations of them. Ive had number 10 a lot, but sometimes its a little different. Sometimes in a dream, Ill get in a fight with somebody, but in my dream, I have very little control of my own body, just like the car. I feel like my limbs weight about 100 pounds each, and I move very slowly, and clumsily with no hand eye coordination. I also feel incredably weak and hopeless when the person im fighting gets me into submission. Lol I hate those dreams. They definitely mean the same thing as number 10.
jfrater,
I’m British and have never once had my sleep interrupted by dental anxiety! (All my own, I tell you: just one extracted recently.) A common dream, you say?
The 10 dreams listed are all anxiety- or neurosis-based. Flying and levitating dreams have also been mentioned in the comments above. I guess they must be quite common. For me, at least, these come under the heading of exhilarating, invigorating experiences I hate returning to reality from. They can at times feature among those dreams that feel so real it almost needs a kind of double *waking up* process to realise they are indeed only dreams! One especially empowering sensation is as if defying gravity. I am able to leap prodigious distances in the air, but unlike levitation (free-flying) or piloting small aircraft dreams, it always involves a series of complimetary returns to earth. None of these dreams is ever accompanied by any sense of insecurity. A tremendously long and fast fall dream, when I believed (in the course of it) that I would die at the end (as told by a friend in real life), finished in a gentle feet first landing and a tremendous sense of triumph over fate!
These exhilaration dreams rapidly replaced terrifyingly frightening nightmares I used to have regularly as a child, so probably represent a(n occasional!) sense of greater control over my adult life. Finding myself on a crowded bus and wearing no clothes at all below the midriff is the converse of that, however.
I often dream of particular people I knew way back at school and in early life, and events take place in the contexts of those times. They usually involve competetive situations where either the others or I may come out on top. Another theme at rare intervals (again as very realistic) has my parents still alive (or else one of them didn’t die). This is always a wonderful relief, but less so are the invariable financial and legal problems as a consequence. The latter probably represent anxiety at my sloppy, dilatory business sense!
Postscript,
One that occurs quite regularly over the years, which I always hate, is seeing an aircraft fall out of the sky, invariably a large, multi-engined machine. It’s always so realistic. Sometimes the plane is high up and the crash far away. At others so close, that I am trying to get there in case rescue is needed, but dreading what I shall see. I’m never affected or in personal danger, always a dispassionate spectator. Nor does the event ever involve actual people, known or unknown. In real life flying doesn’t concern me, and that still holds, even after the very recent loss of our two friends in a crash.
Well, I’ve certainly had versions of all of these dreams, but the the ones that truly perplex me are mt recurring dreams. Dreams which I’ll have, over and over, exactly alike, without change, for years.
The other dreams, which scare me a bit, are like the recurring dreams, but for the fact that new “chapters” are added every now and again!
I have one dream in particular which I’ve been dreaming for at least 40 years.
It has grown, that is, new chapters have been added, but the basic story line has remained the same. Some of the characters are “real”, some are “fanciful”, but all interact as if equals.
Even though the story has reached what I believe to be the end, I continue to occasionally dream it.
It is a quest dream. I have finished the quest. So why I still dream the dream is anybodies guess.
It’s just weird.
My alarm went off in the middle of a dream this morning. Immediately after, I had no recollection of what the dream was about.
One recurring dream is of being on my way somewhere and taking a shortcut through a building. This turns into an endless series of stairs and doors that lead nowhere.
Another recurring dream is of “waking up”, sometimes in my own apartment, but sometimes somewhere completely diffent. This often happens when I’ve got something important to do the next morning, like start a new job. I dream that I’m late for work, then “wake up” with a sense of relief, then realise that I’m still late for work (in “dream level 2″). Then I wake up really.
This is slightly related to a dream in which I “wake up” and am walking around “my apartment” (which may or may not actually be “mine”, then I realise that I’m still asleep and must walk back to my bed. The last time I had this, I could “hear” the creak of the floorboards and the bedsprings.
I’ve had the “failing a test” dream many times. I’m back at school to re-sit my final exams, and I’m way behind on maths. (Maths was in fact my top subject at school, but I’ve used very little of it since.) My brother-in-law mentioned that for him it was always English. Now, as a specialist surgeon, he writes papers that are published in major medical journals.
Just occasionally, I have hyper-detailed dreams. Once I was walking through an futuristic city, which I visualised perfectly.
Then there were the times I dreamed about Jamie, and about a gathering of LU members in “real life”.
i always dream i get struck by lightning and I always wake up when i get “struck”. I wonder what it means?
I have a dream that always seems to come up once in a while. I am either trying to shower in a public locker room or trying to use a public bathroom. People keep coming into my stall or trying to take a peek.
It’s funny but rather annoying. I keep telling them to go away but they just keep on opening the stall door or just walk right in and stare at me. I get very frustrated in these dream and also embarrassed.
PS. I’m a girl.
This belongs in the upper echelon of lists I’ve read on this website (I’ve read them all).
I’ve always dreamt of flying, but here’s the catch… I have to do a “swimming” motion in order to fly/float.
astraya, (132),
That was one version of the *double waking up* experience I was referring to in 129. The waking up from one dream into another. It can be quite strange and disconcerting, and for me only seems to happen after ultra-realistic dreams.
Another common feature I find with dreams is the lack of a *satisfactory* ending for the vast majority. Many remain seriously and disconcertingly unresolved. I even find myself trying to finish off the *story-line* mentally at times after waking up! Maybe one usually continues post-REM sleep after those that do wrap up neatly and so never remembers them! They say everybody dreams, and those who claim not to merely continue sleeping afterwards. Apparently researchers can catch anyone dreaming and obtain a fresh and vivid account simply by waking them during REM.
I dream quite vividly in colour, and can often remember the precise colours of objects. Other friends tell me they only dream in black & white. Strange!
I’ve often wondered what other life-forms might dream, or at what brain-size dreaming becomes possible, presumably even essential. Dogs and cats certainly do. Both have REM periods when they also go through the twitchings of certain obvious real-life movements and moods. Peter Sellers’s goon partner, Spike Milligan, wrote a collection of poems called “Small Dreams of a Scorpion”, but methinks scorpions don’t dream, alas.
Anon: Sorry, I missed your reference to double waking up in 129. wikipedia has an article about “false awakening”, which is exactly what we’re describing. Yes, most of my dreams are unfinished. Either I wake up, or the dream just stops, or it “segue”s into something else.
My father claims not to dream. He also claims not to be thinking about anything when asked “what are you thinking about”.
Beddy-byes time in Chile? Very sleepy, wish I could have a siesta time in Korea!
Weirdest dream I ever had involved snakes. I was walking through what I believed to be a public park. I was on a cement walk/bike path and I was walking along looking up at the trees. To my horror, I discovered hundreds of snakes hanging from the trees…they were alive, but they had been skinned. Ugh…pink snake bodies writhing in the trees above me. Also…pink was the only color that stood out in the dream, almost as if everything else in the dream was in black and white. I dream in color, so not sure why I only saw pink in this one.
The general theme of most of my dreams is that I am in a warzone or in a natural disaster and everyone around me is freaking out and panicing… I always seem to stay calm in my dream and find a safe way out of the situation, (usually taking a random person with me), in this dream i often wonder why everyone else is not doing/going to saftey like me???
In my other re-occuring theme, i’m looking for someone/thing and can’t find it, and everyone i meet is hindering me/lying to me… its very frustrating, and i usually wake up with a horrible feeling in my gut.
For some wierd reason people seem to dream of me alot too. My boyfriend often have dreams where I am being really mean to him.
I dream heaps and still clearly remember dreams I had more 25years ago in detail. Dreams rock.
Christine #72
i have those dreams a lot. where the stalls are public or in others view or it is too difficult to get in the stall. those suck.
they are usually in a place where others are around like a school or something and i will search for one to go in….ugh
last nights dream was about water again and i saw platypus….odd since i live in Pa and i don’t know if i have ever seen a real one.
@rodrigo: its probably true,, my friend had that dream and it came true
Ginger(110) Sounds like you only dream of the men you desire. Once fulfulled, the dreams are no longer necessary – as you have the object of your desire. I’d say that, if you don’t dream of other men (except the one of lust
), you got your man. 
Kruik(134) Sounds like ‘life interrupted’ – you want your privacy and don’t seem to get it when you want it. People are likely interested in you, but possibly not for the reasons you would prefer; though you do not openly begrudge or push them away.
i hate no 1,,, i dont usually fear something but because of my dreams of falling i literally is afraid of the feeling of falling,,, i would always dream of falling into air with black background and seems that there is no end,,, and ending up like i just hit my bed badly,,, i even fall of the floor one time,,,
I always dream of #1 falling & wake sweating
I had the car trouble dream a week or so ago. Dreamed the brakes were failing and I kept hitting the car in front of me. Never had a dream like that before.
When I was a kid in school I had a recurring dream once a year, always in september, where i was in the three little pigs story. I was with each pig, running from the wolf after he blew down each house in succession. Seriously, every year in September like 5 years in a row I had the same dream. I guess it had to do with school starting and me feeling threatened with starting a new year and what it would be like…. but the three little pigs? bizarre…
Won’t ever forget this dream/nightmare-my youngest daughter and I were out for a drive and saw an old farmhouse with a for sale sign. We stopped to check it out, but no one answered the door. A young boy came by on a bicycle, told us he knew the owner and let us in. The door opened into a dark, dusty library with a thin old man standing on the opposite of the room. He offered to show me the house and I turned to tell my daughter to come with us. She stood in the doorway and shook her head no. I followed the old man through a door out to a back yard. It was beautiful, with a stone wall that dropped to a lower yard and a pond. As I enjoyed the view, I saw what appeared to be large pods bobbing in the water. I suddenly realized they were bodies and leaned over the stone wall for a better look. At the base of the wall were hundreds of naked dead bodies piled up. I woke up with the feeling that I had been caught in a spider’s web. It would make a great episode of “The Twilight Zone”…
I am another who has the waking up dream. I’ve had it more times than I can possibly remember. Sometimes it’s of no importance, just a prelude to the prelude to the day. Most often, though, it’s part of a nightmare, wherein I “wake” from one nightmare to a more horrible “reality”.
One dream in dream in particular, which I remember with crystal clarity, started with my being lost in a large, dark, maze-like group of old wooden warehouses (a place I’ve actually been, but in the dream expanded, layer upon layer, patched together until there was no end and no beginning. At some point, somewhere in the maze of warehouses but far away from me, a fire starts. Because I don’t know which way is which (it’s dark, night, no stars, no moon), I just follow the maze, sometimes closer to the fire, sometimes farther away.
Just as my fear and confusion reach the boiling point, I “wake” up.
Of course, my bedroom is dark, because it’s still night. I want to get up and get some water, move around the apartment to get the fear worked out of my brain, but I can’t move! I can’t move a muscle.
I can hear a dull moaning-like sound, full of dread, from all around me, but I can’t place it.
The air in front of my eyes is full of symbols, glowing in neon colors, all of the letters of the alphabet are there, each in a different color, but different symbols, too, some I recognize from different maths, and some I do not recognize at all. The symbols have depth, they take up all of the space in the air.
Some of the symbols flash, and I keep thinking that if I can just decode the the symbols, I will be free. The moaning becomes more frightening. I feel as if the moaners are a true danger to me.
Then, suddenly, I realize I am asleep. I realize I can control this. I decide that if I can move *one* muscle, I can really wake up. I choose my right pinkie. I ignore all of the confusion going on about me, and concentrate on moving my right pinkie finger.
It takes a long time, it seems, but finally it happens. As soon as it happens, the *MOMENT* it happens, I wake up and am out of bed like a shot!
I haven’t had this dream since I’ve been married, but I had it often until then.
What would you make of having inappropriate ***** in dreams – as in having ***** with people you know you shouldn’t have ***** with and that you’re not attracted to in real life
SueSue — I wish I knew; that would answer some questions for me.
I always have dreams where I’m getting chased by a bear… It’s the most recurring dream I have. But I also have to attribute it to the fact that I live in a largely wooded area and I’m deathly afraid of bears.
Beyond that, I’ve had some pretty messed-up dreams to be sure… And having anxiety issues, I’ve gone through phases of refusing to sleep because I’m afraid of what I might dream about. Fun times…
Suesue(151) Could be easy… forbidden fruit. Not that you necessarily want it, but because you can’t have it, or that it’s taboo, you take it (in your dreams). Most people have certain fantasies that they don’t readily acknowledge to others, and which they almost hate to admit to themselves – dreams of this nature are often the figurative outlet.
segue, (150),
It’s interesting, the factor that at some point during the process one can actually realise one is dreaming and, it seems, choose to force one’sself awake (from a nightmare), or try to stay in it longer if pleasurable. Presumably this must be at a not very profound level of sleep, and almost at the point where *night-dreaming meets day-dreaming*! But for me too, that level of awareness is far more likely in the *Russian doll* dream syndrome.
macbresoren,
As with real life fears and phobias, those of dreams are probably sometimes dredged from the deep subconscious, and at others based on perfectly reasonable perils or risks which are present in the waking world. Snake phobia is often irrational, but snakes can also be extremely dangerous.
Being chased by large, frightening (real) animals such as bears, wolves and big cats was a constant feature of my childhood nightmares. And they would still be outside the window in the garden in the dark, or on the landing, or even under the bed when I woke up! Arrgh. Not that there was much megafauna in the inner suburbs of London to base the fear on. A lot came from book illustrations, I think.
One very intriguing fact-based dream I had on several occasions definitely was. In real life when I was 5 years old, I tricycled 7 miles into London and the same 7 back with my parents (on bicycles) to visit grandparents. My dad carried a length of rope in case I tired, and although I made all the major hills, the last mile was too much for me and I got a tow for that bit. I had a boy’s adventure book, and in it was a frontal view of a grim and be-goggled von Richthoven (‘Red Baron’) in his bright scarlet Fokker tripe.
In the dream my mother leads, my father is towing me. He goes through the final traffic lights before home, which turn red, so I brake, causing the rope to snap. But he has not noticed, and my parents forge ever further ahead. At that point I hear the sound of a diving aircraft and turning round, have the exact Red Baron image of the book, colours and all, with the twin spandaus spitting out bullets at me. My little legs flail like pistons as I shout out in terror and try to catch up my parents in vain. At that point I always (mercifully) woke up (perhaps wondering where was Captain Roy Brown in his Sopwith Camel!!)
It wasn’t until adulthood that I realised what a perfect paradigm this was for Goethe’s (and Schubert’s) Erlkönig.
“Mein Vater, mein Vater, jetzt schietzt er mich an!
Freiherr hat mir ein Leid’s getan!’
I haven’t had the teeth dream, but I read somewhere else that it signifies lying?
I have the failing a test one pretty frequently – I’ve been out of high school for three years now but I always dream about going into an exam for a class I didnt take. It’s so strange! I get so scared because all the questions sound familiar but Ihave no idea how to answer them…
And I frequently dream about showing up to work or school partially naked (like forgetting my pants or something) and not realizing it, but I don’t feel ashamed in the dreams, and no body seems to notice it.
Oh – and I can usually fly in my dreams. Not fly in the way that birds do, but more like levitate, and sometimes I have very realistic dreams where i am floating like that, and I think that i have finally learned to fly in real life!
I had this dream about a girl I hated most, and in my dream I confronted her and threaten her as if she bump into a wrong person..which is really true,..hahaha..
I can ruin her life but I’m not that evil…only in my dreams.
This is a great list! I have had most of these dreams, if not all of them.
I used to have a reoccuring nightmare during my childhood. In the dream I would be lying in bed on my back facing the ceiling and it was the middle of the night. As I stared at the ceiling a huge, evil, angry face would appear and stare down at me. It had no eyes in the sockets but it could still see what I was doing. Every time I would scream in fear the face would begin to roar with enough force to pin me to the bed. The louder I tried to scream the louder it would roar until I was finally forced through the mattress and that was when I would wake up.
I never researched what it might have meant, but I still remember it vividly. Very frightening.
lol i had a #2 before of a girl i’ve randomly met naked, about 2 times. each time i woke up grinning and smiling, but after a few minutes i felt shameful and disgraced uhgggg
I actually dreamed a lot of weird things and one of them involved me being naked. I dream that I was swimming in my underwear and as soon as I am jumping to the pool I was already naked. I woke up feeling embarrassed by that.
i hate bad dreams. like where you wake up and cant fall back asleep. ugh
jackit, (155),
“… I think that i have finally learned to fly in real life!”
That describes EXACTLY the way I often feel. It’s so, so disappointing to wake up and find it ain’t so.
It’s also fascinating that someone else has precisely the same reaction. I put that particular dream at least partly down to wish fulfilment. Wanting to fly has been a human aspiration since the dawn of civilisation. Just before I actually did learn to drive, I used to dream I was controlling a car. It was a thrilling and powerful sensation. Once I did drive the dreams stopped. The same happened when I badly wanted to explore in the South American Andes for the first time. The sleep fantasy world was actually utterly different from the reality of that (which turned out far, far better and infinitely more satisfactory), but once displaced, it stopped.
So I wonder, do people who take up hang-gliding, parapenting and the like have these *flying* dreams as well?
in our country, if you dream that you lost your teeth, it means someone will die.
i had a dream where i died. then my spirit went home and my dad scolded me for going past curfew. i had to tell him, im sorry, i got killed on the way home. hahahaha
This is an interesting list, but what about the ***** dream? To taboo?
This is an interesting list, but what about the ***** dream? Too taboo?
This time, I dreamt about getting kidnapped by my school bus conductor. He was also hired to be my personal driver by my parents to my, uh, pole dancing lessons!?
Anyway, in the car, I said, “You already went past the dancing studio.” I was creeped out by his LUSTFUL stare at me. Then, I realized that the car is going to an abandoned warehouse. I got a bad feeling about this, so I put off my seat belt and escaped the car even while it’s running. Whew, I thought that I’m gonna die of stepping down from a fast car, I survived anyway and made it unscathed.
I ran away ultimately and ended up at home. I was scolded by my parents for skipping the pole dance lessons and I can’t explain anything.
I also had other weird dreams about piercing myself with a needle after this girl I didn’t- I repeat- DIDN’T like, confessed that she made out with the guy she’s been with lately in real life. I realized then that my blood was made of strawberry Jell-O’s. I woke up to check on a wound on my wrist only to find out it’s gone. What a relief.
So, what do those bizarro dreams mean?
158. unknown: “lol i had a #2 before of a girl i’ve randomly met naked, about 2 times. each time i woke up grinning and smiling, but after a few minutes i felt shameful and disgraced uhgggg”
really? You know I had “stirrings”(if you’ve read The Giver. anyway, stirrings are romantic/erotic dreams…) about a girl posing for Playboy and me being the photographer.
For a long time, I thought I only had very bizarre dreams, very strange and full of mystifying occurrences. After I grew up, though, I decided that it was only the bizarre dreams I remembered, the only ones which made sufficient impression on my mind to remain with me when I woke.
I must have an enormous backlog of mundane dreams of which I just have no recall.
I’v had 8 and 9 once or tiwce. 4 and 2 a few times. And 1 a tooooooooooon of times! I always wondered why… I remember one time when I had stayed the night at my friends house we had laid down and I fell asleep almost right away cause I was so tired. And, what felt like every 30 seconds or so to me, I would kind of jump and wake up. Because I kept dreaming I had fallin/slid off the back of the bed into this black hole and just kept falling. Haha it was weird.
Ha I got bored and googles something and found this website. Now I’m like inlove with it. Hehe. Awesome job with this list and others. =]
And, Segue that makes sense. I thought that too all the time! But then relized just as you pretty-much said, it was because they were so weird that I remembered them.
I’ve had 1,2 and 5.
I’ve never had any of these dreams before, beleive it or not. I’ll remember this list if I ever do, though.
My dreams mainly features a ‘plot’ in which I need to go on a quest of some kind, going through obstacle courses and having ‘powers’ of some kind (flying, levitating etc). The most fustrating I find, is waking up when it gets to the good part and as hard as I try, I can’t remember the details and would spend the next few hours/days trying to recount it.
Water frequently features in my dreams and often I found myself floating or drowning in the vast sea then finding a passage of some kind and my adventure begins.
One vivid one I remember was a bomb was about to go off in my house, my dog was on the verge of death outside and my grandmother was insistant I leave her behind (to keep the bomb from going off) to rescue my dog. I remember getting in a heated arguement with her and desperately pleading her to live. I was just leaving the house when I woke up and crying.
*sigh* I’ve read one too many books it seems.
Brilliant List
172. rubyserpent_720: One trick I’ve found useful to remembering dream details which might otherwise be lost, is to keep a pad of paper and pen on the bedside table. When I wake in the night, as I often do, briefly, following a dream, I jot down notes on the dream.
In the morning, the notes make little sense, having been written in the complete dark in a state of half sleep, but the basis of the dream is there, the *idea*.
From there, reconstruction is fairly easy.
i have this dream where im smoking bongs with my dog n were just talking jibba jabba , does anyone av dreams of getting intoxicated with there beloved household pets?
yours truely
a intelligent idiviual
uh, no…not really, jay, no…you might want to step away from the bong for a bit…just step away…good jay…that’s a good jay
what if you dream of have *****?
i always dream of falling or being chased by people and losing/missing teeth.
i never dreamed about the other # not that i can remember at least….
one week ago i dreamt about failing a test and i had a latin exam on thursday .. and yeah.. i think i really failed there
Last night I had numerous recollections of whacky dreams because I had a restless night. The last thing I recall was lying on the ground outside a gym, investigating cat vomit while listening to a friend tell me why she was going to be lesbian. While this was happening a bunch of policemen arrived to do a workout and I tried to pretend I wasnt actually looking at cat vomit.
Id like someone to interpret that for me one day!!! WTF?