This was inspired by AzRaek’s post in the Share your stress dreams! thread. I think almost all of us have repetitive dreams - the same dream again and again. I want to know if anyone else (besides me and AzRaek) has repetitive dreams like these, in which you’re doing the same thing over and over within the dream.
AzRaek shared:
When I’m stressed out I’ll dream that I’m balancing my office’s $82,000 budget at the end of the fiscal year. I actually do this at work… but I’ll dream about it and it’s awful! I’ll look at a line item, get interrupted, go back to the line item and find where I was, get interrupted again… over and over. I wake myself up because I’m so bored!
Don’t even get me started on my repetitive penny-rolling dreams. Count out fifty pennies. Slide into sleeve. Fold ends down. Count out fifty pennies. Slide into sleeve. Fold ends down.
Arrrrrrrgh!
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I occasionally have one where I’m trying to dial one of those looooong numbers on the back of the phone card. I keep making mistakes and having to start over. Really boring.
I have some VERY boring dreams - so boring, in fact, that I will intentionally wake myself up. They’re not repetitive, just boring.
Not unlike this post.
During my childhood I had a dream that recurred: My sister and I just riding a moving streetcar–which never stops so we can get out. (When we lived in Venice, CA, during childhood, the old PE was still in operation, and some streets in Venice were criscrossed with streetcar tracks.)
In the aftermath of my friend’s death (when I was 12), I had a recurring dream about him and myself. I can’t remember it clearly, but it was sort of a “quest” dream, and there was nothing disturbing about it. Maybe he was trying to make it up to me that we wouldn’t be growing up together.
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