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Reoccurring Dreams
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retrorich
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I have had a reoccurring dream many time over many years.
In the dream, I am on the ground. An airplane overhead is obviously in trouble. I am hoping it will not crash onto me. The plane heads away from me, but then circles back toward me. In some of the dreams, I see smoke rising from where the plane has crashed. The plane never actually crashes on me.
What, if any, significance do these dreams have?
I have never actually witnessed a plane crash, and am not afraid to fly.
I currently live very close to an international airport--in fact planes frequently fly over my apartment.
In the dream, I am on the ground. An airplane overhead is obviously in trouble. I am hoping it will not crash onto me. The plane heads away from me, but then circles back toward me. In some of the dreams, I see smoke rising from where the plane has crashed. The plane never actually crashes on me.
What, if any, significance do these dreams have?
I have never actually witnessed a plane crash, and am not afraid to fly.
I currently live very close to an international airport--in fact planes frequently fly over my apartment.
jeffrey
â Ãig Dogâ
I don't believe they do, at not least, most of the time. I think most of the time it is due to a fear or unresolved issue in your life. I had, when I was a child, a re-occuring dream of a fire encompassing our house. A few years later my Grandmother's house had a brush fire come through, went all around her, but spared her house. Related? Don't know.
Nehustan
Well-Known Member
I walk around, seeing people rush here and there, homeless people, drug addicts, I turn on the news and see famine, war, mothers crying as their children die in their arms. I take my pills and go to bed, and as I rest my head on my pillow, I recall my mother comforting me as a child, patting my head and saying '...there there go back to sleep, it was just a bad dream.'
Buttons*
Glass half Panda'd
Yeah, i'm in that unresolved issue category. I have dreams that my ex tells me everything's gonna be okay and things like that, or he'll tell me what he wants for christmas (that was the latest one). I guess it's still unresolved in my mind (although it's been 8 months since the breakup) because I dont have anyone in my life that encourages me like he did. So my mind is still focused on him. Obsessed? my friends tell me so, but he was my best friend since we were 12, so to have him suddenly out of my life...
wow, this is the wrong place for that, sorry guys!
wow, this is the wrong place for that, sorry guys!
I hope they don't !!!!!retrorich said:
I had a reoccurring dream when I was much younger. It always involved going into a beautifully large house, with an Enormous stircase running up, with a turn to the left, and one to the right, at the top.
At the bottom of the stairs, on the posts, on each side was what I would now know to be a cupid, (with a drawn bow and an arrow). As I went up the stairs, everytime, I could feel eyes boring into my back, but I was always calm, and went up slowly. When I got to the top of the staies, I would turn right, and find a dead end (no door, no nothing - just a blank wall). For some reason, I never turned left; I always turned right. When I got to the dead end, I turne around, and started to go down.
The further I went down the stairs, the more I was aware of the two 'cupids' glaring at me; I then got into a panic, and ran down, feeling arrows flying around over my head. I never got to the bottom, before waking up.
retrorich said:In another of my frequently occurring dreams, I am in an elevator which is malfunctioning, and I am afraid it will crash. It never does, though.
I am rather claustrophobic, and do not like riding in elevators.
I am sure this will get up some people's noses, but hey, we're here to post what we think.........
Dreams of falling suddenly before awakening (you never quite make it to the bottom) - such as your lift, my stairs, are common; I have also dreamed of falling off ladders, but never quite got to the point of crashing.
There are some, who believe that our souls are connected to our bodies by what is called "The silver cord" (an umbilical like forever extending cord that keeps your body and soul; together). In fact, when you die, the belief is that the cord breaks, thus releasing the soul from the body. Those Gnostics who do believe in this connection take the following passage from the bible as an indication of 'the system' Ecclesiastes 12:6-12:7:
"Remember [your Creator] before the silver cord is severed, or the golden bowl is broken; before the pitcher is shattered at the spring, or the wheel broken at the well, and the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it." Demonstrating what I have said.
In addition to it, many people believe in astral projection (when your soul leaves your body at night, to go a-wandering); the sudden awakening from a big fall is supposed to be the moment at which your soul is returned to your body to enable you to reawaken. This is supposed to be when you are awoken in a hurry (someone shaking you, or an 'unscheduled' awakening...
Isabella Lecour
Active Member
Most times I don't feel that reoccurring dreams foretell the future. I don't discount that they could. I understand that reoccurring dreams deal with unresolved issues and trauma that's worked out in dreams.retrorich said:
I've had several reoccurring dreams. The first one I remember is a replay of an family argument that occurred when I was three years old. I continued to have that dream for four years, from age 5 till age 9; until I figured out just what had upset me about it so much. Turns out I couldn't stand the idea that my mother could get so blasted angry.
I've had night terrors that went on for two years. Just shear blackness and extreme fear acompanyed by my mind without a body thats screaming. I always woke sitting up on the verge of screaming, with my mouth wide open and drenched with sweat. It was a reflection and an expression of the trauma I was living threw at the time. Those dreams occurred when I was being sexually abused by my father.
I've relived via dreams many other traumas since then. I promptly start working on those issues and the dream ends up resolved quickly now. So far I've not had a repeat of any of those dreams or previous ones.
As to informing one of the future, I hold a higher stock in deja'vou. The problem with that is I never get enought warning. One minute before isn't enought of a warning for me.
FFH
Veteran Member
Dreams are a way of looking at the past and dealing with it, the way we would have dealt with it, if we could relive it. Dreams can also be in the present form. I frequently dream of different situations, in which I am presently in, or experiencing. This way I can resolve a problem I may be dealing. I can see all the different angles of the situation and then resolve the problem properly. Dreams can also warn us of potential problems in the future. I also had a dream of a house fire. The next day I checked the gas furnace and flames were shooting out about 5 inches from the furnace. The vent that allowed the burned gas to flow out, was filled with soot. It was causing the flames to shoot out of the furnace rather than up the exhaust vent. It was a real house fire threat. Thank God for the dream. I cleaned the exhaust vent of the furnace and the flames no longer shoot out of the gas furnace. Dreams can warn of future problems or dangers. Those dangers or problems can be avoided if we analyze the dreams and do something about it. Dreams will also show us what we will have or do in the future.
Flappycat
Well-Known Member
I think that a traumatic experience can bring back memories of old dreams of a similar nature, and people who have a strong belief that dreams foretell the future may unconsciously omit dreams that did not. If it could be proven that some people are capable of this remarkable feat, I'd be very interested in knowing how it works.
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber
It could mean you are worried about very big problems heading your way. I know nothing of your lifestyle, but my first general guess would be an office problem you know of that might head your way. But it might be family, finances, or any other thing you foresee coming and might collide with you.
I have never had an exact reoccuring dream, but I have dreams were the theme is reoccurring. Such as one, I am with the only girl I have ever felt a deep connection with, and we are having a good time. I believe it just lingering thoughts in my mind, or my mind saying "hey, why didn't you ever ask her out?"
searcher63
Member
Isabella;Isabella Lecour said:
Your post makes me so sad! This world is so screwed up. What your Bio father did to you is inexcusable! I know it will sound simplistic to say:" Lean on your HEAVENLY FATHER, but that is what we MUST do to comfort us during hard times." Understanding WHY GOD would allow pain and suffering is an important step in recovering from some terrible events like what you endured!
The answer to that question is what has put many people on the road to a happy life.
Jaymes
The cake is a lie
I don't think they tell the future. I usually can't recall that a dream is recurring unless I wake up from having it for the fourth or fifth time. The only one I can think of off the top of my head is where I'm in some very lovely place that has a castle (?), and I'm with a few friends. It starts to get dark, and we have to go down a series of gigantic stone steps about half as tall as myself. We have to make it to the bottom before dark, or something will get us. I have no idea what, but I always wake up right as it starts getting too dark.
Isabella Lecour
Active Member
I didn't intend to make anyone sad. I just was wanting to relay a few of my own reoccurring dreams and the background that caused them. As to being inexcusable: if in a different time, different place and different culture I wouldn't have a leg to stand on and worst cases exist.searcher63 said:
It is too simplistic to say.
The Gods didn't Allow anything. :sarcastic Actually those dreams were part of my recovery process. It allowed me to "vent" my frustrations and emotions that were tied to what was going on. Sheer terror is just not an emotion that can be bottled up without further damage, one must face it head on to move on.
Speaking of dreams, I don't know if anyone here does dream journals but either way: do you have reoccurring themes or objects within your dreams over a period of time, like old homes?
We've just moved into a new place and for two months after, I've dreamed of the old house. Each dream wasn't a duplicate, just the setting. Even lately I've had sporadic "old house setting" dreams, I figure were triggered from holiday remembrance's.
Circle_One
Well-Known Member
I certainly hope that reoccuring dreams don't foretell the future, as it would be a little odd if one of my frequent ones rang true.
In the most frequent, I am laying in my bed, tucked tightly under the covers when lightning starts crashing outside my window. Suddenly, the Count from Sesame Street comes out of my closet (which is at the foot of my bed in the dream) and begins crawling up my body, counting "One, hahahaha. Two, hahahaha. Three, hahahaha" etc, with a lightning bolt crashing at each bout of laughter. I always wake up when he gets right up to my face.
hahaha, I know it sounds like an incredibly silly dream, but it's creepy while it's happening. I've had this dream a good many times since I was very young (about 7) and it's always the same.
In the most frequent, I am laying in my bed, tucked tightly under the covers when lightning starts crashing outside my window. Suddenly, the Count from Sesame Street comes out of my closet (which is at the foot of my bed in the dream) and begins crawling up my body, counting "One, hahahaha. Two, hahahaha. Three, hahahaha" etc, with a lightning bolt crashing at each bout of laughter. I always wake up when he gets right up to my face.
hahaha, I know it sounds like an incredibly silly dream, but it's creepy while it's happening. I've had this dream a good many times since I was very young (about 7) and it's always the same.