What's your strangest dream?

Tiglath

pukkamum wrote: »

Toilets often represent our needs and wants, not being able to use a toilet indicates you feel your needs and wants aren't being met.

Well in my case it's simpler - it's usually because my bladder is yelling at me to wake up before I wet the bed!

daisiegg

pukkamum wrote: »

Thats fine no offence, I did a thesis on dreams so know a lot about them.
There is no way to deny that dreams are of our own making and that it is the minds way of making sense of our emotions and feelings.
This is why if you didn't dream you would eventually have severe emotional problems.
There was a study where test subjects were given a drug to prevent dreaming for a certain period.
When they started dreaming again they had many more dreams than the norm as if the mind was catching up.
Dream interpretation is about finding a common theme to dreams, when people dreamt about certain things they were almost always found to be having certain emotions and feelings in their waking life.

Thanks, I totally respect other people's views on the subject but for me, dreams can just always be linked back to something quite simple. For example the lesbian dream about my colleague - that same colleague and I had been discussing how to approach teaching a poem to A Level that was about lesbian sex. Simple

Sezzagirl

LOST!!

My recurring dream always starts somewhere familiar, maybe in a shop I know well in the town where I've lived all my life.

I'm with my family.

I leave the shop and my family to go and get something and then, although I'm somewhere I should know well, I cannot find my way back to them and I get more and more panicked that I'll never find my way back

I always wake up after these dreams feeling "wrong" and tearful, a feeling that usually last all day

Oh, and I have also had the inappropriate sexual dream but not for ages! :-(

Humphrey10

fashionlover10 wrote: »

I always have dreams about needing to use the toilet but when I find one there's something preventing me from using it such as no doors on the cubicles, no cubicles at all just a row of toilets, toilets in the middle of the street (not in a toilet block or anything). I always wake up from those dreams feeling anxious too.

I've had dreams like that past, but when I woke up after those dreams I really needed a wee so I'm sure it's connected (eg I really need a wee, but must not wet the bed, so in the dream there's always something preventing me going).

Tiglath

Humphrey10 wrote: »

I've had dreams like that past, but when I woke up after those dreams I really needed a wee so I'm sure it's connected (eg I really need a wee, but must not wet the bed, so in the dream there's always something preventing me going).

Yes, that's exactly my experience too. Same with dreams about running taps, showers, waterfalls, the sea etc.

suejb2

Pukkamum, I don't have a recurring dream more of a theme:water.Many of my dreams involve water in some aspect for example a swimming pool will often feature;a damn with a sloping wall or my latest one the place where I live floods and more often than not I rescue somebody.

thehappybutterfly

Callie22 wrote: »

I always have really strange, vivid dreams. Quite often I'll have dreams that leave me 'shaken' all day, just because they're so odd and disturbing. One theme that does reoccur in my dreams, especially when I'm stressed, is that I'm trying to shower and I can't - there'll be something weirdly wrong with the shower, like it's just a shower in the corner of the room (or in the garden, or over my bed!) and it doesn't drain anywhere and I know I can't use it. This always stresses me out and I wake up really anxious. I think I'm just weird!

I have dreams exactly like this except it's toilets - I always wake up needing a pee! It's my brain's way of stopping me peeing in the bed.

The toilet is either in a very public place, or it's filthy, or there's no loo roll or it's covered in spiders! If I manage to sit on it, the door always flies open. Occasionally I've managed to pee in the dream and guess what, I've started peeing in my sleep. Not nice Obviously I've been bursting but my brain hasn't managed to conjure up enough horrors to wake me up.

ETA: Just read page 3 of the thread - interesting that this is quite common!

thehappybutterfly

I also dream a lot about driving and losing control. Either reversing a car and the brakes won't work, or driving a really tall bus or lorry that I can't control. Or a car up a steep slope which gets more and more vertical so that the front wheels start leaving the ground and the car falls backward. I think I know what those dream represent - a simple loss of control.

pukkamum

suejb2 wrote: »

Pukkamum, I don't have a recurring dream more of a theme:water.Many of my dreams involve water in some aspect for example a swimming pool will often feature;a damn with a sloping wall or my latest one the place where I live floods and more often than not I rescue somebody.

Dreaming about water is dreaming about our feelings and emotions, floods would indicate that you are going through an emotional time in your waking life, perhaps your emotions are overwhelming you slightly, people in dreams are always representations of ourselves, perhaps you need to rescue or protect yourself from overwhelming emotions.
Water dreams are very much what you see is what you get, a swimming pool, the water is still and calm, as is the emotion, a dam, the holding back of feelings and emotions, a flood, overwhelming emotions and feelings.

pukkamum

thehappybutterfly wrote: »

I also dream a lot about driving and losing control. Either reversing a car and the brakes won't work, or driving a really tall bus or lorry that I can't control. Or a car up a steep slope which gets more and more vertical so that the front wheels start leaving the ground and the car falls backward. I think I know what those dream represent - a simple loss of control.

Yes pretty much, the car represents our path through life and being out of control or going in reverse in the car is totally representative.