[proud_2_B_texasgal]

On the dream thread .. I have a couple recurring dreams...

One is the basic being chased and can't get away dream.

But I also have dreams about being back in school and I either forgot the combination to my locker, don't know what class I'm supposed to be in, or can't FIND my class. (Or don't have clothes on, but that's something else! heehee)

And then I have this SNAKE thing. I'm not afraid of snakes when I'm awake, but I have these dreams where everywhere I turn there are snakes and I can't get away from them ...

hmmmmmmmm .. what could it all mean?

[proud_2_B_texasgal]

kilt it!

[Fedora]

But I also have dreams about being back in school and I either forgot the combination to my locker, don't know what class I'm supposed to be in, or can't FIND my class. (Or don't have clothes on, but that's something else! heehee)

I have these, too :) Another version of this I have is that I go to my high school graduation and discover I forgot to take one class I needed to graduate, so I've got to go back to summer school--talk about a nightmare!!! :)

[Fedora]

And then I have this SNAKE thing. I'm not afraid of snakes when I'm awake, but I have these dreams where everywhere I turn there are snakes and I can't get away from them ...

In a book about snake-worship cults called The Cult of the Serpent, a scholar named Balaji Mundkur cited studies showing that all higher mammals have an instinctive fear reaction to the image of snakes, and even in human cultures which come from areas with no snakes people may have nightmares about snakes. It seems to be a very deep subconscious fear even in people who aren't consciously afraid of snakes. I will sometimes have nightmares about being near a pool of snakes and/or other threatening reptiles--and fish--there are a few other scary animals that often serve the same function in my dreams. I think maybe that when the subconscious wants to symbolize fear it naturally picks the image of a threatening animal. Freud mentioned that most little kids have nightmares about animals from the zoo.

[AnAmericanMother]

My "anxiety dream" is that I'm supposed to take an exam . . . first I can't find the room . . . then I remember that I never bought the books and never went to class . . . then when I find the room and sit down and open the blue book, the exam is written in a foreign language that I don't know . . . .

But my favorite anxiety dream of all is my dad's: he's on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, the overture is playing, and he doesn't know his part. Sometimes he doesn't even know what opera he's in.

[stands2reason]

The school dreams are basic anxiety dreams, which I believe are the most common type of dream. I get those so much I feel like I'm picking up an associate's degree in my sleep. Or I would be if I didn't keep missing class. ;-)

Snakes are deeply symbolic. What do you think of when you think of snakes?

[stands2reason]

I have a couple recurring dreams...

Are they like "Groundhog Day" dreams, where everything's the same except for you? I get those all the time.