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The Most Common Recurring Dreams — and What They Mean
Better Report ^ | 07/23/2024

Posted on 07/23/2024 9:12:58 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Dreams are absurd and unpredictable. However, while we each have our unique dream experiences, there’s a lot of commonality in what we dream about. Many of us share the same feelings of desire, nostalgia, and stress that are often the root cause of so many dreams — but why do we often get the same dream repeatedly? Here are the most common recurring dreams and what they might mean.

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Being Chased

More than 50% of people experience these unpleasant dreams. Being chased in a dream may mean you’re avoiding something important in real life, or that you’re refusing to accept something you disagree with. If you’re the one doing the chasing, it may mean you feel like you’re falling behind in life and need to catch up.



TOPICS: Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: dreaming; dreams; nightmares; psychology
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1 posted on 07/23/2024 9:12:58 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Dreams are as personal to the person in question. I don’t believe that the symbols in your dreams can be generalized to fit other people.


2 posted on 07/23/2024 9:18:07 PM PDT by Jonty30 (Trump beat Hilary in 2016. He ended her kill streak in 2024.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I have always been a vivid dreamer, and remember my dreams most of the time. So I’m often interested in dreaming information.


3 posted on 07/23/2024 9:18:48 PM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: SeekAndFind

I’m still being haunted by dreams of having to take a math test and it’s been many years since high school! Second most common dream, I’m lost in an endless corridor of rooms that keep winding around and around and I have to get somewhere but I can’t.


4 posted on 07/23/2024 9:19:53 PM PDT by Ciexyz (Prayers for America and Israel.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I dream of past jobs.I’m retired now but I dream of working where I used to 30 and 40 years ago. and of where I worked just 3 years ago.

Nightmares in other words. (just kidding)


5 posted on 07/23/2024 9:20:19 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (2 coups in less than 4 years. America is truly a first world Banana Republic.)
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To: FamiliarFace
I have a lot of dreams where I am in some foreign vacation spot with lots of friends and family and I'm the one organizing the entire trip.

So it's a mix of fun, adventure, and great anxiety as things don't ever work out entirely as planned.

6 posted on 07/23/2024 9:25:03 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (Kafka was an optimist.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I have a strange recurring dream. My car is out of control and I open the door and drag my foot to slow the car. The road grinds off my foot up to the ankle. That’s when I usually wake up. Had this dream off and on for 70 years.


7 posted on 07/23/2024 9:25:39 PM PDT by pnut22
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To: Ciexyz

Over the years I have learned that I can stop having bad dreams while I’m in the middle of them. I just remind myself that it’s a dream, not reality, and that I can wake up and stop the bad that’s around me. It works.


8 posted on 07/23/2024 9:26:43 PM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: SeekAndFind

Only one of the dreams listed do I have commonly. The “unprepared for a test” dream. And I haven’t taken a test in 40 years. :)


9 posted on 07/23/2024 9:26:49 PM PDT by norcal joe
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To: pnut22

That sounds like a metaphor for life feeling out of control.


10 posted on 07/23/2024 9:27:51 PM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: Responsibility2nd
I dream of past jobs.

Same with me. And when I wake up I'm very glad I'm retired. :)

11 posted on 07/23/2024 9:29:20 PM PDT by norcal joe
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

Do you do a lot of organizing where things don’t go the way you hope they would?


12 posted on 07/23/2024 9:29:20 PM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: SeekAndFind

I have two versions of the same recurring dream/nightmare.

In one I am in my underwear and far from home and hiding so nobody sees me in my underwear as I try to get back home.

In the other I find myself on foot on deserted streets in a really bad neighborhood late at night and am trying to get home alive with no one seeing me.


13 posted on 07/23/2024 9:32:30 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: SeekAndFind

This piece reads like a freshman paper in Psych 101


14 posted on 07/23/2024 9:40:21 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ("If you can remember the 60s....you weren't really there")
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To: FamiliarFace
I come up with great plans that seldom come to complete fruition due to procrastination.

That may be the source.

15 posted on 07/23/2024 9:40:22 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (Kafka was an optimist.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I’m back in College and I’m missing classes and even possibly tests because the Campus is so huge it is easy to get lost.


16 posted on 07/23/2024 9:41:17 PM PDT by Nateman (Democrats did not strive for fraud friendly voting merely to continue honest elections.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I will sometimes start dreaming the moment my head hits the pillow and I’m in a halfway wake states. Often I end up dreaming, during that state, of the creepiest and crawliest insects or reptiles you can imagine eating each other.

It is often vivid enough that I can’t stay in bed and have to get out at all costs.


17 posted on 07/23/2024 9:42:11 PM PDT by Jonty30 (Trump beat Hilary in 2016. He ended her kill streak in 2024.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Total pseudo science but enjoyable topic.

I don’t really have dreams much, or remember them.


18 posted on 07/23/2024 9:42:56 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: SeekAndFind

I’ve never had any of those type of dreams... All my dreams are fun and interesting, so much so, I always wish I hadn’t woken up out of them. I feel like that ‘s a real blessing.


19 posted on 07/23/2024 9:44:11 PM PDT by Bullish (...And just like that, I was dropped from the ping-list)
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To: SeekAndFind

I had the exam dream numerous times for decades after I finished school - the key feature in my case was that I’d been cutting the course all term long, and didn’t even know the date of the final exam until I’d already missed showing up for it.


20 posted on 07/23/2024 9:44:38 PM PDT by Stosh
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