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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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To: Bullish

I’ve had similar feelings - waking up and hoping I can fall back a asleep quick enough to to go back into the same dream.

Where we differ widely is I’ve been to the city in my dreams before... often different parts of the city and into different buildings. What wakes me up is my ‘watcher- (I have a really strong sub-conscience’) - the part of me that decides what’s real and what’s not - and in the dream that part of me says, ‘this is too beautiful to be real’ - and I wake up.


101 posted on 07/24/2024 8:16:57 AM PDT by GOPJ ("Kamala is the classic “kiss up punch down” boss: -- Freeper cgbg)
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To: Colt1851Navy

I have guns in dreams too but they always fall apart or fail to fire at critical time.


102 posted on 07/24/2024 8:49:18 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: central_va

My mom dreamed in black and white. The only reason I know this is because I told her about one of my dreams when I was a little kid, around 4. She didn’t know some people dream in color until I mentioned my dream.

In it, I had a purple elephant, and he would put his head on the ground and let me climb on him, and onto his back. Then he would carry me across the lake, go have adventures, and then he would bring me back home. He protected me and let me hide from things I didn’t like. Then we said goodbye, and he went back across the lake. I had a vivid imagination. Adults often called me precocious. I never knew what that meant until I got a bit older and knew how to look words up in the dictionary.


103 posted on 07/24/2024 8:50:04 AM 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: FamiliarFace
For most, dreams are 1950/60s B+W TV images. I took a prescription muscle relaxer before bed once after I pulled a muscle in my back. I dreamed in color for some reason. I woke up and was wow’ed by it. It was shocking.
104 posted on 07/24/2024 8:54:29 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: central_va

To my knowledge, I have always dreamed in color, never black and white, even though we didn’t get a color tv until the late 60’s. Actually that was my grandparents’ tv. It was a gift for their 50th anniversary. First time I had seen color tv.


105 posted on 07/24/2024 8:58:09 AM 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: FamiliarFace

As a black and white dreamer I must say I am jealous of techicolor dreamers. Around 12 percent of people dream in black and white.


106 posted on 07/24/2024 9:19:32 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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When I remember a dream, it’s usually bizzaro and contains none of the examples in the article. Sometimes a very vivid dream I can remember soon leaves my memory and I’ve forgotten it completely. I don’t think I dream much, but maybe I do and just don’t recall.


107 posted on 07/24/2024 10:02:41 AM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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To: Bonemaker

Just wow!


108 posted on 07/24/2024 10:58:05 AM PDT by pnut22
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To: 1Old Pro

That’s so funny. I disliked cartoons as a child but liked the “real people” ones. That would be The Flintstones and The Jetsons.


109 posted on 07/24/2024 10:59:54 AM PDT by pnut22
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To: Bonemaker

I remember a particular dream where I was holding a gun.

I was standing on a tree platform. The platform was scattered with dozens of various cartridges and I was frantically searching through them, trying to find some for my single-shot rifle. I was getting desperate because none of them were the correct caliber and huge snakes were beginning to climb onto the platform.


110 posted on 07/24/2024 11:50:04 AM PDT by Max in Utah (A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
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