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February 06, 2006
Recurring Dreams
Being inside a recurring dream is a pain in the arse. I always have a sense of, "I can't believe I"m back in this situation..." and it's incredibly frustrating.
Here are a few of the recurring dreams I've had throughout my life:
The Plate-Size Contact Lens Dream
This is the one in which I can't get my contacts into my eyes because the contacts are the size of dinner plates. In real life, my vision is 20/600 in both eyes, so in my dream, everything is blurry and I can't see a thing.
In my dream, I'm always in a hurry to get somewhere--I'm late for something important. I keep trying to hold my huge flimsy contact in the palm of my hand and stuff it into my eye socket. And it just will not go in.
I spend the whole dream trying pry open my eyelids so I can jam these huge contacts up into the space behind my eyeball. I keep getting angrier and angrier as I realize I am getting later and later for whatever appointment I have. . . I can't get ready in any other way until I can see.
The I Have A Whole Year of High School Math To Do Dream
This is probably the most frustrating and nervewracking recurring dream. Suddenly I realize that I have a whole year's worth of high school math homework and tests that I have not done... it's due tomorrow, and I don't understand any of it. It's a dreadful feeling.
In some of these dreams, I protest that I have even finished college, and that I am married and have children...but none of this matters to anyone. One particularly scary version of this dream includes me in a pit with a killer bull, and my 9th grade math teacher sitting in bleachers watching me. I have to figure out mathmatical equations to keep from getting mauled by the bull.
The My Teeth All Fall Out of My Mouth and Shatter On the Floor Like Glass Dream
This is a pretty short dream, but it's a freaky one. I open my mouth and all of a sudden, all of my teeth fall out at once onto the ground in front of me, and they shatter like breaking glass. I'm having this dream less frequently than I used to. I'm not sure why.
There are also quite a few truly terrifying recurring dreams that I've had since I was a child, but I'll write about them another time.
Please feel free to add your own to this list....
Posted by darby on February 6, 2006 08:32 PM
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when I have a performance or public speaking event coming up, I start to have dreams where my mouth is locked in the open position, and it just kills my jaw as I desperately try to close my mouth. It started when I was in a high school production of Barnum, and continues to this day. It's like I have lockjaw. Oh it's one of those dreams that lasts all night too.
Posted by: jason on February 6, 2006 09:26 PM
i have the freaky teeth shattering dream, too. i also wake up once in a while with my arms completely asleep (because I have been sleeping on them all night, I guess) and I wake up flailing my arms in a panic because I think they aren't there anymore. I did this the other night (so Collin tells me) and I flailed my fist right into his sleeping face and he woke up with a bloody lip. I felt so bad when he told me about that in the morning. Last night I had a dream that I had a miniature tyrannosaurus rex as a pet. that was cool.
Posted by: linds on February 7, 2006 10:58 AM
Yeah, me too with the teeth shattering dream. I read somewhere that it has to do with feeling ugly and that you are worried about what others think of you. I have three reoccurring dreams. One is that I look up into the sky to see a plane crashing into a mountain. One I see army helicopters flying in huge swarms over mom and dad's house and then a war starts.The third is that I am a senior at WCS even though I am 28 but there are other people from my class there too. I can't make it to class, like I keep forgetting to go and I know I am failing and I feel so badly and I keep thinking, "why am I here anyway, I graduated in 95'"...That one is a fear of failure.
Posted by: mers on February 7, 2006 11:26 AM
I don't have any recurring dreams. The bloody lip story is true.
Posted by: Collin on February 7, 2006 02:24 PM
The first dream sounds like stress. Apparently my wife used to have dreams like that when she was younger, she would wake up sweating and just feeling really angry/frustrated. Interestingly, her dad recognized it as an attack and prayed for her, and she doesn't have those dreams anymore.
Posted by: Michael on February 8, 2006 07:42 AM
awesome scary dreams guys. have you guys ever woke up crying? i did that once, someone who i loved died in my dream and i literally woke up sobbing, it was wierd. it was cool though judy was there to comfort me, it was paul, he died while peeing off a cliff, he fell, and they took him away in this small box like a 3in by 3in or something like that. it was sad, but funny yeah haha...
beth S.
Posted by: Anonymous on February 8, 2006 10:01 AM
hi darby this is one of the hampson's. and i just wanted to tell you that i like your song.
Posted by: Anonymous on February 8, 2006 12:44 PM
Hey Darby-
I was almost afraid to post anything-it seemed like just family was posting, but then I saw an anonymous poster so-2 nights ago you were in my dream-this was before the Y-actually before we had spoken on the phone. Unfortunately it was a really stressful dream but it was me and you and my sister-in-law Barb being chased by aliens in weird fish head costumes-they had taken over the world and we were trying to get home to our kids- we had to climb over all of these walls and really weird stuff-anyway working out was fun-no more stress!!!!!!
Love Jess
Posted by: Jess on February 8, 2006 11:24 PM
Lately I have been having a recurring dream that I am in a car and the brakes go out or I am driving too fast to control the steering and I inevitably crash. I know, I know--sounds like I feel like my life is out of control....Guess that is what you get for signing a year-long contract to a touring company that pretty much dictates where you will be for how long! Cause until that contract is up, my life really isn't under my control...
Posted by: Jessica on February 10, 2006 01:59 AM