When folks talk about having recurring dreams, do you actually mean that they're really the same dream each time? That's the way it appears in the movies, at least, but I've only had the recurring plot/recurring theme type. I always wondered whether that was what other people meant by "recurring dream".
I had two all the time when I was a kid: one in which I, and sometimes my little sister, was waiting in a car that started rolling on its own, and I'd end up having to try to steer it for miles and learn to drive on the fly just to keep from crashing, and another one in which I was older than I actually was and kept, not entirely intentionally, gathering up or collecting little kids that I had to herd to safety somewhere and protect from the Bad Guys that were after us. The settings and the characters changed, but the plot would be the same. Doesn't take a psychology degree to interpret those two, I don't think. Haven't had them since I grew up.
I used to do a fair bit of lucid dreaming, until a particularly nasty lucid nightmare that I lost control of. After that, I stopped remembering my dreams at all for a couple of years, and still rarely do. I'd really like to get back to it.
Lau said:
Also, does anyone else get those dreams where whilst you're in it, you think "oh, this is the same place I dreamt about before" or " this is a recurring dream", but when you wake up and think about it you realise you hadn't ever dreamt of that place before. It's odd, because not only do you recognise you're in a dream whilst you're in it, you're having false memories of dreams you had before.
Are you sure you didn't dream of it before, and just didn't remember the dream when awake? I had those all the time too, only I know I did dream of the places before -- could remember the previous dream both while in the new dream and while awake. Always seemed very odd, because the couple of recurring places that appeared weren't places I'd ever been to (at least when awake, unless I was toddler-sized or whatnot). My favorite (after I awoke -- not while it was happening!) was once when we were being chased. I saw the entrance to the recurring place and led us there, thinking "I know the layout, the Bad Guys don't, I can lose 'em in there", followed a couple of familiar corridors around a familiar corner -- and stopped dead in surprise and outrage when the layout ahead of me wasn't what I expected. In the dream, I actually stopped and yelled-thought "THEY REMODELED since the last time I was here! How dare they!" in complete and sincere indignation.
