Recurring Nightmare

Mine is often that I’m lost somewhere but when I try to use my phone to phone my husband it won’t work. I think it’s related to my psychological problem of fear of losing someone.

I rarely remember my dreams, but I have one horrible recurring nightmare that crops up maybe once a year. The police are hammering at my door and I’m in a blind panic because I know that I have bodies hidden all round the house, all neatly wrapped in bin liners and parcel tape. Then I wake up in a cold sweat.

I can confirm that this has nothing whatever to do with my lifestyle or past experiences.

The odd thing is, we were talking about dreams and nightmares at a family do once and my son-in-law described exactly the same one!

I take medication now but both nightmares pre-date this.

Dee1012 One of the interpretations I have been given was something about returning to the womb (hence the water). In the dream I usually go into the harbour with the car and I can feel the cold water rising in the car as it sinks.

I have one which isn’t really upsetting but plagues me.
I am taking my GCE’s as they were in my day and whatever the paper is I know nothing except what an Isthmus and an Archipelago are.
I go into the hall thinking well at least I know the answer to those questions.
Not much good if that day is French or maths.

Aveline

Are either of you taking any particular medication? Sometimes that can be a side effect of certain ones.

I am taking medication but this is fairly recent, I did mention the nightmares to my consultant but he didn't feel there was a link. The nightmare does precede this too by a number of years.

Interestingly Indigo8, the nightmare is similar to what you have described.
I'm the passenger in a vehicle and sometimes the driver is a person I know, at other times I can't see them. We are on a long country road and the car goes off the road into water, the driver leaves and I can't undo the seatbelt or open the door....it then goes on.

Are either of you taking any particular medication? Sometimes that can be a side effect of certain ones.

I have two recurring nightmares that I have had as long as I can remember.

The first is that I am in the back seat of a car parked at the top of a hill and the car starts rolling backwards down the hill. At the bottom of the hill is a harbour and the car is on course to plunge straight into the water. For some reason I can't climb into the front and put the brakes on.

In the second nightmare I am in a play and it is opening night. I have no idea what the play is never mind which part
I am playing. Needless to say, I don't know any of my lines.

Neither of these situations relates to anything in my
conscious life.

I have talked about these dreams with various people including someone who studies dreams and all they came up with was some rather clunky symbolism. To me, the origin of dreams remains a complete mystery.