What’s your ‘ anxiety dream’?

A frequent one is being on the top of a high building, right on the edge of the roof or missing my step and falling down stairs! They always wake me.

My nightmarish one, which re-occurs, is being chased and trapped in a dead end. The baddie's face looms large and there is nowhere for me to go. I try to scream but no noise comes out. I always manage to jolt myself awake and feel really scared for a while afterwards. I am sure a dreams analyst would have a field day.

Trying and failing to clear the library of customers at closing time. Very panicky. (I was a librarian in a public library).
My other anxiety dream is trying to get somewhere and there are high steps, narrow doorways, all sorts of obstacles hindering me.
Quite often my first thought on waking is,”What was all that about?”

Apparently the lavatory dream is very common. My loos are either filthy or open to view. I haven’t had that one for a while actually. I have also had the teeth all loose in my mouth dream. Apparently that”s common too. I often dream I’m back at work but everything is different. I can’t find my way around. Even the roads outside are different and I keep getting lost. Sometimes I’m by a beach and get engulfed by a huge wave. Also I’m on trains but they are scruffy and don’t have proper seating. Weird!

I have the toilet dream too. Usually in a building where I worked in the 70s. I know where the toilets should be but I go up and down all 6 floors and they're just not there.

I'm surprised by how similar all our dreams are.
You would think they'd be about so many things, but they all have a similar theme.
I've had teeth falling out and toilet dreams too.
Often also have dreams about having a baby..

Back at school and the teeth falling out one.

missadventure no I don’t need the toilet when I wake up so it’s not my bladder but I think it does mirror anxieties I have when I go to unfamiliar places as I always like to know wher3 the loo is whether I need it or not

Oh I too used to be plagued with the teeth crumbling dream Kittye! Not had it for some time now probably because I don't have many of my own teeth left now

Another recurring dream I have is trying to run up a hill with someone chasing me but my legs won't work properly and it feels like I am trying to run through treacle. Sometimes they can just about reach me with their fingertips which poke me in my shoulder blades.

It's very scary!

I think if we turned our dreams into a book it would be in the horror section of the library. What's a library ??

I too have the toilet dreams..so glad I’m not the only one.
Thought I was a bit weird? pleased others have them as well. I also have dreams where all my teeth crumble and fall out. I have the phone dream as well, the phone is always the old dial type and as I put my finger in to dial the metal stretches.

Mine is also about being lost. I always start out in familiar surroundings but then find myself lost (like going into a shop then coming out to find my car gone and the terrain looks like some odd landscape shift, big rolling boulders, deep pits, high hills, no trees, no greenery, most often looks like the surface of mars. lol (PS I have NO desire to go to mars)

Telephones!
Dire situation
No phone☎
Telephone box vandalised,
Mobile lost, stolen , no signal.
Nobody answers
The list goes on..

Mine is getting ready to sit an exam and suddenly realising I've not been to any of the lessons......daft really as I NEVER skipped any lessons as a school girl....was one of those goody two shoe types!

I think the toilet dream is just nature's way of making us not wet the bed. As an ex teacher my anxiety dream is always being on supply and trying to take the register with a very scary class.

Fascinating! I too have the toilet dream - they're either non existent or totally disgusting and overflowing in filthy rooms.

The other one is looking out of the window to find everywhere flooded - it's often even up to the windows and I know it will come in at some point. I've always been terrified of water so understand that one.

I also used to have a lion dream years ago when there were windows above doors in some houses - the lion would be able to get through and I'd have to hide in another room! I love all felines so don't miss that dream.

Another toilet dreamer here, usually finding the toilets but behind every cubicle door is something other than a toilet - either a changing room, or a shower, but never a toilet. When I do find some actual toilets, they're all in one big room, open to view, so anyone walking past can see you sitting there.
Or if I do find a toilet, I sit on it but can't wee. Then I wake and realise I couldn't wee because my bladder's too well trained and knows I'm in bed ?

The other dream I have is that I'm back at work, and panicking about all the stuff I should have done, but have hidden in my desk drawers. I have a meeting to go to, but nothing prepared, none of the papers I should have drawn up. Waking up from that dream is a wonderful relief I can tell you ?

I have the toilet dream and the one where I am in familiar surroundings but cannot get home.

My worst ones are where I am being chased and I am trying to call for help but can’t get the words out. My husband has to wake me up as I am making strange noises.

for some reason mine seems to be when my daughter appears and she has found my dog...this dog died in 2012 and i adored her and every time its my daughter that finds her...odd eh

One of mine involves reversing car at slow speed, into a parking space on a slope- I press down on brake pedal as hard as I can but it doesn’t respond and I keep rolling backwards. However, I wake up before I’ve actually hit anything. I know it’s about loss of control- I’m a bit of a control freak!

witzend me too.
A Levels taken in 1967 still haunt me, and the guests-arriving-in-ten-minutes-and-I haven’t-prepared-anything

Mine is to do with stairs. I'm having to climb either up or down a very long flight of stairs where there are loose or missing treads or no handrails or (THE WORST) the whole staircase has become detached from the wall and is swinging .I've always had a fear of heights so I suppose it's connected to that.

German literature exam! Over 50 years on, I still dream now and then that there's an exam looming, and not only have I not read any of the books, I don't even know what they are.
I don't know why, since I actually did OK at German A level.

The other one is Christmas shopping - it's nearly closing time on Christmas Eve and I've forgotten to buy any presents/tree/crackers.
I dare say dates back to dh and I once getting last minute tickets home for Christmas (from the Gulf) - when I had just one day to buy presents for umpteen people.

Oh, and the dinner party one - it's nearly 11 pm and the potatoes still aren't cooked. Haven't had this one for quite a while, though - probably because I stopped doing remotely formal dinner parties ages ago.

Trying to get ready for, sometimes a holiday but can't complete the packing and get later and later, trying to catch the plane, or getting married, can't find veil, shoes etc, and then on way to wedding to a ginger-haired man; (that dates from a horrible teenage party and Postman's Knock)

It is said that all people dream. If this is so, then I recall very few dreams that I might have. I'm my entire life I can only remember a very few. During early childhood I had one recurring dream though. I was being chased through a short tunnel by a wolf. I ran into the tunnel, but couldn't reach the other opening, with the wolf getting closer. I used to wake up in a panic.
Since then my dreams have been few and far between.