What’s your ‘ anxiety dream’?

I too, have dreams about toilets, often I need to go but when I get there they are either occupied or too filthy to use and I cannot go in them.
The other dream I have, is being left in charge of a shop and I am unable to get people to leave at closing time, the more I try to get people to go the more come in the door I always wake up feeling very anxious.

It's a huge relief to know I'm not the only one searching for a toilet that's not full of poo with a door that shuts having spent all day driving to the airport from the back seat of a clapped out Vauxhall only to find the 'plane flies down the street and never gets higher than a first floor window.

??

If I do find a toilet there's no door on it and everyone is walking past on their way down to the beach ……

worse than the toilets on a plane!

At least the planes are up in the air... (unlike mine)

My anxiety dream has always been my teeth breaking up and falling out. I gather that it's a very common sign of stress. Mine started when I was still at primary school, but I don't seem to have had it for a few years now.

Funnily enough, although I'm flying past people's windows, I never spot anyone sitting on the loo.

Mycatisahacker - goodness me , I have the recurring same 2 dreams as you ! I've been having them since I dropped out of a college course then the lost child one when I became a granny !
Dreams are interesting .

I used to have dreams about being naked and strangers about to come in but I couldn’t find my clothes.
Now I have dreams about getting to a patient in cardiac arrest, on my own having completely forgotten what to do. The bit on my own does happen in real life and is terrifying but so far, I’ve never not known what to do!

I have a dream about having another baby sometimes. Nearly every teacher I know has had the one about being naked at school one - I think it is about not being prepared for something.

I have several. Main one is not being able to get to where I need to be, sometimes not being able to get to the room to do my final exams ( which I did 50 years ago). Also losing things and being inappropriately dressed.

I've had two recurring dreams all my life.
One is that I am climbing a tree because underneath me there is swirling water from a giant tsunami (or tidal wave as we called them when I was young).
The other is that I'm in a beautiful park with lots of people all in couples or families and I am alone. I call out to people or touch them but they can't see me or hear me.

I have a recurring dream where I am giving a lecture dressed only in a pink vest. The audience is listening intently, I even make a few little jokes which are well recieved, but no- one seems to notice that I am naked apart from the vest. I have two turn round to point at things and I move my hand to tug down the vest at the back. At the end of the lecture everyone claps and someone comes to shake my hand, which means I have to let go of the vest. The funny thing is this dream has kept up with technology: it used to be me, chalk and a blackboard, then a flipchart and a pen, then a computer and a laser pointer.

My dream is turning up for my state finals, nursing exam, and feeling fully prepared. The invigilator tells us we can begin and I find that the paper to write on has turned into a bath towel and an orange one at that, my fountain pen ink just soaks into the towel so no answers can be seen.
I also have the toilet, plane and driving from back seat of car dreams.
One dream, much less frequent now, is what I call birth dream where you are crawling through narrow corridors and trying to get through a tiny doorway. Very Alice in Wonderland type scenario.

Trying to find a loo, but none of them are private. No doors, exposed etc.

Another toilet dreamer here... desperate for the loo but all the public toilets are very unsavoury. I'd been quite worried that I'd never heard of anybody else having weird dreams about toilets, so it's great to hear I'm in good company on GN... I feel very relieved (pun intended).

Gosh, I thought if you could remember your dreams you were not sleeping properly but staying in the non R.E.M. stage of sleep or something? I have had about 3 dreams I remembered in my whole life which woke me up but now I have no idea what they were. So glad because it sounds horrendous, all that dreaming ?

I wake up worn out sometimes, from all the dreaming

Me too Bella . So I shall go to sleep now in case it's a tiring night ahead... zzz

Good luck Joy

Thanks Bella and sleep well all!

I'm on my way to work by bus, train, underground, etc., and just can't seem to get there because of various delays and diversions. I look at my watch - I'm supposed to be at work at 9.30 am and it's 4 o'clock in the afternoon! It's a huge relief to wake up. (Still have this dream occasionally even though I've been retired 8 years).

I also have the toilet dream - there's no door on the toilet and people are walking in and out, or there are toilet cubicles but no toilets in them. Horrible.

Has anyone read the book "The Unconsoled" by Kazuo Ishiguro? It's a long read which I would describe as being like a lengthy surreal dream which includes some of the anxious feelings mentioned here. I found it interesting and intriguing but some people I know who've also read it thought it was a complete bore.

I have a recurring dream that still comes to me as an adult and goes back as far into childhood as i can remember.
I am naked and being poked very hard in the tummy button, hard enoigh to depress my stomach and I am in such great pain.