What’s your ‘ anxiety dream’?

I never have one, I do remember some dreams on wakeing but certainly not a reoccuring anxiety one.

I have had the same dream for years. I am always lost with huge buildings on either side, reminds me of Manchester around the uni where I worked, and I cannot find my way out to where I should be going. I always feel stressed because of it when I wake up.

I think you toilet ones are going to have to be careful you don't inadvertently wet the bed once you've " found " the toilet hahahaha.

Never ending corridors to nowhere used to be my enemy in dreams.
I do still have the odd dream but unless I state what it was about within the first hour of being awake I forget what it was about. That scares me a bit wondering if those with dementia dream and then forget ?

In my anxiety dream, I am back as a supply teacher at the last school I taught at. There are numerous new buildings and I don’t know in which classroom I am supposed to be taking the lesson and just keep wandering from room to room. Strangely, my DH, also an ex- teacher, has the same dream but set in his school.

Another toilet dreamer here. It is always a case of either not being able to find one or if I do it is overflowing and in full view of the public.

A different common scenario is trying to use my mobile phone for something urgent but it has no buttons or the screen is distorted.

Do you 'toilet' people wake up desperate for the loo?
Do you think it might be your bladder alerting you?

I can't find my hotel room to pick up my luggage!! I can't remember the floor it's on nor the number and there's noone at reception and the taxi is waiting

When I was a child I used to dream that I was in the shop at the end of the road wearing only my vest!

Mine is that I find myself at school without any clothes on. I was deputy head when this dream started

I m another toilet one I m always dying for a wee really desperate but can’t find a toilet I m running round corridors and rooms and when I find one its engaged and Im nearly weeing myself

Mine is that we still have a shop and there is a pile of unpaid bills and I am trying to rearrange the display to make sales!
Used to be doing A levels and not remembering which set books we were studying.

I'm out in town and I'm lost. My mobile phone won't work, so I find a phonebox and it's out of order. I can't get home. Another frequent dream is losing my handbag. Insecure? Moi?

I also have dreams of being chased, hiding from someone, holding my breath as they pass.
I can sometimes fly in the chasing ones, not very high, just enough to keep me out of reach.

I never get where I want to be.I simply never arrive
I have that one too Greenfinch - I have never managed to get there and the anxiety levels are very high. I think I'm supposed to be saving someone but don't know who, and can't find them.

I have 2.
One its Christmas day morning and I have done nothing and have no presents or food ready.
The second is desperately needing the loo and not being able to find one with a door on it or a seat on the loo.
Both about needing to be always prepared for everything and being anxious if I am not.

ps it's always the same house

I am in a lovely but rambling old house on the cliffs overlooking the sea. However, I'm desperate the use the loo and can't find one anywhere; this dream seems to go on and on, I am going round the house, some corridors don't have a roof or side wall so I can see the sea but there is no loo anywhere.

sorry.

Mine is not getting to school on time.
I always get up in plenty of time but when I look at the clock, I have missed the bus.
I go to the stop for the next one but I never seem to get on it.
This means I miss the morning assembly in the school hall so I won't know where to go for the first lesson. I have this dream several times a month.

Mine is also performance related. I am on stage, stark naked and they have changed the script without telling me.

baubles you must be running from some kind of unresolved trauma?

That I am enrolled in a uni but keep skipping and then stop going to the lectures and get way behind and can’t catch up. I never even went to uni.

My other one is loosing my grandson while he’s in my care.

Mine is being pursued by some unknown person or persons through a building of some description. I’m always afraid and sometimes terrified fleeing the unknown but whenever I open a door which I believe will be an exit I’m faced with a staircase and/or yet another seemingly endless corridor. It’s been a recurring dream since childhood and still has the power to leave me shaken for hours after waking.

Fascinating.
I wonder what a professional would make of our anxiety dreams?

Mine is I'm desperate for the toilet. All the public loos are overflowing with poo and I have to tip toe about in it all, trying to keep my trousers out of it but not succeeding I always end up trying the Gents but it's even worse in there.

Not sure what that says about my brain!