What’s your ‘ anxiety dream’?

Several times I've also had one about a baby I've somehow forgotten I had, and I've got nothing to feed it with.

Not related, I'm sure, to the time when dd1 was only about 8 days old and I'd gone shopping with my mother, arranging to meet her later outside X shop.

I duly rolled up, to find my mother looking aghast. 'Where the baby???'

I'd left her in her pram in Boots, having completely forgotten that I had her!

Dd still finds this hilarious! (Poor old Mum was off her rocker even then.)

(Luckily she was still there where I'd left her, nobody had twigged.).

Just to be awkward I've never had a toilet dream.
My two, recurring regularly now for well over 50 years, seem to be slightly prophetic.

1. I'm trying to ring the emergency services, though I never know why. Almost every thing prevents me: broken phone, no answer, no one understanding me, not being able to find a phone etc.
Some years ago, assuming this meant I was subconsciously needing help I started looking at what was happening in my real life but there wasn't much wrong.
During the times when things really did go to custard, I never had the dream!
But twice in my real life I have actually needed to dial 999 (found collapsed persons) and each time the ambulance never arrived.

The second dream has always involved trying to drive and getting the sun or a bright light in my eyes so I had no choice but to close them...whilst still driving.
Now I am partially sighted, can't drive and must stay out of the sun as brightness takes away what little sight I still have.
Fascinating stuff.

How interesting it is to read that so many people, like myself, have both the Can’t Find the Toilet dream and Getting Lost dream. I dream I am looking for my car in a multi storey car park, and also going to use a public toilet and finding them filthy and overflowing, and I desperately go from cubicle to cubicle trying to find a decent one. I am shaking when I wake up from these dreams so to put closure on them I finish them off satisfactorily in my mind, I imagine myself finding the car and a clean toilet. Then I can go back to sleep (after a trip to the bathroom obviously- Ha Ha).

I search fruitlessly for a toilet too but all the many cubicles only contain chairs!
Recently I've been have anxiety dreams that are resolved eg I lose my handbag, am searching for it with heart thumping - then I find it with all contents present and correct. I think it's my psyche trying to tell me to worry less.

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.

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'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.

Thanks Bella and sleep well all!

Good luck Joy

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

I wake up worn out sometimes, from all the dreaming

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 ?

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).

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

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.

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.

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 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 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 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!

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 .

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

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.

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