Recurring dreams
Thursday, 2nd of November 2023 [94]
Recurring dreams! Now that’s a subject I love to talk about. I have always been fascinated by dreams and their interpretation, ever since I was a teenager. I guess it must be because the first recurring dreams of mine started back then and they never ceased till this day.
I was therefore super excited to read about Jane’s (@jane1289) dreams and find that they’re the topic for this week’s LOH writing contest. And by ‘this week’ I mean 4 months ago 😂 as it was community contest for week 141 . That’s how long ago I started this draft and while it was almost completely written, for some reason I never posted it. Maybe it was waiting for what happened last week, which you will find towards the of this post. The recurring dreams subject was asked by @kerrislravenhill
Truth be told, my recurring dreams used to scare me a lot back when I was a teenager. Not because they were scary in themselves, but because after having this particular dream there would always be an unpleasant incident following that dream a day or two after I dreamt it. I’m not sure if that was a coincidence or whether there was such correlation, but what I am sure of is that our minds are incredibly powerful super-computers which can make or break our life.
One small example of it. When I was a child and didn’t want to go to school for whatever reason, I would think very intently about having a stomach ache the night before and voila – I would manifest that stomach ache the following morning. I could give you ample examples of this, but that’s not exactly the subject of this week’s topic.
What I am trying to say however is that I am not sure whether there was a correlation between my recurring dreams and unpleasant events that happened afterwards or whether I had assumed that there is and BELIEVED that something bad will always happen after I had one of those dreams.
What are my recurring dreams about?
Type 1 - RICHES ALL AROUND ME
1st one is when I find abundance of riches in my dream. They come in many forms. Sometimes it’s money – coins and banknotes, sometimes it can be jewellery and other times it could be abundance of delicious food – fancy dishes, desserts, and drinks. In my recurring dream they appear out of nowhere and there is so much of it I can never manage to collect it all. Money raining from the sky, jewellery scattered around the meadow, tables stacked with favourite foods. It always makes me wonder where do these come from and why did I have to wake up before I collected it all?
As I write this, I remember the words of Napoleon Hill from his book ‘Think and grow rich’.
‘When riches begin to come, they come so quickly, in such great abundance, that one wonders where they have been hiding in all those lean years.’
Almost like flowers on orchids!
Isn’t that weird that this recurring dream started years before I even knew Napoleon Hill existed, yet my dreams perfectly represent the quote above. Please, someone comment here that all those dreams mean that I will be filthy rich one day soon. Hopefully today already! That’s already way too late anyway! I’ve been waiting for these riches all my life 😉
Type 2 - ALWAYS LATE!
Speaking of being late… that’s the subject of the second recurring dream I have had for years. These also started around the same time as the riches dream. Even before I developed a habit of always being late. Cause that happened too – as soon as I started being responsible for my own timing.
I must say this habit is being continually curbed by me in various ways over the past few years. At least there is a clear distinction between when it is important to be on time and when it’s not so crucial.
Back to my recurring dream though. As a child and teenager, I often travelled by public transport. A bus or a train most often. Most of my family lived around 300km away and with my mum and my brother we would always take a train to go visit them during summer holidays. At first my recurring dream would always be about being late for that train. Either going to my family or coming back home, I would always take so long getting ready that I would miss the train.
Since I started traveling by a plane, being late for a plane has become a new addition to my recurring dreams. Sometimes I’m also late for a bus. Somehow I’m never late for a party… I guess that’s because being late to a party is fashionable.
Over the years these dreams evolved. It’s like I’m aware in them and I realise I can tweak it or at least my approach to the outcome. At some point my auntie was in that dream and she behaved like me, running around like a headless chicken, packing, but being preoccupied with so many details that the was no desireable result in any of it. I remember sitting on the side and saying to her that this is all in vane and there is no way we can make it.
While this might sound like me being pesimistic, looking back at it today, I feel like back then I already knew that ‘this’ was just not the way, although at this point in time I have a better understanding of what ‘this’ is. It’s the sum of all our experiences, good and bad that we stored inside, that create our personality, or rather the distractions from what/who we really are. By storing them, we block our vital energy… but about that maybe in another post. While hibernating these past weeks, I have been learning a lot!
To sum up these 2 most often recurring dreams of mine’s - dreaming about huge amounts of riches is always very pleasant, waking up to realise it was just a dream however would leave me feeling a little disappointed. Being late for something would leave pretty similar feeling - disappointment and/or guilt.
Guilt especially seems to be one of my core scars that run very deep and are often tricky for me to catch myself feeling, as the feeling is so familiar as if it was a part of me. It kinda is 😉
Type 3 - SERIAL DREAMS
Another type of dreams I experienced is what I named ‘serial dreams’. I would dream a particularly interesting dream and then my bladder (or something else) would wake me up. I’d go to the toilet, keeping my focus on the feeling of that dream and then go back to bed and jump right back into the same dream 😁
Usually it would happen all in one night/morning, but on a few occassions I happened to continue the same dream over the period of a few nights. It was as if I started some calculations one night and then I needed to continue it until it was finished. I’d be writing on a white board like in a classroom, with shiny blue marker. That was probably one of the weirdest yet fascinating things that happened in my dream state.
Anyone ever experienced similar thing? Let me know in the comments section! I love hearing about people’s night dreams.
Small addition here… as I update this draft from 4 months ago! Last week I went for a walk at lunch and as I crossed the road, I saw something familiar looking on the road.
‘Oh, look, it’s a £2 coin!’ I thought to myself and bent down to pick it up.
I was about to polish it on my jeans and blow on it ‘for luck’ when I saw another £2 coin nearby, then another £2, then £1 and one more £1… almost like in this recurring dream of mine, except there was an end to it 😉
I collected £8 in total and in truth I was already some sort of ashamed picking them all, as in my head someone must have been watching me picking up these coins from one of many windows of the blocks of flats surrounding that road 😂
Seriously? What a thought to come to mind while picking up money laying on the street 🤷🏻♀️
Which in turn got me thinking… am I even ready for all those riches to come or would I also feel some sort of ashamed of being filthy rich?
Hmmm… some food for thought!
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How lucky for us to get to have a glimpse inside your mind :)
I reckon we could analyse these dreams and figure out what your mind was trying to share with you... but not on social media!
Guilt, shame and embarrassment. Hmmm... don't we all? I think we really need to focus on making these emotions less frightening now. Just feelings after all. They come and go and they are only there to (maybe - if they are there for valid reasons) guide us to take alternative action.
That's all feelings are for, I think?
And the more pleasant ones to connect us.
Both for survival.
I like that you focused on the feelings in the dream instead of the content. Clever you! I always start with how people, memories, situations or whatever make me feel these days. I've found (for me) this is closer to my personal truth and helps to guide me make better choices. For me.
And the guilt and shame etc - better choices for others as well.
But!!
I think a LOT of what we are told we should feel shame and guilt and embaressment about ISN'T us and ISN'T healthy for us. A lot of this is society's dictates about who we should be and not who we are and even could be.
And our fear of being judged and turned on by "the pack" because everybody else is terrified of this happening to them and so often just go along with the show.
Back to radical personal individuation :D
When you know yourself well enough it doesn't really matter what people think of or say about you, you see. You can smile and wait... and they will figure out that it was more their own dreaming and fear they may have been seeing.
You can also sit with your own fear and/or reactions and better figure out if you should be feeling these things or not. Is it you? Is it them? etc etc. This can really help you sift through what is you and what isn't over time. Very liberating!
This is why I found that not reacting and learning to wait is an important skill too, by the way. It's hard though! In a world that moves so fast and encourages us to do the same. The instant gratification generation.
I've had a few flying dreams. I know this is a common one but it's still my absolute favourite!
And I had a recurring nightmare as a child. That one I haven't had for a while...
Interesting topic and enjoyed reading it in full <3
Nicky, dear Nicky! I always get a little excited when I see a notification of your comment. I know it will be an insightful one for sure 🤩
In covid times I had a dream diary that I wrote in every morning and always highlighted the themes/emotions of those. Back then dreams were rampant and every single night.
Yes, those emotions are not strangers to any of us, but in a way it seems like it’s a tough work to uncover them once they became a huge part of us. I don’t think I realised just how much of those I stored inside and all the issues with anxiety this year have made me dig deeper to see exactly what is trying to come up for clearing.
I agree, analysing feeling gives us a better view of ourselves and even those labeled as ‘bad’ are valid. From an early age we are taught to not show those emotions and as a result we become a nervous wreck when we’re adults. Nobody tells us that they all stay inside us, packed in a nice bomb that obstructs the flow of our life energy.
Me too, especially with age I wait a bit longer before I open my mouth and react. It’s tough, as my face says it before I say it, but I try 😂
Over time less and less things make me react, as I realise most are not worth blocking my flow.
Dreams of flying are amazing 🤩 Best feeling! It only happened to me twice that I dreamt of flying. Both times I was in a good state and pursuing my spiritual side. Hope to dream of flying again one day 😍
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Aw... you made my heart smile. Thanks for being so encouraging!
Hmmmm... know what? We can't lie. You say your face can't lie but, in all truth, we pick up people's nervous system responses and "meta" communication unconsciously and we always know when someone is lying. Or not being fully truthful. And this makes us all a bit nervous, afraid and uncomfortable of each other at times, I think.
What I'm busy learning to do is to express my emotions in a way that isn't scary for other people to deal with.
What we ideally should have been taught to do as kids.
I mean... it's fine to say to someone: when you did that it made me feel angry and I'd prefer it if you...
And anger is the big one, isn't it? That and grief.
Instead we're taught to lie to protect other people's discomfort, and them in return for us. Silly, innit?
But it's so much bad programming to rewrite. Both personally and to walk this way in our society. Scares the shit outta people, mostly.
We will fix it over time. I have every faith. Busy watching the explosion of this perspective online at the moment. It's everywhere now 👍 And growing!
So you're ahead of the curve. And I always come back when I find people who are alive and present and working life and their own progress. This is how I get to learn as well :) So thank you! ❤️
And so agree. The more I've dealt with my own unprocessed/unconscious stuff the less I've felt the need to react to other people's. Mostly it's okay to shrug it off and wait for things to become clear on their own, really. This is making it difficult for me to write at the moment, btw.
I'm in a place where I'm not sure I need to say much more anymore. For now.
Oh those flying dreams :D :D The best, right?!!
Sending love to you. Have a beautiful day in all of it and however it comes. And inevitably goes...
New thing I am trying is to how to let my emotions pass through me and giving them room inside to do so, rather than stuffing them deeper inside like I’ve always done in the past. I’ve been watching some interesting podcasts on YouTube that came as a recommendation from unexpected source 😍
Anger is sure a tough one, but I find guilt even more tricky, cause it isn’t as obvious as anger. Grief sure takes time… especially if we struggle to let go of what we lost.
It is silly, that’s true. The way society works is rather toxic in most aspects and for the bigger part of my life I rebelled against it all, while these days I try to make peace with it and only concentrate on me and my inner well being. Me, myself and I are the only people I have any control over and even with that I clearly struggle 😂
Where are you watching this explosion? I only ever use Hive to read and write these days. There are some rumblings here, but have not seen any explosions yet.
What’s making it difficult to write? Processing your inner world?
I’ve had an almost dead few months, while I had no energy for anything, but as I slowly regain my inner strength again, I feel the energy circulating again and the need to share again. Will see how long it lasts 😉
Lots of love to you too dear Nicky. Always a huge pleasure to chat to you 😘💙
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So much the key, isn't it?! You're so right here. I still find it difficult not to get too involved some days. But it's faster to step back now for sure! I think spending a great deal of time in isolation makes the human interaction stand out very starkly. All the mirroring and stuff that arises because of it. Invaluable but also a lot if and when you acknowledge it and make good use of it.
So short bursts for me now. I enjoy peace and find this is when my creativity flows best.
Read somewhere that that brain kicks into creative mode when it is "bored".
More good reason to stop for a while!
Yeah... me too. I was exhausted and burnt out. I don't think you realise just how tired you are until you stop. Finding it hard to get going again. I'm still a bit tired tbh. But I'm also having days where my energy is up full tilt again. And my sense of humour is returning so that means I'm almost ready!
But... I've also been developing a project in my head and trying to figure out how to make it work here. And I don't want to rush out of the starting gate and then have to stop because I'm not fully ready yet. Physically, that is.
You ride that wave while it's waving, sister! To the max! :D That's the best time, isn't it? When it's overflowing.
The explosion... on Fakebook. There's been a massive shift towards the nervous system reactions and away from medical diagnosis for mental reactions. It's happening at last. This has been my fight for five plus years now and what folks once thought was nuttiness has now become (or is becoming) mainstream. :D This gives me hope and makes all the knock knock knocking on this particular door worthwhile.
I know it's not just my work of course. I'm not crazy ;) It's all of us who stepped up and shared our experience and what we'd discovered. As this goes.
Funny thing... some of the people who were most public about accusing me of being crazy are using the research now. 💥
This just shows you that if you keep on walking in truth, through the fire, things do change. It just takes time...
Anyhoo... there is more to share now! But I need to be ready. And have this properly vaguely (because we leave room for spontaneity because authenticity or nada) planned out.
It's such a lot it's also overwhelming to begin.
Perhaps I should just start...
Keep on creating :) ❤️
It all takes practice. My mind has been so scattered and negative for months, but listening to those podcasts really helped to catch a little bit of distance. Just enough to be able to handle life and it’s mesmerising seeing how things around can change because I decided to change me rather than the outside world.
Lots of work still ahead of me, I have no doubts about it. The mirroring you’re talking about is a tricky thing. I remember having the time of my life in covid times, because there was much less of those mirrors around. Now I can’t escape them, I need to go to work everyday and continue looking in those mirrors, while trying to keep my sanity 😂
I know how it feels… relaxing is blissful, but getting off the ground again even more tricky. I’ve been seeing a holistic practitioner for couple months now due to allergies and anxiety and he advised huge changes in diet and last week I also got myself a pre-workout powder following his advice and that seems to be giving me tons of energy I really need right now. Although I must say today I already feel quite drained after doing a lot in this past week. I think it’s time for dinner and a very early night today.
New project sounds exciting! I hope to hear more about it when you’re ready.
Fakebook - nice name! It’s a weird place that I stopped aligning with couple years ago. Too much control, too many adds, too many frustrated people who have no other place to express their feelings 😂 I mainly stay away from it.
I don’t claim to know much about mental health and how it works, but through my own experiences I can see that everything can be shifted with working on ourselves and diagnosis of any kind seem to be doing more harm than good.
I’m happy to hear that things turned around and your experience was validated. I’m looking forward to hearing more when you’re ready to share again 💙
Oh... sorry to hear that you've also been struggling a bit. I think many of us are. now. Especially after all the stress and change over these last years.
Sounds like you're on it though! Nice!
And yes... that's what I'm talking about as well. I think after extended stress out nervous system takes a beating and is a bit frayed. It needs to be rebuilt again, really. Physically as well. I find yoga, running and decent nutrition and a ton of rest worked well for me. Of course, then I start believing I'm a superhuman again and forget to balance things... it's a constant balance for me as well right now.
I hope I find a good balance again soon. I've had it in the past... with a loving supportive partner, a decent job I enjoyed, regular physical training and good diet. I was healthy and happy and boy did the creativity flow! Of course... I had some shadows and shit I hadn't addressed and I sabotaged it. Again 🧐
But... This is what actually led to turn inwards, ask why and start this actual journey of recovery. So... I guess nothing is a waste if we learn from it!
But now you've inspired me to write summink :)
So thank you for being you!
Here we go... (again) 😆
Haha 😂 That’s great! I also scribbled another one. I feel like I need to share more and more again 😍
Now I'm kinda jealous! :D
I miss that!
Keep on keeping on 💥😀
Don’t be! Those spurs of energy don’t usually last too long. I still haven’t learned how to balance that energy, so it lasts for longer. A nice, steady and continuous flow would be best, but somehow I just jump at it when it starts to circulate and soon enough I’m empty again 🙈
Still learning every day! 💙
Ah... ditto, my friend.
I once read something about how to become a writer and it said just write every day. Even when you don't feel like it.
Maybe they're on to something... I guess we all have to try different things and find out what works for us as individuals at different times :)
What if it was a prank and someone was filming you picking up the coins? 🤣 don't be surprised if you'll see yourself on YouTube haha..
About being filthy rich, you probably dream of becoming rich so it always appears in your dream? Sometimes, our dream has connections to our waking life. What we think about, worried about, or what we want to achieve..
About being late, I never experienced one i guess.. However, I did dream about not being prepared for examinations several times, which isn't my forte since I never come to classes unprepared.
This was so long overdue 🤣.. I still remember that topic.. Glad you finally finished it, lol.
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Your comment made me laugh laud at work when I first read it and all my colleagues thought I’m loosing my mind 😂
That would be funny to see myself on YouTube picking up those coins 😂
Dreams… they’re fascinating. So many ways to interpret them, so many conclusions to draw. For me they are tools to better understand myself and the way my mind works. Being filthy rich could maybe great, but I feel those riches from my dreams signify different riches than the monetary ones.
I know… I love to take my time 😁
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As long as they are good dreams that a great thing! My dreams are never recurrent and not always so pleasant. I prefer a night when I don't remember my dreams.
I know what you mean, sometimes I wake up feeling tired, cause it’s like I’m living another life in my dream state.
Look at it this way though - if you have unpleasant dreams, it’s your brain purifying itself of those challenging emotions that are sometimes difficult to handle in awake state, so they’re not all that bad 😉
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What a meaningful and well-write post, lovely @fantagira ... And the use of photographies. Peaceful, powerful and kind. All in all, sweetie.
Thank you so much for stopping by and reading 💙
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Thank you @thekittygirl 😘 I have some drafts started for the inner blocks community. Will get to them eventually 😁