I don’t often have recurring dreams, but I have recurring people and places that only exist in my dreams. I also have recurring themes—events which turn out the same way every time, even though the settings and people differ.
As a kid, I regularly dreamed about failure to achieve a goal or task—unable to get to the one roller coaster I wanted at six flags, unable to get to the restaurant I wanted, unable to find my classes on the first day of school etc. I was just constantly waylaid.
She turned away and walked up the stairs to her room and I woke up.
Why is my subconscious trying to torture me?
@TheInfamousGdub I relate to this a painful amount. My dreams, when I recall them, are excruciatingly banal. I’m 41 and working at the same gas station where I worked when I was 19, and I just do a regular shift. Stuff like that. But sometimes something wonderful promises to happen. Some thrilling outcome or impossible but long-desired experience. I’m incredulous, ecstatic, grateful! The thing is just over the horizon, just through that door, just about to begin. And then I wake up. Every time.
@TheInfamousGdub my brain knows my heart’s desires, those secret and those plainly stated, and will never ever ever deliver them in a dream. Only the elaborate setup. The promise. Lucy holding the football. And I fall for it every time.
Brains are the absolute worst.
@TheInfamousGdub if you feel anything from this please let it be validation and solidarity
@aquinton yes!!!! This is it exactly. Struggling between feeling validated and seen but also saddened somebody else has to experience this as well.