A creepy recurring house dream, meaning?
I have recurring dreams about being in large, creepy, foreign houses. Usually i'm actually living in these, like i just moved in or i've only recently discovered that something is just 'wrong' about the house. Generally they're mansion size, but looking old and not with many large rooms. Every dream has small rooms, tons of'em, with lots of winding hallways. The house (different in dreams from the outside or location) always is so big with so many rooms that many rooms are within other rooms and don't have windows and i can get lost running around. Sometimes the houses seem normal till i go into the basement and find a door i've never gone through or a wall that has a secret room behind it. If i go in (always do) i find more stairs leading to several more basement levels where each floor becomes less refined. One of the creepier 'styles' has the basements going down several floors to where the furnishings aren't complete, like under construction, the ground is dirt, ect.... Lastly, regardless of what floor or where, the houses always have an ''old'' feeling and look to them. There's always poor lighting, or no lighting, and often i feel like i'm being watched or followed, though i'm never panicking in the dream. Lastly, i often feel like i have to figure out if something is actually wrong with the house, and/or i'm stuck inside and can't get out. Most often i feel like i just have to keep exploring the new creepy rooms or floors or basements i'm finding. Yup.... not really nightmarish, but very unsettling, some bordering on nightmares (if i enter a long hallway and i see something skitter away into another hallway or room at the edge of the light/or if im in the 'basement' versions where generally i run into windows that i can't see what's on the other side but i feel like someone is watching me). If anyone has any interpretations to these dreams that would be helpful. Preferably on the more 'professional' side but personal views are fine too. thanx.
I have a recurring dream of having a baby. What does it mean?
In response to one of the answers: I postpone motherhood for 15 years because I'm in the process of becoming a human rights lawyer. I plan to be working for the High Commission on Human Rights and later as a prosecutor for the International Court for Genocide. All that means no time for being a mother. I'll be constantly traveling and staying in other countries for months. How is it possible to have a baby that way? Secondly, adoption is my conscious choice. I reason that my child is not conceived yet therefore can't feel pain or hunger or sorrow. Kids in Africa, impoverished parts of Latin America and Asia are born already therefore they do feel suffering. So who needs me most as a mother: a child not conceived or an orphaned or abandoned child that already exists? The answer is obvious. Also, I want to adopt 4 kids from the impoverished parts of the world. This requires money and not just enough to buy food. I must provide them all with good education as well. Therefore career first.
What is the meaning of having recurring dreams when they are usually nightmares?
I had a recurring nightmare where a cow bit me, one where a nun can-opened my knees to maker genuflect/kneel in church, one where I skied pregnant down a huge hill that was a major highway, and one where packaged super market chicken was still alive walking around the market in the styrofoam and plastic packaging.Some were fears from childhood. One was not wanting to slow down or stop my athletic pursuits when I was pregnant and one was some crazy nightmare about chickens not really being supermarket ready (or dead. I was pregnant during that one too).I think dreams, nightmares or otherwise, are ones mind trying to come to grips with or make sense of things that happen in our awake hours. They recurr until we figure them out or the issue disappears from our wakened state. Of course that's coming from someone who's had some pretty out there recurring nightmares.
Why am I having this recurring dream? What does it mean?
Ok, here is my psychological analysis of your dream. The anxiety you feel about your accomodation in the dream is actually a symbolic expression of your need to settle into a specific area of study, and not being able to decide as quickly as you would like. I would say each time you dream of a different sort of room, set up a different way with a different feel. This would suggest, perhaps, indecision of whether you want to major in say, sociology vs. criminal psychology vs. marine biology.
Do you have a recurring dream, what is it about?
As I child, around 12 I think, I had a recurring dream of being chased by a group of people who wanted to cut out my heart. I always woke up when they caught me, until the last time I had the dream.The last time I had the dream, I was aware it was a dream, but couldn't wake my sleeping self up out of it, so I decided that if I could fall asleep in my dream, I would be able to wake up from it, so I tried a different tactic with my dream. (At 12, I was NOT aware of what a lucid dream was or what it allowed the dreamer to do.)I let my chasers ‘catch’ me, and as they were attempting to put me into position to cut out my heart I struggled against the many hands that were holding me, I begged and pleaded for them to let me fall asleep first, then I wouldn't feel what they were going to do and I'd be still enough for them to proceed with cutting out my heart.It worked!As soon as I closed my eyes in the dream, I woke up in real life immediately.Never had that dream again, WHEW! :)
What does it mean when you have reoccurring dreams in the same location?
The scientific answer? nothing really. While you are dreaming (in REM sleep) the prefrontal cortex is largely inactive. That is the part of your brain responsible for forethought planning and logic. Without it active there isn't any part of your brain constructing logical metaphors inside your head. This isn't to say dreams don't have any meaning at all, since they are thought to be your brains why of processing your emotions that you can't otherwise focus on during the day. Emotional housekeeping. The reason you are liking dreaming of the same place is because for your dreams to have physical space for you to feel you are inside of, your brain has to create a model of the world you are in. Much like it does when you are awake. The difference is when you are awake there are tactile clues to help your brain "create" reality. When you are sleeping there isn't. So your brain often recycles models it is familiar with. Much in the same way they say you don't ever dream of a face you haven't already seen in waking life. Your brain is simply recycling a place it is familiar with to give your dreams a landscape.
Recurring dream that I'm in jail. What does it mean?
To dream that you are in jail, suggests that you are feeling restrained or censored in your work environment, relationship or situation in your life. You are feeling confined and suffocated. Alternatively, it represents self-punishment and guilt. I'm guessing that you've had a really rough time lately and should see about trying to ask for some help..Maybe you should go and see your GP and they may be able to arrange for you to see a professional to talk out your problems and help guide you down a path that will help you get back up on your feet..Redirection so to speak..I hope this was helpful :)
What does it mean when we get recurring dreams or similar dreams?
Recurring dreams or dreams with similar themes are a sign that your subconscious is trying to impart to you the same message that you just didn't understand the first, second, or fifteenth time. Typically, for normal dreams, I would advise a person to look into the symbolism of their dream symbols, etc., but for recurring dreams, the most important aspect is usually the emotional contribution to the dream. You can come back to looking at the symbolism later as a way of enhancing what you've already learned about what your subconscious mind is telling you about a particular emotion.Ignore the subject matter of the dream for a moment (who is in it, where it's taking place), and consider what the feeling of the dreams are. For instance, is the feeling fear, sadness, or joy? Perhaps the feeling of the dreams is fear. Write out some things you fear in your everyday life- and even some things you think you should fear, but don't. Often but not always, the dream is pointing to the latter to get you to become aware of your fears so that you can dispel them through waking action. I used the example of joy above, and perhaps you're wondering why it would be a concern of your subconscious mind that you experience joy in your dreams. A reasonable interpretation for this would be that perhaps you are unable to see the joy in your life or in a particular situation, and the dream may be giving you advice on how to find joy in whatever circumstance is currently important to both your waking (conscious) and subconscious minds.An interesting thing to notice with recurring or similarly themed dreams is whether they become more and more intense with the same ideas and feelings. The rise in intensity is an attempt of your subconscious to get your attention, because you perhaps weren't paying attention the first time.