Highway

[beetiger]

Everyone's got recurring dream themes, especially realated to stress or social anxiety, I'd guess. Classics like the "forgetting I had an exam" dream and the "showing up somewhere in my underwear dream" and the basic "falling" dream.

But I've got a version of it that I'm not sure is common, but that shows up for me regularly. It hasn't for a while, but it did again night before last. Details vary, but generally I'm crawling on a busy highway, often naked. Usually the weather's bad, foggy or rainy or humid. I'm never worried that I'm going to be hit -- cars go whizzing by on all sides, but they're just treating me like a slow driver, or ignoring me entirely. They don't honk, and everyone just passes me. The exit ramps are always long, and I'm always tired and frustrated, and I can't stop. Not because anything bad would happen if I stopped, but I'd just be stuck on an exit ramp in the rain, getting more miserable.

I had this dream again, night before last. Maybe this is a good thing. Maybe my mind is doing cleanup, trying to get more back to normal.

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recurring dreams

[cloverr.livejournal.com]

I occassioanlly have recurring dreams on the macabre theme of "body parts"--I'm usually working on crafting some sort of doll or figurative art work when I suddenly realize, to my panic and horror, that I am using human body parts. How's that for wierd?

[orb2069.livejournal.com]

How much of your total life have you spent in your car?

[beetiger.livejournal.com]

Too much. Good point.

[susandeer.livejournal.com]

This is fascinating....

IMHO, you feel that life, while difficult, is passing you by and there's NOTHING you can do about it. You know what you need to do, but it's so much that it seems insurmountable.

Indulge me for a moment. Make a list of your top 5 life challenges and top 5 life challenges. Then next to each, 3 things you can do to help fix them. Keep this on the fridge or bathroom mirror. Or both.

Next, read up on lucid dreaming.

Next time you have this dream, try to capture the momet. Stand up, move to the side of the road where warm dry clothes and rain gear will be waiting under a bus stop shelter. What you do next is up to you. Wait for the bus? Or brave the off-ramp. Don't hitch hike.

Know what my recurring dream theme is?

PUBLIC BATHROOMS.

It usually happens when I'm sleeping HARD and actually -need- to find one for real. All I ever find in the dream are dirty public ones. This is my brain's way of telling me something! (Good thing I never seem to find a clean one!)

Now, for the wacky RL tie-in. I told someone abo9ut this dream theme once and they showed up in it the very next night. Public stalls, half height, co-ed. As I sat there, (ok, odd instance of a clean bathroom, but don't worry!) I looked over and saw the two guys I'd told, also sitting, and looking very confused! I was like, "SEE! I TOLD YOU!" I was interrupted by an odd, little ....No...I better not tell you the rest @:) Good thing I was interrupted.

[tempralisis.livejournal.com]

My advice, if the dream is getting anoying, is to forcibly change it. I once got rid of a nightmare by putting a cliff in front of me and jumping (I'm scared of heights, more so in a dream, so it wakes me up quickly).

From my experience, the trick to changing dreams is to get yourself to believe that something else is true, and then it is (by necessity).

-Tau