I remember when I was 5 (which is as far as I can remember anything) up until I was about 10 or 11.. I used have these 2 dreams... I never knew what they meant.. but the only reason I'm posting is because I've been having re-occuring dreams now and would like to know if there's a pattern or something I should be seeing or if they are just dreams.

I'll post in progression..
5-10/11 years old
I would see a blue woman.. she was nude.. but she was blue.. as if she were frozen as she would start to break apart and melt as the body parts would fall.. the rest of the area was completely white.. as if there was no background or floor.. that I could see.. the body parts would land and start melting.. but I never saw a floor.. I felt alot of fear & sadness.. and would wake up.

I would see alow of dots.. many different sizes.. and they would be chasing me and I was scared.. and would end up feeling that I was falling and would wake up..

The re-occuring dreams stopped. but then when I was about 25 (which only stopped a few years ago) I started having dreams that were related to the military... but they all revolved around failing inspections or losing my uniform or clothing and ending up naked and trying to find cover.. and hiding.. sometimes also included being lost and in an unknown area with nothing.

These nightmares were replaced with ones where I was running away from tornados... or trying to protect my family from tornado type weather.. and I always have the same or similiar surroundings.. which were an open field like area.. and the safe place was underground in like a sewer like area.. Also in this open area.. many times I would be trying to get people (my family) out of this really old run down house (looked like it was 100+ years old) but could never do so. The people were always very stubborn and carefree even with the incoming tornado.

Those kinda stopped when I had one dream where there was a war and my family and I were living back in my hometown (which we do not) and I remember my son running off even though we were under attack.. I remember saying to myself.. "let him enjoy his last few moments" while hugging my wife.. and I saw a bright flash.. and felt my body tingle in several areas which woke me up..

recently.. I've had several nightmares.. where I'd feel myself being choked or smothered.. I'd be awake enough to try and wake up and would eventually do so.. but only to try and go to sleep and it would start again..

I know that dreams are just dreams... but have read that many are not just so.. and are messages or signs of events or information..

What bothers me is that where I live now... In area in front of our house resembles the open area where I used to dream the tornados.. with the exception of the old house.. Outside our house is a very large open lot.. I had not noticed this till our recent storms and being outside at night... it was a scarry reminder of those dreams.. but california is not known for tornado like weather... so it's doubtfull we'll get any.. I hope.

what do you guys think?

I know what you are talking about, and would also like answers as i have had similar, like screaming but no sound came out, and also dreaming of being naked in a public place.

I will wait and see what others have to say....

Wanting to scream and nothing happens?
I had it many times when I was a child.
This is called "sleppy paralisys" - very weird experience.
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I had a recurring dream of being on a moving vehicle-- usually a train. For some reason, the laws of physics weren't applying to me. The train would move forward, but I would stay stationary in the aisle and fall out the back of the train, despite my efforts to grab hold of something.

When I was little, i use to have the same re-occuring dream. It was about me and my brother, it was always dark and first thing in the dream i remember is we were aboard a weird train and bein taken somewhere then the train would take us to some strange underground-type place. I had this dream three times and one more just like it except it was only me and my brother wasnt in this one.

I heard that if you dream about yourself naked in a public place it means that you don't feel safe among people or in current situation, you feel easy vulnerable, or maybe you are afraid that someone will know your secrets. I have had dreams like this too. The interesting detail in dreams like this is that other people usually don't notice that you're naked and do not pay any attention, as if it's only you who find this important.

This year I often dream that it is my birthday, which is in spring, but I have had those dreams in autumn and winter... I find it egocentric actually

I remember this reoccurring dream when I was about 4-7. I'd be in this amusement park or something, then I'd go into this door. I'd go down this hallway with a bunch of doors, but one was open. Strangely there were chairs stacked up leading out the door, which was a far drop. The chairs kinda acted like a ladder/bridge to outside the door which was a hill with green grass and a blue sky with no sun. The hill was separated from the amusement park by a huge fence, and it seemed like I was the only one allowed to go there. The most memorable part of the dream is the feeling I would get when I'd walk out the doorway on the chairs to the hill. It's one of those emotions you don't get in real life..

Also, I never had a dream where I went to school naked, but I did have one a lot where I'd forget my shoes when I went to school. I was in 2nd or 3rd grade when I would get that one, and the feeling I'd get in the dream was pretty much the same that'd you'd get if you went naked.

One that has occured quite recently is one where i come out of my room, go to walk down the stairs. However there is a huge hole in the stairs, and you can't see the bottom of this hole. It is to big to jump it so I just stop, and then start to levitate, and just float down the stairs. I someties have other dreams about levitation, like just having a conversation to my mother but floating.

Any interpretations?

When you look down the stairs is it never ending? Like a big vortex at the bottom? I've had lucid dreams like that and I'm pretty sure I was astral projecting. When I try to go down my stairs I can't because I can't move down, or even see the bottom. It starts to look like a massive foggy vortex if I look down them.

No, the stairs are normal, apart from 2-3 steps missing, and a never ending blackness when i look at the gap.


Another question, can anyone else bring themselves out of a dream if you don't like it??

I used to have a re-occuring nightmare when i was a little kid about my mum turning into a psycho monster with vampire teeth and blue skin then trying to attack me lol.. it happened about 10 times all different scenarios until I was too scared to go to sleep thinking it was going to come back, so i made one of those dream catchers which made me believe I woudnt have any nightmares and prayed for them to go away. It worked for me I convinced myself enough they would do the job. Just the mentality of a kid.

When I used to have nightmares sometimes i would be able to get out of them and wake myself up and other times i couldnt. I remember one dream in particular I was with a group of friends being chased by monsters it was kind of a war and i had to get permission from a friend i was with befor ei could leave the dream otherwise i couldnt get out of it lol. So i tested him and I didnt ask if i could leave but i couldnt no matter how hard i tried and when i got permission i could feel myself slipping out of it but went back into it on purpose.. strange but you can take control of your dreams...if you realise you are in one! Sometimes I was being attacked by weird things and running then think to myself this is fukin ridiculous im only in a dream so i turned and fought them and they ran away lol. When i do realise im in a dream I pretend im a king and just order people to do things when 3 secs ago it was something completely different.

Yep, that's lucid dreaming.

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T_T I have all of the worst kinds of dreams:
I'll close my eyes, but still be able to see.
I'll be running from aliens or something, and I'll be going extremely slow, but when I run backwards and have to look at them, I'll go faster.
Something will be attacking me and I will scream, but there will be no sound.

Most of these dreams have classic elements to them, like flying, being naked (exposed), running and not moving, etc. Some just seem to have your own personal "stamp" on them. Like, I fear spiders, so I might run from spiders rather than cats, since cats don't scare me. I don't think this type of dream, lucid or otherwise, really mean anything more than you are working out some personal issue of some sort.
As far as controlling a dream, I have heard that this is possible, and have actually done it. I do recall a nightmare that just seemed to get out of hand, and I recall stopping what I was doing, and saying to myself "This is OBVIOUSLY a dream, no way it's real, so just wake up". And I did! Something I wish I could do all the time. I'm sure that with enough discipline and practice it would be possible to train yourself to control dreams to some degree.

There have been two times that I've been able to take controll of my dreams. The first was a car chase nightmare. I cannot remember exactly what I was being chased by, but I was driving a really old VW bug. Then out of the blue, somehow in the dream I realized I was dreaming, and figured I could simply change my old VW into a brand new Porsche. I did and managed to escape. The second time was far more intense. I was in some war torn country and was given charge of protecting an infant. The child was marked for death, and we were in great danger. The soldiers chased us into a huge werehouse where I became cornered and trapped. Before they could shoot us, I came to realize that I could escape interdimensionally. I held the infant close, and wisked us away to a childs bedroom in Des Moines Iowa. Hasn't happened much since (that I remember).

I remember haveing a few reoccuring dreams, They all took place in my hometown where i still reside, but the areas seemed to be from about 10 years before the time i was dreaming about them and they were slightly different. One instance was there is this hill next to our city's rock quarry, and i envisioned about 50 chambers, cylinder-shaped with a sloped top kind of like a manhole to a sewer system before they put it in the ground. and they were lined up in the grass on the hill, with elevator style doors and at the end there was a bigger one which i stepped into before eveything became white and i woke up. When i was there i got a very, 'sunshine' feel about it, even though our city is fairly small, theres a bit of business, and the area this took place in is a tad populated, but not by much, but yet it felt as though it was miles and miles from civilization in a lush green, bright blue sky version of the hill.

Occasionally i return to ths slightly modified city i live in, which is maumee, oh. So my dream version has been dubbed REMaumee.

Yes you can. That's what lucid dreaming is all about. Start off keeping a dream journal, that's always step 1.

Yeah, when you write down your dreams it goes through more senses. You're putting your memory through your sense of sight and touch. It activates a lot more areas of your brain. When you do this you start to recognize you are dreaming easier.

BTW, gratz on 10,000 posts.

Ive had 10 almost-similar dreams over the past 2 years. In each of these dreams I would wake up in my bedroom and it would be night-time. The door would open and a strange creature (a different creature each dream- vampire, demon, zombie, cryptids, or my dad who turns into a monster) would enter and i try to get past it and out of the room. i run towards the main door to the house and look for the set of keys on the table beside it. i fumble wif the keys while the monster closes in on me. but always before it reaches me, i unlock the door and gate and run as fast as i can out of the house, down the 2 flights of stairs and along the main cooridor before reaching the elevator. then i would wait a long time for the lift door to open while the monster runs towards me at the same time. then i take the elevator down 8 stories and reach the bottom, but when i emerge from the lift i see the world in darkness and in ruins, smoke and flame covers everything and the sky is all dusty. having no where else to go, i run as far as i can thru the wreckage, and i wake up soon after.

Exactly. And lie there with your eyes closed for a minute before opening your eyes and bringing yourself into real life straight away.

And thanks!