Recurring dreams

[painter's radio]

Anyone have any?

I often get a recurring dream about my first dog. I had her put down over 10 years ago now but I still dream about her regularly. The settings in the dream are different but the concept is usually the same - I see her running around and everyone thinks it's completely normal, but I'm freaking out like wtf you're dead how are you running around, and why does no one else think it's strange?

The one I had the other night was a bit different. I was walking her past my old school, and she ran inside the playground. I walked on ahead, when a young child called to me "mister, you forgot your dog". At this point I realised she was dead and I said back to him "it's OK, she's dead", and my dog slowly disappeared from the scene, like in a **** movie from the 90's.

The other one I often have revolves around my first flat when I moved out of home. In the dream I am still uswing the place but I'm not supposed to. The toilet is all gross and decaying, the walls are deteriorating and it's a mess but I'm living there in secret, afraid of being caught, and ashamed.

 

[LoneKiller]

I have a few dreams where it feels like I'm in some strange city, and it's always at night. A lot of times the dream happens again but with more detail. It's pretty creepy.

 

[Locke]

I usually have the same few dreams over and over again, always about the same person. There is one new dream though.

I keep having this one where I'm sleeping in bed, and some....thing... is standing over me. It looks like a massive deformed shadow, with pale purple eyes. Sometimes it only watches, other times it grabs me by the ankle and drags me away. I know it sounds like a bad alien movie, but it creeps me out.

 

[painter's radio]

Not recurring but I stayed over at my friend's house recently and had a really horrid dream experience. I was sleeping on my back, and opened my eyes. I could see the room I was in and my hands folded across my chest. Everything looked normal, as it should. But when I moved my arms, they stayed completely still in my vision. I was moving them around a lot but they just stayed there. I put them right up to my face yet still they were on my chest.

Doesn't sound like much but man it freaked me out. Felt horrible lol.

 

[Runciter]

@painter's radio + possibly Locke
Sounds more like sleep paralysis (don't worry, totally natural.) I used to get this from time to time, I remember once sitting up and feeling all the normal gravitational effects only I hadn't moved and then become extremely dizzy as my equilibrium tried to deal with the shift. Once you get past the sheer horror of sleep paralysis it is actually really quite fun. Dark figures just out of sight or even on the chest are common with this though I never experienced them.