Do you have recurring nightmares or bad dreams?

nothing recently...

Yes. I have dreams where I'm trying to run but I move really slowly, or where I try to stand up but my legs won't support me. If I'm napping during the day and the sun is shining in my eyes, I'll dream that I can't open my eyes and see because it's too bright and painful, like when you come out of a movie theater on a really sunny day and you don't have any sunglasses. When I was little I had a recurring dream about being kidnapped by men hiding in the bushes in the park with big, black plastic trash-bags. I've also had a bad dream two or three times in the last year or so where I cheat on my SO and then as soon as I have, I realize what a terrible mistake I've made, because now I'll have to tell him and he won't forgive me and I'll lose him. It's a huge relief to wake up from that one. Although the last time I had that dream, I was cheating on him with Veronica Mars, which wasn't so bad.

I used to... and they were pretty boring.

Yes. Three.

I have recurring nightmares about zombies. Usually about once a month. I also have dreams where I can't walk or crawl and my vision is either very limited or blurry, and I have to try and escape from something or someone but it's impossible to get away. I have that dream about once a week.

I also have a recurring dream that I've abandoned my horse and haven't tended to him for years, so when I finally do go to the stables to look after him, he's in awful state/the fields are covered in horse droppings/there's two years of bills to pay and so on. I probably have that one about once a month too. The neglected horse dream I can understand, I think it comes from an underlying feeling of guilt that's never gone away - I gave my horse to someone else to look after whilst I went on a gap year to Sweden, and he died shortly after of a disease that the woman didn't have enough knowledge of to catch it in time.

I don't know where the zombies fit in though. Or the dream paralysis.

Thankfully I often have nice dreams too!

At times I do have bad dreams and they are very very strange' , just like I am really there in this one dream, and I have dreamed of these religious pastors down there in hell" and I went down to visit them and tell them you are here because of what you have done to me? And dreams of being some place else in another country, or dreams of living with this family I do not know

Yes - all my adult life I've had recurring dreams about huge fires in the distance in a city. Black smoke and orangey flames rising and getting closer. I am in a panic because the fire is gaining on me and I feel I have to run as fast as I can to escape. I had one again just the other night which prompted this survey. This time I saw a giant black tower of smoke from what was maybe a couple of miles away. I started to climb up on a ladder against the side of a house to see better just where it was, then I woke up. Sometimes I also dream of bombs dropping on a city, and thus starting fires here and there in this way.

Yeah. I used to have it a couple nights a week, but now it's not as often. Maybe once every week or so. Anyhow, I've mentioned it on SC before, but I don't feel like getting into it right now. Maybe I'll come back and explain later.

I used to when I was a kid, and had the same nightmare whenever I was sick.

I have in the past. They eventually went away

No

I sedate heavily to sleep so i usually don't remember my dreams.

No. I don't remember my dreams much to begin with, and those that I do remember tend to be original creations. Like me!!!

Yes - I regularly dream about toilets or toilets stalls that lack privacy. Either the door won't close, it's too short (up or down), or it has a big hole in it, instead of a door it can be a curtain that anyone can pull, or it has no door nor stall. These toilets are always in public places teeming with people. Rarely is the toilet really soiled or overflowing but it has happened.
The other recurring theme is having a dream that takes place in big, public complexes - like subway stations, airports, shopping centres etc... Always full of people. Really big houses (I mean, really big with many rooms) often well furnished...

I wonder what it all means?
I read somewhere that women often dream of toilets (dirty, overflowing ones) and it means that they are too giving and don't find enough time for themselves... Hmmm... That's something to think about.

I have recurring dreams but most aren't bad. The recurring bad ones happen very rarely, so is that still a yes?

I have only once in my life had a reacurring nightmare. When I figured out what the dream was about I stopped having it.

I use to have a reoccurring dream that was not a nightmare. I told my mother about it and found out it was a memory from when I was a baby. I again stopped having the dream after that.

I have a lot of end of world dreams, natural disasters especially involving water like floods and hurricanes and tsunamis - before the major events we have had recently and war WWIII scenerios, being a civilian trying to travel without being seen or hit by bombs or guns.

I also dream about working in a hospital in nursing (I used to but don't now) and I forgot a patient all night or end of shift is coming and I didn't do any of the things I was supposed to like check blood pressures, give pills and stuff. Serious panic dream.

And I am lost in a neighborhood in St. Louis called the Central West End, only this one now ends good because I find an old friend who lets me in her apartment and I feel safe. Sometimes I am running from people. Another is losing my dog and can't find a person.

Oh and when I am really stressed out I dream about something that really happened, sort of relive it but in the dream I beg and plead to change things- my best friend in college turned on me and refused to speak to to even tell me why really. She made my last few months there miserable, almost unbearable. I sob and cry in these dreams. These are the only ones that cause me to wake up crying. The most realistic and intense.

I don't remember my dreams much lately. I haven't had a recurring one for many many years and a recurring bad one for even longer. Probably when I was a kid.

Funny thing though. I had a bit of a nightmare last night. Probably the first dream I've remembered in months if not years.

I was at my brother's place, which was also the house we grew up in. My parents sold the house to my brother some ten years back. Anyway, I'm in the back yard with this weird robot like thingy. He was quite tall and looked like a werewolf or something...all covered in brown fur. Everything was okay at first. I seemed to have him under control and stuff. Then I guess I got bored and wanted to turn him off. I climbed up onto the roof of the tool shed and removed three little gizmos that were behind a little door behind his left ear. I figured that was supposed to shut him off. Then I dropped the gizmos and had to look for them in the lawn. I found them and put them on top of the roof of the garage. Then I went inside. Up to this point he had remained motionless. Suddenly as I was closing the sliding glass door into the basement, he reanimated and started coming after me in a very threatening manner. Then the dream went all slow-mo like they do...you know? I couldn't get the door closed fast enough and then it wouldn't lock properly and he was right there looking all fierce. Finally I just gave up and ran for it, throwing furniture behind me into his path. I was just starting up the stairs when I woke up.

I thought to myself; "Gee, I hope I don't get the next installment when I fall asleep again!"

I don't remember my dreams very often.

Shooting an innocent person....which is sort of why I'd rather fight in close combat (hand to hand) rather than using a gun.

I don't remember my dreams.

I often have dreams about work. It's not the same dream over and over though.

I used to have the same recurring dream which was pretty scary. In it I opened my eyes (in my dream) and I couldn't see anything. I remember the frustration of feeling my way around in my dream and couldn't see! I never want that dream again because it was absolutely horrible.

Bad dreams - yes.
Recurring nightmares - no.

Yes, I have reoccurring dreams. they are not bad, per se, but upsetting. It is in the dreams that somehow always end up at my mother's house.

It's wierd, i mean i have had strange dreams, wierd dreams and stuff out of the ordinary. but i can honestly say that i have NEVER had a nightmare

i want a nightmare!

ive always been fascinated by recurring nightmares.. Ive never experienced them, nightmares yes, but not the same ones.

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No

If I'm worried about something, then yes

Not anymore.

Yes, too many to list. It happens when you see and do things that no human needs to see, remember or regret.

Ive had a recurring dream many times in the past about who shot tupac

yes, sometimes i try to shout but i can't even open my mouth or my mother becomes a monster and tries to kill me but finally i can save myself. once i dreamt about a killer who is trying to kill my whole family and when i thought he is already gone, he came back and cut my mother's throat. it was disgusting i wake up crying and i coudn'tcalm down