Recurring and Repetitive Dreams

Suddenly you are at your desk scrambling to find you pencil to write your exam, you break out in a cold sweat as its only a matter of time before you have to hand in your paper. The clock is is ticking as you only have ten minutes to complete and you just started writing the test. Your heart is pumping, and hands are numb knowing you are going to fail the test.

Does this dream sound familiar? Recurring dreams are extremely common that can span over a short or long period in your lifetime. These dreams can manifest as far back from your childhood or randomly emerge as an adult. The unpredictable nature of a recurring dream may occur weekly, once a month, or even several times a year.

Recurring Dreams

Believe it or not you may have experienced a particular dream dozens of times before it finally rattles you out of your bed at night. The reason why it appears to be more vivid and intense because your dream desperately wants your attention. In essence this dream becomes your monthly reminder that you are still ignoring something in your life that is causing an unbalance.

Stopping a recurring dream from happening is a fun challenge because you have a chance to tackle your inner demons head on. Are you up for the challenge? I can guarantee you once you decode your dream you will take one big weight off your back. You might even want to explore deeper to the unconscious parts of your mind as you are now at the tip of the iceberg.

Common Recurring Dreams

• Taking a test at school,
• Trying to catch a flight at an airport,
• Car or plane crashes,
• Falling, chased or teeth dreams,
• Apocalyptic dreams;
• Snakes.

How To Stop Recurring Dreams

Step 1: Befriend Your Nightmare

As unusual as this sounds your recurring dream is actually trying to help you if you choose to listen. It acts as if its your own free personal wise friend or psychologist trying to show you something you are blatantly ignoring in life.

Brushing off your dream only encourages your unconscious to take you out of soft ball and bring you to the big leagues. The theme of your recurring dream will only become darker, the mood and atmosphere anxious, and every object becomes more vivid. You are now a puppet being pulled on the strings of your fears and insecurities.

Article: How To Befriend Your Unconscious Mind

Sun Tzu was a writer and philosopher  once said that “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles”. This applies to your recurring dream in order to understand it you have to know your hidden fears and idiocracies.

Think of it as you were wearing blindfolds waking around a pool as your unconscious is trying to guide you were to go. The recurring dream keep occurring as you are not paying attention to the directions and keep falling in the deep end.

So how do you stop recurring dreams from happening? The next step would be to understand the language your dream speaks to you in.

Step 2: The Forgotten Language

The symbols in our dreams are often coded metaphorically relating to something in your life. For instance, a car would be a representation of your path or drive in life; or a butterfly would imply a personal transformation due to its metamorphosis phases. Furthermore, by approaching the dream metaphorically you will see a pattern unfold that mimics unconscious feelings or emotions relating to a particular issue.

Learning a new language can be quite difficult and time consuming, however learning how our dreams communicate with us is not as difficult as we think. However your dream is not going to spell it out for you that easy, you have to be willing to take the time to decode it.

Using a dream dictionary will give you ideas where the root of the problem is stemming from. They often provide you with hints where you can extract the most important symbols out of the dream.

The benefit of the recurrent dream is its vivid display of symbols, emotions, locations and people around you. These are clues provided that help puzzle the piece of the dream together.

Step 3: Tracing Your Steps

This is one of most important steps when it comes to stopping your recurring dream. More than likely you are able to trace back to the time when this dream started occurring in your life. For example, if you keep experiencing a recurring dream that started happening three years ago, you then need to go back to that time.

At some point in your life something traumatic has happened that you have tucked away in the dark corners of your mind. The feelings have manifested into a monster wanting you to let it free.

• Death of a family member
• Break ups
• Relationships
• Jobs or career

Step 4: Personal Reflection 

Once you have gathered all of your dream clues you then need to apply it to the hidden issues in your life. This stage becomes the most difficult as you need to reflect, recognize and accept this personal flaw.

• Insecurity or not being accepted
• Past memory or experience that haunts you (example bullying)
• Unable to face your fears and anxieties
• Afraid of failure or getting to the next stage in life.
• Having a traumatic childhood.

As we mentioned before that your dream is not out to hurt you but to help. You are encouraged to shine the light on the darker parts of your life, the feelings and emotions that you easily avoid.

Unfortunately for some people their dreams can trace as far back to their childhood. Most often we are most affected by our past childhood trauma that essentially stunts our development to becoming a fully integrated adult. This is often called our inner child that needs to be rescued.

Step 5: Ask A Dream Professional For Help

When it comes to interpreting your own recurring dreams it almost feels like a daunting task —  I mean who really understands what the unconscious mind is hinting at. Though one of the free services provided here at dream dictionary is a detailed analysis in our active live chat. Within 24 hours your problem might be solved.

Recurring Dream Facts

1. Recurring dreams usually happen in REM sleep.
2. Recurring dreams are our unconscious mind telling us to “wake up” and address the problem.
3. They deliver a very important message.
4. Often form in a nightmare dream.
5. Very common everybody gets one.
6. Triggered by stressful times in life.
7. Some are positive and some are negative dream themes.
8. Once you find the root of the issue the dream never comes back.

How to Remember Your Dreams

Many people find it difficult to remember their dreams due to lack of dream recall.  They would just be able to tell you “I was having a test and I wasn’t prepared”. The main problem with trying to fix your Recurring dream is trying to remember it. We lose close to 90 percent of our dream the first minute we wake up hence  why its important to remember your dream the moment you get up.

Learning how to remember your dreams take a bit of practice but can be done very easily.  You would need to keep a dream journal handy or anything that would record them.  Remember we loose 90% of our dreams the first 1 min we wake up.

Recurring Dreams: Personal Journal

Keeping a dream journal the next time you experience a recurring dream to make your job a little easier. Make sure you write down every single detail in your dream even though you don’t think its that important.

Recording your dreams gives you the opportunity to open the door to your mind that has never been explored. In this world you will explore the heights of your abilities and the depths of your fears.

Remember you are essentially investigating yourself. “To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom”. This famous quote is often attributed to Socrates. But how does this apply to my dreams?

Teeth dreams
Chase dreams
Late for a test 
Falling dreams
Water dreams