The power of recurring dreams

[peacetraveler22]

What do dreams mean? I've never studied this issue in detail, but there are all kinds of interpretations, especially for ones that are recurring. In recent weeks, I've had the most vibrant dreams of my lifetime. I don't know what has stimulated this, but I suspect it comes from an overflow of very complex and diametrical emotions that have arisen over the last two months. They range from elation, restlessness, increased sexual thoughts and arousal to struggling with guilt for not feeling empathetic toward a terminally ill relative. She is now in her final days, and lies dying in a hospice bed in our home.

In youth, I had very erotic dreams, even though I wasn't sexually active until later in life. Then, my dreams shifted toward fantasy lands, full of images from the cosmos, fairies, and mystical adventures. Of course, there were also mundane dreams involving friends, family or encounters with random strangers. But there is one dream I've had over and over again, probably at least 50 times in my life. Each time, I realize my teeth are falling out! Sometimes only a few of them, other times, absolutely all of them. What does this mean? :)) Apparently this is a common recurring dream for many people, and nothing unique to me. However, all of the interpretations I've read seem irrelevant to my life situation.

Do you have recurring dreams, or believe there is any significance to them?

Comments

[peacetraveler22.livejournal.com]

But as a child, I had no skills! And I've had this dream from about age 8. What did it mean at this age? :))

[leo-sosnine.livejournal.com]

Doesn't matter as it is a mindset problem. In your early days, you may have come up with a thought that in order to survive in this world you have to develop skills but you may lose them and hence the fear that manifests itself in such dreams. Or you may have witnessed some person with some kind of dementia or Parkinson or something similar that showed declining cognitive skills and it was fearful. Something like that...

[peacetraveler22.livejournal.com]

I like this analysis, and it's somewhat relevant to me. Skills to me are very important, on a multitude of levels.

[mb-b.livejournal.com]

At 8 wasn't it just that -- loss of baby teeth? It's just that dream has stuck with you for some reason.

[peacetraveler22.livejournal.com]

I can't remember at what age we lose baby teeth. I don't have a child. :)) So, all of these things are long forgotten.