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7/7/08 early Monday morning. Visited old house in Hesperia. People put 6 cars in a 2 car garage by stacking them 3 high on shelves. Garage on the east side instead of the west side of the house. Old cars we used to have. 1958 Rambler station wagon. Others unidentified.
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My not so scientific analysis

either:

You're trying to cram too much into your days

or

Someone in your life is a packrat and cramming too much stuff into your life.

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Maybe my subconscious is telling me to throw some stuff away.

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I have had the same dream almost every night for more years than I can remember. I'm pretty sure it started somewhere between age 18 and 24.

It's just so simple and stupid and I often get a sort of deja vu in real life on it.

In my dream I'm walking.. usually it cuts in with only 3 or 4 steps before the main event. I'm looking forward, relaxed, not really paying attention. Suddenly I go to put my left foot down on the sidewalk for the next step and briefly feel myself falling until my foot hits the lower street. If I had to guess, this curb would be maybe 3 or 4 inches, not even a big one. This causes a brief semi-panic and often I wake myself up jerking my left foot out to meet the pavement.

I'd like to note that this is not exaggerated or weird in the ways that dreams usually are. It's exactly like walking along, not paying much attention and stepping off a curb at an intersection. Also, note there's no traffic on road which seems to be a small residential street. There's no fear of being hurt or anything. Just that short fall.

Anyone know what this is supposed to mean?

Other than this and the occasional dream where Rob runs off with a blonde or something like that, I don't really have bad dreams.

In most of my dreams, I tend to save the day. They can be stressful and even have a bad guy, but I always figure out how to escape or overcome the bad guy and often save other people along the way.

When I was a kid I had the worst, most horrible dreams imaginable. Besides the varied strange monsters in strange lands kinds of dreams and the obligatory "I forgot to study for my math test" sort of dreams, I had 2 recurring dreams.

1)I was an adult in what must have been England or Europe a few hundred years ago. I was dressed as a poor woman wearing a dress that was pretty simple and not overly nice. A man walked with me and I knew he was important to me, but not sure the relationship. Anyway, we were in a dimly lit place with lantens for light here and there and a couple of guys grabbed him and killed him by slicing his gut open. Not in the normal fashion, but essentially cutting away the skin of his belly and parts of the intestines in almost a fillet type of fashion so that I could see inside the sliced open intestines.

I had this dream from a very early age. A part of me has always wondered if this is a past life kind of thing.

2) In my dreams there was this really angry construction worker. He wore jeans, boots, and a flannel shirt. He was pissed off because he'd died from a fall while framing in the wood part that supports the roof of the house and the construction company had burried him in the cement foundation of a house to cover it up.

I still sort of wonder. My bedroom in that house creeped me out all the years I lived there because it seemed to have an angry energy. My mom says I started talking about this right when we moved in. I was 4 3/4.

Ok... there are the deep dark secrets/skelletons in my closet. lol

Thoughts?

Joined: 20 Jan 2008 Posts: 177

Dr. Voj's dream analysis:

sidewalk dream
There are small things in life that irritate you, but don't hurt you. Let go of the small stuff.

gory english dream
that's kinda cool, in a movie-sort-of-way. I'd also vote for the past life idea, unless it's possible that you saw a movie with that in it as a kid (not that exact scene mind you, but something close or that hinted at disembowelment). I know I saw some reeeeaally creepy stuff as a kid- It's a wonder I can sleep now!

construction worker dream
we hear urban legends like this all the time, so it's plausible but unlikely to have happened.

Final diagnosis: I think lots of people have dreams like this, so nothing unusual going on in your subconscious!

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sidewalk dream
There are small things in life that irritate you, but don't hurt you. Let go of the small stuff.
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Since it's fear and not annoyance I feel, maybe it's more like:

sidewalk dream
There are small things in life that frighten you, but don't hurt you. Let go of the small stuff.

An odd thing about the murder dream is that in it, I could feel the cloth in my dress. I wasn't on the outside looking in, I was that woman. weird. I'm pretty sure I didn't see anything like that. My parent's were careful about what I watched because even things like the wizard of oz scared the hell out of me.

Maybe the construction guy is a common thing, but I don't know how a 4 year old would come up with that idea. Even today I can see the man plain as day in my head. I don't even have to close my eyes. My mom did sort of ask around to find out if there'd been any construction accidents. Our house was the very last one sold in the housing tract. Some other people had initally bought it and then backed out and grabbed another one. Ours sat empty so long the weeds in the yard were as tall as I was when we moved in....or at least that's how I remember it.

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TJ, can you recall the last time you had the two childhood dreams?

What changed in your life at the time they ended?

Did you ever talk to construction guy or did you ever escape the room where the man was butchered?

My childhood recurring dreams of tsunami's ended when a counselor told me to turn and face the waves and not move. One dream later, the tsunami melted around me, turned golden and never again, did I have one. I heard that even if the source or inspiration of a recurring dream is not known, facing it may be a healing in itself, outside of your dreams.

Also, I know it isn't a popular answer...I don't totally discredit past life invasions in dreams...be it yours or someone else's.

My current recurring dream has a house (like others here) and in mine, I have been going to it semi-regularly for years and only as an adult. It is from a childhood I didn't actually have....and I can draw the layout as if it is real. It never changes. Still, I always find something new in it that means something to me and the last time I was there (last month?) I was sharing it with someone trusted who came to the front door....a door I never use there. I always crawl in from the secret door in the closet that the last few owners weren't aware of....but my aunt (not any I really know) knew of it. She loves that entrance and the room attached to it. No one bothered her there. Her old antiques are the treasures I go through and explore. Last month was the first time I was at the front of the house.

HOUSES IN DREAMS

Something I just read:

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Carl Jung talked about recurring dreams he had in which he would discover parts of his house that he didn't know existed. In that dream the house represented his personality and the new things he discovered in the house related to new developments in his work.

Houses in dreams usually represent parts of ourselves. It is important that you think about what the symbols in this dream represent to you. I will give you one interpretation but I caution you, this does not mean that it is correct because only you know what these symbols really mean.

The page went on to explain how we perceive different parts of the house, could be how we perceive ourselves.

Steve, maybe the garage is symbolic of your storage facilities? Like TJ said, cramming too much in at the moment? Or of your exit into or entrance into situations/life?

Think about the cars. Did you want to leave in one but felt stuck because of how they were stacked on each other?

Did you put them there? Did you like having those classics there?

Joined: 20 Jan 2008 Posts: 177

Oh, don't mistake- I don't doubt the validity of past-life regression occuring in dreams either. I just like to present alternatives.. Also, occasionally, since things like TJ's early-english period dream have occured with me, and be frightening and recurring- so I tend to enjoy the least-scary-sounding interpretation.

There was a period in my life where I took the 'worst' interpretation as gospel truth.. very paranoid child.

Joined: 25 Apr 2008 Posts: 266 Karma: +3 (3)

I almost never have recurring dreams, but I dream very seldom.

I used to have a recurring dream as a child though. I was walking home from school (common occurrence, I did it every day and at lunch too). I went to a Catholic School, and we came home each day at lunch. I was wearing my my uniform, black pants and a white shirt with black tie.

Anyway, I was walking home and being chased by several men in black suits. I was running, they were running, but I was keeping away until we came to one corner where no matter how much I ran, it was like I was on a treadmill. The guys in black almost caught me, when suddenly everything reset and we were down the block again, with me running away and them chasing. This part would repeat over and over.

Eventually, like DT mentioned I faced the guys chasing me rather than running. When I got to the treadmill part, (it was really like my feet were moving and just sliding on the ground) I turned into them just before the 'reset' would have happened. Instead the dream ended and I don't ever remember having it again.

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TJ, I used to have dreams of falling forward on the sidewalk when I was about ages 7-10. I would start falling, and wake up with a jump before I hit the sidewalk. I forgot about those dreams until now.

About this same age, I often had dreams of being chased by a bear, similar to Yaish's men in black chasing him. I don't remember confronting the bear, but the dreams stopped when I was about 10 years old.

Yaish, you went to Catholic school, were the men chasing you priests?

The dream from England or Europe is vivid enough to be a past-life memory. The disembowlment was a common execution method in the middle ages.

The construction worker story has elements of an urban legend. Being killed by falling from a roof is plausible, but being buried in the foundation is unlikely. This story also has an element of ancient history, when people practiced human sacrifice of this kind. Perhaps a past-life memory mixed up with the angry energy in your creepy old bedroom.

DT, I don't remember wanting to leave in any of the cars, and I didn't know how they got there. I didn't think much about it in the dream, they were just there, and it didn't seem strange or unusual.

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The construction guy dream ended when I moved out of that house. While I don't have the dream anymore, I can recall the guy's presence in a daydream like state if that makes any sense to you. But now it's at my will.

I'm not sure when the murder dream ended, but I think it ended before I was 18. That dream was outside on something of a walkway along some buildings. My dress was brown and I had on some weird head coving, almost like a handkerchief with strings.

I had another recurring childhood dream. It was odd in that it was maybe a 5 second dream, but I had it lots. I was standing on an open flat area like the Trocadero in Paris. My mother was on my left side holding my hand (though not MY mom) and I was just standing there getting ready to walk down some stairs. I was really happy because I liked my coat. It was a heavy red wool coat I was wearing over a dress. The whole point of the dream seems to be that I really liked that coat and was so glad to have it in the way that a kid has extreme fits of joy over little things.

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Nope, not priests. More like Secret Service or MIB's.

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More like Secret Service or MIB's.

Maybe you've been flashy thingyed and it's a partial memory. In the movie "Men in Black", the flashy thingy was a device that erased people's memories.

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suddenly everything reset and we were down the block again, with me running away and them chasing. This part would repeat over and over.

That's from Holy Grail....

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I never saw that movie until about three years ago.