9 Common dreams and their meaning (Part 1)

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9 COMMON DREAMS AND WHAT THEY MEAN | PART 1

Chances are you don't remember much of your dreams, in fact we tend to forget them shortly after waking up. Yet there are those instances where a dream is so unpleasant/strange that it sticks to your memory even after having been "pulled out" of the sleeping trance. Although it can't be proven to be a genuine fact, it has been studied on, and concluded that most of what we dream actually is our subconscious mind interpreting our life's effect on us. Some of the dream interpretations people have made about our dream are quite bizarre, yet, then there's also those that's actually quite believable and in a way makes sense.

#1 - Feeling Lost Or Trapped



Feeling trapped or lost in a dream indicates a concern of being lost or trapped into a certain situation or position in your waking life. Maybe others are pressuring you into doing something? or perhaps you feel as though you've been lost in the shuffle of things, or that you've run out of options?
Realize this dream is a direct warning to your internal concerns, and it should be a cue to consciously address these feelings before it's too late. Otherwise, you may start having this next type of nightmare..

#2 - Falling Or Drowning



Do you feel like you're in over your head? Maybe you're caving under the pressure of a certain task or duty. These anxious feelings will most likely result in a dream of you falling or drowning. Dreams revolving around a continuous fall or drowning demonstrate an internalized anxiety about a situation or task at hand. The emotions they evoke can range from loss of control to exhilaration. Your specific reaction in this nightmare will likely mirror your reaction to certain circumstances in reality.

This is also a perfect opportunity to engage in lucid dreaming. If you know you have this dream often, you can resolve these falling and drowning anxieties by realizing it's all a dream, and then willing yourself to control it. Instead of falling or drowning, tell yourself to fly or swim. After all, it is your dream, and within it you can do whatever you please.

#3 - Machine Or Phone Malfunction



Did you call someone in your dream, only to have it ring endlessly without anyone to answer? Did your computer's hard drive crash while you were in the middle of writing a paper? While these are not particularly terrifying nightmares, to some, a crashed hard drive can be just as devastating as crashed car.

Malfunctions with technology, especially communicative technologies, may mean you are failing to reach out to someone on an emotional level. Have you lost touch with a good friend? Is there a disconnect or barrier forming between yourself and a loved one? If this is a common nightmare of yours, take the time to evaluate your relationships and identify key areas that need to be mended.

#4 - Being Naked Or Inappropriately Dressed In Public



Dreams of appearing naked in public are invariably one of the most common nightmares shared by people of all ages. These dreams tend to act as reliable measurements of your self-esteem. Within them your clothes function as a method of concealment, enabling you to hide things about yourself that you don't want others to see.

If you are comfortable being nude within your dream, you are secure about exposing your feelings and have nothing to hide. Embarrassment about nudity implies vulnerability, guilt or shame, while being oblivious to your nudity can mean a lack of self-awareness.
If you've been hiding something from others, or are afraid that people can see through a facade you've established, be prepared to have this common nudie nightmare.

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I have sometimes such dreams. I don't know btw why you divided the dreams topic into two separate threads. But in my case the dreams have no deeper meaning as such in this sense that they don't show any inner workings of my brain in their symbolic form - my dreams that belong to the said categories are just mostly influenced by what I saw or heard about, before. Like:

#1 - Feeling Lost Or Trapped

In my case that's all about my fear of being unable to get out of a situation; I hate reading about people dealing with a difficult situation, for I always put then myself in their shoes and I start to imagine that's me. Like: I hated reading about Waris Dirie running away at night from her parents who wanted to give her in marriage to an old man or about Natascha Kampusch unable to get out from her kidnapper (apart from the fact most of those thigs she said that's just stuff she made up). I had MANY dreams that it was me who got trapped by Priklopil and that it was myself running throughout the desert at night. It was inspired by the autobiographies of the women.

#2 - Falling Or Drowning

I used to have falling down dreams as a kid and teen - I always thought those are connected to one growing up but I'm not sure if that's true - I read that's just an atavism back from the times our ancestors lived on the tops of trees and often indeed fell down.


I never though had dreams on being naked in the public, weird - I often read or saw on TV it's a common topic of one's nightmares.

I don't know if it's a variation of #1 or not, but I have had a dream that has recurred several times. It's where I'm searching for something lost, and I can never find it. The thing is, that I don't know what I'm looking for, but I'm always looking, and no one in the dream knows where or what it is either. I've had this dream over a dozen times. The locale changes, but it's the same thing everytime. I can't find what I'm looking for.