Dreams

[Melalvai]

I've had dream-themes that repeat for years and years.

Odd thing is, once I figured out what the theme was "about", each dream would stop.

I get the repeating dream-themes, sometimes just for a few weeks, sometimes for years. I usually figure out pretty quick what they are really about, but they don't stop until the source is gone. I call them anxiety dreams but it's not always anxiety. Different things. Of course not ever anything good.

Some of them are bizarre. One that lasted for years was the pregnancy nightmares. That usually cropped up with school-stress, college and then grad school. When we were selling our house, I frequently dreamed about mowing. When I ended a friendship last summer I often dreamed about my favorite uncle who had died young & unexpectedly a few years before.

The weirdest one was a theme about bathrooms with no doors an only half-walls. That one went on for decades. My first day at clinical training they showed us the demo bathroom where we would learn/teach bathroom mobility. Fully functioning bathroom with no door and half walls.

Bathroom dreams are the only one I can't tie to a specific source. It's always that I'm trying to find a bathroom or a shower, but the toilets are in a public area, or out of order, or in use. I always figured this was my version of the underwear dream and probably has to do with insecurity or something. But it seems kind of random so I don't know.