Why we often have the same dream
Due to a stupid mistake, I have to spend the night in a much too brown, old house where even the wallpaper on the wall feels creepy. The people in the house are eerily strange, doors suddenly lock, I am being followed or people are trying to get in, and everything about the house feels unsafe.
I often dream it for five minutes, but it feels like I wander around that house for hours and I have a constant feeling that something terrifying is about to happen and just at that moment I wake up. That's why I have no idea what is going to happen to me. It is my recurring dream. Sometimes I have it weekly, sometimes it takes a few years before it resurfaces. Everyone seems to have dreams that repeat themselves and they symbolize something bigger.
We dream to process. It makes perfect sense that your doctor appears at an important meeting at work while you are having your toenails painted red under the table by an acquaintance. I'm just mentioning a confusing side street. But the recurring dream symbolizes a problem, emotion, or feeling that you suppress and give too little space.
A dream can be neutral or even fun, but often a recurring dream is a nightmare. Dreams are actually signals from your brain that something is on your mind or that something is unfinished. Dream doctor Bas Klinkhamer from the training institute ITIP categorizes dreams into three dimensions: that of the psyche, inner knowing, and mystery. According to him, the recurring dream belongs to inner knowing, he tells Happinez, you get to see something of which you need to become aware.
Actually, that scary house where I sometimes find myself is a symbol for something recurring in my life. Because dreams can contain symbols, like the store where you used to work or that one beach or hotel during a vacation. It's nice when this symbol appears because it allows you to connect it to an event or emotion in your life when you last had that dream.
To discover what that recurring dream means, all experts, doctors, and specialists give the same answer: keep a notebook next to your bed and start writing when you wake up. The more details, the better. Analyzing a dream helps you figure out which emotion or problem you should be more concerned about.
Are you completely fed up with that nightmare? You can get rid of it by rewriting it and you don't need any outside help for that.
P.S.: By the way, this means that bizarre sex dream you sometimes have.
Source: Happinez, Psychology Magazine
