Have you ever had a recurring dream that eventually affected your perception of reality?

My dreams don't have to be recurring to seriously affect me like that.

I dreamed that my fiance died - it was very vivid. Even after waking and holding him, I grieved over it for quite some time - it was a horrible feeling, very hard to shake off.

I've had other dreams of things occurring and the emotions they stirred in me did not abate when I woke up. The worst times were when I dreamed that I DIED. That really messed with my head.

The important thing is try your hardest not to react to those emotions. Sometimes the anger and the sheer pain are so strong that I find myself acting on it - which can be a really bad thing.

I think about the dreams and analyse them to death and then the feelings subside...but it can be very disturbing in the meantime. I'm glad you posted this, I thought I was the only one!

Yes, I have. I can relate to what you're talking about.

When I was in my 20s I dated the same guy for about a squillion years until I became a Christian (when he promptly fell out of love with me and dumped me ---but that's another story for another day). Overall our relationship was good, and we did love each other very much. *However* I dreamt frequently that he was cheating on me. Now I don't think he actually ever cheated on me but he *did* ogle other women to the point where I'm still paranoid about men doing that even now, almost ten years later. I think that the dreams were probably just an extension of my hurt over that.

It was weird because I would often wake up hurt or angry that he had cheated on me even though I only dreamt it, and that feeling would sometimes stick around for several days after the dream. It totally sucked. I feel you, sister.

I've had single dreams that have made it hard for me to deal with my dad, friend and husband before. I know that my mom once told me of a dream that my father cheated on her and she pretty much hated him the next day. I've not experienced a recurring dream that's done this but I could see how it could happen.

I've never had that happen. I think it might help for you to analyze the dream. Perhaps you're subconsciously afraid that something will happen to hurt your friendship with this person even though you rationally know it won't, and the dream is that subconscious fear coming to the surface. (That's just a guess and I could be way off...)

Analyzing the dream may help you to understand the subconscious factors that motivate it, and they might be a way to stop the dream from interfering with your real-life feelings toward this person.

Linz: I can think of 1 time where that kinda happened to me: I kept dreaming about this girl in my 6th grade class. We didn't know each other very well, but in my dream, she was sweet an d we were friends. It disposed me to be nice to her in real life, till one day she finally said, "Why are you always trying to talk to me? I don't talk to fat creepy guys."

So that settled that, as they say.

But about the meaning of your dream: from what I've read about dreams, the people you dream about are very very rarely the person they look like.

E.g., if you dream that I'm asking you to borrow one tire off you car because one of mine is flat, you think: What is it that Jon M represents for me in real life? And you think about it and you realize that I represent a different spiritual or emotional outlook.

Cars in dreams can symbolize the ability to move emotionally and spiritually from a point of origin (one emotional level) to a destination (a different emotional level).

So your dream of me and the tire might be saying that some different emotional/spiritual outlook (that might not have anything to do with me in reality at all) is trying to gain some credibility in your life. It's trying to move from an undeveloped state, maybe, to a more prominent position in your emotional or spiritual life, and it might have to disable your usual growth patterns (the tire off your car) in order to do it.

*whew* So if you followed all that, I would say, find out what that person represents to you in the real world. There is a very good chance that the dream isn't about him at all, or only peripherally about him.

If he represents wealth (out-of-the-blue example) for you, ask yourself if your sub/unconscious is afraid that a new wealth will do harm to your status quo -- how that new found wealth might "hurt" your spirit or emotions in some way.

Sigh. That's your twinny. Can't say a DAMN thing in under 1100 words.

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I have a reoccurring dream where the Yamster is chasing me through the streets, and right when I get to where my front door should be, there's a cliff. I fall and the Yamster falls with me. We fight while falling into a deep crevasse and I overpower the yamster, kill, him, and use his dead body as a parachute.

Unfortunately that dream has not become reality.

not reocurring ... but have had dreams where my husband has done something terrible in the dream

and I have woken up literally hating him for that day

and the poor guy cant figure out what he has done

so then I blurt out .. " you hit me with that hammer " ( or whatever the dream was )

and he just looks at me weird lol

but yes dreams can be very real and leave our emotions in a mess the next day

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Vishal is right xx

I am from Indian origin.

My friend had the same case

He consulted a doctor....the doctor asked him not to take too much chocolates..

He did it and now the repeated dream serial has stopped

I don't know if you too eat too much choc late....the percent of lead in it can cause you such think...

even can cause depression

No that's never happened to me. I had a bad dream where I died for like 3 days straight when I was a kid but that's about it.

Yes, this is so funny---my husband used to hang around the cereal aisles in the grocery store when we would go shopping (in my dreams of course) and there he would flirt with all kinds of girls and I would always have to sneak around the store to catch him. I would wake up so mad at him.