I have genre dreams. do you? i dream in several genres, and i won't go into them all, but one recurring genre is the "where do i live? where do i belong? is this my bedroom? i thought THAT was my bedroom/house/dorm room...." dream. i dreamt that way again last night, but it was a little different, in that i knew where my room was, but i wasn't in it. i was in a room that belonged to my mother, but she was asleep in a small adjacent room, and i was in her bed. i had to go to the bathroom and in finding that fairly public place i walked past the room i realized was my own, and saw the door was cracked open and light was on inside. had i left the door open? had i left the light on? or was someone in my room? i went into the bathroom and to the right was a mother helping a slew of children, so i turned left, to stalls in a row, and in the last stall were more children, very small children, helping one another or perhaps just playing. i sat down in the next to last stall and the space under the walls was so large i thought, those little kids can see right under it and see me peeing! they could even crawl under! then someone DID come in, through the stall door: a tiger! no, it was a dog who looked just like a tiger, but with a long doggy snout, very clearly a dog, but a tiger-dog. i was petting the dog and thinking, i'll call you "tiger."
that is all i remember of that dream except i think the radio was on in my mother's room. so this was different from my usual bathroom genre dream, in which i either can't find a bathroom or i find one and it's disgustingly filthy and unusable, or unpleasantly unprivate. this one was a bit unprivate but i wasn't worried, and it was all clean, as well as easy to find. the bedroom part was different too for the reasons stated above.
do y'all have genre dreams, and do they sometimes change not only in detail but in aspect, so that a genre that has in the past frustrated you doesn't in this one dream, for example?
i'll give you an example from my past.
i used to have nightmares about driving. in waking life didn't know how to drive, and in my dreams i would be behind the wheel, driving ineptly, not making the curve or driving into oncoming traffic. as years went by, my dreams changed so that each time, i was a little better at driving, the situations were a little less frightening, until i found myself dreaming about successfully driving. at that point in my life, i decided i was ready to learn how to drive, and i did.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.I see certain anxieties here that we all might have. Some do not admit it. Did you come from a large family? Does your mother have something to do with many children? Surely you are out of place here, and the possibility of someone else in your room might make you wonder if you are going to be replaced. All of the cleanliness concerns would have came to you from your mother. It's as if your dream is taking you back in time.
Most of my dreams do a similar thing and I am never in a dream situation where others speak as people do today. The language of my dreams are always what I was used to in the past and not the nonsense of today. Often I have a dream where it is raining and I wake up to hear rain on my roof. Yes, it is raining.
DenoPenno
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Sep 15, 2018
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she was one of two and i was one of two. no large families. this is the only dream i've ever had that involved bathrooms in which either of the following two elements (much less both) were at play: 1. my mother was in the dream and 2. the bathroom was fine! all my other bathroom dreams are filthy and she is never in those dreams. she is not usually in my displacement dreams that don't have bathrooms in them, either. most of my displacement dreams don't have bathrooms in them UNLESS they are dormitory-based or work-based, though i have had at least one set at home (my dad was in that one). the rooms in this particular dream i describe do not relate to any rooms, or buildings, i know or knew in my life. there was an elevator next to the bathroom. that's pretty different from my home situation lol.
yep, i hear music in my sleep that turns out to be external, just like the rain you hear. did you grow up speaking a language other than english?
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@genessa No, English is my base language but I do know bits and pieces of others. I believe that dreams are things and they tell us things sometimes too. My dreams seem to revolve around things that are on my mind but sometimes things get twisted a little. If our minds never fully sleep then our dreams must reflect desires and unfinished business. In my dreams I can fly but not always. If that happened in real life it would scare you to death! In dreams it is fun. Too bad that some of our religious ancestors confused this with being "in or out of the body" and made up stories that were put into books, then claimed your real life starts after you die.
That's interesting. I too have the frustrated trip to the bathroom that is not private, clean, functional enough so I go down the hall to find the next one in the same condition and so on until I finally wake up and realize... Oh! It would be better to do this in the bathroom than in the bed!
skado
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Sep 15, 2018
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i wonder what it all means? it probably means we have to go to the bathroom and aren't yet awake enough to do what must be done.
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