[writerchick]

I was talking about my own recurring anxiety dream with my co-workers today and it seems everyone has one. Mine is that I signed up for a college math class, but forgot to attend. Now it's time for the final and I'm late and can't find the classroom....I can feel all the sensations of running around looking for the classroom, and realizing I don't know the material...stresses me out just thinking about it! What are your anxiety dreams?

[MJ7]

I have the one where I can't dial someone's number on the telephone or I keep getting the wrong number...More annoying than anything.

I used to have the one of my teeth falling out...like crumbling....

I get the ones where I'm back in high school and dread it but then realize that I'm an adult and am there because I WANT to be and then am happy and feel like I can control my dream....

That my dh and I are married but I still live at home. We don't live together because we are planning our wedding--yet I know we're already married...These dreams are strange because I am affraid of losing him or not being able to see him because he lives farther away or I can't reach him at work (see the phone dream)...

That we sell our home and buy an old mobil home. Nothing against mobil homes, just we are so happy with our home and in my dream we regret selling our home and can't get out of the mobil home because of the market. I have this dream about this house and our last home. In real life, I don't have a fear of downsizing. But in my dreams I do...

Okay, is Beth around? Any idea what these dreams could mean? If they mean I need real psychiatric help, please PM me and let me know .

[writerchick]

I've heard many people talk about the teeth falling out dream. Someone said it meant you were concerned about how others perceive you, and it can also mean you are going into a new phase in life. It could also mean you are worried about your teeth falling out, I suppose!

[writerchick]

Here's a weird one: For a couple of years after my mom died, I kept having dreams that she was alive after all, and we'd all moved on by mistake. Like my Dad was still remarried, and then we didn't know what to do about that, and we felt bad because we hadn't included her in anything that had been going on, or that she was still sick, but we hadn't been taking care of her because we thought she was dead. I shared this dream with my sister after about six months, and she'd been having almost the exact dreams!

[mommysqueek]

I also have the one where my teeth are falling out. I don't know what it is but it's one of those that you think about all day long. Every time I talk to someone I lose a tooth. I think there are quite a few people who have that dream.

[mamaip]

Ooh, Laura, that's so interesting! My sister once dreamt her boyfriend was cheating on her at the exact time that he WAS....spooky. In my anxiety dreams, I can never get where I'm going. It's maddening. And if I'm dreaming of college, I can't find the classroom.

[yahyah]

I have had the teeth falling out dream too. It was a long time ago, in college and entering a new phase of life and I was also probably worried about what others thought about me....
As a child I had the falling down the cellar stairs dream,,,, I either always woke before hitting the bottom or it ended that I was flying around the cellar.
When I am sick I always have the same dream,,,, as a child it was a father is angry dream and he was picking up furniture and moving it around like a superhuman. Lately, I can't remember what it is, except for last year I had some spoooooky dreams when I had taken pain killers after a surgery, so my husband tells me..

Anyway, I like this thread and the answers to the teeth thing - totally makes sense.

[mcmama]

I have the one about being in a lot of different places - and being expected to go to school and not knowing what the classes are or when to show up.

Then there's the one that is a lot like reality today - have to get someplace fast but lost the car keys. Find the car keys, oops, no shoes. Find car keys and shoes, start car, nearly get slammed going out of the driveway. Drive carefully. Get to the end of the road, just before my turn off, and deal with two idiots parked on either side of the road having a conversation. They keep waving me on, but there is really no room and there is a guy blowing leaves oblivious to everything in front of them. Then I inch forward. Then someone else turns the corner and does not quite move out of the way enough. Still waving me on. So I go and I get through without killing myself or anyone. Then there are the lights. And the traffic moves at a snail pace. And there are roads closed with no detours marked.

And the cell phone keeps ringing, just out of reach, probably the person I am supposed to meet calling to say "You're late, don't bother".

Of course here in NJ, that is no dream. That's why it takes 45 minutes to an hour to drive my kid 4 miles to school and get back home every morning.