Anyone have weird recurring nightmares?

Losing an investor in my hedge fund. That’s a nightmare that I can’t stand.

I had a dream that S's Maine estate was reduced to rubble!

My teeth either falling out or crumbling like chalk. Happens pretty regularly and I’ll just randomly recall it throughout the week.

Sometimes whole portions of my gum line, too. Those dreams fricking suck.

Recurring dream the OT servers go down and I can’t log on. I wake up in a cold sweat after I see the red stop sign.

My recurring nightmare only occurs when I wake up in the morning

Yep. I fall from a significant height—out of a high rise, off a cliff, out of a plane—and always hit the ground.

It usually jolts me awake.

Happens once or twice a year since I was a teenager.

Snow is falling in the trenches. The mud is freezing, creating a slurry that is somehow even worse than the normal slop that clings to every surface. The icy wind bites.


Then the whistle blows to storm from the trenches. Over the top again boys.

We are a deadly wave, surging forth into no man’s land.

Then the shells begin to fall, sending frozen dirt and carnage raining down on us. The ratta-Tatta-tatta of the machine guns fill the silence between the explosions. Then the screaming. The screams of warriors running over the cursed ground. The screams of the dying boys as they realize they’ve been cut short, and that all their bravado flees them as the bullets and shrapnel leave them mangled in the snow.

Then, that horrid cry goes out. “GAS!”
We struggle to affix our masks as men fall, tearing at their throats, gasping for air when there is only poison.

I get mine on and struggle half-blind forward. Into the barbed wire.

Every desperate thrash to free myself only entangles me more, stabbing and tearing flesh.

Then the shell falls near me and I am thrown in an upheaval of frozen mud. I land, and look down. It’s almost comical, trying to put my guts back in as they steam in the cold.

The spray of gunfire that fells me is a mercy.


Mercy in no man’s land.

Sometimes I think I do, but they are mostly ones that repeat in a single dream. So I have no way of knowing if they are recurring or repeating.

That dream about finals is actually a pretty common dream. I graduated nearly 30 years ago and I still have it once a month or so. It really is odd how universal it is, too....doesn't matter where you went to school or how long ago you graduated.