Which is a bit like 'you', human beings, ALWAYS SEARCHING FOR some 'thing', which 'you' 'KNOW' exists, but just can NOT YET FIND, nor UNCOVER.Maia wrote: ↑Tue Jul 11, 2023 10:29 amSounds similar to another set of dreams that I have, about trying to find something, but never quite being able to. The thing itself can vary, and is sometimes a person, but the feeling, the emotional content of the dream, is always the same.Harbal wrote: ↑Tue Jul 11, 2023 10:20 amI have dreams where I am late and have a lot to do, and I have to be somewhere but can't find my vehicle, which is usually a truck -I used to drive for a living- and I'm just floundering about, getting nowhere. Like you say, not nightmares, but they leave me feeling uncomfortable. I feel those dreams are telling me something about myself, but I can only half figure out what it is. I don't think they have anything to do with any childhood incident, though.Maia wrote: ↑Tue Jul 11, 2023 9:37 am Going into more detail, since this is an interesting area of exploration, my claustrophobia, although I hesitate to use that word as it's not particularly pronounced in everyday life, also manifests in dreams. I sometimes have dreams about being inside tunnels, for example. There's usually some sort of gap, too, that I have to climb across, or rather down, since it's always descending. The actual dreams vary in detail, but the feeling is always the same, and in that sense, they are recurring. There's always something odd about the angles too, either in the shape of the enclosed space itself, or in the configuration of the gap and how I have to climb over it. That's actually quite difficult to explain and the layout is not usually something that could exist in the real world.
I wouldn't call these dreams nightmares, though. I don't really have nightmares, in the sense of a dream that actually scares me. They do, of course, make me feel uneasy, and tend to come in bursts, too. I might go for ages without having one then a few come along in quick succession. This is also true of dreams in general.
I've had these types of dreams for as long as I can remember, so it's always possible that they derive from some specific incident from childhood that I've completely forgotten about.
In other words, always SEEKING answers but just not being able to OBTAIN 'them'.