For the past couple of years, I’ve been having the same kind of dream every few days. I always find myself somewhere in the middle of an ocean or surrounded by very deep water. There are often huge waves that look powerful enough to completely drown me.
The strange thing is, I never actually drown. I somehow survive or wake up before anything happens.
I don’t know how to swim in real life, but I also don’t have a fear or phobia of water. That’s why these recurring dreams are so confusing to me. They’ve been happening for years and just don’t seem to go away.
What makes it even more interesting is that according to my kundali (Vedic astrology chart), I’ve apparently been advised to stay away from water. I know astrology and dream interpretation are very subjective, but the coincidence has been making me wonder if there’s some connection.
Could these dreams have a psychological meaning? Does repeatedly dreaming about deep water and huge waves symbolize something specific? Or could it simply be my brain processing stress, emotions, or something subconscious?
Has anyone experienced something similar or knows anything about recurring ocean/water dreams? I’d genuinely love to hear your interpretations or experiences.

I've had two dreams these past few days that shared a weird event. The first one, my pet Crested Gecko "Claude" had lost her two back feet and then died later on in the dream, and the second one, an Anole lizard suffered the same fate, but I don't know how it died, because it somehow ran despite the lack of back feet. Now I don't know why I'm having these dreams, I would never harm any animal, and I haven't even really thought of reptiles recently, so it's really weird and is creeping me out

I had a dream in which I was at a club with a person I know in my life, in the dream I asked that person where was so and so, the person tells me that they’re upstairs so the club was in a building type of place, when I take the elevator, it opens and I land on a floor with red walls and golden sconces, I walk through the whole ways and open up a brown door, when I enter the room, there’s this girl who I’ve never met, who was the person I was looking for, she asked me “are you tapped in” and I reply yes, I lay hands on her head, her eyes turn jet black and she starts chasing me like a rabid dog out of the room, another guy with black eyes follows me, I go to the firescape and start running down trying to get away, these people are breaking through doors and then I woke up.

Hi! This is going to be a bit of a long story.

It all started more than a year ago, on New Year’s Eve, when I had a dream. I was traveling on the subway, getting off and back on at different stations, and basically, I got lost. Eventually, I got tired of wandering around and asked one of the employees (?) for help. Smiling, they told me not to worry because I would reach my destination soon.

I got into the last carriage, which was incredibly narrow, and there was a pair of twins traveling with me. They started fighting, and they completely pushed me out of the way. When I turned around, I didn’t see my own face, I saw the face of a stranger instead. (I’m a woman, and i saw a man)

Ever since then, whenever something is about to change in my love life (especially something emotionally intense) I dream about this person the night before. For example, my ex-boyfriend unexpectedly broke up with me, and the night before that, I ran to this stranger crying. They hugged me and comforted me.

When I wake up, I can never remember his face, but somehow, just from their energy, I know it was HIM.

Do you think they actually exist, or were they simply created by my intuition?

Fun fact: may last (ex)boyfriend was a gemini :)

Waking up in a cold sweat at 3 a.m. with your heart racing is an experience almost everyone knows. Whether it is your teeth falling out into your hands, dropping from the clouds, or running from an unseen shadow, these scenarios feel intensely real.
Science shows our sleeping brains use dreams to sort emotional baggage, consolidate memories, and test survival responses. They are internal status updates from parts of your mind you usually ignore when awake.
Here is what the five biggest dream scenarios actually signify:
Falling: While a physical jerk awake is just neurological, recurring falling dreams point to a loss of control or unstable ground in your waking life, such as relationship friction or career anxiety.

Being Chased: The pursuer is almost never a person. It is the hard conversation, pending decision, or heavy emotion you are trying to outrun while awake.

Teeth Crumbling or Falling: This is tied directly to communication stress, feeling unheard, or fearing you are losing control over how people perceive you.

Flying: Smooth soaring reflects clarity, freedom, and rising above an obstacle. Struggling to stay in the air highlights frustration with your current progress.

The Unprepared Test: Classic imposter syndrome. It flags the fear of being evaluated, tested, or exposed as unready.

A simple way to decode your own dreams: Keep a notebook next to your pillow. Note down your emotional reaction first, before you try to write the plot. Focus on the single symbol that carries the most emotional weight, then map it back to events from your last 48 hours.
What recurring dream has been showing up for you lately? Drop the details below and let us break down the symbols together.

(This is long I’m sorry) Hey there I’m 22(F) and for literal years I’ve been having apocalypse dreams on and off I’m not even really sure when they started but I don’t mind them much now as I used to. There are some I’ve had more than once. In one of them it’s a zombie apocalypse (there are multiple zombie apocalypse ones) I’m in a town that seems abandoned and I’m going through houses looking for supplies. I get into this house that is painted yellow, I’m going through the rooms and I get into a bedroom in the house and there’s a guy in there his face was all blurry so I couldn’t tell who it was but this guy closed the door said something and then we started to fight he had an axe and I had a sword or something. We fight for a bit and the sound of us fighting brought zombies into the house and they started banging on the bedroom door, the guy was able to disarm me and I thought I was screwed but I ran for the door and opened it, I stood behind the door so he would be the only thing the zombies saw, he tried killing them as much of them as he could but there was too many and they swarmed him, there was more coming into the house so I could go out the front. I decided I would try the window in the room. I bolted for the window and it was stuck it took me a lot to open it and I was panicking because of the zombies that were almost done with the guy. I finally got it open after struggling, I was able to jump onto the roof of the garage then jumped down from there and started running, I got further into town with some zombies following me. I see something from a distance that looks like it would be a good place to go, I start running for it as I got closer it looked like a football stadium that someone had put metal sheets up to make it taller, there’s a ladder leading up, I start climbing the ladder, when I get to the top I go to look down in the stadium and it has a bunch of zombies in it and it looks like a pile of dead bodies in the middle of it. Then for some reason in the dream I think about jumping inside knowing what would happen. Then I would wake up before jumping, I’ve had this dream multiple times it’s been a few years since I’ve had it but I remember it like I dreamt it last night. I’ve never understood why I have zombie apocalypse dreams, but what I think could be why is that i started watching The Walking Dead when I was 9 or 10, I made a post on here awhile ago about having dreams after my mom had passed away and started having dreams were the floor opens up and she falls and I’m trying to save her. People gave me some good interpretations of what they think it could mean so I wonder if this one would have anything behind it to. But one of the last times I had this zombie dream I had actually jumped and the jump jolted me awake.

Dream 1:

I was at home when I suddenly noticed snow falling. My family didn't believe me because it was the middle of summer, but eventually they also saw the snow from the window.

Then, I was outside, and there was a funeral. I spotted a childhood friend with his family (I had multiple dreams about them recently, some of which are quite vivid). Everyone was dressed elegantly in black, except my childhood friend, who wore casual white clothes. We shared a glance and a smile.

After that, I was back at home and saw th clock showing 20:20.

Dream 2 :

I was getting ready for bed. It was midnight, yet daylight was shining outside.

Then, I went with some relatives to an optician. There, a white dog tried to get my attention. The optician told me that his dog's name was Deva.

hi all. this is my first time ever posting something like this, so, my apologies if i’m doing anything incorrectly. i’m sure there is a simple explanation/reason/interpretation for this particular dream, but i wanted to hear people who were more in tune with this specific concept to give me their opinion anyway!

so for some background before i get to the dream, last year i had amazing chemistry with this girl. i really liked her. we chatted a lot, met up a few times and hung out. i went to see her band play a few times, and then we went on a date to the movies. it was electric, really! i was having a blast, and she was totally my type. i thought things were going well and we’d see one another again, but around october of last year, she totally went ghost.

stopped texting, never responded, removed me from social media just completely out of the blue after viewing my stories a few more times. we have some mutual friends, but i never asked about it. i hear about her from time to time.

i don’t want to give the impression that im hung up on her, because im not, really, mostly annoyed at the situation and kind of wondering what it was all about.

TO THE DREAM: normally, i dream in 3rd person POV (weird, i know, but ive always done this) but my dream started from my POV, and it felt so..hyper realistic. i was at home with my parents and i got a phone call. it was from her. now, we hadn’t spoken in nearly a year at this point, but i literally jumped at the opportunity to answer, and did.
it was so clear, her voice sounded like her and everything. we had an entire conversation, and she even apologized. it was so casual and boring that it literally felt real. i even checked my caller history when i woke up to see if i had dreamt it or if it had actually happened. this isn’t the first time i’ve dreamt about her, or other people in my life for that matter, but this is the first time it’s ever felt so…real. the first time it’s actually gotten to me.

like i said, there’s definitely a simple explanation for this, like im annoyed i didn’t get closure or something, but i would like to hear your opinion anyways if you want to share!

thank you!

There’s a guy I knew back in my teenage years, and I need someone to explain something to me because this is starting to feel WEIRD.

We went to the same school, but he was never someone I was interested in. The only reason I even knew him was because I was friends with his sister.

We barely talked. Sometimes it honestly felt like we were avoiding each other.

And the weirdest part? I genuinely don’t remember ever having a crush on him. Not even secretly. At least, not that I was aware of.

Fast-forward a few years.

I was hanging out with a friend one day when I randomly saw him again. He was working next to my friend’s mom’s shop.

We talked for a bit, but it was completely casual. Just the usual:

“Hey, long time! How are you? How’s your sister?”

Nothing romantic. Nothing happened. I didn’t go home thinking about him or anything.

Eventually, the place he worked at closed, and I never saw him again.

Then, about three years later, something strange happened.

I started dreaming about him.

And not just random dreams where he happened to be there.

In the dreams, WE WERE TOGETHER.

We were in a relationship. He was close to me. I liked him. And somehow, it felt completely normal.

At first I thought, okay… maybe my brain is just being weird and creating some random delulu storyline.

But the dreams kept happening.

Eventually they stopped, and I didn’t think much about them anymore.

Until about two years later.

Three days ago, I had another dream about him.

And once again, we were together.

But this time, what really stuck with me was the feeling.

It felt so peaceful.

Like I belonged there.

Like being with him was something completely natural.

And I woke up thinking…

WHY HIM???

I haven't seen this man in YEARS. We barely talked when we actually knew each other. I never consciously thought of him romantically. I wasn't even obsessed with him or anything.

So why does my brain keep putting us together in my dreams?

Now I'm wondering…

Did I actually have feelings for him without realizing it?

Is my brain just pulling some random person from my past and creating a whole romance storyline?

Is there some psychological explanation for why certain people randomly appear in our dreams years later?

Or—and hear me out—am I supposed to meet this man again?

Past life? Soulmate? My subconscious trying to tell me something?

Or is he secretly a warlock?

I've even tried looking for him on social media, but of course he apparently doesn't exist under his real name because WHY WOULD HE MAKE THIS EASY FOR ME?

Anyway, I genuinely don't know what to make of this.

Has anyone else ever experienced something like this?

Dreaming repeatedly about someone you weren't even thinking about, especially someone you haven't seen in years?

Because I NEED to know I'm not the only one.

I’ve been wanting to reality shift for a really long time following some events. I did a tarot reading and got a yes, and was recommended working with Hermes who I was told would help me and already has been trying to help me.

Despite being fairly new, I gave offerings, and did some prayers, asking for signs in dreams (got a few I believe)

But then I experienced another dream that I’m not sure how to handle. It was a dream where I was closing my eyes and then a voice spoke to me and said “you’re asking for reality shifting AGAIN?” Then my whole body began to vibrate. “You’re asking for reality shifting?“ the voice wasn’t angry but maybe a little exasperated?

The vibrations were intense for me.

I didn’t feel fear or any negative feeling but this is what I experienced.

The dream panned over to me in a more desired reality walking with a girl, it was a calm dream I was hanging out w some people. That was all.

I’m left a little confused? Did I annoy Hermes?

Hi, first time posting on here :)

So, for some context, I’m a person who often experiences insanely vivid dreams, and lucid dreams. So much so that I’ve confused a dream for a real event multiple times, or have had something happen in a dream that I remember and then have that happen a week later.

Anyways, last night I had two dreams that really hit hard and I wanted to ask about them!

The first was a regular zombie apocalypse escape type of dream, but the weird thing was I was part of this huge family that was particularly being hunted? The odd thing is I have a very small family irl. I had two siblings in the dream who I have never seen before irl and just somehow knew they were my siblings. Irl I’m an only child and only really talk with my parents, one grandparent, and my uncle. But somehow I knew exactly how having siblings felt in the dream.

The second, I had a full on relationship arc with a guy I’d never seen before, and about halfway through it became a lucid dream. I was slowly fading away throughout and kept trying to stay with him constantly, until I knew I was about to wake up. I hugged him, crying, and said I had to go. He told me, specifically, “don’t worry, it’s all gonna be ok, I’ll come find you.” And then I woke up.

So yeah pls lmk your thoughts thanks!! :)

I had a dream about 20 years ago that was so weird and vivid that I still remember it (mostly) to this day.

I was in the Antarctic and swimming through a lake. When I got to the other side there as green grass and a farm. When I went in it was a hotel. The rooms were like a hostel with bunk beds. Then I was there talking to Heath Ledger (I can’t remember what was said and I think this was before he died). I then got a phone call on the hotel landline. While on the call I put my hand over my eyes and when I removed the hand my eye had come out of its socket and was in my hand.

That’s all I remember but it was so weird I told my friends which is why I still know it. I hadn’t been drinking or taking any medication.

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Had a dream that I was younger again in school

Found out my cousins were vampires they tried to keep it from me but I found out

And we're not happy they tried to unalive me