Constant depressing dreams?

Yes, as everyone knows, when you have a recurring dream, it means you are stuck. What on the other hand only few dreamers know, is that when you dream about a certain scenario of the past you are now in a SIMILAR situation as that of the current dreams.

I have long retired from schools as teacher and principal, yet a great number of my dreams are set at one school or another. Sometimes as principal, then as teacher, then as emergency teacher for a few days, or sometimes only for one lesson.

I have found that all these scenarios have nothing to do with schools as such. They are all models for my present situation, where I am at and where I am going.

I dreamt for instance that a girl in the class I was teaching had her sums wrong. Not long after I woke up from this dream I had to check a banking matter and found that there was a mistake in the statement. I rang the bank and got a female bank clerk (the girl math student of my dream) and then the scenario worked out in principle very much as it was foreshadowed in the dream.

Going by this experience I suggest that you FEEL at present as if you were back at high school, in the senior year with the apprehension that you might not make the grade. With this in mind you will have to look at your present situation and look at the way you judge yourself in your current situation. Do you feel that you are not up to the requirements your situation demands? Do you have feelings that you might want to give up your job or other responsibilities you have because you see yourself as inadequate?

Once you have matched the school situation of your dream with your present waking situation, your dreams will most likely begin to change for the better. So it is not a matter of diverting your attention by reading a little before sleep, but by facing your present condition, assessing it fairly and looking towards solutions.

You are not the only one who can't control your dreams. No one actually can since our dreams are the blue print of things to come. Those who say that they can control them are kidding themselves. We only remember a few seconds or minutes of a night's dream/s which on average may add up to two hours. Within the time of those forgotten stretches of dreaming there may be actually a determination that you will feel that you can control your dreams; thus your apparent control in waking situations is really on the puppet strings of a dream.

In other words, if dreams are the blue print of things to come even the control you apparently have in waking time is nothing more substantial than a FEELING. When I tell people this they hate me for it. Sorry, but it is true. I have actually no control over what I have written here. It just comes to me and when you read it you can only relate to it in this or that way because the dream had determined it.

Speaking of such I would like you to go back to your dream/s you had before you started reading this. Can you find a scenario or pattern that matches up?

So what are we to do under such circumstances of being controlled by our dreams? Resign and say: Life is right in any case! On the evidence of the magnificence and wonder of LIFE and the UNIVERSE, the Power that created you, must surely know where it wants you to be and where you should be going. So change your focus away from the downside of your dreams and look towards what they can teach you about being human.

Holy crap!! I know i'm not answering your question(sorry), but i just did a google search on this same thing. I have had this dream for the past 8years. When I went to high school I had A days and B days...A days were period 2,4,6, and B days were 1,3,5. In my dreams I never know what day it is and I know I haven't showen up for PE, Math, and Science and Im possibly going to fail. It's so wierd and after having these dreams so much..I always catch myself thinking "I did graduate right?" it really is starting to make me feel like I haven't graduated High School when actually I graduated early. Weird and very interesting that people have this dream too....I just wonder if it will ever go away cause its been going on for so long that it actually makes me worry!! good luck with finding you answer!!

Sometimes the dreams we have are not meant for us. True you see yourself in your dream, but really you could be feeling the depression of a very close friend that went to high school with you, and was too afraid to share this with anyone.

Maybe years on down the line you'll run into this friend or person that will share their experience of high school with you for the first time. Maybe their experience will solve your dream.

One interpretation: you are preparing to heal high school memories, by becoming emotionally engaged with "dangers of failing," "not graduating," etc.

Enjoy the process by entering into the spirit of the dreams: try to do well, repent of "failings," etc. Take the dreams and process seriously.

Check http://www.dreamviews.com/

http://www.lucidity.com/

"Dreams," Barrick, Ph.D.,

"Watch Your Dreams," Colton,

"The Master of Lucid Dreams," Dr. Olga Kharitidi.

You are encountering these "depressing" dreams for a good and even profound reason. Do try to take a more positive attitude toward your "depression;" learn to love, champion, defend, yourself even as you feel depressed and accept or "own" your depression. You likely will be healing greatly, if you can do this.

That's actually a VERY common recurrent dream. It could just mean that you understand how to control your life more, but back then you weren't as "enlightened".

It could mean you are happy in your life now, so you feel guilty about not doing as well as you could have. Like you are indebted in some way to your school for producing your education, while you did not even work to your fullest.

You are probably the type of person who hates seeing potential wasted, when it could have been something much more.

Most dreams contain messages that serve to teach us something about ourselves. Unfortunately many a times we forget what we dream about as we go about our daily routine. With recurring dreams, the message may be so important and/or powerful that it just will not go away. The frequent repetition of such dreams forces you to pay attention and confront the dream. The dream is trying desperately to tell you something. Such dreams are often nightmarish or frightening in their content, which also helps you to take notice and pay attention to them.

Recurring dreams are quite common and are often triggered by a certain life situation or a problem that keeps coming back again and again. These dreams may recur daily, once a week, or once a month, but whatever the frequency, there is little variation in the dream content itself. It usually points to a personal weakness, fear, or your inability to cope with something in your life - past or present.

The repetitive patterns in your dream can reveal some of the most valuable information on yourself. It may point to a conflict, situation or matter in your waking life that remains unresolved or unsettled. Or some urgent underlying message in your unconscious is demanding to be understood.

Following are some tips in overcoming your recurring dreams.

1. In understanding your recurring dream, you must be willing to accept some sort of change or undergo a transformation.

2. You must be willing to look within yourself and confront whatever you may find no matter how difficult it my be.

3. You must be able to look at the dream from an objective point of view. Try to get pass the emotional and reactive elements of the dream and get down to the symbolic images. Many times dreams are masked by elements that are disturbing preventing you to delve any deeper. This is a defense mechanism that your unconscious may be putting up.

4. Be patient. Do not get discourage if these dreams still recur even after you thought you have come to understand them.

5. Learn to accept yourself truly and fully.

Often times, once you discover what your recurring dream is trying to tell you, these dreams will change or altogether disappear.

To feel depressed in your dream, refers to your inability to make connections. You are unable to see the causes of your problems and consequences of your decisions.

if you aren't taking any drugs, the only thing I can think of is that you have some kind of unresolved trauma in your past. dreams are the brain trying to work out the stresses and frustrations of your waking life, so you don't go crazy. that's where the term "sleep on it" comes from. but if we have a traumatic event, something that scars the psyche beyond what can be assimilated by normal dream processes, we have very vivid, recurring nightmares until the brain finds a way to resolve the issue. i had them as a kid as a result of some abuse i suffered, they finally went away in my teens.