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Posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe (# 5521) on :
 
It seems that everyone dreams that they forgot something at one time or another . . . and there seems to be common subject matter among everyone:

I'm back at school and have been forgetting to go to a certain class.

I'm teaching a class and have forgotten to prepare a lesson plan.

I'm in a play and have forgotten to rehearse the lines.

And so on.

Has anyone had such dreams that they feel might be unique to them?

Two that recur often for me are: I've been sued and have forgotten to file a defense. I've been forgetting to pay a certain bill for years now.

Last night I dreamed that my family were going out to a formal dinner, for which we had to "dress", but everyone "forgot" to tell me the time when the dinner would be held, and so I had no idea of when I should begin taking my bath and getting dressed.

What other dreams of forgetfulness do you have that you feel might be unique to you? (And I daresay some of them may prove not to be unique at all!)
 

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Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on :
 
I don't have to dream as my 'memory' has always been a 'forgettory'!

I have ADHD which causes all sorts of memory anomalies.

You learn 1) not to worry about what you've forgotten 2) to use humour to get out of any social scrape 3) to use many coping strategies to help you remember 4) not to worry what other people think - if you've not committed one social error you can be sure you've committed another!


 

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Posted by balaam (# 4543) on :
 
What Miss Amanda thinks are dreams I know as reality.
 

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Posted by JoannaP (# 4493) on :
 

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Originally posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe:
I'm in a play and have forgotten to rehearse the lines.

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Originally posted by JoannaP:
I'm not sure if this is really about forgetting, but this is an occasional dream of mine: I am performing in a play I know nothing about. I have not even read the play through never mind learnt my lines or attended a rehearsal. I am not quite sure how I am allowed to get on stage in this state of ignorance but there I am in front of the audience...

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I have the same dream. In mine I am also naked, despite having been clothed earlier in the dream. (There's one for old Sigmund).

[ 01. February 2015, 14:29: Message edited by: balaam ]
 

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Posted by Chorister (# 473) on :
 
The service is starting and I can't find my cassock, or my surplice. When I find them, I can't put them on. Then I can't find my hymn book, psalter, etc. The choir are halfway round the church before I manage to get myself together and have to join them in the choir stalls at the end of the first hymn.

Not sure if I've just forgotten where I put everything, or if the choir ghost had been having fun hiding everything.... Yes, we do have a choir ghost and he's very naughty. A former choirboy, obviously.
 

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Posted by Brenda Clough (# 18061) on :
 
These can be broadly classified as frustration dreams. Naturally they are specific to you; they are always about what you do in your waking ours. I assure you I have never dreamed about forgetting a surplice. It seems to be part of the natural sweeping-out-the-trash function of dreaming, and means little or nothing. They come through the gates of ivory. Reminding yourself of this, when you wake up sweating to check to see if the burner really is off, is comforting.

What is more difficult is to recognize the true dreams, the ones that come through the gates of horn.
 

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Posted by Sparrow (# 2458) on :
 
My forgetting dream is that I have left my handbag, with keys, money, credit cards and so on, somewhere in a public place such as a coffee shop or on a train. I get some distance away before I remember and turn to hurry back, but it's like I;m running through treacle.
 

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Posted by Mili (# 3254) on :
 
My usual dreams involve realising I've forgotten the bottom half of my clothing, but not the top (thankfully I do usually remember underwear). Or suddenly remembering I'm supposed to be at work or something important like a wedding or on an overseas flight for a holiday. I'm always really late and as I don't drive, have to use public transport, but can never remember how to get where I'm going or if I do the trains are all on the wrong platforms etc. I don't know why I don't get a taxi, but if I did something would go wrong there too I'm sure.

However the other night I dreamt I was pregnant. The circumstances of how that happened were not apparent, but I did know who the father was (a guy I had a crush on a couple of years ago). Strangely I was not at all concerned about how I was going to raise the baby or that the child's father was not interested in being involved at all. However towards the end of the dream I was eating lunch and someone told me something I was eating was bad for my unborn baby. I then totally freaked out because I realised I had forgotten to follow pregnancy eating guidelines and was afraid I had harmed my baby. I then spent the rest of the dream trying to remember and list what I had eaten, but unable to remember if I had eaten anything harmful.

I've never even been pregnant, so I'm sure this dream has a totally different meaning!
 

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Posted by daisymay (# 1480) on :
 
I dream a lot about seeing a really nice place and where I can walk around there, and another nice one also.
I always have nice dreams now, as I had many bad ones years ago.
 

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Posted by churchgeek (# 5557) on :
 
Since others have broadened this thread to include more than just "I forgot..." dreams, I hope I can put this one here.

This morning, just before waking up, I dreamed someone was telling me about the really well-kept secret of New Jersey...that they have no winter there! With the huge snowstorms and freezing cold in the Northeast (US) right now, the person in my dream was saying to my amazement, it was 86 degrees right now in New Jersey (Fahrenheit, of course). While I and some anonymous others with me (more felt than seen) were gasping, "Wow! Who knew? I had no idea! How'd they keep that secret?"

I woke up quite amused by that. Where on earth did that come from?! I mean, it's cold and snowy here, but not as bad as the East Coast, and I think 86 is too hot, actually. And I rarely ever think about New Jersey.
 

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Posted by la vie en rouge (# 10688) on :
 
My pre-wedding nightmare of last night… (yes, they’ve started )

Technically, I was being forgotten about, rather than forgetting something, but I dreamed that I was standing at the back of the church, and that the whole ceremony was going on without me taking part in it. Nobody had noticed that they were conducting the wedding without the bride.
 

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Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on :
 

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Originally posted by la vie en rouge:

Technically, I was being forgotten about, rather than forgetting something, but I dreamed that I was standing at the back of the church, and that the whole ceremony was going on without me taking part in it. Nobody had noticed that they were conducting the wedding without the bride.

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Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on :
 
When I was at boarding school, age 14, I dreamt that I drove off a cliff. This was odd because at the time I had never driven a car. I woke up on the floor, having rolled off the top bunk! I was, thank God, uninjured. Dunno what my roommate thought, though...
 

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Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :
 

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churchgeek: This morning, just before waking up, I dreamed someone was telling me about the really well-kept secret of New Jersey...that they have no winter there!

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Originally posted by churchgeek:
Since others have broadened this thread to include more than just "I forgot..." dreams, I hope I can put this one here.

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Originally posted by Brenda Clough:
These can be broadly classified as frustration dreams. Naturally they are specific to you; they are always about what you do in your waking [h]ours. I assure you I have never dreamed about forgetting a surplice. It seems to be part of the natural sweeping-out-the-trash function of dreaming, and means little or nothing. They come through the gates of ivory. Reminding yourself of this, when you wake up sweating to check to see if the burner really is off, is comforting.

What is more difficult is to recognize the true dreams, the ones that come through the gates of horn.

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Originally posted by Chorister:
The service is starting and I can't find my cassock ...

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When I had that dream, I wasn't even in the right cathedral ...
 

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Posted by Egeria (# 4517) on :
 
I've had several variations on the dream in which I'm on my way to a final exam, but I can't find the right room.

As a teenager I had a dream about the sudden realization that I wasn't completely dressed. I was sitting in class when this realization hit me. Oh no I was going to be sent to the Dean's office! Horrors.

As a graduate student, continuing education instructor, and conference speaker, I have had a number of dreams in which I wake up to get ready to give a lecture or catch a plane, and then discover that I have slept through an entire day . I'm always a slow starter in the morning, and I suspect that has something to do with the persistence of this type.

When I was studying for my doctoral exams, I once dreamed that I was walking into the building that housed my department and found my adviser standing by the elevators. "Here," she said, handing me a sheet of paper, "this is your history exam."
"But it isn't scheduled yet!"
"That doesn't matter."
"And these are questions about American history!"
(not my field at all)
"Well, we can ask you anything we want to."
Believe me, I was glad to wake up from that one! I laughed when I remembered it.

And the latest twist on the forgetting theme--I was walking on the Corniche in beautiful Luxor with some acquaintances, and realized that I didn't remember where my hotel was. And then it hit me that I'd left my passport there....
 

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Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on :
 
I dreamed that my dog jumped over a pond and a shark jumped up and grabbed her. I jumped in, prized its jaws open, held them clamped open and yelled and yelled 'come and get this dog out'.

No-one came, but then I woke up.


 

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Posted by churchgeek (# 5557) on :
 
Lots of vivid, odd dreams last night...but one just before I woke up was that I dreamed I had to pop back to Manchester for a few days for some reason, and only realized on the morning I was flying back home that I should've told people I was there. I thought, "Shoot, there were Shipmates who couldn't make the last meet when I was in town; what if we could've met up this time?" And then the dream turned to airports and airplanes and all that, especially because in the dream I realized I couldn't remember having flown back to the UK, nor had I really left my hotel room at all during my stay. (So why did I have to go back?)
 

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Posted by churchgeek (# 5557) on :
 

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Originally posted by Boogie:
I dreamed that my dog jumped over a pond and a shark jumped up and grabbed her. I jumped in, prized its jaws open, held them clamped open and yelled and yelled 'come and get this dog out'.

No-one came, but then I woke up.

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