I Have a Dream
I recently read a post by Elizabeth about these disaster dreams she was having and it reminded me about a dream I had last week about a big jet falling from the sky on fire. Don’t be alarmed, though. My dreams don’t appear to be psychic or anything.
But what IS disturbing is that I have been dreaming about planes falling from the sky for years now. They’re always similar in that I will be outside and I look up for whatever reason and see this big fireball of an airplane literally falling through the air and they always land somewhere in my neighborhood, in someone’s backyard.
Sometimes, I wake up before I get to the crash site but sometimes I walk to it and see injured, bleeding, sooty people walking away from the crash which is so weird because you know that would never happen.
Before I started having the plane crash dreams, I used to dream about my teeth falling out in all different ways and the goal of the dream would be to get to a dentist, which was always impossible for a variety of reasons.
And before the teeth dreams, because I know you so totally care, I used to dream a lot about
1) losing my fake ID, which is actually kind of funny because you can see where my priorities were when I was under twenty one
2) wrecking my car into bodies of water such as lakes and canals, which isn’t as funny because it’s terrifying and is actually something I fear in real life. Driving over bridges is very uncomfortable for me, particularly if they have a steep ascent.
Kinda makes me long for those hot sex dreams you have during pregnancy. Minus the pregnant part, of course.
So am I crazy? Anyone out there know what the burning plane dreams mean? Does anyone else have these dreams?
(Wait, wait, wait! Before you reply, for the love of all that is good and decent, pleeeeeaaaase don’t suggest that it’s some kind of prophecy and that I shouldn’t fly. I really need my vacation next month!)
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I have plane dreams (nightmares) too! I’m usually on the highway driving somewhere when I see a plane blow up or crash and I never get close enough to see the wreckage. But it’s disturbing all the same. I had a horrific dream last night that I found my toddler daughter drowning in our bathtub and I was trying to save her. It was the most realistic, terrifying dream I’ve ever experienced. It woke me up and I was shaking and I couldn’t go back to sleep for almost two hours. Horrible.
I have the planes-on-fire dream too. I’ve heard a LOT of people say that, too….and those dreams usually have started after 9/11. I take it it’s pretty common; it’s like a collective post traumatic stress disorder. More often than planes falling, for me, are people having to jump from skyscraper windows…and ME having to jump as well. Terrifying.
Before 9/11, though, most of my disaster dreams were tornado-related. I would dream of tornados at least once or twice a week. It was very strange. I always took it as a sign of torment and disruption - something I was going through a lot in those times. Now I haven’t had one in FOREVER. :)
And I had the teeth dreams ALL the time when I was little. And still every once in awhile now. Weird, huh? I have NO idea what those mean.
I’ve never had a plane crash dream but I frequently dream about being stuck in an elevator or stairwell.
There is hardly a night that passes without my having some kind of anxiety dream — mostly about being unprepared for tests, or finding myself naked at a time when nakedness is not to be preferred. ;)
My mother was from the Far East, and she would interpret my dreams all the time. I don’t know what she would say about the plane dreams, but I know what she would say about the losing teeth. I won’t tell you, but I will say it’s not a happy thought.
Teeth falling out, the inability to walk because my legs are so heavy and the fact that I’m not going to graduate from high school or college. My anxiety dreams.
Hate em.
And so glad I wasn’t the only one have incredible sex dreams during pregnancy.
Plane crash dreams are very common, so I don’t think you have anything to worry about at all. I’ve read they could mean a feeling of loss of control or that the plane signifies a career and your fear that it would fail. The teeth thing allegedly harkens back to feelings from the times when you were a child and became frustrated at your inability to communicate. The dreams surface when you are reminded of those feelings by something frustrating in your current waking life.
I dream of tornados all of the time.
I stopped having those dreams when I stopped watching TV news.
Now I have dreams about computers stealing my credit card information.
Must be the week to post about dreams. :)
I have that fear when I see real airplanes, that I will witness one crashing. (I live fairly close to a large metropolitan airport).
I have a lot of sex dreams.
I’ve had other crash dreams, but not planes.
More disturbing (for me) were the ones where I was underwater, swimming to the surface, literally holding my breath and running out of air. I’d wake up gasping. Not fun.
I’ve had other crash dreams, but not planes.
More disturbing (for me) were the ones where I was underwater, swimming to the surface, literally holding my breath and running out of air. I’d wake up gasping. Not fun.
Too much Lost!!!!
Are you going through a transition of some sort? Maybe the plane crash is symbolic of one part aspect of your life coming to an end? I’m like g-man, whenever I drive past the airport and see a plane up close, low to the ground I have visions of it crashing. I think it’s part of human nature, almost, to imagine the worst. Survival of the fittest! Be prepared! And all that jazz.
Those are totally classic anxiety dreams…especially the teeth falling out. In dream books and everything. Just your subconscious working out day worries. Not, I guess, that this helps at all…in the monring after that sort fo dream.
I posted earlier, but have no idea what happened to it…so I’ll try again.
I’ve heard a lot of plane crash dreams, especially after 9/11. It’s like a collective post traumatic stress disorder or something. I have the crash nightmares too, but even more so, I have the “I have to jump out this skyscraper window” nightmares. Not as much now, but for the first few years, it was weekly.
My turmoil dreams always involve tornadoes. Those happen when I’m unusually stressed or have a lot going on in my life.
I used to have the teeth falling out dream all the time. Someone told me it meant I felt out of control.
I still have those pregnant sex dreams and haven’t been pregnant in years. Don’t hate me though please. The rest of my dreams are horrible and vivid just like the sex dreams. I dream about being locked in a box, horrible awful people kidnapping me, and all kinds of other stuff. I wake up scared and crying all the time.
I have had the teeth falling out dreams for years. I also have dreams where I am driving a vehicle and cannot get it to stop. I am literally stomping the brake to the floor but the car just keeps on rolling. I looked them up once - both are about feeling out of control. From my perspective, that’s pretty accurate. I looked up watching planes crash in dreams and (other than what you don’t want to hear) found something along the lines of the viewer has become/feels remote from the realities of life or feels helpless in the face of a tragedy.
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I’ve had both these dreams a lot. The teeth dream apparently has to do with loss in general. Plane crash dreams reveal your helplessness in the face of things beyond your control.
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I have had the same dream every night since I was 5.
No burning planes. The teeth getting all wiggly and turning to crumbly dust, yes. The crashing cars into lakes and rivers, yes. But my main disaster dream is getting crushed by a sudden, giant tsunami. I grew up at the beach, though.
i used to have teeth dreams too, but never with the goal of seeing the dentist. They would fall out, keep regenerating, so I had lots of them in my hands-made of different things-jewels, space matter. Bazarre. I’ve had those for quite some time, on and off. there were several years where I dreamt of nothing but wolves.
i used to have teeth dreams too, but never with the goal of seeing the dentist. They would fall out, keep regenerating, so I had lots of them in my hands-made of different things-jewels, space matter. Bazarre. I’ve had those for quite some time, on and off. there were several years where I dreamt of nothing but wolves.
After analyzing Melissa Summer’s dream and totally offending her, I vowed to never analyze another dream again, However, I can’t stop. I’ve always heard that airplanes most often symbolize SEX in dreams. I’ll not further analyze.
At one website it says this about crashing airplanes: To dream that a plane crashes, suggests that you have set overly high and unrealistic goals for yourself. Your goals may be too high and are impossible to realize. You are in danger of having it come crashing down. Alternatively, your lack of confidence, self-defeating attitude and self-doubt toward the goals you have set for yourself is represented by the crashing airplane; you do not believe in your ability to attain those goals. Loss of power and uncertainty in achieving your goals are also signified.
I ALWAYS have that damn teeth falling out dream! I understand it relates to changes and lack of permanence. Or, it could be that you haven’t gone to the dentist in a while and are stressed about it.
I don’t buy into the notion of universal dream symbols. I think different things have different meaning to different people based on their own ideas and life experiences.
Don’t know anything about the burning plane, but I have been dreaming about a tall albino man for years.
It could be as simple as recognizing that you really, really need this vacation and you’re afraid something will go wrong and the vacation won’t happen. Hopefully, you will get on your plane, relax, and the negative feelings will be gone for good. Take care! You’ve earned it.
I always dream about the falling over the bridge one. And I can’t get my kids car seats unbuckled.
Here’s one more confession on the tooth dreams. The teeth didn’t always fall out, sometimes they would break or have horrific swiss cheese like holes in them. I too was always looking for a dentist in the dreams.
Friends have told me they are “classic lack-of-control dreams.” Thanks, I knew I was a control freak.
It’s funny, I never dreamed about tornados, but I thought I was once when an F3 our home at 2 AM when our son was newborn. Scariest couple minutes of my life- seriously thought they would be our last moments, but everything has turned out alright in the long run.
Bridges scare me too. I think it has a lot to do with having kids strapped in who can’t get themselves out. “What if?” seems to be a universal parenting question.
Planes are great. If you have that dream again, try and page a flight attendant mid-plunge and order your favorite drink. A girl should go out in style…
I very frequently have the “fireball of a plane falling from the sky and landing in the neighborhood in someone’s backyard” dream. A lot. I guess we can be crazy together?
Oh and the teeth? Me, too.
What about the conga line naked dancing? Oh, TMI. Nevermind.
I agree with Julie P and Mom 101- These crashing dreams could all just be related to your daily stresses– all perfectly normal and nothing to worry about.
Now, you just have to figure out what these stresses are and how to quiet them.
Well, you may remember I have been in therapy for nearly three years trying to get rid of night terrors… so I have discussed a crapload of dreams with my therapist. And I have a psych minor that focused on dreams, mainly because I was having issue way back them too and I was trying to figure myself out, LOL.
So… I can hear my therapist in my head… and she would mainly try to get to the root of what you are *feeling* in the dream. Yeah, there are a lot of common symbols in dreams… but she somewhat poo poos them in favor of the feeling behind them. Not that the symbols mean nothing, just that the feelings a REAL indicators. In my case, she would ask me to write what in my dream journal what is going on in my life. And the ask me to write what I was feeling int he dream - how do YOU feel during the plane crash? Are you scared? Excited? Because dreams can be triggered by anything - even external sensory stuff like a car driving by outside and the lights crossing your eyes, but then the feelings going on in your brain take over and shape the dream with the emotions you are having. A dream is basically the filing system for your brain for the emotions of your day.
For example, once I had a vivid dream at a good place in my night terror journey where I was friends with Adam Levine from Maroon 5, hanging out with him, backstage etc. I immediately thought it was all about me wanting to be famous or something. But Elaine kept probing about my feelings in the dream and after talking about it, we decided the dream was more about that I was feeling better about myself (I had a really euphoric feeling), I had enough self worth to feel like someone like that would want to hangout with me… that sort of thing.
So. Did all that rambling make any sense?
Coming back to make one more comment. I notice a few other bloggers making posts about crazy dreams, Oh The Joys in particular, and the I smacked my head and realized the date.
The light cycle reversed on June 21st and days are getting shorter so of course everyone is having crazy dreams this week. The two times of year when the light switches are especially tough times of year for people with sleep disorders like me (and people who are bipolar). Everyone getting adjusted to the shift from days getting longer to days getting shorter, changing the circadian rhythms.
AND this is normally one of my peak night terror times and NO night terrors, WOO HOO!
Thanks for the linky love, I hope some of your readers read my post and give me some suggestions on what my dreams might mean! Cause I have NO IDEA!
Another common occurrence in my dreams is switching back and forth from watching something happen to being the one it is happening to. Do you have those? Like you know it’s you, but you are watching from afar? Very strange.
Ughhh…that’s a a really bad one. I’ve never dreamed about it but I do think about it and it scares the shit out of me.
Really? I’ve never heard of that. Thanks for the clue!