I have a dream that has continued most of my life

Since I was a teen, I've had a dream that seems to continue from time to time. I am always the same person, regular characters come and go. Some have died. I'm now 50, so it's been going on a long time. It's not my regular dream anymore, but for about 20 years it was the only dream I had (like episodes of a tv show.)
I'll talk more about the subject of the dream later, but for now I just wanted to know if others have had a similar long term dream?

I never considered having Lucid Dreams to be a good thing. Most of mine have not been fun. If a few, I can fly. I taught my self this in a dream where I was falling. I often have those. In one I realized that I was falling in a dream and just decided to stop. I just landed on the ground standing. Later I worked with the idea and can sometimes concentrate in my dreams and do things like levitate a few feet and move around the room. Other times I seem to be able to fly around like the typical super hero, although I don't ever have any other "powers".
Flying does take effort. It often tires me out and I have to land or suffer pain from the effort.

The most disturbing thing about my LD's is when I see something that I know I've dreamed about (that's the feeling I have, da javu.) I certainly can't be sure I have actually seen something, but seeing an event on TV, or visiting a new place, often makes me "flash" back to a dream memory.

The general topic of my dream is about a the end of the world. It's a horrific disaster, world wide, that results in the breakdown of civilization. There were years of suffering and death afterwards. Then a period where I was the only one alive that I could find. I wandered the world looking for others. I eventually found a few people, then more and eventually settled in a small community that had rebuild. There were truly 4 or 5 years where there were no other people. No animals. No vegetation. I don't know what I lived on, I don't remember ever eating. I did drink water from streams when I found it. I need to make it clear. This is not one dream, on one night. This dream has continued off and on for 35 years or more.

I can provide more detail in follow ups. I don't want to make this a novel here. Mainly I'm just curious if others have had a similar dream sequence.

i have had dreams that continue like every over week into a new "episode" although they never last longer than a few months

I usually only have a constant theme in my dreams. I am almost always dreaming about escaping something or someone, trying to get away from somewhere. But I have heard of other people who have continuing dreams like yours, even though they probably weren't quite that long. But hey... If the end of the world ever does come, I think you might be the most ready person on the planet. lol. Good luck with your dreaming.

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Originally posted by 2lives
(that's the feeling I have, da javu.)

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Da-javu can be a state of mind. Just a feeling like you have been somewhere or something is happening again. I'm not saying that this is the case with you. A good way to tell if it is a just a feeling or a reoccurrence in a dream would be to have it documented in a dream journal.

Hello 2Lives,

It's important to ask, does your dream seem to progress at the same rate as your waking life? Meaning, do the characters age through the years in parallel to you?

Longitudinal dreams are somewhat common. I'm 35 and have had a particular dream for over 20 years. It doesn't trouble me, though I've experienced it often enough, that when I awaken from it, I feel discombobulated - unable for a few seconds or more to distinguish if my waking reality is indeed, reality.

I don't know what your belief system is, but what you're experiencing could be the result of past life memories - or your dreamstate could be tapping into a parallel universe according to String Theory.

Or, you might try to reflect back to your teen years to note if there was any event or crisis that caused you to seek "protection." Many times, people will develop a dream in their youth, as a result of trauma (sometimes unrealized/unactualized) and then return to that dream throughout their adulthood as a means to reconnect with the comfort of a "familiar place," even if it's not a place of solace.

~Deja

Dear 2Lives,

Most everybody who has good dream recall can remember a significant number of apocalyptic dreams. But the detail of your dreams is a bit intimidating. If one searches up End of the World, End of Time, and all such combinations, one can meet with a great deal of prophecy that the World, or Civilization as we know it, are on the verge of collapse. 2012 seems to be a pivotal date.

I admire your perserverance and gumption. You are now over 50 and it seems that you will be one of the survivors. I largely doubt my own tenacity, at my age, to survive into the next. Without some Supernatural Intervention, I can easily suspect that I would rather let myself whither away to death than to take any great heroic efforts to preserve myself.

And, indeed, it would be a wonderful thing if most of us should die. We all must have the objective good sense to know that the Earth cannot support a population of 10 Billion, and then 20 Billion, and then 40 Billion people. The mushrooming of the population needs to come to a halt sometime. The Earth will reach the furthest swing of the population pendulum and then swing back -- swing way back. Everyone on earth could thrive very well if the population peak were about 100 Million instead of 7 Billion. That would require the deaths of 98.5% of the population.

The demise of so many might be thought of as a bad thing. But we should consider that everybody dies. Today, not one person who was alive onehundred and fifty years ago is alive today -- they have all died. Everybody dies. Now, if we consider what would bring the greatest good and the greatest happiness to the greatest number -- the measure for morality imposed by the materialistic Utilitarian Philosophers, then we might consider that a very happy 100 Million People might have more accumulated Happiness then our present 7 Billion who are driven by greed to be always at war with everybody else. A World would be so much better without the Adolf Hitlers and George Bushes, and all such who try to gain advantage and privelege for their own special groups.... their rationale being that in an over-crowded world, the only way that some people can be reasonably comfortable is by displacing those who cannot defend well against the incroachments of the Wealthy and Powerful. It makes sense on the surface, but only until the dogs of war are turned loose on a wide enough basis. Sooner or later a culture of War breaks down the mechanisms of Civilization. Adolf Hitler eventually found his Master Race ruling over a continent in rubble. So will George Bush. Only this next time it is going to be the entire world in the convulsions of war, rebellion and poverty, and with no large and wealthy remaining World Power to step in and save anybody.

Some of the Prophecies indicate that there will be some Supernatural Selection involved -- that the Evil will die off and that only the Good will remain. This would sort of conform to my prediction that about 1.5% of the Population will survive, as it has been my observation that there are only one or two good people out of every hundred. The vast majority of people are stupid, predatory, selfish and amoral... and redundant. With 7 Billion People, the notion that everybody is unique becomes ridiculous -- it is so much easier to conceptualize that most of these billions of people are simple copies out of the same stamp, the same 'cookie-cutter', the same pattern -- as morally and spiritually insignificant as many of our hallow Dream Characters.

In many of our Dreams we find that those who can Fly can get up and Fly away. The Dream Characters who can't fly, who have no moral and spiritual depth, are left behind. Perhaps this will be the Way of our Brave New World that is coming up, the Apocalypse, the Judgment, this New Age of Aquarius. there will be a great Evolutionary Hurdle overcome and the Survivors will be given some edge which will guarantee their continuity, whereas the 98.5% will be overwhelmed by the disasters and plagues.