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(JD) · Jul 19, 2009, 04:07 AM

The dreaming being talked about here (in general) is common. Think about what you are doing in the dream and compare it to your real life.

Dreams of being chased, or running away... usually means you feel you need or want to get away from something IRL, or that someone or something is "after" you or begging or expecting/waiting for you to do something ...

Recurring dreams, imo, are important in that the brain uses dreaming to try and process and file memories. Once you begin to focus on that dream, and what it might be telling you, see if something in that dreams changes... it usually does... as the brain continues to process the data.

As for them being something from childhood, could be. However, don't become too involved in worrying over what it might be. Remember, as children many things in the world were exciting or overwhelming, and often misunderstood by our developing psyche. That means that a memory then, not stored adequately and continuing to produce itself today, may be over something very easily understood today but not when a child.

Yet, yes, dreaming is also a way for the brain to show us, as we are ready to see, memories from the past that we never worked through. IDK if anyone truly knows how this function protects us, but indeed it is as though it (the brain) won't allow us to dream what we aren't ready to handle, or it doesn't allow us to remember it once we dream it... unless we're ready to begin to process it.

Sorry, I've rambled.