stress dreams

I used to have school performance dreams all the time, probably because I hated how I did in college, spending not enough time studying and too much time in the pool and at parties. But I went back to school a few years ago to work on my Masters in chemistry (my old arch enemy). I made As, and haven't had the dreams since.

I dream my teeth fall out, too. Not sure what that's about. 

I've looked it up before too, it has nothing to do with the appearance theory, is closer to this one:

"Teeth are used to bite, tear, chew and gnaw. In this regard, teeth represent power. And the loss of teeth in your dream may be from a sense of powerlessness. Are you lacking power in some current situation? "

I usually have this dream when I'm stressed out and don't know where I'm going or when I'm nervous about a situation that I don't know the outcome.

Omg thats horrible. Understandable that you would have that dream, but horrible!

Huh? Maybe you should change your SN to rollergirl29. 

Ah, there are lots of us with the teeth dream I think... it's horrible.  They fall out one at a time and I can feel it and spit them out. *shiver* I had read that it was related to feeling out of control... a little different than powerlessness, but the same idea of stress. Oh man, that dream is awful. Fortunately, I've gotten a wee bit better at my stress management only get it 1-2 times a year.

My tri related nightmare was right before my first race.  2 weeks out, I was visiting a friend in Seattle. While I was there, I knew I wanted to get in 1-2 workouts to ease my mind, but when I didn't, I had the dream.  I went through the whole race, but forgot to put on my timing chip.  Since I didn't have an official time, no one believed I actually did it. I was crushed. 

I've had two triathlon dreams.  The first one I've had a few times.  I'm getting ready to swim, the course is a long canal, and everyone has already started while I look for my goggles.

In the second dream I go back to a building to retreive something that seems important, and when I get back I can't find my spot in the transition area.  That dream is strange because the transition area is set up so that the triathletes are in a big circle and my stuff is obscured by some bushes (lousy spot I got as usual).

Before my first tri in August I had a few dreams - I was late in pretty much all of them. Before my 10K Dec. 3, I had a dream that I was late and then dreamed that there were only about 20 people running the 10K, I was last and the course wasn't marked. And the weird thing about all my late dreams is that my mom is in them. We're chronic late people (I'm trying to break the habit), and we discuss my growing tri obsession a lot. But, encouragingly, she's been really supportive as of late.

I also had several work stress dreams when I first started my last newspaper job. I had to lay out the paper on a 2 inch by 10 inch screen because the boss wanted to use my awesomely big monitor to watch TV on.

I've had a recurring dream where I'm in college and I "forget" to go to a class for an entire semester, only to realize it the night before the final exam. 

I've never had a triathlon stress dream per se, but I did toss & turn the nights prior to my first few races.  The worst was the night before my second OW swim, after I had done so poorly during my first OW swim in the Gulf.

Mark

Usually every morning I'll wake up and remember them.  If not all of it, I'll remember bits and pieces.  There's been a few times when I don't remember them at all.  But like i said, that hardly happens.