Dreams about repeating something – what do they mean? (Dream interpretation repetition)
Repetition, to do something over and over again in a dream – what does it mean?
Research shows that many have dreamt that they repeat the same action over and over again. What is this about? (NOTE: Click here if you were searching for the blogpost about recurring dreams)
Dream of repetition as a picture of a feeling of facing an impossible mission or to be “stalled”.
Dreams where you repeat the same action over and over again may simply be a picture of the fact that you in your life are faced with a task/challenge where you feel powerless.
At the same time it can also be a picture that you somehow are stuck in your life, and not really move forward from where you are – either in your development or in your positions. The dream thus indicates that there is an immeasurably need of a new perspective/position, and maybe you can seek the help of another/some you would not normally get involved in your challenges, because you find it difficult to even see a solution to your situation/your problem.
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When trying to understand your dreams it is important to know that your dreams are… your dreams. As such, you are the best person to figure out the true meaning of your dreams.
However, it is important to learn how to generally approach your dreams. Dream dictionaries like this one are only a supplement, and if you want to fully utilize the potential of your dreams, you should start at a different place.
My online course “Unlock your DREAMlife” gives you a great foundation for understanding (and recalling) your dreams.
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Repeating an inappropriate pattern.
The dream may also be a picture that you once again have brought yourself or are about to bring yourself in an unfortunate situation. Perhaps you might be leaving a girlfriend/partner for exactly the same reason as last time. You have not caught sight of something in yourself that is either “forcing” you into the same unfortunate circumstances or “forcing” you out of a good relationship. This pattern may also apply to your work that you in other words once again flee into a new job, without grabbing the root of the problem.
Dream dictionaries are a very helpful tool when interpreting dreams. However, generally learning how to approach your dreams, will give you a better foundation for understanding them. My online course “Unlock your DREAMlife” teaches you how to much better utilize – recall and understand – your dreams.
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Also read: Why I no longer interpret dreams for free
Have you had a dream of repeating a specific action? Please share it as a comment below.
Michael
NOTE: Dreams are 100% individual, and when you dream about repeating something, it’s almost certainly about something else for you than it is for your friend, who also dreamt about repeating something. Dream interpretation / dream analysis is sometimes a difficult art, and a particular interpretation of a dream is only correct if you feel “affected” by it. Therefore, it is not certain that the above mentioned interpretations are relevant to you.
I had a dream about viscious dogs. And I keep dreaming of zombies. But last night it was both and the last part of the dream restarted while I was sleep and it was me running into a room getting away from the zombie and my makeup was broke off in the zombies eye and it restarted and was the same dream. I then woke up after it restarted the second time and it finished.
Hi Krystal,
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I’ve been in my relationship for 2 1/2 years now and for as long as the relationship i have this dream that my boyfriend is cheating on me with everyone around me and is just horribly rude to me. I’ve woken up crying and boy wanting him to touch me because my dream scared me and it was him in my dream doing it. It truly effects me and he doesn’t say so but when I tell him about them you can tell he’s freaked out by it because he’s not that kind of person. I just don’t understand… We were recently separated for 7 months and the dreams stopped completely we just got back together again and the dreams started up again. I woke up this morning crying and sweating. It honestly makes me not want to sleep cause I don’t wanna hear the faul names he calls me in my dreams or walk on him cheating on me .. what does it mean I seriously don’t understand.
Hi Samantha,
And thank you for your comment, Apologies for my late reply, but I receive many comments every day, and I simply cannot keep up with them. That is also why I have decided to no longer do interpretations for free. Instead I offer the following options: http://www.michaelrolsen.com/dreamcoaching. Best regards – Michael
i was taking a nap in the evening and then all my dream was about me taking the train home but then i kept falling asleep in the train and woke up seeing that i missed my stop, i got up the next station and took back the train and yet i fallen asleep and missed my stop.
Hi Yvanne,
And thank you for your comment, Apologies for my late reply, but I receive many comments every day, and I simply cannot keep up with them. That is also why I have decided to no longer do interpretations for free. Instead I offer the following options: http://www.michaelrolsen.com/dreamcoaching. Best regards – Michael
Hi. A friend of mine keeps having the same dream. It’s a dream of her breakup with her ex. She cries in her dream and she wakes up crying. This has been happening for 3weeks every night since they broke up. What could this mean?
Hi Rane,
And thank you for your comment, Apologies for my late reply, but I receive many comments every day, and I simply cannot keep up with them. That is also why I have decided to no longer do interpretations for free. Instead I offer the following options: http://www.michaelrolsen.com/dreamcoaching. Best regards – Michael
Ok so I’ve been having this dream that reoccurs at random and each time I have it it progresses further. The dream involves me and my best friend. In the dream me and her end up dating and everytime the dream happens it repeats what already happened briefly and then continues even farther and becomes more and more about me and her. I can’t figure out why this dream is happening or why it involves her. It happens random nights. Why would I be dreaming about this or at least why does it keep happening.
Hi Sebastian,
And thank you for your comment, Apologies for my late reply, but I receive many comments every day, and I simply cannot keep up with them. That is also why I have decided to no longer do interpretations for free. Instead I offer the following options: http://www.michaelrolsen.com/dreamcoaching. Best regards – Michael
I keep having dreams where I cannot walk forward in a straight line. I keep having to move sideways or spin in a circle. I takes me a long time to finally get to my destintion.
Hi Karli,
And thank you for your comment, Apologies for my late reply, but I receive many comments every day, and I simply cannot keep up with them. That is also why I have decided to no longer do interpretations for free. Instead I offer the following options: http://www.michaelrolsen.com/dreamcoaching. Best regards – Michael
Last night I was dreaming of a head floating in a black back-ground, I approached the head and started “hacking” the head….I dont mean I was hitting into the head, I mean I was computer hacking the head….After I successfully hacked the head, an upside down katana appeared in the middle of the head and the head opened up and a bunch of numbers came flowing out. After that happened I went into a new section of the head and started “hacking” the inside of the head. After I got done successfully hacking the head I shifted over to a new head and started the process all over again.
P.S, I dont even know how to hack a computer.
Hi Victor,
And thank you for your comment, Apologies for my late reply, but I receive many comments every day, and I simply cannot keep up with them. That is also why I have decided to no longer do interpretations for free. Instead I offer the following options: http://www.michaelrolsen.com/dreamcoaching. Best regards – Michael
I have been doing this very frequently in my sleep to where I feel like I get no actual sleep. I haven’t slept peacefully in a long time. Often, I will be so tired and go to sleep but in my “dreams” I will always have to solve a situation or get a certain job done in order to get a good sleep. Like, the other night I dreamt that I had to find the “magical” or “matching” brushes. (I can’t remember which one) Every night, I dream of a new stupid situation or task that I have to finish and I find myself worrying very badly in my sleep. But it’s funny because it’s like I won’t be fully asleep. Its like I close my eyes and turn and I’m awake again. And I toss and turn and know i was sleeping and that I’m awake but the task or situation still worries me because even though I’m awake, I somehow still think I have to finish this certain task or problem. But it’s very repetitive. It’s like I am given a problem to solve but I can never get far enough to actually solve it because it’s like nothing actually gets done. It’s just a constant thought of worriedness and anxiety in my sleep. The other night I ended up texting me boyfriend “we’re trying to find the matching brushes to fix everything.” Then AFTER I sent that text, I reread it realizing that I sounded so stupid because it wasn’t real. It literally ruins my sleep and I wake up scared and worried and it’s absolutely awful. I also have sleep paralysis. I used to have sleep paralysis often and it almost gave me ensomnia pretty much. I had to take sleeping pills to sleep. I haven’t had an episode in a while and I thought it was over but then this new issue started and now it’s taking over my life as well. I am an 18 year old female attending college. And I take Adderall 30mg.
Hi Alexis,
And thank you for your comment, Apologies for my late reply, but I receive many comments every day, and I simply cannot keep up with them. That is also why I have decided to no longer do interpretations for free. Instead I offer the following options: http://www.michaelrolsen.com/dreamcoaching. Best regards – Michael
I keep having dreams where the previous day of my life is happening in my dream. This tends to cause me to mix up my days. For example, I thought yesterday was Tuesday when it really was Friday. Any explanation to this?
Hi Jaymie,
And thank you for your comment, Apologies for my late reply, but I receive many comments every day, and I simply cannot keep up with them. That is also why I have decided to no longer do interpretations for free. Instead I offer the following options: http://www.michaelrolsen.com/dreamcoaching. Best regards – Michael
I had a dream where i was with my ex boyfriend and he had me on his shoulders and we arrived in a school where people began throwing things, nothing that could hurt either of us and then i was put down by him and moments later he was pushed up to a metal fence by me and he just held me and i held onto him back but i couldnt see his face at all but in the dream in my heart i knew who it was and at that point in the dream was where it had kept on repeating and i remember him saying in the dream “just hug me” and i dragged my nails down the top of his back to the bottom as if it was familiar and i knew that he always liked having his back tickled or scratched when we went out, what does this mean michael
Hi Michelle,
And thank you for your comment, Apologies for my late reply, but I receive many comments every day, and I simply cannot keep up with them. That is also why I have decided to no longer do interpretations for free. Instead I offer the following options: http://www.michaelrolsen.com/dreamcoaching. Best regards – Michael
I had a dream that I was making the same dish over and over again it was something like oatmeal and it seemed that it was several morning that I was making the same thing just to impress someone that I’m healthy and I also was adding something on top of it each time
Hi Vanesa,
And thank you for your comment, Apologies for my late reply, but I receive many comments every day, and I simply cannot keep up with them. That is also why I have decided to no longer do interpretations for free. Instead I offer the following options: http://www.michaelrolsen.com/dreamcoaching. Best regards – Michael
My dream last night left me entirely unsettled and sad. My friends mom died more than a year ago and I didn’t really know her that well, I’d actually only met her twice but I liked her. I’m taking care of my friend, he’s in a wheelchair right now and he cant take care of himself.
My dream was weird. I was in some sort of underground bunker and I left it to run through a wooded area with dug up graves all through it. Kept running and I got to an open field. Next thing I know I’m getting tackled by his mom and she’s a zombie. She’s attacking me and I have to defend myself. So I dig in my pocket and find one of those old timey can-openers, and i try to stab her with it. At this point I know I’m dreaming because I would never attack anyone. Dream restarts. But I can’t wake up. I can’t change what’s going on around me either. Somehow I have memories in the dream. Google is doing some sort of developmental expansions and one of them was to go out and hunt ‘genies’ with bacon. That was the dream memory. The newest update happens in the bunker after the dream starts over the first time. Google does another update where the dead come back to life. The bunker is some sort of research lab. Yet again I start running. Yet again I get tackled. Only this time she starts making fun of me while I try to defend myself, saying stuff like ‘oh that hurts’ or ‘is that the best you’ve got?’ dream restarts again. Back in the bunker. There’s a girl in there with me now. She’s talking about not catching botulism (I don’t know if that’s how it’s spelled) from the zombies. She starts coughing up mucus. Alarming amounts. I leave the bunker and get tackled. Everything is the same. Dream restarts. Girl is still there coughing. Everything happened over and over until I finally woke up around six in the morning freaked out. My chest hurt. Please help me if you can. It’s the second weird nightmare I’ve had in two days where I knew I was dreaming but I couldn’t change anything or wake up…
Hi Tracy,
And thank you for your comment, Apologies for my late reply, but I receive many comments every day, and I simply cannot keep up with them. That is also why I have decided to no longer do interpretations for free. Instead I offer the following options: http://www.michaelrolsen.com/dreamcoaching. Best regards – Michael
I had a dream that someone i once knew was chasing me, i hid in a room and he comes in with a knife and stands in front of me. But before anything bad happens, it’s like my dream rewinds and he’s at the door again, walks to me and right before he stabs me, starts over again. And each time I am absolutely scared to death
Hi Savannah,
And thank you for your comment, Apologies for my late reply, but I receive many comments every day, and I simply cannot keep up with them. That is also why I have decided to no longer do interpretations for free. Instead I offer the following options: http://www.michaelrolsen.com/dreamcoaching. Best regards – Michael
I had a dream just this afternoon when I had a nap and I found it weird and creepy.In the dream it was already nightfall and I was eager to go home from school because i was so tired.I was already in the bus but as we traveled we were stuck in traffic and it started to go in the wrong route and the route it took was the route to my school and we kept going round and round there,the bus just keeps on taking u-turns on the intersection in front of our school.I hope you can help me,thank you.
Hi Aijah,
And thank you for your comment, Apologies for my late reply, but I receive many comments every day, and I simply cannot keep up with them. That is also why I have decided to no longer do interpretations for free. Instead I offer the following options: http://www.michaelrolsen.com/dreamcoaching. Best regards – Michael
I dreamt that I walked into a burnt out, abandoned shop/warehouse. Walked around the inside and ended up on the 1st floor. I then struggled to find a way back to the ground floor to exit. When I finally did and left the store, I was right back at the beginning and entering the store again
Hi Ella,
And thank you for your comment, Apologies for my late reply, but I receive many comments every day, and I simply cannot keep up with them. That is also why I have decided to no longer do interpretations for free. Instead I offer the following options: http://www.michaelrolsen.com/dreamcoaching. Best regards – Michael
I don’t exactly repeat actions but I repeat scenery for example I dream about a field and in that fetid is a barn then in my next dream or a few dreams after I will recognize that same barn in a different place and a different time with a completely different situation and second of all in the majority of my dreams I’m being chased and I researched what that I’m avoiding an issue or person and I’ve waited a while for it to come to me and I’ve also tried to figure it out but I don’t even have any probl ms or people to avoid
Hi Emily,
And thank you for your comment, Apologies for my late reply, but I receive many comments every day, and I simply cannot keep up with them. That is also why I have decided to no longer do interpretations for free. Instead I offer the following options: http://www.michaelrolsen.com/dreamcoaching. Best regards – Michael
I am 19 weeks pregnant and traveling abroad in the Mediterranean from the U.S. This is my husband and I dream trip before kids and it’s getting ruined by my lack of staying asleep. Kept dreaming that we were getting pick pocketed even with the secretive security wallets I bought. The thieves are always just Unstrapping my husbands fanny pack or cutting my purse string and snatching it away. Running off or changing hands with another Theif so that we can’t catch them. I have even started having a sinus infection from the dry air here and worried I can’t get better if I don’t get sleep. Our 2 week tour has just begun. I don’t want to be stressed or call the situation forth to exist. Or want to sleep during times I’m supposed to be enjoying a very expensive trip or barely getting sleep on the bus during the day which might be keeping me up at night.
Hi Rene,
And thank you for your comment, Apologies for my late reply, but I receive many comments every day, and I simply cannot keep up with them. That is also why I have decided to no longer do interpretations for free. Instead I offer the following options: http://www.michaelrolsen.com/dreamcoaching. Best regards – Michael
I had a dream that a big blackspider was on me and i kept flicking it off and killing it and it kept on repeating and eachtime it would be a different way of killing it.
All in one night does this mean anything in particular ??
Hi Emmy,
And thank you for your comment, Apologies for my late reply, but I receive many comments every day, and I simply cannot keep up with them. That is also why I have decided to no longer do interpretations for free. Instead I offer the following options: http://www.michaelrolsen.com/dreamcoaching. Best regards – Michael
I had this strange dream this morning. I was in the middle of a busy street with one of my friends and my sister. We went to a cafe then for some reason, I came out of the cafe to find something,as I was crossing the pad, I looked down and realized that there is a whole part of the road which is broken, broken as in I could see debris of the road at 30 feet below the surface of he road. So, I crossed the path carefully. The next time, me and my friend came out of the cafe and the same thing happened, only this time I saw the distracted road a little late, so we barely survived. The third time, it was me and my sister, this time we were just about to fall, this is the end of the dream. Also in the dream when I came
Ou of the cafe for the second and third time, we were running away from a group of men. Although the they did not really say anything to us, but we were still running away from
Them.
Hi Nema,
And thank you for your comment, Apologies for my late reply, but I receive many comments every day, and I simply cannot keep up with them. That is also why I have decided to no longer do interpretations for free. Instead I offer the following options: http://www.michaelrolsen.com/dreamcoaching. Best regards – Michael
hey when i was younger i literally had this same dream over 50 times, i would be up stairs and it would go dark and un easy up there so i would jump face first down the stairs in slow motion then land perfectly on my feet, what dose this mean?
Hi Travis,
And thank you for your comment, Apologies for my late reply, but I receive many comments every day, and I simply cannot keep up with them. That is also why I have decided to no longer do interpretations for free. Instead I offer the following options: http://www.michaelrolsen.com/dreamcoaching. Best regards – Michael