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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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.
What if my dream repeat trice with a same action and same place and with new actions and new people i almost remember the names. I had a dream before that i have a time machine or place machine and i tried it then after…. I came into US and have my step family i lived there in 3 days… Then after months that dream repeated. But with new actions then i also had a friend on my dream. Then last night it actually like that too again. But last night it was not only aboutplace machine but also time travel. And i think if it repeat again i can surely remember their names and all the scenes in my dream. What does it mean?
Hi I know you don’t normally do free ones anymore but I need to tell you about my general want to really know what it means and I can’t really because I don’t have any money myself I’m only 12 and I have this dream twice in one night but it happened differently each time so how was like in my grandma’s house sitting at the top of the stairs I see my brother coming and he was holding a huge mountain you standing behind my sister and he was trying to hit her and we started fighting and he made the choice the believe but I kept on saying that I was fighting him and I he was trying to kill my sister and then he had a shotgun again and it was trying to kill a little kittens and I like white kittens and I was trying to defend them are like pulling a back pushing his gun down and he kept on pushing me away and hitting me and he was just kneeling they’re trying to shoot the cats and I just kept on defending him and then I don’t know where I can you just was dead then my sister was leaving me she went outside the door I was looking at all the white cats trying to get them together I seen this black and white cat I used to have skinny really skinny and he was a baby but he died a couple months ago and I was looking at all the cats and I went my sister’s room I was looking for something to put the cats and I seen her live that was bullying her dresser and then I want my brothers around that we had in our old house which we live in there anymore and I seen a trash bag thing holder white trash bags and I pick the one from the way back because I feel like the cops are coming or something cuz I feel like a real dream and so I got the one on one way in the back and get my fingerprints or anything or any of the other ones never have my other dream at the same time of that night and me and my sister started out on staircase again at my grandma’s house never member my old dream that I had just before this one and my brother was coming again and I remembered it so I went to my grandma’s bathroom hit behind the door and I was looking in the light at their Shadows and my brother he was holding an axe and he started hitting my sister with a copperhead with that she if she was still alive and he hit her again with them now at this time and she’s just did I seen everywhere and then my brother was walking to the bathroom and he turned into a girl for some reason like he looks like a girl I could see him and he stepped on something and screaming silently and was coming towards me and I just had a knife in my hand in classroom thing I didn’t see what it was and I killed them and and the cops are countering and then I woke up and heart was beating fast and it felt like it was real most of my dreams they don’t really feel like they’re real and sometimes I just don’t have any dreams but this one felt like in real life in my heart was like beating and everything as fast as it could.
Hi Ashley – and thank you for your comment and dream. I am truly sorry, but I simply cannot help you in this way any longer, since I get very many requests like yours every day. I have had to decide to no longer help out for free – please read this post which explains why: https://michaelrolsen.com/reason-no-longer-interpret-dreams-free/. The moment I start helping some – and not others – a lot of people will be frustrated. I you haven’t already downloaded my mini e-book which could help you get to a meaningful interpretation of your dream – please do so! You find it here (you also subscribe to my newsletter, but can always opt out): http://www.michaelrolsen.com/newsletter. Best regards – Michael
I dreamt I had revisited all the day activities and correcting each and every mistake I did during the day,it had happened two consecutive times,I always go back and make things right when I sleep.I don’t get it
Been almost 5 years or more im dreaming about the end of the world.. im on the tallest building and i see very big tsunami hitting (very very big wave) and the the water keep coming up and im trying to escape from it.. i have that dream 2-3 times a year..
I’ve been having a lot of loop dreams lately. Basically the dream repeats and on the how ever many time it replays I start to realize and remember what happens next so I change it or try something different, then when I get it right the dream moves forward.
Most recent one an ex of mine got in trouble I was going to pick him up from some legal detention center but I was side tracked cause the main hall was full of free stuff! And they had my favorite kick start drink. So I downed one and started collecting free samples. The hall changed into a giant stair case which led down another hall which led into a mall, where somehow I was made to work. Long and short I stole a lost purse because it was pretty and woke up.
I don’t steal in real life but I did couchet a similar style purse when I woke up.
Weird huh?
Btw married disabled have 3 kids that are still kids and a stay at home mom. Who’s often broke lonely anxiety ridden and depressed, because life although my kids are great feels like it’s ticking away and wasted, with no solution in site to fix it…..
Anyways do what you will with that
Hi Michael,
I kept watching a hurdler catching their toe on a hurdle, face planting and getting up. Every time they got up the one side of their face was brutally bloody. It was quite horrific. What does this mean?
Yesterday I dreamt of a repetition. I woke up to the same message of someone telling me they miss me. And bad spirits would posess my family and for the first few days of reliving that day, I would try to shoo the bad spirit away by using religion. I got tird reliving that day, I just started killing them and tried to commit suicide after. But I kept waking up to the same day. It was so scary that I almost couldnt wake up.
Hi Michael!
I just woke up from a dream where amongst many other things that were taking place, I was desperately trying to get out of bed after a nap, but to no avail. I kept trying to throw the blanket off me and get out of bed after a nap, and my mind went through all the motions of throwing off the cover, getting out of the bed, and standing up…but then I’d open my eyes and be back in the same exact position trying to do the same exact thing. Please help interpret this! It was quite scary to endure.
The night before yesterday I dreamed that my husband had to leave far because he got into trouble I spent a while not knowing we’re he was ke anything but one day I got to see him that day I found out I was pregnant we eventually had 2 daughters but we still couldn’t be together because he was still in problems then last night I dreamed that I went to the place to look for him and they told me he had died then people started shooting the entire place I was at me and my daughters made it then I woke up I fell asleep again after a few minutes and I had another dream that went with it I was at the mall with my daughters and a friend and her 2 sons for some reason we end up leaving going back to the place were I last saw my husband and there was like a obstacle course for us we all went thru it did it but my friends sons died then it skips to me just being with my husband and then him telling me that the pregnancy test wernt right that they sent out daughters so they disappear bow it’d just me and my husband sitting… These past dreams have really scared me.
this morning, I was sleeping at my boyfriend’s place (we’ve been talking that we should start creating distance between since I am leaving at the end of the summer to go study abroad) and I had put an alarm so I wouldn’t be late for my hairdresser in the morning. I kept waking up, looking at the time, realising I could still sleep, fall asleep and see a very realistic-feeling dream where I wake up too late and have very little time to go to the hairdresser. Each time there was something different that happened and none of the times I actually made it to the hairdresser. Eventually something would happen and I would wake up and look at the time and go back to sleep since there was still time, and I would dream again that I woke up too late and had to run. Every time the same situation at the beginning, but every time a different ending. I saw this four times beforw I actually had to wake up and leave.
I wasn’t necessarily having the same occurring dream, but last night in my dream there was a girl who kept doing the same thing over and over again. To the point people thought she was insane because it’s like “dude you still haven’t gotten the hint.” I wish I could remember exactly what she was doing but it’s pretty vague.
Hii Brian! Can you tell me the whole story of your dream? It looks like we have almost the exact dream. I hope you will reply 🙂
hi always dream being in school and it very repetitive what problem please?
I had a dream last night where it began as if I had to say a specific number. I want to say it was 635 or something like that. I had to say this number and close myself and almost go into a relaxed state for a moment, then people that have died would appear. The last one was of a guy from a show I had watched on Netflix, named Bellamy. I wasn’t able to see these people unless I successfully did the number/relaxed state right.
Then it switched to the back of my high school but when I walked in, it was set up like a hospital. I kept walking around because it was maze-like. There were people in the rooms on the beds.. none of which I recognized. Then, I got to the back room and my friends Josi and Jessi were there. I told them to help me get out and they helped me after a few minutes. We got to the top of now a taller looking building where there was a show going on. It was Nine Mile Drive. We were all standing on the roof top… talking about our tattoos and just conversing. Then, I looked down over the balcony and saw JC. JC passed away recently and was the lead singer of NMD. He’s been in 3 dreams within 2 weeks that I can think of. I woke up when we made eye contact.
Hi, I hope someone could answer me. I dreamt of more or less 5 to 6 people that I know of dying in my dream. Although it had a pattern. Things kept happening over and over again in my dream but it wasn’t always the same person I’m seeing.
It’s not that clear but It went something like this, I was running, really fast. Someone then stopped me to show me something and it was extraordinary (now this guy here he remained constant in my dream). The thing that he showed me was a portrait of a guy that no matter how many times we cover it, he keeps showing up. So I freaked, and ran again, this time a lot faster. Then I bump into someone, then something happened I’m not sure what it was, but when I looked over, someone was seriously injured in the face. Then he dies.
This repeated over and over again but like I said it was someone different all the time except for that one guy. Like 1-2-3-4-5, 1-3-4-5-2, 1-4-5-2-3.
Can someone please explain this. I’ve always been having nightmares lately, if it’s not me suffocating, someone else was dying.
I recently had a dream where I was watching Finn (a character from the TV show “Glee”) return to high school after getting expelled or suspended or something like that and he was very optimistic but he also seemed very unintelligent (like he basically was acting extremely stupid) and basically when he returned he went to the principals office and the principal left and he pulled out a sharpie (I think it was red or black) and he started writing his name on everything and I think he wrote his name on a sink in the office (weird, right?) and he kept on saying “he’ll love this gift” or something like that but he was basically saying that by writing his name he’s giving the principal a gift and eventually the principal returns and gets really angry. And there’s also this random image or scene from that dream of me and I’m trying to open my locker from sixth grade but I can’t remember the combo and my friends (in the dream they are random people I’ve never seen before) keep on telling me to hurry up and my locker is on a corner towards the ground in the dream when in real life it was on a wall on the top of the wall. What could this mean? And keep in mind, the character “Finn” died in the show and the actor died in real life from a drug and alcohol overdose.
OK… Well I was in Union with my lil 14 cousin… We was about to leave and I seen my aunt well I waved her down and asked her where to get some weed…. well she had a kid from down the street zye with her… She told us to get in the car so I parked my car somewhere and got in I was in the back with the boy and Britt was in the front…. We was cutting up and she wasn’t paying attention to the road and there was a 18 wheeler blocking the whole road off ….. Well the car goes under it 3 different times…. That one part of my dream kept replaying until the 3rd time I duck down so I wouldn’t die like everyone else did…. That was crazy BC the 1st 2 times my head was chopped off…. I don’t understand why it kept replaying until I came out alive
Hi Chastity,
and thank you for your comment – including the obviously frightening dream you’ve had! Unfortunately I no longer have the option of helping out for free in this way, as I get many requests every day, via this website, and via e-mail. I would assume your dream somehow is an illustration of something that might “kill” you (i.e. block you, hinder you in developing naturally, becoming the human being you are), i.e. not kill you literally. Maybe also an illustration of (unknown) fears you have. I offer dream interpretation via Skype or telephone – read more here: http://www.michaelrolsen.com/dreamcoaching. Best regards – Michael
Ive had 3 very crazy dreams the past two days and I am curious as to what they could be about the first is me and my fiancé were in a crowded building and I was in fear and screaming for him holding my 8 year old son ( I have 3 children the 8 year old is my middle child) my fiancé rushes in holding a gun and starts shooting people and grabs us and runs out. The second me and my fiancé were asleep in bed and water just started to flood our house pouring in through the windows I grabbed our phones and looked up and my 8 year old is in bed with us and he told me to take the children he would clean up so I left with the kids to see what was wrong our city was in shambles and this lady stopped us and fed us all this coin ( literally nickles and dimes) said they wont kill you if you eat one of these and then we had to hunt her down again to get one for my fiancé. The third one is my 8 year old son is in middle school and I went to his first day of school and stopped the kids from picking on him and found out he was a weed dealer so I called the cops and they threatened to throw me in jail. what can all this mean???
Hi Jenn,
and thank you for your comment – including the obviously frightening dreams you’ve had! Unfortunately I no longer have the option of helping out for free in this way, as I get many requests every day, via this website, and via e-mail. I would assume your dreams somehow comment on the dynamics between you, your child (8-year old) and your fiancé – upon elements you are not too aware of (at least not when you had the dreams). Maybe also an illustration of (unknown) fears you have. I offer dream interpretation via Skype or telephone – read more here: http://www.michaelrolsen.com/dreamcoaching. Best regards – Michael
Last night I had a dream where I go on a roller coaster and cannot get off. I have friends on the roller coaster but they get off and i am stuck there riding the roller coaster over and over again. I enjoy the roller coaster but want to get out and my friends say to me that i enjoy it. I related that to my relationship but i’m not sure what it means. Or what to do I don’t have many relationship problems but when I do it hurts me very much and we had a problem last night also but i’m not sure if that’s the meaning of the dream
Hi Bella,
thank you for your comment – and not the least your very interesting dream! I am sorry for the late response, but I get very many requests everyday (via website and e-mail), and I simply cannot keep up with them. This is also why I have decided to no longer help out in thit way (for free). Have you already downloaded my free guide? This guide can definitely help you some of the way in gettting to understand your dreams. You find it here: http://www.michaelrolsen.com/newsletter (you also sign up for my newsletter with valuable information about dreams, you can always unsubscribe). Best regards – Michael
For the past month I’ve had the same reoccurring dream in which I approach a table, pull the chair out, sit down, scoot close to the table, and then repeat the actions in reverse. What concerns me is that I dream this same action for hours and hours, and I’m physically sick of it. Now, if I dream of it, I’ll wake up immediately with a splitting headache, or I’ve even vomited from thinking about it. I don’t know what it means, or what to do.
Hi Sarah ,
and thank you for your comment. As I get many comments every day, I simply cannot keep up with answering all of them. That is also the reason 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 dreamt of an obstacle race in a snow region. Like a track where I kept on jumping from ramp to ramp. Sometimes on a snowmobile, ski blades and on foot too. It was as though I’m racing. There were others too. Don’t know who but there were others too. I dreamt of this repeating scene for a very long time. Thank you. Grateful for the help 🙂
P.s. not adding my real name for anonymity.
Hi Eagle,
and thank you for your comment. As I get many comments every day, I simply cannot keep up with answering all of them. That is also the reason 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