recurring dream

collocation in English

meaningsofrecurringanddream

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recurring
adjective
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/rɪˈkɜː.rɪŋ/us
/rɪˈkɝː.ɪŋ/
happening many times, or ...
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dream
noun[C]
uk
/driːm/us
/driːm/
a series of events or images that happen in your mind when you ...
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Milburne divulges that since childhood he has had arecurringdreamin which an impending and unknown threat approaches year by year.
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He has said that he was initially inspired by arecurringdreamhe had about playing the electric bass.
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Her favoriterecurringdreamas a child was one in which she lived in a library.
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K has arecurringdreamin which a prince meets her and takes her away.
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He is haunted by arecurringdreamthat stems from an anxiety neurosis.
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Her primary worries are her naturally red hair and an inexplicablerecurringdreamthat haunts her.
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Powe says the story came intact in arecurringdream.
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She initially rebukes his claims, but finally becomes convinced that he is right when he is able to describe arecurringdreamof hers in detail.
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Billy is also plagued by arecurringdreamof a black bird.
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Caldwell based this book on arecurringdreamshe was having every night for about 2 years, each night the dream beginning where it ended the previous night.
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She is in terror as, knowing of local gossip that the cottage is haunted, she has started to have arecurringdreamof a distressed woman holding a blue jar.
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Recurring dreams of utopia, doubt, and discouragement also unite her work.
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At age ten she began to have recurring dreams of playing guitar, and was able to convince her father to buy her one.
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Spoony says that recurring dreams are usually our subconscious trying to alert us to something in our life.
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The cold returns, as he felt in his recurring dreams before, and he's suddenly outside and hears a woman screaming and a man pleading forgiveness.
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He has unsettling recurring dreams about being touched by a strange, bluish hand.
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He declared he had recurring dreams of his criminal career improving by selecting richer, more famous victims.
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Joan has been seeing a psychotherapist because of her recurring dreams about her husband controlling her.
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Holmes concludes from this, and her recurring dreams of falling objects, a faceless man, and locked rooms, that she is repressing some unpleasant memory.
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Jung wrote that recurring dreams show up repeatedly to demand attention, suggesting that the dreamer is neglecting an issue related to the dream.
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