Taking a break from the deep life talks and talking about something that trips my brain out, and that's the phenomenon of recurring dreams! Do you have any recurring dreams that have been happening for a long time? Leave them below! Also, please ignore my constant flip-flopping use of "recurring" and "reoccurring". I didn't realize it afterwards and was far too lazy to record all that again. haha.

I suggest that you attempt to fully surrender within the dream. Take whatever is coming. Perhaps it’s all about learning to surrender to those powerless moments that we all face.

In psychiatry/psychology, EVERY character in your dream is really YOU. You start with the overall generalized: how does it make YOU FEEL and what does the dream make YOU THINK. Dreams that including other people we know are still about us. In dream time, the almighty ID is in total control! The other people are recognition of pieces of yourself in that person, the things you have in common. In your youth, during your illness you may have run from death. With Trikafta, you may be running from life. Life is now a very different thing for you with focus on responsibility instead of cramming in all the experiences. Recurring dreams are traditionally about change, either running from or toward is still the act of running. You’ve made mention of the existential crisis of what life is for you now and Stephi facing the same. You (collectively) also carry survivor guilt. Death dreams when our passed friends are visited is missing and needing the nearness, the closeness with these people. These are a gift of time you didn’t have in life. Hang out and enjoy them instead of examining them for faults (another thing that’s actually just about you). Dreams of your own death is letting go (death of the thing). You’ve outgrown a piece of your life and it’s time to let it go. Being CHASED actually ISN’T usually about your fears.

The walrus reenactment killed me 😂🤣😂

Morgan thank you for this thoughtful video. When I was very young I had a recurring nightmare where I was sexually attracted in the attic of my grandmother's house. It happened every other week from the time I was 5 until I was 20. When I was 13 my uncle sexually assaulted me on more than one occasion until at 15 I was strong enough to fight back. That uncle lived in my grandmother's house when I was very young. All of my male cousins were sexually assaulted by that uncle at 12 or 13. Two of them remember also being assaulted by him when they were five years old in my grandmother's attic. That one is likely a repressed memory. When I live in an old house with a view of the ocean I would have nightmares of the house across the street burning down but there was no house across the street. Seven years later I was filming in the museum of that small town and I saw a picture of the house I saw burning down in my nightmare. I learned four houses were built by four brothers between 1911 and 1913. They all looked the same. The house that was across the street burned down in 1923 when the brother who owned was drunk and mad at his wife. No one died but the whole town helplessly watched the house burn down. I thought maybe ghosts. For a month I had a nightmare every other day that my wife's grandmother was dying of cancer. This is strange because not only did we rarely see her I did not speak the same language she did. Then my wife's grandmother learned from her doctor that she had terminal cancer with six months to live. She passed away in four. Then for three years a couple of times a week I'd have a nightmare that my wife was cheating on me with a doctor. She was in medical school at the time this nightmare started and she started having an affair with a doctor when she was an intern. We split up for a year. We got back together because of the kids and were together for another decade. About a year before we split for good I started having a recurring nightmare that she was telling me "I had served my purpose, put her through medical school fathered her kids, and bought her dream horse farm with her. I started having that nightmare the day we moved in. 14 months later she said those exact words to me. With these latter two nightmares, I often question if was I seeing the future or willing the future. Only my therapist has heard about all of these nightmares. Others only know about one or two of them. Thank you for allowing me to get this out to the world. Like you, I have no idea where these nightmares come from.

I've been having a dream. Where I forget to feed my animals. I love animals, and I cry, and cry that I forgot to feed them.

My reoccurring since I was about 7 or 8 years old... I'm 46 now and still occasionally get this dream. I'm in the house I grew up in, in my bedroom on the second floor. I open my window, climb out onto the roof of the garage and swim in the air, essentially flying but literally doing the breast stroke or freestyle. I "fly" around the neighborhood and go home.🤷‍♀️ Love ya kid.. really enjoying this new style of vlog.❤

Hi Morgan, the "re-enactment" was precious! We should talk sometime, no really, we should. Virtually or whatever but we should. As a chronically ill person, I share some of your dreams. All in all, death looms over all of us and as people focusing on our health so much, it is normal & expected. You are trying to beat death down, keep death away, protect others from death, and figure out "Rubik's Cube) ways to change in order to keep death away. This is common in chronically ill people who want so much to live and feel like their journey is not close to being done. We still have much to do here on Earth. But this is the heroes journey (Joseph Campbell). He is worth reading and may also give you insight. But for real, we should talk sometime. Give my love to Stephi. I will always support you two!

Loss will always be there. Mortality will also always be there. You’ve dealt with these things on a deeper level than most folks. They have worn a groove into who you are. Who you are is beautiful and vulnerable. Just exactly like the rest of us - we are all chased by one demon or another. Sending HUGE AMOUNTS OF ❤️🌈🌞

Additionally, different medications FK with your dreams HARDCORE! Due to my terminal illness, they’ve thrown every drug ever made at me. Some drugs had me screaming so loud the neighbors heard me while I was still asleep. With others, I experienced “inception” where I thought I was awake, but I was still in 7 more layers of dream. You may be living in/sleeping in/dreaming in lucid limbo. The recurrence is your brain reaching for familiarity.

Morgan: Love this channel beyond words. Such rich content and your personal communication style captures my interest and attention. About dreams- I have had a few repetitive dreams in my life and am comforted in finding out that I am not alone. One scares the heck out of me and can't figure out why it recurs. More nightmareville. Love hearing about your dreams.

I have reoccurring dreams as well - similar in nature to what you describe. I really think when we dream of "getting away" from something, being "chased" by something, we are simply overwhelmed with constant thoughts of trying to take negativity from our life. However we are still consumed by them, as changes in our awake life still don't seem to leave our mind. Unless you are someone who lives an idyllic life, dreams of this sort will reoccur. Dreams of someone dying to me seem to stem from loving that person so much that your brain is discovering what your true emotions would really be in that situation. I have woke up sobbing from dreams like that. I once had a dream after the passing of a dear friend of mine, where I was running after him through a neighboring city. I chased him up some stairs on the side of a building - threw open the door and he is sitting on a couch laughing. I asked him why he ran and let him know I was angry he would do such a thing to me. He simply said he was happy and everything was ok and not to worry about him. Prior to the dream I had been sobbing day and night in regards to his loss - after the dream, I rarely cry about him and only have thoughts of the fun things I loved about him. So in a way our dreams help us to deal with things that we struggle with or wish to change. It's like a narrative playing things out for us to try and understand and cope with reality.

I am 54 and have 2 recurring dreams of tragic things that happened to me when I was 3 and 5. The first one is the ant dream I wake up slapping myself. I lived on Guam and got into a tower of African Fire Ants and almost died. The second I got caught in a rip tide and got out of it in deep water. Swimming in several waves crashed on me and the lifeguard. I roll out of bed from the wave crashing to this day!

I don’t have much in the way of suggestions or answers but I’m totally here for the dramatic re-enactment! XD

Could the chase dream actually be LIFE? You've lived with death right next to you for so long, now suddenly because of the Trikafta, LIFE is suddenly a possibility. Life is saying, I'm here, it's time for LIFE. Go to that rubic cube door and GO THROUGH. You and Steffie have LIFE now, where before, it's was always death right there. Now death has moved away and LIFE is here for you to LIVE. Anyway, that's what I get from it.

You could be running from or trying to fight your “shadow self”. If you become lucid in the dream instead of just running or trying to fight it maybe try just turning around and asking what it wants or what it is or why it keeps chasing you. I’ve had reoccurring dreams since I was a child of men chasing me, trying to kill me, locking me in cages or rooms (I’ve always been aware that it’s bc of the trauma I’ve experienced) but it got annoying so I learned how to lucid dream so last time it happened like 6 years ago I just turned around and said “what the heck, why do you keep chasing me. This is my mind & my dream heck off” & they went away. Also the first dream interpreters I believe were Egyptian‘s, native Americans, & shamans.

Thanks for sharing. I like this kind of video! Share more of your dreams if you have them!

I had one of, those when I was a child. I had it for year's!

That's the best representation of the American health care system. You just keep having to confront doctors meanwhile inflation continually catches up to you

With the chase dream maybe try responding to the thing chasing you with love. If your first response is fight or flight, try another response. :)

Loving the new content!

The First Dream, The Creatures chasing you is your fear of the future. And Fear can take on different forms and shapes. And the doors are the Present. They are your safe space. And The 3 rd dream sounds more like Astral Projection. Than a actual dream.

Regarding the first dream, I think it's the age that we get to understand dead, but not afterlife. We start wondering if there is an other side, and if it is still connected to this side. The place may be a place you may know, tho disformed, but a place I think you would be alone in often. In your dream that would mean nobody can help you or give you an answer about whats chasing you, and the lock is probably something that seems insolvable to you; a fear of being helpless and stuck with something you cant work with or solve, and blocking you from incoming danger. So I think it's about dead, afterlife, and growing up as you notice that you get more responsebilities without being able to rely on constant help from parents, and realising that one day you'll be on your own. CF might have a place in this story since the tasks we have to complete, are not easy onces... I've been having a sortlike dream as well, tho I never thought about it like this. Dreams are desires, fears, things that happen, future plans, movie parts that you relate to emotional... could be anything... I wouldn't use books to decode them, since it's unpersonal. Who knows what things you went through that period besides you? Might have been many factors mixed into 1 fragment

Dude! I noticed a few years back that when I talked about the re-occurring dreams, nightmares really…the following day, in detail…they don’t return. The ones where you feel wasted/heavy sleepy and can’t gain control of car or body or whatever…you’re in between stages of sleep, like near waking up…well that’s usually the case for me. Lol…the subconscious is an interesting place.

The thought of the once-nightmare now being just an annoying dream is interesting. That could have something to do with its general meaning: living with unpleasant truths/managing challenging circumstances.

This was a great video, I love talking about dreams. I think the thing you’re running from is the same thing every time, even though it looks different. When we dream it’s really just the subconscious running wild. And if this has been going on for years it’s something that’s been on your subconscious mind for a long time. I think the obvious answer is your CF diagnosis. Even though your waking mind might not be scared or afraid that doesn’t mean your subconscious feels the same way. But who knows Oh edit: maybe in your next chasing dream, instead of turning around and beating the shit out of it, talk to it. Ask what it is, maybe you’ll get an answer you weren’t expecting. Edit again: I also have a reoccurring dream where the dream is different every time, but what happens to me is the same. I’ll start by chewing white stick gum (I hate gum in real life) and it will become bigger and bigger in my mouth to where I can’t breathe and I’m trying to pull it out and it’s gum so it just stretches and nothing really comes out. It gets to the point where It’s in my throat and I’m trying to dig it out of my throat and no one in the dream around me ever notices. The dreams just carry on as usual, like I’m not being weird with my hands in my mouth trying to clear my airways. Idk it’s really strange and happens probably like 1 to 3 times a year for the past 10 years. I looked it up once and found a forum hundreds of people have the same thing happen, have no idea what it means but my favorite theory is it’s ectoplasm from visiting the “other side”

I also have recurring dreams, 1 of them is that I’m waking up from a benzo binge and everyone around me is telling me all the messed up things I’ve done! 2nd is my ex girlfriend comes back into my life and eventually she leaves by the end of the dream and 3rd I’m dying all the time every night! Getting a shot, stabbed, drowning, all different ways! For me, I’ve chalked it up to trauma, normally a lot of my benzo fueled blackouts were very horrible moments in my life and most of them if not all ended with me coming to and the people around me telling me the messed up things that I said or did and these dreams are either me reliving that trauma, my brain trying to remind me to not take benzos ever again, or also my brain relating the feeling of being in a blackout to the feeling of being in a dream! Also I had a very bad breakup when I was 20(im27) and it was honestly one of the biggest and worst things that happened to me! So I feel like these dreams are me just reliving that trauma! And dying is everyone’s worst fear or at least a naturally embedded fear! So for your recurring dreams I’d say the being chased one is just either a bad dream that u had when u were a kid that really scared u and therefore it keeps happening or u were chased as a kid or had a deep fear of being chased as a child, maybe being chased up the basement stairs when u run up them ay night lol or something like that! And the driving impaired now that I think about it I have this dream all the time as well, and I could prolly consider it my 4 my recurring dream but it maybe happens only once a week instead of almost every night! I have a question for you tho, do you ever have random like weird demonic dreams or really scary non recurring dreams as well!?

Maybe it’s things you aren’t able to control that are chasing you. Hence, why fighting it does no good and why the “thing” chasing you changes. The rubics cube is you trying to figure out how to deal with the “thing” or how to solve the puzzle on how to let go of control. My recurring dreams happened when I was young. One was actually about an aunt I didn’t know. I had a recurring dream that I was in a car on a country highway and the door comes open and I fall out. I never hit the ground - I always woke up. In my 20s I found out I had an aunt who fell out of a car on a country highway and lost her arm. She was still alive lol. It was just weird… lol (that was just one of many I used to have) Good luck trying to figure out the meaning.

I always have dreams involving marine mammals, so not reoccurring dream so much as reoccurring theme. Love the reenactment!

The “you” I mention below isn’t necessarily you, Morgan, just a general “you”. A “chase” - and stick with me here - is usually tied to instability in your home. I know people are going to be like whuuuut??? Basically when you’re always running away from something evil in your dreams, it’s almost always childhood trauma. When you’ve experienced instability or violence or aggression or addictions or abandonment as a child growing up, the “evil” is that adversity that children cannot really resolve for themselves so that becomes the evil in your dream. Since that never really gets resolved, because you take that trauma with you into adulthood, the chase is always going to be present. More often than not it’s kind permanent. But in some cases through therapy and really addressing the trauma it can go away eventually or lessen in frequency. Does that make sense for anyone else that’s had that type of dream?

I only wish for enough sleep 😴 to have a dream!!✌️I used to have nightmares🙈 during suffering with severe PTSD since my Stepdad, teacher and coach 🏀 Dave Sanders was murdered at Columbine High school on April 20,1999!!🙏 💙Love you Morgan with hugs.🤗 #davesandersstepdaughter

Could it be unfulfilled dreams or dreams of actually getting to live, because you beat that beast. Hug Stephi for me ❣️

For over 35 yrs after my BF died in a horrific way & I held her, I used to dream that someone was trying to kill me. I'd wake up screaming & crying. I would bang on walls in tears & my late hubby would bring me back to bed still crying. 2. Seeing my dad in his coffin & me crying my eyes out over him in front of a crematorium fire?? he was & will always be my everything ( he was chief of OFD). Now, I dream of death, mine & that's really weird I have to say. I have incurable diseases & to see myself fading away is scary & weird. I normally wake up having a hard time breathing. Really morbid dreams dude...

I dream a lot. I have a lot of murder and death dreams that reoccur. It’s a sign of change for me. The more new things I try and more I learn the more I dream of them and in different scenarios as well. Your first dream sounds like you are avoiding something that is trying to catch up to you and you can’t get free of it. It’s probably a subconscious fear of your illness and what comes with it which is why it happens in different scenarios. And yes you aren’t afraid of the dream so much because you aren’t as afraid of Illness as much, more annoyed which might be why the dream annoys you now. A lot of times monsters represent your fear. So you could also be running from your fear actually. Maybe you subconsciously aren’t ok with your health and illness as you think you are. Even when we say we aren’t afraid we most likely still have a little fear subconsciously. It could be you just not actually being ok with it. So you are running from your fear monster to something that makes you feel at peace. Which not gonna lie you seem like the type of person who likes and feels calm when playing with a rubix cube. Lol I could go on but I feel that’s enough. Haha hope it helps. I think you just need to deal with your feelings in real life, not in the dream.

This isn't so much an interpretation of your dream but an idea of a different approach. I'd suggest trying different ways of making peace with the character you're running from. Instead of fight or flight, try confronting it with a question. If it feels unnatural to stand there with it, maybe you could get creative and hold it in one place with 'the force,' hold a mirror up to it, start laughing with it about how much running yall do together. What I'm saying is practice developing your dream lucidity, go to sleep with your intention, and see if you can start shaking up the narrative of this chasing dream. Beam some white light at it, offer it some water cause I'm sure it's exhausted from chasing you 😂 See it as an opportunity for experimentation, and though it might feel difficult at first keep practicing. Good luck Morgan and thanks for sharing!

It sounds like your mind might just use a ctl+v type format thats easy and alters it slightly to actually get to the processing part of a dream. The running dream and the driving dream could just be your own really stable views of life and how you think events go. I would focus more on the things that do change. also i would stop trying to fight, run, or get to where you are going etc. In a way this just takes away the power of the dream which is your own thoughts. For example if something is chasing you, dont run. If you need to get somewhere, dont go. if you end up dying (as men seem to more often in dreams) it should change the landscape or end the dream. My only real advice as someone who dreams a lot is to recognize that your dreams are created from your own mind. You have a better chance than anyone else at figuring it out.

I wonder where reoccurring nightmares fall into this

I always used to have dreams about “big cats” or snakes everywhere. It’s so weird. Always woke up with my heart beating fast! I’m like, this has to mean something!

I'm totally guessing and you've probably thought of this, but it's CF chasing you? It takes all these different forms because it's more complex than most people realize, and no matter what you do, you can't get away because it will always be a part of you. And the driving one is your existential crisis of running out of time. "I have to be here and get all of this done by a certain time" and you never make it. I used to have a couple where people were breaking into my house, they always looked the same. Sometimes they would hurt/kill my mom and then come after me, sometimes not. And, I'd always have to sneak to a phone to get help. Once I took a self-defense class, I used the moves on them in the dream and they stopped.

You realized your mortality around the age the chase dream started. You are running from Cystic Fibrosis and what that represents about your mortality.

I think being chased is a fear of many people and almost everybody I know dreams about it sometime. Having this dream every week is a little bit unusual, but I don't think you should worry. Maybe you can try to realise it's a dream while you're dreaming 🙂 Everytime I dream that I can't switch on the light and nothing works, I realise that I'm dreaming and then I do what I want and it's awesome 😁

I had a dream about you

I haven't had any recurring dreams, but I think the topic is very interesting. IMO dreams are the mind's way of trying to troubleshoot or problem-solve your concerns, as if your brain is simulating a scenario for you to "practice" your response. I think dream dictionaries are inaccurate because meaning is subjective: what means something to one person doesn't mean the same thing to another.

I've got a whole world. A family and a big bunch of friends. Pets and strangers to bump into and meet every night. But it's a dream and I've actually cried waking up from it as, as much as I may love my life, my dream life is making me really depressed that I can't stay there and be there instead of here. I make no sense but I actually want to stay in my dream world sometimes 🙃 I gey sad when I wake like I already miss my friends 😞 if anyone want to talk dreams I'm here I can email and we can just not forget together ❤

Maybe the feeling of someone behind you, or chasing you, has to do with the friends you have lost to cf, the struggle you feel about wanting to live your own life ànd wanting to live for them, like they are always a shadow behind you, a part of you...just a thought...

Try grounding yourself before you sleep. Example close your eyes picture yourself surrounded by bright light, or picture roots growing down the ground like trees being ancord to the earth. Might help :)

Check out Carl Jung Quotes About Dreams. Not a TV pop psychologist.

Maybe the feeling of someone behind you or chasing you has to do with how you feel about your friends who have died from cf- you said you feel like you have to live for them, but feel guilty about being alive too, maybe the chase has to do with that tug of war within yourself- do you live for yourself? But you always feel them as attached to you...Just a! thought...

Dang.....I almost , YES , ALMOST didn't get to see this video..🧡💛💚💙💙💜💜😎😎

my therapist told me, and I've heard this before, that you are everyone in your dream. So in your chase dream, you are you, Stephi, and the monster chasing you. So make of that what you will. Maybe when you first had the dream, the monster was a part of you that you don't like, and now Steph is a part of you that you like and are trying to protect. That's my take. My recurring dreams are often about houses and my kids when they were little. In the dream we have a house but it's not suitable. IRL and in the dream my son uses a wheelchair and usually in these dreams the houses have small rooms, lots of steps and big clunky furniture. Nothing really happens in the dreams. Sometimes relatives who have died or my ex-husband show up and we have nothing to talk about. It's very strange.

My reoccurring dreams are mainly PLACES ..like a house or a street or a field etc n some of these places are a combination of places I've been too or completely made up I my mind all in one. So lately (totally kind of off topic) I've been trying to lucid dream. never works ..lol any suggestions to lucid dreaming?

Since you faced mortality due to CF maybe you’re searching to see what’s next, the afterlife. Now with your meds, your subconscious still isn’t sure what’s next after this life. 💕

No answeres?!? Bruh 😎 jk Listening to you on the mic is actually kind of soothing. You can be my dream catcher 🤪 Great vid. Got two more to go to be caught up.

Ya dreams are a mystery we humans don't know everything

This video is great but have you ever tried to continue a lucid dream where when you become aware you don't wake up straight away?

Do you believe in God? Start truly Believing , and the door will be open . and you will never dream that again. This is not a mean comment it's just the truth. Believing in God just makes your life 100% better that's all. I enjoy your videos. Happy holidays

Yep, sounds like death. Trying to process the fact that death was stalking you your whole life. I wonder if the nature of it has changed since Trikafta. Maybe your brain does not know how to stop running as you have done all of your life. Maybe instead of confronting or fighting what's chasing you, you need to turn on the lights and show it that you are safe, after all. Of course, life is never guaranteed, so death might find a way to keep haunting you. I have learned about dream interpretation, and anyone who claims to know for sure what things in dreams mean universally is full of shit. I like to think of dreams as having infinite meaning and also randomness. Like, your brain is the source of dreams and sometimes it's just processing your day or stuck in a tetris loop or something, but when you have a recurring dream, there is so much meaning to mine from it, and there is no such thing as correct or incorrect interpretation. I'm trying to think of a good analogy. Like a prism? It's like layers and layers of meaning. You can look at the explicit, surface content and consider how that applies to your life and experiences (for example death looming over you and chasing you all your life), or you could look at it like every part of the dream is a part of yourself. Another thing to do is look at the implicit content and see what associations come up. Like, if you're always in a hallway, what do the walls look like and is there anything familiar about them, what do they remind you of? The lighting? Are there any little details that don't necessarily contribute to the explicit meaning of the dream? Are there feelings or smells or other aspects that remind you of memories or places, etc. This is what I mean about infinite valid meaning to be mined from dreams. There are some basics, like people who have a reoccurring house, often that represents the self. But really everything represents the self. Anyway, I think what I've written may be confusing. Hopefully it makes sense to you.

Maybe you fighting the disease . Who knows...

Jesus said: "I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture." John 10:9 ESV Driving is always associated with steering your own destiny. In doing so, you will not fulfill your God-given destiny. Turn to Him friend. :)