In high school I got my first pair of contact lenses. That was pretty unusual at the time; people didn't wear them as much as they do now, and they were incredibly expensive. They also didn't have disposable lenses; you had to clean them and care for them and hope they lasted for a year or two.
Because of the expense, my parents put the fear of God in me about taking care of my new contact lenses, so far from being the joyous experience it should have been, having lenses nearly gave me ulcers; I was terrified I'd lose them or tear them.
I started having reoccurring dreams about them, and in every dream they would change into something different, and I'd know there was something wrong with them, but I would still try frantically to put them in. I had a dream where they because little white shirt buttons. And one where they became large, blue, round jewels, like the Hope Diamond.
But in the dreams I had most often, they would still be lenses, but large, and cloudy. I worked at the library back then, and I had one dream that I had opened my lens case at work and that they had changed and grown huge; two inches in diameter. I still put them into my eyes, though, and tried to reshelve books, but I couldn't really see them.
I had one of these dreams last year, when I was having too much trouble with my lenses and switched back to wearing glasses most of the time.
Hi, I just wanted to say that I have the same recurring nightmare that my contacts have grown into big flimsy disks about the size of my face, and I am frantically trying to shrink them so that they will fit in my eyes again. It's strange cause I think that I actually stretched them first in my dream, the way you would stretch dough for a pizza pie. I have no idea what they mean and why I have them so frequently. So in searching for meaning, I found your post. Surprised to see I'm not the only one.
How funny! I sometimes have those dreams too where my contact lenses have grown huge, the size of salad plates, and I'm trying to put them in my eye! There has to be some meaning to this- I'm going to keep googling! :)
This is fantastic! I still don't know what the dreams mean, but its nice to know other people have them too. For me it is always that they are too big for my eye and I am trying to somehow shove them in and every time I think how is this happening again. Sometimes I think this must be a dream cause this can't happen, but then it feels so real I keep going about it.
I am so glad to see I am not the only one. I can't remember any other recuring dreams except this one, where normally just one of my contacts will be too big and I still attempt to put it in, stretching my lid and blinking, hoping it will shrink to fit. Haha-the human mind is an interesting place. If anyone finds a meaning, let me know :)
WOW! Thank goodness others have these dreams,too. I regularly dream my contact lenses are as big as plates and I can't fit them into my eye. Last night, I dreamed I had lenses coming out of my eye. Dozens of lenses would fall out of the corner of my eye, as if they were trapped back there all the time.
I'm sad no one has found the meaning behind this dream because I definitely have the oversized contact lenses dream. I, like all of you, try to frantically put them in my eye despite their size. I also try shrinking them with contact solution. I wonder what it means??!?!?!
I don believe that there's a mystical meaning behind dreams. We dream to process the ideas we've encountered that day and to sort through our anxieties and worries. We're probably collectively sensitive about putting things in our eyes - that's a very delicate task that requires paying attention.