In high school I got my first pair of contact lenses, that you can also order here. 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.
I have had this dream for years:Giant contacts I am trying to fit into my eyes! The over all feeling is stress and that something is not quite right. In fact, now I can sometimes recognize I am dreaming within a dream when I see a large contact. I am not able to control my dream after I realize I’m in it, I usually just wake up or switch dreams. I am curious to know if this dream has an interpretation.
I always dream this it’s so stressful they look like pancakes some times and I’m freaking out because I can’t get them in and I can’t see a freaking thing ! I always wake in a panic and then I worry about my contacts
Mine are the strangest dreams…. contact lense splits into 4 or 5 lenses with low power and I have to put all these together to make the required power..in the meantime I mess them up and not able to put them in my eyes… sometimes they grow big in size and I’ve to wait for them to shrink
Raising hand…me too!
I googled because last night I had the dream again but this time the lenses were a dark, opaque, red. Anyway, they were like placemats & I remember thinking, “well I got them in in past dreams so I can do it again!” Kind of lucid.
We’re struggling to “see”, I’m unsure if we know what our focus should be or even that we’re lacking focus. I think that’s why it’s confusing…what does my subconscious want me to know!??!
I have had this same reoccuring dream yet I havent worn contacts for almost 10 years when I had lasik. Dreams are generally anxiety based but I believe the most purposeful are the dreams where our subconscious minds are tyring to alert us to what our conscious minds are not yet aware of. We are not seeing things as clearly as we should and should utilize this message to figure it out what we’re missing. I’ve never analyzed this when these dreams occur but I will start to look at what’s happing in my life next time I have this dream.
Can’t believe this thread is so old and still being added on to! I have this same dream about my contacts being too big. Been having it for years and years, perhaps about 19 years altogether. Like others here, I believe it must be the subconscious trying to tell me that I’m not looking at something closely enough/I need to concentrate on something in my life more. Just wish I knew what those things were! Thanks everybody, past and present, for sharing. What a strange thing that links us 🙂
Oh my gosh! Me too!!! I’ve had this recurring dream for the past 3 years or so. I go to put my contacts in and they are the size of dinner plates. I have to push them in, fold them under and around for them to fit. I’m always asking myself “Why are my contacts so big? This isn’t normal. This doesn’t feel good. This is too hard.” It’s a quick dream, but one I remember consistently having. I know I manage to get them in but the entire time I know it shouldn’t be so difficult.
I’m very excited to know we all share this bizarre, recurring dream.
I love that this thread has been going on for years! I have had the very same dream for many years – my contacts are the size of frisbees. It’s usually with my recurring dream of being back in high school on test day, having not been to class all semester and I don’t know my locker combination. As I put it in writing, I’m starting to think I just may have some issues I need to deal with.
OMG me too dreaming about huge contact lenses. Size of a dinner plate but as soon as I try and put them in my eyes they shrink and fit. But last night not only where they huge there were about 3 in each eye when I took them out
Same here! I dream about them being too big, and too thick in the center but still trying to put them in. I also dream about them drying up and me still trying to put them in my eyes dry and hard. Also where they’ve turned into like buttons. But mainly always they are huge and thick and I’m trying to still put them in my eyes. I get these contact dreams all the time. Glad I’m not the only one.