Repeating dreams?!

Repeating dreams?

Is there any explanation for repeating dreams? I'm 18 and I've been having the same nightmare since I was about 5 or 6... When I still believed in crap like the monster under my bed. My reoccuring dream is basically of a dark monster/ghost thing chasing me through a cave/dungeon place.. When I'm about to get out I trip, and the monster grabs me by the foot and slowly drags me back and that's the exact moment I wake up. Do you think this means anything? Do you have repeating dreams? And no I'm not going to see therapy because I have no money..

Dear Zik.,
Hopefully you are not engaging in horror movies of ANY KIND. This can and will cause what you're describing. Also, at age 5, did anyone traumatize you that you remember? Or possibly tell you a story consisting of a monster? I can almost guarantee that at age 5, something to that sort happened to you and your conscious has stored that into memory. And whatever is in our subconscious, we dream about it. Just remind yourself before going to be that you are in a safe place. And think on happier things prior to bedtime, not action movies and surely not horror ones!