dreams

[1*Lucky*Mama]

Anyone else having very vivid dreams that are almost like nightmares? I keep having dreams about war and natural disasters, maybe I listen to too much news?
They seem so real!

[FarrenSquare]

I'm having really vivid anxiety dreams! About my work especially these days. I had a dream that my best friend gave away my baby at the mall, I was frantically running around the mall looking in all the strollers. It was so vivid and I was panicked the entire time! I kept waking up to pee, going back to bed and continuing the dream, it was terrible.

Eventually I had to visualize a happy ending to the dream just so that when I fell asleep it would be resolved. This usually works for my reoccuring dreams, would it work for you? Before I fall asleep, I often like to visualise positve thoughts & ideas, sometimes it translates into good dreams, sometimes not.

[Lisalee2]

I have been dreaming a lot more lately. I haven't had many nightmares or scary type dreams though. Maybe you have been listening to too much news. Snuggle up with a good baby book instead.

[~Demeter~]

My dreams seemed to have taken a bit of a vacation recently... perhaps, for me, by the time I get into bed I'm too tired to dream, lol. I would lay off the news I read the news, hardly ever watch it.

[karen1968]

I've been having intense dreams. I don't usually remember them, but I wake up hot and anxious feeling like I've been pressing my head into my pillow. Huge headaches often follow :-(

Last night I dreamed I was in labor - my belly was big, and I was climbing up to kneel on the couch, trying to talk to DH through a contraction. I remember looking out the window and it was sunny. When I woke up, my belly was hard on the right side, so I guess I was having BH in my sleep!

[Stitches]

I'm having really crazy dreams, but not many really pregnancy related. The other night I thought I was in Las Vegas trying to call the hotel concierge for a funeral home for the coffin with Gary Colman in it that I had in my room, and I was also looking for a good buffet for dinner. No idea what that one meant!

[fancyoats]

i totally had a crazy weird escaping-from-zombies dream last night. i can't remember details except for the fact that the rolling stones were hiding out in the same warehouse/highrise type building as we were.

[47chromosomes]

I have! Oh boy. I have to roll over in the morning and check with DH that certain things are NOT reality.

A couple nights ago, I dreamt that DH had our baby by c-section! Ya, not me on the operating table, but him! I was a really great advocate for him, though. I had the doctor put the baby directly into my waiting arms after it was born, and I laid it on DH's chest and we just adored it. It seemed so convincingly real. Weird.

[HeatherB]

Pregnancy dreams can be SO crazy! Mine are often influenced by what's going on in life around me. I'm grateful there haven't been too many awful ones, but, let's just say that wasn't the case with my baby born in March 2002. Some of those were incredibly gut-wrenching.

[MamaPhilly]

I dreamed two nights ago that I was snorkeling, while holding my toddler and talking with my dad on my iPhone. I dropped the phone in the water (shocking given the activities I was doing) and tried to dive, while holding my toddler, to get it. I watched a fish open an app, and eventually I got it, all the while I was still holding the toddler.

The best part of the dream was that I was really worried about telling my DH how my phone drowned, but my amazing friend called him at work (she was snorkeling with her toddler too) and said she spilled a beer on it.

[FarrenSquare]

lol @ Olivers mommmy!

Last night I had a very long, vivid, and tiring dream and half way through I smoked a cigarette! I haven't been a smoker in a long long time, and the smell of cigarette smoke makes me want to die these days - but the dream really freaked me out! In the dream I really enjoyed it and remarked that "it went too fast" - so maybe it was my subconsious warning me never to have another cigarette again? Idk, but it was icky. I hope I don't dream about it again.

[ocelotmom]

Originally Posted by 1*Lucky*Mama

Anyone else having very vivid dreams that are almost like nightmares? I keep having dreams about war and natural disasters, maybe I listen to too much news?
They seem so real!

I had a lot of war-themed, very vivid dreams with previous pregnancies. Haven't had any so far this time.

Actually, now that I read back through the comments, I remember a rather vivid and interesting zombie dream I had a while back, about zombies that start off really stupid, but integrate some of the intelligence of all the brains they eat, and therefore become increasingly difficult to escape.

[chambom]

I wasn't having dreams for a few weeks because I wasn't sleeping long enough at any one time, but last night I had a crazy dream.

I was still playing soccer in my dream and some guy came up behind me and totally checked me to the ground. My arm broke and the doctor was going to do a surgery so a piece of my bone didn't separate.

This is the crazy part...about halfway through the dream the guy turned into DH and after he checked me I stood up and punched him and that did more damage to my arm.

I had dreams where DH was a bad guy in my first pregnancy too. I remember having days where I had to keep reminding myself that it was a dream and there was nothing to be mad at him about. Is that some sort of inate protection thing? There isn't a bad bone in DH's body, so there is no real life reason to turn him into a bad guy.

[MamaFern]

wow..some intense dreams going on..

most nights im just way too tired. if i dream i dont remember, but i was woken up at 5am a few days ago to a horrible dream about war where my 7 year old died in the end...i was fighting too.. it was all in the dark and in trenches and totally freaky. i dont even watch war movies let alone think about the dteails of war.. it really shook me.
i got out of bed and checked on my boy and just stood by his bed for a long time and i couldn't to go back to sleep after that. it was really scary. the weirdest part is when my smallest DD woke up, she came into the kitchen and said "elwynn bleedin'" like she had dreamt the same thing..

im seriously exhausted again these days. i can get a lot done in the day but by 8/9 i need to get to bed and i usually sleep through to 7:30...and wake up feeling like i never slept at all. *sigh*

[yummama]

Yes! I had a dream about a bear attacking my family the other night. I was scared for a long time even after I woke up!
I've noticed that my leg cramping has begun again (I had it in my last preg) as well as waking up with tingly, asleep hands (horrible last time--I had preg. carpal tunnel).
At least my nursing co-sleeper has been bothering me less at night! For a while she wanted to nurse every hour! AHHHH! I'll take vivid dreams over that any day!

[HeatherB]

The bad-DH dreams reminded me that I've had some dreams where my boys were HORRIBLE, like absolutely the worst, most intentionally hurtful behavior ever. Awful! And then I was shocked when I woke up, to remember that they'd been really *good!* Sweet, helpful, understanding... No idea where the dream came from! Did NOT like that, at all.

With my first, I often dreamed my baby was something other than human... something that can be recreated faster... and that it died, or was eaten (as in, when he was a cookie ), etc, and I would say, "But I can make more cookies now." Or, "Cats reproduce faster, so it won't take too long to get a new one." I was clearly dealing with fears of losing the baby, and having to wait to do it all again and have a new one. Crazy thing is, I've really never had a loss. I had a super-early one, very early in our marriage, but at the time I wasn't even sure it was a loss. Thankfully, I had no cookie or kitten babies in subsequent pregnancies!