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[sere234]

Anyone else having the world's most vivid dreams lately?  Holy dang. Just woke from one that was a mix of Downton Abbey romance mixed with old Indiana Jones adventure and some horror thrown in as well. Won't bore you with it but there was a hot Australian man at the end (? Serisously, wtf? ), spiders that could kill you in an instant, and the end of the world approaching.

Then I woke cause I needed to eat and pee and the dream was getting too scary for me!  But this happens EVERY night! 

Now I've got to go back to bed and remember nothing in my room can kill me. 

[Therese's Mommy]

Yeah, my dreams have been really vivid.  I had one the other night about my stepdad that was so real I felt like I needed to call him right then (he was being horribly mean and he is actually an amazingly sweet person).  It was very disturbing.  I have always had really vivid dreams in pregnancy.  Perhaps it is because I am sleeping so soundly??

[Bmorefarmgirl]

Yes, I am having some vivid dreams too, but mine are mostly of the...erm...x-rated variety!

[abouttobe5]

Many dreams for me all about tornados.  Like ones that swoop down on the spot and take my dog.  Its weird.  So far me, DH, & the kids have been safe in them but it totally freaks me out as one of my fears is tornados.  My pregnancy is preying upon my fears....   :)

[oikophile]

Originally Posted by abouttobe5 

Many dreams for me all about tornados.  Like ones that swoop down on the spot and take my dog.  Its weird.  So far me, DH, & the kids have been safe in them but it totally freaks me out as one of my fears is tornados.  My pregnancy is preying upon my fears....   :)

I have tornado dreams, too, although I don't think I've had one since I got pregnant. I don't have a fear of tornadoes, though, and I've always thought it was odd since I don't live where tornadoes are common, and I've never seen one in person.

Otherwise, I think my dreams have been vivid, although not terribly memorable, apparently. I've had a couple dreams about childbirth, which are always totally bizarre (I've never given birth so they have no basis in reality)!

[abouttobe5]

Originally Posted by oikophile 

I have tornado dreams, too, although I don't think I've had one since I got pregnant. I don't have a fear of tornadoes, though, and I've always thought it was odd since I don't live where tornadoes are common, and I've never seen one in person.

Over 25 yrs ago we had a tornado in our town that completely devastated it.  It took out the neighbourhood we live in currently and sadly one of the deaths in our town was right down the street - two little boys were playing outside when the storm came, one ran inside to his house and the other tried to run home and he was killed.  :(  My grandma lived just up the street so I remember that story so well.  Then I lived north of Atlanta for 6 years which is like tornado alley.  Sooooo, I've had my share of experiences.  I suppose that's why I get so nervous with them.  Regardless, the dreams are so unsettling.  

[sere234]

Last night I dreamed DS drowned and I tried but couldn't save him.  It was awful. When I woke up he was sleeping soundly next to me so I held his hand and went back to sleep. 

Today I was going to leave him at a babysitter's so I could renew my license but I kept thinking of the dream and took him with me. 

Dang dreams!!! I need you to calm the heck down!!!

[Igottafeeling]

I too have been having vivid dreams.  I normally have fun, interesting dreams but these are very intense.  A few though have been x rated.  those aren't all bad. ;)  an indiana jones style dream sounds interesting though.

[asteph]

I also, have been having crazy, vivid, embarrassing dreams!  And I was particularly tickled by the recent episode of How I Met Your Mother and how they deal with that very topic! Lily had a very embarrassing sex dream and I could totally relate!

[abouttobe5]

Last night I had this crazy dream that I was being chased by a guy in a car that was trying to kill me.  They had already captured my husband and our wedding photographer (who is a good friend of ours) was one of the assassins.  But it was all in slow motion and I knew what was happening....it was like it just had to slowly unfold and we had to follow instructions but I knew at the end of it I would be killed.  Soooo weird.  

[babychak]

Yes, this just started happening! I keep having bad, vivid dreams :(

[abouttobe5]

(WEIRD kind of emotional dream so don't read if you don't want to...just had to post somewhere)

Had a dream last night that I lost the baby.  :(  Someone told me the heartbeat had just stopped and I was so devastated.  Which I find kind of interesting b/c I find my attachment (so far) with this little one isn't as strong a with my first two.  Anyhow, I was searching for my husband in a hospital and when I found him I just told him that the heartbeat had stopped and we had to get the baby out.  He was really supportive at this point, and we walked around until we found someone that could help.  Then they did this quick check to see if the baby was coming out on his/her own and it was.  So my DH saw the cord and just started to pull at it (this is where I got mad at him, who the hell pulls on the amniotic cord to get a baby out?).  And I could feel the baby coming out (didn't hurt, just felt as though someone was pulling away a layer of me inside) and out popped a little boy.  We knew it was a boy b/c it, while still in the amniotic sac, had these little blue sneakers on.  (yeah, that was weird...and kind of funny thinking about it now...can you imagine a pair of blue Converse on your baby while they are being born?)

At this point I just woke up and just couldn't get back to sleep.  It was so strange.  But real at the same time.  Thank God I felt the baby's movement all morning cause it reassured me that all is good.  I'm 17 weeks right now and I just remember thinking in the dream "why is this happening now?  why wait until 17 weeks after all the nausea and all the differences in my body...why?"  

Anyhow, sorry to be such a downer.  But just such a strange dream and so emotional.  

[sere234]

Andrea- I have dreams about losing this baby or something happening to DS too. It's so weird and unsettling! I never dreamt like this before being pregnant....

[abouttobe5]

Originally Posted by sere234 

Andrea- I have dreams about losing this baby or something happening to DS too. It's so weird and unsettling! I never dreamt like this before being pregnant....

Glad & sad I"m not the only one.  It was terribly disturbing to wake up and think "holy crap, did that happen?" and then realize it was all a dream.  :(  I usually mid-way through my pregnancy get a dream about my husband dying too which totally freaks me out.  Very morbid, my dreams!

[Thyme Mama]

Originally Posted by Bmorefarmgirl 

Yes, I am having some vivid dreams too, but mine are mostly of the...erm...x-rated variety!

Mainly sexy dreams here too, with the random evil nightmare thrown in for good measure.

The other night though I had the oddest dream! My first "celebrity" dream that I recall. I was shopping at Trader Joes and Steven Tyler took me on as his best friend and pity case. We drove around in his car that could also fly and talked about life. He was so nice and supportive. It was WEIRD!!! I don't listen to Aerosmith, I don't have a thing for Steven Tyler, I haven't seen him on tv nor read an article about him, I don't know that I've ever spent anytime at all thinking about Steven Tyler.

Had I dreamed about some totally hunky guy, the dream would make slightly more sense. My brains' choice of Steven Tyler is just, odd.

[Therese's Mommy]

Just bumping this thread up.  I have always been a crazy dreamer especially during pregnancy.  With my first 3 my dreams have been of the, uh, romantic sort.  They only got disturbing when they involved adultery.  It seemed that with each pregnancy I had one nasty nightmare.  This pregnancy started out as before just without so much adultery.  But now almost every night (and sometimes several times a night) I am having disturbing dreams that are sometimes nightmares (like last night).  My disturbing dreams are on the order of my finding a baby crawling around in the pouring rain by a stream very far from its house then the mother coming and apologizing saying she fell asleep.  So, they aren't horrible, but just not nice.  My nightmares generally involve confusion and worry about my physical safety (last night's dream involved me going back to school and there being a murderous rapist on the loose and a guy befriending me telling me he will keep me safe, but then it becomes unclear whether he is for me or against me).  Just not a nice way to spend my sleeping hours.  My first 3 children are girls and we don't know what we are having this time.  With my dreams being so radically different I am wondering if this is the result of some testosterone floating around because I am carrying a boy.  I guess only time will tell.

Beth