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[NotYourBuddyGuy]

So, has anyone else started with the crazy vivid pregnancy dream yet?

I'll share one of mine:

It starts out with me and a coworker getting pretty hot & heavy.  We're about to, ya know, do it, and I realize that I can't go through with it (cheating on my husband, as if the heavy petting wasn't bad enough).  So we end up just laying in his bed spooning.  Then... his girlfriend walks in...

It was so crazy.

Share yours!

[AUvetmom]

Last night, I dreamed I was about to adopt a baby with a gay black man (it was the guy who played in sweet home Alabama). I was really excited but worried the mom was going to decide to keep it. I can't remember if I was pregnant in my dream. I vaguely remember it was weird that I was adopting...

A week or so ago, I dreamed I was on the sinking titanic trying to keep a baby alive. But it got dipped in the cold water and died. But while the ship was sinking, the baby was a book I was holding in my teeth.

I normally have crazy dreams but pregnancy pushes them into the realm of insanity.

[CraftyMcGluestick]

I had a really scary one where I was in a room I remember from childhood, but it was haunted. I went to sleep with both my big sister and little sister in bed with me (I do have an older sister, but no younger sibs-guess I made that one up!), but when I woke up to the ghost in the room, both my sisters were gone! I was so terrified and I couldn't leave the room and I couldn't get my sisters to come back.

When I woke up, it took me a while to realize I was a grown up lady in her own non-haunted bedroom and both DH, DS, and even dear dog (!) were all in bed with me. I was traumatized!

I've had some others too, not scary- but intense and vivid--but can't remember off the top of my head. Funny, AUvetmom, I had a dream about being on the Titanic also during my pregnancy with DS. That was a scary one, too.

[Xobel]

Oh, about a week and a half ago I began having the most vivid dreams, sometimes many per night!  

I dreamed in one that I was a super uptight conservative man who was forced by a matter of conscience to work at a Mexican radio station with a very flamboyant, eccentric free spirit who I couldn't initially stand; I learned from spending time with him that he had a very difficult past that he was running from, and my budding sympathy for him melted my cold heart.

In another dream, a small, ancient Romanian gypsy woman offered for me to live in her hut with her, in order to keep her company.  Because I was so transfixed by the gorgeous view of a sparkling ridge of snow-covered mountains, I agreed.  While gazing at the peaks from the rickety front porch, a little girl came up to me and told me that she lived with the old woman as well, and that she felt that my people (meaning white Americans) "can't run and aren't funny."

In another dream, my (dead) grandmother came to visit me.  She brought loads of art supplies and proceeded to draw a STUNNING, very unique illustration of the ocean that I've been meaning to attempt to reproduce.  Just gorgeous.  According to my mom, though, she never drew a picture in her life.  Sad - the dreams are so vivid I thought for sure it would be revealing some secret gift that my grandmother had been hiding!

Last night I dreamed that I had fallen in with a group of rough-around-the-edges girls who ended up going through a large apartment complex in Seattle killing people with knives and axes.  I was terrified of being guilty by association, and even just for my peace of mind I wanted to get away from them.  A friend of a friend appeared to rescue me from this dangerous little revenge-bent pseudo-mafia; together we ran across a rickety, ice-covered, very dangerous bridge to the "other side of town," where a loving restaurant-owner took us in until we were able to catch a bus to the train station.  "I'm a small town girl," I told them both while we waited.  "This city life is too violent for me."  

[FarmerCathy]

  Pregnancy dreams can be fun, but I've also had the scary ones too.  Mostly lately they've been sexual in nature.  Probably because I've been reading the "Outlander" series.  The couple have a lot of sex.  lol  Though I did have a dream that my ex and I were living in a travel trailer with my DS and DD from my current marriage.  We were on the beach and packing up because the tide was coming in towards us after a big storm, but the water was black.  It finally got close enough to hit us and move the trailer back a little bit.  I told my ex to pack everything.  Then we were back there in the same place, but the ocean turned into a river in the jungle and there were wild animals EVERYWHERE.  I could see two alligators out the window and I woke up when I saw my DD out there and a wild pig was about to knock her over.  Bizarre.  I think the dream about the ocean was more or less from my nightmares as a kid of tidal waves coming in.  We lived 1/4 of a mile from the beach.  I did have a dream that the 40yr old version of Harrison Ford was my boyfriend, but I told my brother in the dream that he wouldn't be able to protect me from the bears.

[harmie0515]

I love hearing all your dreams!  Helps me feel normal.  My dreams are usually start out super violent and traumatic (I'm totally there now) then they melt into romantic comedies featuring crushes from high school.  Not sexual, but very romantic and fun.  Definitely ready to escape the natural disasters and random killing dreams.

[NotYourBuddyGuy]

Wow!  Isn't it amazing what the mind can cook up?

I remember my last pregnancy, I had this crazy dream where these people at the mall were trying to take ot my grandmom.  So, I had to keep her alive/keep her in the dark as to what people were planning so she wouldn't freak out.  Crazy stuff.

[shiomi]

I had a dream that involved a transformer-type robot pinning down a grizzly bear a block away from my house...  no idea where it came from, but I remembered it suddenly a few days after I had it.  Very weird.

[Xobel]

Are violent and/or scary dreams normal during pregnancy?  I never had many before - and still don't have TOO many, but there's a definitely increase.

I love this thread, by the way.  I'm crazy about dreams.

[GISDiva]

I wish I could remember my dreams better, I wake up so slowly that they're usually gone from my memory by the time I'm conscious enough to think about it.

[emily11megan]

I am loving this conversation right now!

I started a midwifery training that focuses on birth as an altered consciousness. 

This weekend we discussed the pineal gland, which is the first gland to develop in the embryo.  This gland produces melatonin and DMT.  Both of these are related to sleep/dream/consciousness.

So, the theory we discussed was that the fetus is producing these hormones, and either the mother responds to the increase by her own sub-conscious becoming more vivacious, or using the dream state and the corresponding hormones to enter the same realm of consciousness as her baby, to connect with him/her.  Wild stuff, yes?  It really helped me to feel like all the sleepiness, the weird dreams as a completely positive thing, rather than an oddity or a hassle of pregnancy.  I knew I was pregnant before my hpt showed it due to the dreams, which started maybe somewhere around a week before I tested +.

Any thoughts?
 

Edited by emily11megan - 1/19/13 at 9:59am

[Babygnumber1]

I had a bad dream during the weekend. In the dream I went to pee and when I wiped I had pink spotting, but suddenly I started gushing blood. My husband was holding a bowl under me to collect all the blood (not sure why). I kept trying to text my Midwife but everytime I tried, I actually had my IPad in my hands and was getting frustrated because I wanted my phone and not the IPad until finally my phone was in my hands and I could text her.... I woke up crying

[NotYourBuddyGuy]

That's a very interesting theory, Emily.  Now if only I could teach this LO who Antonio Banderas is!  I wouldn't mind sharing some of my subconscious if I got to dream about him...

[thecoffeebean]

Originally Posted by Babygnumber1 

I had a bad dream during the weekend. In the dream I went to pee and when I wiped I had pink spotting, but suddenly I started gushing blood. My husband was holding a bowl under me to collect all the blood (not sure why). I kept trying to text my Midwife but everytime I tried, I actually had my IPad in my hands and was getting frustrated because I wanted my phone and not the IPad until finally my phone was in my hands and I could text her.... I woke up crying

I've had several of these miscarriage dreams, and they feel real every time. :-( Hoping you have some positive pregnancy dreams soon!

[FarmerCathy]

I had a dream last night that I was married to Justin Timberlake.  We went to the mall (something I rarely if ever do) with my kids and two girls that I went to elementary school started swooning over him and I had to make sure they saw that I was married to Justin. 

[Xobel]

Emily - I can definitely feel that pineal gland theory!  One thing I've noticed in my dreams is that if I don't take the best care to be in a good emotional and physical state when I go to bed, I will have a nightmare!  The other night I went to bed after fighting with my husband (well, hormonally raging at him); I fell asleep angry about being tied to him through the pregnancy, and angry that my pregnancy was making me so moody, etc. etc. -- and I had a TERRIBLE miscarriage dream.  I had a miscarriage right before this pregnancy, so in the dream when I miscarried again, and then AGAIN, I gave up on trying, became very despondent, and had my relationship with my mother and my husband fall apart as a result.  It was just awful!  And last night - I worked out but didn't stretch (and boy do I feel sore today!) - I think the tension I felt growing in my body as I slept led to a very frightening dream about a blue-ish, half-dead, very sickly/drug-addicted woman following me, harassing me, pushing me to the ground, touching me creepily (on all the areas that are sore this morning!) while telling me that the worst things that had ever happened to me were not as bad as every day of her life.  Eehh ugh disturbing.  

On the other hand, if I do some gentle yoga and kiss and hug my husband, telling him how much he means to me, going to sleep relaxed and with love in my heart, I have just gorgeous dreams.  The connection between my dreams and my reality has never been so strong, direct and literal.  It's almost like every night when I fall asleep I've taken some serious hallucinogens and I have to make sure I'm in a "good place" or I'll have a "bad trip."  It's actually pretty groovy, maaan.

[emily11megan]

xobel- that's pretty awesome. not the nightmares, obviously, but the way your dreams have been teaching you about your life! DMT is actually called an Entheogen, "generating an internal vision of god". kinda like a hallucinogen, like you said. I agree, SO groovy! Hoping your dreams are peaceful from now on...

[Babygnumber1]

About two nights ago I had a dream where my best friend from high school was in labor, and I was catching her baby!! She had a beautiful blond 9ish lbs baby boy! It was awesome!!!