June '05 Mamas ** The Dream Thread - Page 2

[Karennnnn]

This is my strangest one yet and it was during a nap to boot.
Earlier today I was watching this documentary on the woman who was depicted in the movie Monster. I can't remember her name... Anyway it was very fascinating. She didn't scare me or come off as someone who I'd be freaked out to be in a room with but I had a nightmare about her. Sort of anyway... I don't remember it happening, but she put a pencil through my EYE!!! I pulled it out and then was so afraid to look in the mirror. I could actually feel something under my eyelid, like I could feel a lump under it from the wound. I kept thinking about how I'd have to have surgery and go under anesthesia, how I might not be able to see out of that eye again. Then I saw that the hole wasn't through the iris and all of a sudden thought "Oh no big deal then!!!" But I looked in the mirror and surrounding my whole eye was swollen like I had been beaten up.
That's the weirdest one so far. Occasionally I'll have the painless birth dream where I know I'm in labor and I'll moan and yell and all of that but nothing hurts, then I wonder how the heck the baby will come out if I am not having pain. Then the baby just comes right on out and that's it. Those dreams are nice though; something to focus on since labor doesn't necessarily have to be a bear. If you're hypnotized
Take care,
Karen

[ramlita]

I had a dream the other night- the first part I remember is rushing into my little kitchen, which was packed with friends visiting, and asking for help in getting my underwear off! Nobody believed me that the baby was coming right then, since I wasn't in labor or feeling any pain, so I did it myself, and she (!) slid right out onto the table. She was 9 lb, 6 oz (why do we dream these funny details?) and had a full head of dark brown hair. Labor hadn't hurt at all, which seems normal for a dream, but then her actual exit stung ALOT. I don't think I've ever felt pain in a dream before. (unless I really had to pee IRL!)

It was a surprise to me, since the baby I miscarried in March felt like a boy to me all along, and I've been feeling like this is the same baby come back to me. I'm set on the same boys name and everything...

but then again I dreamt of boys throughout my preg with DD, right up until the last few weeks, which were packed with vivid dreams of a girl with DD's coloring and personality. (well, we'll see about her adolescent years, where she is short and sullen and, according to my journal, "I don't know what to say to her.") We'll see...

[SharonAnne]

Had my first delivery dream over the weekend. I wasn't really dreaming about the delivery, though, I was dreaming about telling my best friend about the delivery, and trying to remember it. :LOL

All I could remember was being in the kneeling position, supporting myself on my headboard, and the baby sliding out. No pain, no problems. I couldn't remember if my husband or mw were even THERE. :LOL

[Karennnnn]

I had two good ones last night!
The first one I dreamt that I was with my midwife. I think we were all at a concert out in the parking lot or a mall or something. I found a cicada hole and she pulled out a cicada in its shell and actually pulled the cicada out of it. The cicada was alive and started flying around although part of his body was missing (common in some cicadas, especially the dead ones lol). I was so freaking excited because the cicadas had come in the very early summer but died within 6 weeks and won't return for 17 years. For some reason (this is true) I absolutely loved them and I actually miss them. I guess this is significant because the midwife brought one to life. It happened to be a male which is my favorite kind because they're the ones who sing. It flew away though so I was really really bummed. I think I was actually crying in the dream.
Then I had a dream that was like a time traveling thing. I dreamt I went to my parents old apartment from when I was 2 years old. Only thing was it was kind of run down and the backyard looked industrial. I was in the kitchen and was like "Wow mom this is really small!". I was there as a 2 year old and then also as an adult simultaneously. The young me had VERY skinny arms (???) and I was hugging and cuddling with my mom. She showed me the front and back yard and thought it was really cool since it was an apartment and had both. I think in real life this was also true. I know they had a small front yard and patio at their old apartment that she really loved.
Anyway I kept thinking to myself "Tell my dad to invest in Apple and Microsoft". LMAO! I think I was thinking about Forrest Gump and Back to the Future at the same time. Then I thought I might be stuck there and it would really stink because there were no cell phones or internet and I had no idea how I'd research stuff (Gee, how about the library!! lol). It was interesting because I thought it would give us all a new lease on life since I knew what would be a good career to get into, what would really take off, if our family had only started earlier.
It's amazing how poignant some of these dreams are. I look forward to them.
Oh yeah and the other night I had a sex dream. Had to do with some dude named Jose (double??????LOL!). I took him out onto this floating bed in a lake and was like "Oh my god I've waited so long for this!" and that was pretty much it. I think I woke up laughing my butt off.
Take care ladies!
Karen

[SharonAnne]

Girl dream!

This could, quite possibly be one of the oddest dreams I've ever had. :LOL

I was home, but it was actually my parents' OLD apartment, where I lived the FIRST time I was pg and miscarried. I was getting ready for school (haven't been in school in a good six years or so), and I was trying to get some food together. I was trying to eat breakfast, AND get lunch together, because I didn't want to eat the crap in the cafeteria. I wanted a good healthy, organic lunch, and I imagined my friends Joe and Jaime woudl laugh their butts off at me, but I didn't care (When I was in school, there was nothing I liked more than greasy pizza from that non-organic cafeteria :LOL)

Besides thinking of Jaime and Joe laughing at me, I was also trying DESPERATELY to be on time because I had had a fight with my husband the day before about me not being on time for work (IRL, DH and I own a business, and we DID have a snafu about me being late yesterday. But, this is the ONLY time I thought about DH in this dream and he wasn't in it.)

So, I"m buttering a whole grain english muffin, and my brother's eating breakfast at the table. A movement catches my eye, and I look down to see a perfect baby girl in a carrier. She's grinning up at me. I'm not surprised to see HER. I think I was surprised that she was awake, or something. So, I unhook her from teh carrier and she puts her arms out to me. This is my daughter. I know this is my daughter. I pick her up and say "Did you say hi to Uncle Danny?" And she waves at my brother.

I about DIE. "DANNY! Did you SEE THAT!" It was the first time she waved at anyone. And she was giggling her little feet off. :LOL My dad came out of his bedroom and asked what the commotion was, and I told him the baby just waved at Danny.

I dance with her into the bedroom. Well, I was GOING to my bedroom, but I went to my brother's bedroom instead, because, for some reason, that's where all the baby's clothes were My mom had put all her clothes in several piles, ones that were still too big, ones that would fit now, ones that were too small, ones that were ugly. I laid down on the bed and put the baby on my belly, she crawled up to my chest. This was the first time she crawled, and I about freaked out again. Dad poked his head in, and I said, "SHe just CRAWLED!"

Now, I did at one point have a passing thought, about how I was going to be late again, but I didn't care one bit. :LOL

Anyway, go ahead, tell me I'm nuts, but I don't think this dream was about the baby i'm carrying. I think it was about the baby I miscarried. And here's why.

The only THOUGHT of my husband was because we had a fight yesterday. Obviously, I was still upset about that and my subconscious was working on it. :LOL

Other than that, I was in the same apartment as I lived in when I miscarried. I was also getting ready for school; I was in college when I miscarried. There was no recognition of DH as DD's Dad, either. Of course, there was no thought of another dad, either. But, that's probably just because I"m sure I'd have been mostly on my own had that pregnancy not ended in a miscarriage.

So, go ahead, tell me I'm crazy. :LOL It was still agreat dream, regardless of what baby it was about.

[twouglyducks]

I had a weird dream last night. Lots of driving around some busy town in different cars. Don't even think I was pg. while driving. But then I pulled back into the trailer house in a salvage yard or car dealer or something where I lived with my parents ICK!!!! I had a weird feeling in my stomach and thought, "I may be going into labor". Reach down, baby is crowning. Climb up into this huge bed holding the head, by the time I lie back the head is out and I checked for a cord. Then this HUUUUUGE kid slides out... never turned so I pulled "it" out back to me. I think it's been too long since I've held a newborn b/c I thought this baby was tiny, but when I layed it on my chest the top of the head and all of the legs were hanging off. LMAO!! For some reason I assumed it was a boy even though we were all talking about "Yay, she's here..." and such. Strange dream, but that type of labor would be nice... As long as it weren't at say, walmart.

[NiksMom]

So from pretty much the first day I found out I was pregnant, I've had a feeling that it's a girl. Well last night I had a dream that they did and ultrasound and then I was immediately in labor (natural no c-section yay!) and gave birth to a little boy. I said to my hubby 'well it looks like I was completely wrong'! Isn't that weird? It may be because my son keeps saying that he will only be a big brother to a baby brother- that he doesn't want a baby sister. Who knows? But maybe I am wrong...

[aja-belly]

i had a dream last night that i started bleeding badly. it was the first dream like that i've had all pregnancy. i know it probably doesn't mean anything (except maybe i've been worrying too much) but it was still soooo sad.

aja

[twouglyducks]

Okay... had yet another birth dream last night and I guess I really forgot how tiny newborns are b/c I watched a BIIIIG baby come out of me... forehead first. She was about 8 weeks old i think. :LOL
Anyway, I was in the backyard of my childhood home, by a bush. Just squatting by myself... My gma would show up occassionally. I didn't push too long and it never hurt. I was never scared. It was funny though. The umb. cord was smaller than a straw. :

[punkprincessmama]

I had my first birthing dream last night! I dreamnt I was in labor and everything was going really well. It was early labor still. Then I came out of the bathroom and immediately felt like pushing! I totally skipped transition I guess. I sat down on the edge of the bed and pushed for awhile, i remember my water breaking, and then out came this beautiful baby girl Dh caught her. It all happened so quickly that he had never even called our midwife! It was a great dream, too bad this is all I remember of it. The funny thing is that I've had other dreams about this baby, and the baby was always a boy in those dreams. This time I dreamnt about the actual birth and the baby was a girl.

[NiksMom]

Once again I have had a birth dream- the third in which I had a natural vaginal birth
It was the most realistic. You guys know that I am so worried that this one will be breech like my son was... well I have been trying techniques in case she is still breech like she was at my 28 week ultrasound. I have been living, breathing, eating, sleeping breech and worrying so much about it- I think about what position she is in constantly.
Well I had the most realistic dream that I had a natural birth and I stayed completely relaxed throughout- I was meditating and in a dream-like trance and all my muscles were relaxed. Then they handed me a swaddled little bundle and I looked down into Katelyn's face- I actually saw her entire face in this dream and she was so small. And my mom, husband and one of my sisters was there and I remember her telling me that I only had one small tear and I told her that I was so surprised and happy that I didn't even feel them stitching it up. It was a really pleasant dream. I honestly feel like it was a premonition- that that is how my labor is going to be and that I'm not going to end up with a repeat section like I keep fearing. Either that or wishful thinking...

[dynamohumm6]

Lorrie, wishful thinking or not, use that dream to "visualize" your birth!! Sounds awesome

[SharonAnne]

Dreamed last night that I had my sweet baby, and it was a GIRL (first girl dream! )

We were at my grandparents' apartment (I've been dreaming about their apartment a lot, which is odd, because they've both been dead for years. the only thing I can think of is that it was so central to my family for most of my life, and that's why most of my dreams have been taking place there. I guess) Anyway, my best friend was there, as well, with her baby, who was older than he really is. There were other people around, as well; family I imagine, although no one stands out.

My baby started fussing a bit, so I started to nurse, but she was having some latching trouble. I was very careful to do everything right, re: positioning and such. She didn't have as much nipple in her mouth as she should have, but she was getting milk, so I didn't worry. At some point, I looked down and she was my cat, who's also dead. when I woke up, the image of me nursing my cat was the image that brought the whole dream flooding back to me :LOL

Anyway, Lianne (best friend) had left her son near the front window, where he was playing with some toys. My grandfather came up behind him and started talking to him and playing with the toys with him. Lianne and I exchanged looks, and I told DH to go get the baby. My grandfather molested me when I was a kid, and Lianne knows this. We were careful in the dream to keep our babies away from him.

It was a weird dream; the first time I've dreamt about my grandfather in about a billion years, the second time I've EVER dreamt about him, in fact. The first time I dreamt the baby is a girl. Nursing the cat (that was freaking odd.) I think it's also the first time I ever dreamed about Lianne, too.

I'm holding on to the baby girl part, though :LOL