Dreams are funny things. If I dream in the morning right before I wake up I can usually remember the dream for at least a short while. Last night I had a weird one about Jessica sitting in a hospital waiting room, waiting to be put in a room so she could have her baby. (by the way I just found out she DID have her baby! She was in the hospital as I was dreaming about it! More on that another time.) But the dream ended up including a booby trapped haunted looking house, a realestate agent, a poisened egg, and an apple smoothie. What does it mean? Probably that I read too many fantasy novels. Due to the random nature of my dreams I am more apt to believe that they are random images the brain tries to piece together to make sense of it, rather than some deep desire or dark fear.
This isn't to say dreams are entirely random, after all, I was dreaming about Jessica having a baby, that part was real in the real world. When I was pregnant I had many dreams about having a baby, like my dream about working the baby conveyer belt and it was my job to put a bandaid over the bellybutton and wrap them up and put them in cradles. I got behind and the babies started falling off the belt and onto the floor. Obviously a baby conveyer belt is not a good idea, but perhaps this stemmed from my fear of being a mom and trying to keep up. *shrug* I'm no dream therapist.
Most of my dreams seem to take place in the past. Like when I was in high school. They usually include people I knew in high school and places I went in high school. Just recently my dreams have started to include things like me being married or even finally dreams with Jaden in them (there have only been 3 I can remember). I am comforted by the fact that my dreams have finally caught up to my real life. I wonder if I wasn't holding onto the past too much and being a mom has finally given me the kick I needed to let go. Curious isn't it.
Course then there are the dreams that are in third person. Like I'm not there at all really. Like I'm reading about it or watching a movie. Am I the only one this happens to? They are full of people I've never met and places I've never been and I was just watching. Wierd.
This isn't to say dreams are entirely random, after all, I was dreaming about Jessica having a baby, that part was real in the real world. When I was pregnant I had many dreams about having a baby, like my dream about working the baby conveyer belt and it was my job to put a bandaid over the bellybutton and wrap them up and put them in cradles. I got behind and the babies started falling off the belt and onto the floor. Obviously a baby conveyer belt is not a good idea, but perhaps this stemmed from my fear of being a mom and trying to keep up. *shrug* I'm no dream therapist.
Most of my dreams seem to take place in the past. Like when I was in high school. They usually include people I knew in high school and places I went in high school. Just recently my dreams have started to include things like me being married or even finally dreams with Jaden in them (there have only been 3 I can remember). I am comforted by the fact that my dreams have finally caught up to my real life. I wonder if I wasn't holding onto the past too much and being a mom has finally given me the kick I needed to let go. Curious isn't it.
Course then there are the dreams that are in third person. Like I'm not there at all really. Like I'm reading about it or watching a movie. Am I the only one this happens to? They are full of people I've never met and places I've never been and I was just watching. Wierd.
Do babies dream? I tend to think they do, but what do they dream about? What they know is so limited. Or is it? Can they still see where they came from before they came here when they are asleep? What about when they cry in their sleep without really waking up? Are they having nightmares? What do they have to be afraid of? Just my mind wandering as I watch my little one sleep.
Ya know what? I have had a dream I do understand completely. It was when I was 8 months pregnant and I had a dream that Ryan and I were at a party in this gigantic house. It had like 12 living rooms, 20 kitches, a million secret passage ways and hidey holes, but I could not find a single bathroom anywhere in the whole house! Well it didn't take long to figure out that I needed to wake up and go to bathroom. Just funny how the brain works at night don't ya think?
Ya know what? I have had a dream I do understand completely. It was when I was 8 months pregnant and I had a dream that Ryan and I were at a party in this gigantic house. It had like 12 living rooms, 20 kitches, a million secret passage ways and hidey holes, but I could not find a single bathroom anywhere in the whole house! Well it didn't take long to figure out that I needed to wake up and go to bathroom. Just funny how the brain works at night don't ya think?
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