Anyone else having vivid nightmares?

As I have already suggested on a previous post, the readers of which that were not impressed as it was not lighthearted.

Suppose we have now been given the opportunity to look within and reassess our priorities in life? On Gransnet our families are hugely important but so are WE.

Looking at what are known as the 'simple' things of life, maybe these are actually more important than 'keeping up with the Jones', fantastic clothes, the latest furniture and all those electronic 'toys'.

Or am being too philosophical, heavy and boring?

Another one early this morning and definitely a self-isolating dream as DH and I were on a beach, which could have been a favourite one featured in Maggie Cole on TV last night, then we got cut off by the tide, had to scramble up some sand dunes, although there aren't sand dunes on that beach. We're marooned on an island.

? we need a boat

Thought it was just me but I'm the same as you Chewbacca.
Fall asleep easy enough and then jolted awake in the middle of the night by a nightmare, with my heart pounding and perspiring.
One the other night was so so scary I was afraid to fall asleep again. I was in a large suitcase ? and more and more people were squeezing in, until I was pushed up to the roof and trying to keep a little space in front of me to breathe.
Makes me tired and out of sorts the next day.

Yes but always have vivid dreams/ nightmares in periods of high anxiety. It’s happened at other bad time’s in my life. It’s very disorientating waking up in the middle of the night when you live alone. I do manage to calm myself back down . Often put the light on and read. If it’s near getting up time I do sometimes remember a lot of it.

I woke this morning to hear my OH's voice calling my name. Clear as a bell; definitely his voice. He died in February - make of this what you will. Please do not come on here and tell me he is calling me to join him - life is already bad enough!

I realise that these things sometimes happen in the moment before waking when you are betwixt and between. Bizarre.

J52;
" Not nightmares, but a couple of nights ago I dreamt that we were all issued with rainbow fluffy toys that were mechanical, rather like Furbies!"

Propaganda innit.

Oh yes H1954 I recognise that only too well. Fall asleep fast enough and then the weird dream jolts me wide awake and I can't get back to sleep for a few hours. It's a nightmare see what I did there. when you have to be up for work the next morning.

Yes, I am having weird dreams too. They're not always scarey or on the nightmare scale but really weird! I'm not sleeping properly either, anyone else having that problem? I've already been to bed, can't settle and decided to get up again, this happens quite often too!

I sometimes get the lavatory dream in the middle of the night - the one where you can't find one and when you do eventually, there's no door on it, and lots of passersby!

Yes me too . I often wake just after I’ve gone to sleep startled .

I think you're right about it being close to when you wake up Callistemon that you remember more of it. But sometimes, I'm jolted fully awake, in the middle of the night by a vivid dream, and I really can't remember much of what it was about. Probably just as well!

Evie64 - the dream about the carpet represents your anxiety that the stability in your life (i.e. what is under your feet) is changing and you want to put it back in place (get your life back to its previous stability). The taxi dream means that you and your family are trying to get back to safety (your home i.e. your old life) but you have no control over this journey or the length of it. You are not sure if anyone is actually in control at all (the boxing gloves). Your leaving the taxi means your desire to take control, get home and get your life back.
These are all virus related dreams!

I don't usually remember anything much. But the one I had on Sunday morning must have been just before I woke up and I can remember in detail.
Definitely an anxiety dream, but very mixed up with past and present.

Do you remember much of your dream when you wake up in the morning? I usually remember that I had a disturbing dream, and bits of it, but not the full details. But sometimes, throughout the day, something will happen that jogs my memory. Anyone else?

Yes, horrendous nightmares, too horrible to tell people about.

Deep breathing EllanVannin, I think the 4:7:8 technique we use in yoga helps.
The last place we need to be at the moment is in a hospital for any reason.

Dreams are odd but probably all our anxieties are manifesting themselves in a dream so relieving them we hope.

Glad it's not just me. Night before last I dreamt that I was trying to lay a stair carpet on the awkward turn at the top of the stairs! Kept getting it wrong, pulling the carpet tacks out and trying again! Never laid a carpet in my life? WTF? Last night I dreamt myself, my DH (who used to be a black cab driver in Central London) and my 35 year old daughter when she was got into a black cab to take us home from the airport after a holiday. The driver was a woman and she was wearing boxing gloves and I was really worried about her being able to drive safely. She also kept taking detours, like going to a garage and having a new tyre fitted etc without stopping the meter. I was absolutely furious in my dream and my DH was refusing to say anything. I remember storming out of the cab and walking home with my daughter. Weird, really really weird! Woke up with the raving hump which took a bowl of cornflakes couple of hours to wear off. Bonkers eh?

Yes, I'm anxious Callistemon but can't afford to be or I'll have one of my A/F " turns " and end up in resus so I do the deep breathing and try and shut off.
It's worse when you've got nobody to talk to as well because your imagination runs riot.

I'm thinking of all the staff trying to cope too and also getting ill and dying themselves, poor souls.

I had one on Saturday night.

It was disturbing but probably an anxiety dream.

Not nightmares but very vivid, alarming dreams. I seem to go from being in a very deep sleep to suddenly wide awake, heart thumping, and cannot get back off to sleep again. Happening most nights now.

I must have been dreaming before I suddenly woke this morning for as plain as could be someone whispered in my ear " Jill's dead ". I can still hear the voice but I don't know who Jill is. So vivid and for most of the day I've had one of those off and on headaches and just felt muggy.

Yes me too. Vivid dreams, huge cast of characters. A real Cecil B. de Mille production these nights.

I wish I could dream - I just can’t sleep. My head won’t switch off

Yep! Really weird dreams, but not all nightmares. Some are quite nice, but all are vivid - and definitely in colour.

I hope that wasn’t one of those dreams where you’re out in public without a stitch on, Oopsminty!