The Wonderful World of Sleep & Dreams

Oh, and falling out of fairground rides.

I seem to have always had dreams which are variations of the same themes.

Being chased, hiding, (sometimes combined with being able to not exactly fly, but jump and glide and hover)

Moving to new homes, which are full of different shaped rooms and cubby holes.

Babies; having one, looking after one for someone else.

Being late and increasingly stressed because I can't get to where I'm going.

Being asked to look after a couple of cats or dogs.
Letting myself into the house to find it's a pack of wolves, or a few lions, which stalk me around the home.

Another dream of folk out to get me, last night. This time I was in a house, in which I'd armed myself with a beautiful, shiny, silver sword (my dad was even there, helping me to make sure it worked by putting something on the handle). I realised at some point I'd forgotten my pistol. I "knew" that someone was going to mortar the far end of the house, which they did. My friend Di was there but she was a baddie. (Other stuff happened but I can't really recall that).

(I watched the end of Lover, Stalker, Killer yesterday so wonder if that had anything to do with it. And reading so many articles about Gaza?)

Juliet27

I don’t often seem to dream and my Fitbit REM results seem to confirm that apart from the amount shown when I had the dream I’ve mentioned.
Anyone else take note of such Fitbit results?

There was an episode of SLICED BREAD on Radio Four this week all about Fitbit/Smart Watch type things and whether they help with monitoring sleep. Worth a listen to. I forget exactly what the results of the sleep bit were, but they didn't give the results people were looking for.

I don’t often seem to dream and my Fitbit REM results seem to confirm that apart from the amount shown when I had the dream I’ve mentioned.
Anyone else take note of such Fitbit results?

I dreamed recently that I was hosting a ‘do’. The guests were arriving but I realised I hadn’t bought in extra wine and couldn’t get hold of my husband who was still at work to ask him to buy some on the way home. Panic set in.
It was probably a manifestation of my usual sense of inadequacy. When I told my husband about the dream he said ‘oh, my fault again then?’ Hmm a rather telling dream that I’d rather forget.

I dream a lot. Flying, mostly to escape baddies, was a constant in my childhood. Later, during and for many years after, it being dragged kicking and screaming to a degree exam in a subject I didn’t study.
In later years, it was moving into one of several house I’d never been in, leave lived in… the house was one of several constants.
I ever dream of people I know/love!

I m sure I do dream but I don’t remember anything so no stories to add

I often dream about places I knew as a child, or homes I lived in, but they have usually changed in some way. In fact buildings feature more than anything else in my dreams. At one time I used to dream about spooky houses and even though they looked scary I sometimes went inside and was perfectly calm and not frightened at all.

I do have very vivid and traumatic dreams and have sometimes woken up screaming and sobbing!

They are often triggered by things that happened in the past, particularly during my childhood and teen years. Many feature being chased, locked up or punished in some form.

I also have revenge dreams.

I dream I am back at my childhood home and standing looking out of my bedroom window. Low flying military planes feature often, so low I can see the pilot in the cockpit.
Strangely my sister often dreams she is back at the house too.
The owners have renovated the house and added extensions and I don't get to enter the new parts.

In my dreams I'm with people who I know and are fond of , I will be chatting and laughing and spending time and I know them so well . Then I wake up and ask myself who were those people ?

In one dream a handsome gentle kind man was singing " Annie's song " to me and strumming a guitar , he was my soul mate , he truly loved me for me . I was so in love and felt so lucky . Then I woke up and he was gone forever .

Bodach

I've had dreams where I can "fly" before but not necessarily with any purpose!

I also have ones where I'm in a tall building and it's falling....

But being able to fly sometimes could be useful!

Very recently I have dreamed about dogs- usually they are dogs I know, such as my neighbours, and sometimes they just appear.
They frequently go for me, to the point I feel them clamping their jaws on my legs, then I wake up. I do wonder if I'm just sleeping funny, and my legs aren't quite right but quite scary just the same.

I rarely dream, or at least rarely remember dreams. I do have a recurring vivid nightmare of frantically trying to hide several dead bodies around my house with the police knocking at the door. I mentioned it at a family do once and my son in law casually said that he had that dream as well. DD1 just looked at us both in horror. 😂

Oh, and I did once hear the next day’s winning lottery numbers in a dream. I woke up scrabbling for a pen and paper but only managed to write down four correctly before they faded, though I was close with the other two. I won about £60. Since then I’ve kept a pen and paper handy, just in case……

I'm sure I have posted before on GN about the recurring dream I have enjoyed for as long as I can remember: that I can levitate myself - just by thinking about doing it. As long as I hold that particular thought, I rise quietly and un-noticed from the ground and float about the ceiling, or fly myself slowly around the rooftops, looking down on the unsuspecting people below. As I lose the thought, so I descend gradually and land gently. If only I could do it when awake...