I have recently become a very vivid dreamer. It's weird. I assume I always dream, because doesn't everybody? But I never remembered my dreams when I woke up. But in the last few months, I have been experiencing incredibly vivid and somewhat realistic dreams, and remembering them when I woke up. Some are horrible nightmares, such as watching my brother Chris be killed and die right in front of me, while others are just absurd, like living in Eureka and the people I know from the Bay Area are living up there. And not my close friends either; just people I kind of know through friends and co-workers.
It's really very odd. I'm not sure what my subconscience is trying to work out. I could look everything up in a dream interpretation book (there are actually psychology textbooks for therapists to reference on this subject matter), but I just don't want to. I'm a little scared about what I'd find out. I miss not remembering my dreams. I'd like to go back to that state of being. It was just easier than trying to figure out what the heck is going on in my brain at night.
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I think you can blame this one on the pregnancy; at least, I always have very vivid dreams when I'm pregnant, and often remember them. I think I used to be more like that as a kid, too, and it gradually happened less as I aged.
Definitely a pregnancy thing. It's worst with the first and after that it fades. With Jonathan, I had horrible dreams all the time, super vivid too, that Jeff died and I was left alone with a baby. Dreamed that a lot with James too. Stopped dreaming it after that. Phew! This fourth time, I've had hardly any vivid dreams, thank goodness! I think it's the much more extreme exhaustion... LOL!
Pregnancy thing. I had crazy dreams with all four pregnancies. Super vivid, strange dreams that I always remembered when I woke up--and some I still remember 5 1/2 years later.
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