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Menopause Discussion => Personal Experiences => Topic started by: toffeecushion on November 06, 2014, 04:39:38 AM
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Anyone notice an increase of dreaming during peri menopause?
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hello...yes I think I've noticed this...I haven't been aware that I've had any dreams in years but lately keep waking up in the small hours realising i've just had one...weird!
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Me too, not really nightmares but not nice dreams.
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I'm having some weird dreams that are hard to shake off X
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Definitely weird dreams are a menopause symptom. I had a break from HRT for 3 years during my early 50s & my sleep was very broken and any dreams I had were unpleasant and would keep me awake because I couldn't get them out of my head. When I went back on HRT, one of the first things I noticed was that I was getting better quality sleep with good dreams.
I've just had a horrible night - I managed to drop off to sleep but woke quite quickly & then couldn't' get back to sleep. I felt really hot and restless and the bits of sleep I did get gave me horrid dreams. Off to work now - I hope I can concentrate. DG x
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I was on beta blockers last year and found my dreams horrible, frightening about family members, can be a side effect seemingly. Anyway now off them and on HRT and now my dreams are good, sometimes waken myself laughing! When i awake in the morning i have a chuckle to myself. Sometimes they are a little risky if you know what i mean ;) reminds me of the TV programme Stella that was on, she was put on HRT and had some erotic dreams, at the time I thought Aye right ill have some of that, now ive got some of that ;D
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Its weird isnt it DG...hope you m
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Yes, me too!! I dream a lot, and can even dream on the sofa if I fall asleep - they're very vivid too! I notice it more on the Utrogestan phase of my HRT.
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Vivid dreams every night. Last night I was buying a bra, I asked for sassy. ;D Got see- thru number. Then tried on a chiffon playsuit which was in a sale for £80. So much detail. Should have seen my hair this morning! ;D ;D
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Hi
Ye I mentioned dreams about family members they were so scary, that was few months ago and still I can visualise them, really messed with my days x
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My medication gives me busy, involved, long dreams - brain picks up something from the news, adds friends not thought of for years++, situations that I have glimpsed in the day-time and runs with it all: not awful but stupidly involved!
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I have bad dreams since I started HRT, definately a link between the two for me! Didn't sleep as much before I started on the HRT but when I did, I didn't dream.
Most dreams are not nice dreams either.
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I found that if I slept in the day I didn't dream at all ::)
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Hi - on Northisterone phase I get bad scary dreams!
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Well I had some wacky dreams last night ::)
1 was about my hairy legs. I was asked along to a 'do' which meant wearing a skirt :o so I went in a long one but when I sat the legs were on show :-\ …… and someone was really looking in disgust at them ……. [I looked at my legs as I slipped into bed]
another was about being bombed - I was on the outside of a village and all hell was happening around me, bombs being lobbed into a corralled village in Africa: but no-one seemed to see me …… however, I decided to lay down and play dead - but I wanted to save my wedding ring because if someone tried to pull it from my finger I would move ……
can't remember the 3rd - it was vivid though. I'm ready for sleep now.
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I had a horrid one the other night. I was giving hubby what for about driving a massive lorry & parking it outside the house. He can't drive lorries by the way. Anyway as I laid into him, he laid into me, something he wouldn't do in the real world as he's the calming influence in our relationship. He told me where to go, never wanted to see me again ever! I started hitting him & he was pushing me out the door. I woke in such a state!
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I can understand - probably your brain telling you what you fear? I talk in my sleep ::)
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Goodness knows CLKD. No idea where on earth that mish mash came from.
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Fascinating! I wake exhausted sometimes ::) - years ago I used to dread going to sleep :-\ - now I train my brain to say 'enough, wake up' …..
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Busy; un-related; involved; people who I haven't thought of for years ::) - not horrid like they used to be but busy, involved ………….
It really does amaze me how mixed up my dreams have become!
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I know I dream more now than I used to, but I can hardly ever remember them when I wake up.
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Some I do. Others that seem interesting whilst I'm in them and that I would like to review, disappear on waking ;D
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Vivid , detailed often unpleasant dreams here too. It's been since starting the hrt but I don't know if the dreams are because of the hrt or if it's because I'm finally getting enough sleep to dream.
T
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I don't think we'll every know ::) - my brain picks up an item from World News, adds friends not seen/thought about for years++, mixes it up then goes away on it's own, making up stories :D ……..
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One I had last night was all dentist orientated. Had dentist this morning & was dreading him saying to go to evil hygienist! He accepted my explanation, in fact I don't think it was a surprise to him.
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Oh the issues that play on our minds ::)
I often have dreams about houses I have lived in or been a regular visitor to. Wanting to see if there have been up-dates to house or garden ::) ……….
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A common one I have involves tornados. I'm fascinated by all those storm chasing programmes, although glad I have never been in one. Have seen one once in Germany. In my dreams I'm always trying to save children from the tornados.
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I run from people. I used to have bad dreams about wolves coming to get me ……… ::)
Anyone fall over or trip up a kerb as they drop off to sleep what's all that about ::)
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In my dream we were in a queue of traffic in the village where my Gran lived for a while; cars weren't moving, she came running out smiling, waving; "Come on in, I've made a cuppa and there's some buns straight out of the oven" so we turned the car round and parked - by which time the queue had gone :-\ - Gran died in the 1980s ::) : flowing on from that I was walking in a pretty square and a friend not seen for over 35 years walked towards me, "Are you going to College next wee?" - nope, I replied, "I can't get my head round all that again, even though it would be lovely to see everyone" .......... all in bright sunshine. All with no anxiety.
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I've noticed I have the most vivid dreams these days - really odd ones too usually - I'm sure a dream analyser would have a field day with some of mine!
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I know what triggers some of them ::) …… I don't always remember them ………
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Bears: yep, those fluffy stuffed toys, not ::)
I saw a photo yesterday of a train in Canada - in front of the train was a grizzly bear standing on his hind feet so the train had stopped. So my brain took all that on board …….. in my dream a friend had asked me to take care of 2 bears whilst on holiday. One lived in a cardboard box the other in the airing cupboard. The latter was easier to take for a walk than the one in the box, 'cos I didn't know where his head was - being curled up and all. So I spent a lot of the dream gently poking the bear in the box to wake him gently ……. once out of the box I fixed a harness on both bears and off we went. No one in the street batted an eyelid ;D but we didn't let them off lead in the fields …….. then it was back to the house and into the box/airing cupboard :D ……. ;D
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Last night I walked for miles & miles in my sleep. Supposedly in Glasgow, but many things were different. I could see the SECC from Kingston Bridge, no River Clyde it was all housing. I was very confused by the view & remember thinking I was lost. My mind must have been working overtime last night!
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I've had lots of busy dreams this week ::) - one I was able to relate to DH immediately on walking. Can't remember it now.
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I was on Amitriptyline for 7 months last year. I slept very deeply but stopped dreaming. Since stopping taking it, my sleep has sometimes been quite poor and erratic. And I still haven't started dreaming again.
But funnily enough I've just enjoyed a really good 2 weeks on my HRT (only started it 5 weeks ago), and felt the best I have felt since my peri menopause journey began. And I have started dreaming again. They're quite long dreams and leave me feeling quite uplifted and happy.
On Monday night I dreamt I was shopping in my home town with my Mum, on a really warm sunny day. We turned a corner to find a whole street of exciting new shops that we had never seen before. Pretty dull stuff but actually the dream was very happy and I woke up feeling happier as a result.
It can't be coincidence can it?
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I was in Burma the other night. Now I've never flown ……… but had sold up the house and gone there. DH was following on a separate plane with more luggage. I was wandering in and out of streets and came upon one which was built like an English Victorian Street complete with red tiled roofs. I slept in a small room (in a terrace arrangement) and a lady came at 4.30 a.m. to light the Primus stove to make tea and boil water for washing. 4.30 :o but I didn't seem to mind. The whole area was foggy. Tourists had to walk 2 miles as the coaches couldn't get and were disappointed not to have a view!
But there was a view, I saw it (in my dream). It arrived every morning, early - FabULus! hence being woken at 4.30 I suppose ::)
At the back of the small room was a bath and loo on a balcony :o over-looking a valley …...
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Last night I was climbing sand dunes. Not regular sized one, these were like mountains. Hubby was pushing a bike up the with our daughter. I trekked my way up following well trampled paths. In my head I was in Lossiemouth, but view was much more spectacular.
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I've read my dream about bears and I don't remember that at all :-\ - maybe I dreamt it ::)
I wonder how much our brains never let out once we've experienced something, mine seems to pick up all kinds of issues each day and then scrambles them ;D
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Since I posted upthread a few weeks ago saying I had started dreaming again, I seem to dream most nights. Really quite long, busy dreams that seem to last hours. So far they have all been quite calm happy dreams which I hope is a positive sign?
Any scientific person on here able to explain the link between hormone levels and dreaming? I know when I took ADs back when I had PND I never dreamed at all.
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I am aware of dreaming most nights, but seldom remember content. Always been like that.
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My dreams got busier etc. when I found an AD which suits me ::) - usually I can't remember them or maybe parts …...
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Last night was busy!
Brother in Law and his wife decided that they wanted to buy a saluki - so after a bit of adverse advice from me they went to Whippet rescue and came out with 1 tan whippet and a little girl of 18 months - who had a full vocabulary and could chat away 19-/dozen. I then had to explain to them how to keep the whippet secure whilst travelling and we went to Halfords for a car seat as they apparently do a free fitting :-\ …….. but when we arrived it wasn't Halfords but Woolies :D ……. so we were directed round various towns I've visited in my past looking for a suitable child seat ………. DH kept yawning …….. at times he was driving the car other times it was someone else ……….
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Well I had the busiest, craziest dreams last night!
Went to a country park where there were animals roaming free, (1) i.e. lions, snakes, a large bull - but people didn't seem phased though it was bothering me a lot. DH was with me initially and we were trying to find somewhere to buy food, then he suddenly disappeared into the distance (a) and Mum was there …….. she was trying to use her mobile phone to contact DH but I couldn't read the numbers on the keypad …….. we then found ourselves in a ruin again with lots of people around (b). Several times during the dream lost dogs were trying to reach me and I only had one lead ……. (2)
1 - neighbour went to a local zoo during the week
a - he did this in a town earlier this year, suddenly disappeared :o
b - I tried to phone him but was shaking so much I couldn't hold the mobile still enough
2 - neighbour is thinking about getting a pup
SO it's logical in that my brain is picking up daily events which it then scrambles but it makes me SO tired :-\
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My problem on waking up is deciding what day it is ::)
Honeyb
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I had that this morning,on being rudelya awakened by my mobile ringing I thought what day is it ,initiayly thought it was Monday ! :-\
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I rarely know what day it is ::) ……. another busy night but can't now remember the dream - I was looking for clothes to put on at one time, I wasn't naked but my brain decided that I wasn't wearing appropriate clothing for the situation :-\ ……. so I've been searching which is tiring :D
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Last night's dream went on and on and : began with someone I know asking me whether I had dried a new muesli on the market, supposedly when fed to children and pets it made them controllable. :-\ DH and I exchanged glances. We went into a field with this person, her 3 children and 5 dogs and they were really good. Apparnetly it is fed at breakfast time and works within an hour.
She then suggested that I took charge of the dogs ……… which proved my point that it wasn't like to be the muesli because they ran riot! all round the field, up the lane, into the road in and out between vehicles ??? even the owner couldn't make them behalf.
We saw several people at that pioint in the dream who had been trying the new muesli …….. don't think it was working well at that point ::)
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Damn, and I was about to do a search for the stuff ;D
great dream.
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If you find some ;D ……….
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Busy all night :o ::)
I was at a market looking for DH who was supposedly selling stuff on a stall: nothing was priced >:( so people were asking and I had no idea what to charge - I could see DH frowning each time I suggested a price but he wasn't close enough to ask!
At one time there was a black Labrador involved + laundry - DH had his stall where my linen line hangs so I was unable to reach it. We were talking about double glazing and at one point, our local Vet was suggesting that he could fit it for us.
Apparently I was countering towards dawn so DH gently woke me up. It took me ages to surface ::)
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Were you scared? Were they blue ………. ?
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Horrible dreams nowadays! Recurring dream of going somewhere and trying to get ready but am very late so much stuff to sort. The other night I dreamt I was packing to leave a holiday with my old school friend I hadn't seen for years. She was out swanning around somewhere and I was trying to pack - realising that all this stuff and rubbish in the room was mine and there was no way I could fit it in my case!!
Most horrid is about my teeth. I am talking to someone and they start falling out, they are really big and I am trying to hold them in my mouth as I try to talk!!!
Linda
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Since being on the BCP and feeling so much better in myself I have noticed my dreams are quite calm and nice in their content.
Back before HRT and BCP I had virtually stopped dreaming at all.
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I was looking for an office in my dream. I had been offered an afternoon, 5-day a week, secretarial job but hadn't received a letter telling me who would be meeting me or how much I was being paid.
I was wandering around a private care home. Through different areas with locked doors, at 1 point I was given a 'key': (like the 1 I used to get out of the campsite at the weekend): so that I could access those areas. Without supervision …….. I heard one person say 'that's the new secretary' and another 'she looks lost' but no-one approached with help. At 1 point a dog came out from under a desk and I was told I would get a typewriter if I guessed the breed correctly. BedlingtonX but the woman didn't agree.
One girl had a manual type-writer :o (saw several in the fair for sale over the weekend ::)) and I was told that everyone used them. Well not I! MAC or nowt ;D. At 1 point I saw my sister struggling up some stairs but she was too far away for me to assist. Eventually I told this particular girl that I wasn't hanging around any longer ………
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Last night my jeans were dirty - at the knees, with chicken poo …… I was searching the shops for a skirt :o but my Dad (who hated girls in trousers, he wanted his daughters girly) was telling me that it was OK to visit the Queen in the jeans I was wearing as we were LATE! The stains on my knees were getting worse and I was searching for a skirt shop until we arrived at ……….. I know not where but the Queen had cancelled the meeting anyway.
The chicken poo came from keeping poultry until recently, often kneeling to collect eggs or change bedding. But visiting the Queen ;D
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In the early hours I was dreaming about a friend not seen for 20 years. I had sent him an e-mail yesterday. He was here, digging our garden :-\ …….. waiting for his girlfriend to arrive so DH went to collect her from the station. People from our past wandered in and out of our house all seemed to know each other: however, none of them had met in reality ::)
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Anyone notice an increase of dreaming during peri menopause?
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Im very very post meno last period 20 yrs ago at 40
I have had dreams on and off most good
Lat night I dreamt my cousin DIED now whats weird is this time last year my DAD was sick I didnt know
His slapper of a woman didnt inform me I was told 5am in Ozz Xmas day we flew home Dad died 2d Jan
I stayed with my cousin and the family for a month had the funeral from her house and the wake
My cousins been in and out of hospital with a hip replacement that worked then she had a blood clot she nearly died. Then she put all the weight back on shed lost for the operation and more Clinc Obeses
Dad of course is on my mind so mix the lot together and the dreams normal xxxxxxxxxxxx
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Yep SuziQ - my brain picks up news items and remembers people that I haven't though of for years++ ::)
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The past is so clear like watching a film I can see rooms furniture feel and touch
It used to be the older people said tha past was clearer I agree now Im older xxxxxxxxx
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May I giggle :D
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Well my brain was in over-drive last night ::) - we had bought a bungalow apparently built between our current row of houses and the main road :-\ …….. the garden kept getting larger and larger and at one point there was a concrete based pond ……. and a neighbour who said 'yew' to a cabbage - there were rows of them in the garden :o ………. sometimes it was surrounded by hedges, at other parts in the dream by new wooden fencing ::) ……….
I also went back into a dream that I had last week ……… a little bit further and my brain was saying 'we've been here B4' ;D
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Our bungalow was trampled by an elephant :-\ …… now we've never flown, been to Africa etc.; however. The property we bought - all open plan over-looking the garden with one area of scrub about 100 yards aware; was apparently the route of elephants. One matriac decided she didn't want to walk round the property so stood, mumbling in the area of scrub ……. I was scared! but were told she would eventually change her mind.
She didn't! I found her upstairs :-\ on the terrace from which we could see the Plains. She was waving her head and trunk :o and because of her weight she fell through the terrace ……… then rampaged through the lounge/dining/room ………. then I woke up.
The property was similar to 1 which I had seen in the Property pages over the weekend; the elephant kept changing size ::) ; the garden was lovely and the scrub deep ……….
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Last night I had a busy involved dream which has left me feeling hung over :-\
Again we had bought a property but the previous owner didn't know :-\ …….. it had deep steps leading to the very ornate, Georgian front door. The previous owner arrived in a wheelchair wanting to go inside . How do get her down those steps was a big problem. Then I was called to the back of the house where 3 men and two black Labs. were waiting for a coffee …… Labs were muddy! so I put kettle on (as you do). Next thing the owner in her wheelchair was in the kitchen as were a couple of ladies I haven't thought about for years - both making coffee :-\ I was losing control in my own kitchen :bang:
One lady asked when the next auction was likely to be: she had the venue and dates completely wrong but I couldn't find paper or pen to drop down details. 'cos we had moved in yesterday so nothing was unpacked …… except the kettle and 1 mug.
It went on and on in similar vein. I'll be all day getting over this one ::)
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I dreamt I got a cuddle from Tony Hadley & that he was a mate! ;D ;D ;D Been watching too much I'm a celebrity, I think. Don't even fancy him, never have.
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Mine was weird the other night.
Hubby and I were at home (didn't look like our house) and host to loads of people I used to work with years ago. Each one received a letter telling them they were being made redundant (This did actually happen to most of my team). I was consoling them as each one found out the news. Some were getting plenty of notice and others a day, or a week.... and then I woke up.
The day before, I'd been on LinkedIn and it shows you a list of people you might know - I flicked through an few and wondered how the dream team were doing since the glory days. In real life, we were given more than 6 months notice and the redundancy pay was really very good so goodness knows why my dream featured such short notice. ::)
I much prefer the dreams I have that feature fluffy bunnies ;D
Galadriel x
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Oh fluffy bunnies :o ………..
Nowt wrong with Tony Hadley in small doses but in the Jungle ::) …… in my dreams I've been friends with Brian May for years :-* ::)
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I am still very tired after my busy night >:( …….. sometimes my brain has been so occupied that it takes ages to wake properly.
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No Sparkle- well at least I don't think so.
Usually I can't remember any of my dreams, but since my last bleed I have been able to recall them on waking. It's been a very long time since I had a vivid enough dream to make me wonder if it was real or not.
Given how they leave you and CKLD feeling, maybe I should be glad I don't remember them :o
Galadriel x
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I used to dread going to sleep due to nightmares >:( :'( - DH used to say 'it's only a dream' …….. without realising how they affected me. Now the dreams are less horrid but busy, involved, sometimes amusing ::)
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I usually have dreams that I can remember if I'm awake early morning and then fall back asleep again. The one from this morning I can STILL remember now - 12 hrs later. I can remember the place, the people, the conversations. It was a really bizzare dream.... Not scary one bit - just plain weird!
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Ok this one counts as one of my more weird dreams.
I was in one of the laboratories from work except it was very futuristic and had a crazy way of displaying how well the experiment was running. It looked more like disco lights!
One of my colleagues was there too. She is German. When I stared to chat with her, I was speaking German too. It's been years since I dreamt in a foreign language :o Looks like my evening classes are paying off ;D
Galadriel x
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Last night I dreamt we were in a room with very detailed wallpaper, lots of flowers which attracted beautiful butterflies. Heck knows what that means.
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I've had a similar dream years ago ::)
Was busy all night but couldn't remember any of it …..
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Crikey I was busy last night ::)
Began the dream with travelling with a friend (who I didn't know and I never travel unless Himself is driving); for miles in all types of countryside. We went past a field with 5 tall aerials …….. marked R N L I …….. like an open day 'come and join us'. We weren't far from the coast apparently.
The car got stuck in a hedge row so I volunteered to walk back to the open day to get help. But it was miles++ and took ages in the dream to get there. In the mean time I was trying to contact Himself but couldn't find my mobile. I knew he would be worried. I was on a Prom. at one point beside a Lake (that was where I was aged 18 ::)). Eventually I found Himself and he was looking for somewhere to sleep. We ended up in a very long Nissan hut which had doulbe beds down one side and singles opposite. I kept wondering who would do the laundry for all those beds :o - I think it was a type of Youth Hostel. There were also garages with a bed inside which 1 climbed onto and pulled the doors shut ……….
I was with lots of people from our past at one point, on that Prom. :-\ …….. no wonder I've been tired today ;D
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The dream went on and on and ……… I was worried about who would do all that laundry from the Nissan huts, after all, most people were only staying over-night ::)
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Last night - we had a pond at the bottom of our garden, the shed had been removed and apparently a river runs through our garden: we were expecting a kingfisher to visit but a piglet ran from under the other shed. The piglet was black. It ran across the garden under the fence into the neighbour's garden - a Lassie collie was watching it but not doing a lot. I kept catching/dropping the piglet in order to find it's owner ::)
That was watching Adam on Country File last night ::) ……...
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Last night I was singing ;D ……. I was in busy crowds in Russia somewhere - joining in loudly but couldn't hear my voice although other people were turning round so don't know whether I was singing out of tune ::). Then Himself disappeared up some lovely stone stairs to a very ornate building - he told me on waking that he wasn't far away: Latvia (but he couldn't remember his dream).
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Himself was playing cricket last night - with slices of white bread ;D and had a longer run-up than usual by about 4 paces :).
I can't remember mine recent 1s other than I was in Hospital, had surgery, the Consultant nor Nurses visited the bed so Himself drove me home to sleep in our bed; when I went back to the Ward the next morning I hadn't been missed :(
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Yep - but don't know what the arils signified ::)
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I was very busy last night. Parts of the dream keep coming back during 2-day.
In my dream I was on holiday with a cousin who I haven't spoken to for 12 months. At times we were very young, others we were the age we are now. Even so, she ignored me. Her parents were there but I didn't have much conversation with them. Although I arrived with 2 bags neatly packed, when it came time to re-pack, despite having a 3rd holdall, I was unable to put everything back in. For some reason sleeping bags and pillows were added to the mix …….. and they would not fit in any of the bags >:(.
Fortunately my bladder woke me.
Now that I'm writing some letters by hand, it has triggered another part of the above: that I was writing to people but my script was so flowering with lots of loops that even I was unable to read it >:(. : so I'm being really careful with the loops this evening ::)
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Funny to see this thread as I was alarmed Sun night to wake up after having a NIGHTMARE...I dreamt I had another baby! Urgh, can't think of anything worse!
Joking aside, I have had terrible dreams during peri and ones where I wake up with a pounding heart and that really scare me. Most of the time I can't remember them the next day but I do remember the really scary ones as then I can't get back to sleep.
I remember my Mum always telling me that when I have a bad dream if I get up and go to the toilet I will forget it. This does work but half the time I'm too scared to get out of bed!
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As a child I had dreams about wolves that scared me so much I was unable to move on waking :-\
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That sounds like sleep paralysis when you can't move on waking out of the dream.
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Oh I was scared - I would go to my parents' room once I dared move with my back against the wall :o. Now of course I know that wolves aren't dangerous I no longer have that dream ::)
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I was well away last night and really tired when I did eventually wake.
My friend had invited Himself and me to an evening of coffee and cake - I had been reassured that we would be the only people there. When we turned up there were lots of vehicles in her drive-way: which wasn't where she really lives. We were put into a small room and given a cup of tea, Himself then decided that he felt ill …….. we found ourselves with lots of luggage looking for a bus, we got onto something - probably a tram - but told to put our luggage on the vehicle following closely behind.
We tried to get B&B so that he could rest, we were shown into a small room with a bed: no sheets, pillows, small window, small sink. Decided that we couldn't stay there but were charged for 'using' the room as well as £45.50 for 'cleaning chores'. Then I saw a black panther but no one else seemed to be able to see it. At one point it pinned me against a wall :-\ then I saw it jump over a high wall.
Mum rang my mobile phone (which she never does!) telling me that Dad wanted to lock up and what time would be home? I think by then we were in Nottingham and Himself had spotted a HUGE antique warehouse. That brightened him up!
I have felt worn out all day ;D
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Just laughed at your dream clkd especially as I didn't realise that's what it was :)I'm getting worse ;D
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;D ……..
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Normally I have quite nice dreams but the last week or so some of them have had a nasty turn in them. I've not had a bad run of dreams well for quite sometime. Last night I woke with heart pounding and took a lot of deep breathing to get it calm, then another bad dream before waking.....it was like Independence Day, the sky had gone dark and everyone was looking up, not quite so pounding for that one but two in one night?!
Did I read on another thread that bad dreams can be hormonal?
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Thanks Sparkle! I've been out of sorts all day thanks to last night. I've got a fitness monitor and heart rate has been higher than normal and could feel it today...arghhh.... I was feeling really good until I got all stressed out at the beginning of last week.
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:o ….. not staying at your house ;D
I was dreaming about an injured pea-cock the other night ::)
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Crikey I was in over-drive last night :-\. I managed not to take my morning AD and 20mg BB with resultant indigestion intermittently, I began to think that I was brewing a tummy upset >:(. Not, fortunately!
But my mind was busy in the night. I was part-raised by an Aunt in my early years and she and her husband were in my dream a lot. In the dream I was sorting through an attic space and kept finding boxes, which had photos of my aunt and uncle that I had never seen, I kept thinking that my cousins should see these B4 I put them into auction. There were jewellery boxes too, quite pretty and obviously Victorian :-\. My parents appeared at one point and told me that they remembered each of the items as I un-packed them but couldn't tell me why they were in my attic ……….. I was knackered on waking >:(
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I'm fed up with my dreams at the moment. Woke up in the night with heart pounding as I was in the jungle with a Tiger prowling around, shortly followed by a hot flush and trip to the loo! Fortunately the pounding stopped with a few deep breaths! I just want sweet dreams and a decent sleep!
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During various sport programmes I wonder how the athletes cope with anxiety.
In my dream I was asking top level sports men [no women] how they cope and was told that they didn't have any :-\. In my dream my anxiety levels were rising because surely they do have anxiety and when I woke I felt quite ill. The dream was very busy ………. tiring.
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All of my dreams are of things dying at the minute. Also lots of maggots and decay. I know it's because of various things going on in my life at the minute but it's still disconcerting how the mind works while you're asleep.
Taz x
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Anything that you can share?
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Thanks but it's fine. Lots of friends and support. Hope your dreams calm down a bit!
Taz x
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So do I!
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I have had a dream with similar themes for years: trying to put things 'right' that happened years ago and which I know I could now tackle differently and better :-\ . The person I would like to talk about these issues died 10 years ago - hindsight and all that, I know that I could do the job far better. I was so judgemental in those days, bl/white with no grey areas :-[. I've had this particular dream variation for 4 out of 5 nights recently.
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Last night my husband left me :-\ ……… he gave me the car, which I managed to keep damaging i.e. wing mirrors were bent back and scratched [I brushed past them in reality on Wed. with the dust bin]. We were in a town where we lived briefly years ago and I drove round looking for him. He needed to go to the Dentist so I drove him there …… ……. then he disappeared again. There were model planes flying over the town which became proper, large planes [been reading a lot about WWII] ……. so the parts of the dreams were logical in that my brain picked up things from the News/books but him leaving me?
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I dreamt I was cleaning the greasiest cooker ever. Scraping off gunk. Before going to bed I'd defrosted freezer. No scraping involved. Not sure where that came from. Maybe because I knew I'd have to clean house today before heading on holiday tomorrow.
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Where does it all get stored, to come back muddled up and senseless? ::)
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Goodness knows. Many of my dreams involve travel, mainly on foot & I invariably get lost trying to find my way back. Sure a dream therapist would have a field day with that one! ;D
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Last night my friend was giving me birthday gifts - it was her birthday recently ::) but they were so inappropriate ;D. Large knickers in bright pink, black and grey. A pair of teddy bears each in a back-pack, which could be carried like a hand-bag or popped into a larger back-pack …… to wear when we were out walking :o and she seemed so pleased with her choices ::).
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CRIKEY! I've been busy :-\ and woke feeling like 2 days sleep wouldn't go amiss!
Apparently when Himself got up for a bathroom visit at 5.30 I was muttering and singing, 'la, la, la de la' ;D but I don't remember what that was about. When my bladder began to shout I was dreaming about finding a loo. I was either driving a large vehicle which meant lots of roads were inaccessible, or walking briskly; down lanes, through towns, into alleys which didn't lead anywhere. I asked several people where a toilet might be but it was never there ….. when I did find one I sat down where I expected it to be but let go over the floor because the toilet was facing a different way …….. so then I was looking for kitchen roll to mop up the spills ………
I feel knackered :(
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It was going through my mind not to use toilet roll to mop up the spill 'cos the next poor soul would be out of it! hence the need for kitchen roll ……..
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Busy dreams clkd!!!!
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Yep. Nowt new there ::) - wonder what the old brain will cook up later, some of it I knew the origin of: i.e. I was looking for kitchen towel in our camper last week ……… I haven't driven the camper yet ……… and obviously my bladder was trying to wake me!
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My OH doesn't dream. >:(
Or if he does he can't remember.
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Mine does 'cos I hear him muttering but he rarely remembers. Occasionally at the start of the cricket season his bowling arm will move backwards and 'come over' as if he's throwing ……. or he will catch a ball ;D. Sometimes I have to stop him falling out of bed :rofl: but he doesn't remember.
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What was the singing about ' la la la de la' then? Clkd
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I can't remember. That's how it was apparently, not humming or words ::) - sometimes I sing out loud and I'm really, really good ;D. Sometimes I fly and it's so relaxing, always from the Prom near the Pier at Aberystwyth …….
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I'm glad to hear your good!! Is there no end to your talents!!
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:rofl: well, I can't cook :-\ well, I won't cook ……… I wouldn't starve, however !
I can't ski ……. nor toboggan, or drive an F1 car :whist:
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;D
Maybe you will have a dream with all these things in that will be interesting then!!!
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If I remember it I'll share ………
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We have several threads on this topic ::)
I had a strange experience at 2.45 a.m.; I woke needing a pee and felt as if someone was leaning over me; I jumped, turned over to see a black shadow …….. 'grim reaper' sprang to mind ……… I was quite un-settled. Went back to sleep again, dreaming as usual.
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Last night I was looking for my Dad who died nearly 10 years ago. Mum kept saying that he had 'gone away' …… but I kept getting glimpses of his vehicle in the distance. :sigh: Later on I was clearing my office (from a job in the 1970s ::)) but there was stuff to pack that I had never had in that job: i.e. bird boxes, bird feeders, photos …….. I was loading the car I own now but not in my usual tidy manner. At one point there was a gap between the back and front seats so that I could see the road :o and my brain said "It's like a trailer and vehicle rather than an estate car".
I was ages packing. Some boxes were almost empty whereas I would fill each one tightly ::) ……… I had difficulty waking when the alarm went this morning.
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:o - may I giggle ;). Were you aware that it was yourself and was it a man that has been your passed [past?]
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Last night I was fitting on a new Winter coat in Santa-red. Himself had told me to go and treat myself, something hand made and warm. In the first part of the dream it was very smart, black piping, a cape of gaberdine in the same colour to keep my shoulders warm and the water off. I paid for it ……. £450 :o. Hey ho! I thought, it is hand made.
Then I went to the hairdresses - I don't know what I had done but it cost £850 :o :o - there was a 3rd expensive thing but that's lost to me although I could remember at breakfast.
When I showed Himself my coat it wasn't as smart as the one I had paid for :-\
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My sister was very ill at age 18 months, 9 years and again at 18 - with rheumatic fever.
In my dream last night I was searching for my Mum and a pram …….. but I couldn't find her in the crowds. The crowds were really relaxed, milling along dry pavements. She had, without telling me, taken my ill brothers :-\ to a Hospital, pushing them for apparently miles …….. but hadn't bothered telling me.
In real life when I was very young Mum did indeed take my sister away in the pram, the message then, given to the teachers, was that I was to go home on the bus and not walk with them - it never got to me so I was left at the School Gate, waiting. Eventually my Dad turned up in the car ………….
At this time of year I get flashbacks. My brain is always stressed, dragging up stuff I had forgotten :sigh:
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Over the weekend I shredded paper work relative to my surgery in the 1990s. Hence the dream:
I was in a Ward with people milling around; a Consultant stood in front of me saying "you have a lump in your breast" then she walked away. I hadn't had an exam. nor mammogram. Next thing, DH and I are in Finland :o with heavy suitcases. Dad was trying to park a caravan: not the 1 that he owned in real life but a HUGE brute of a thing ....... Mum sat saying nowt in the passenger seat. Next I could see the Consultant playing netball, a game she used to relax new medical students, as you would ........ and thought "She should be arranging surgery if she thinks the lump needs removal" ...... but apparently she didn't do operations, her boss was responsible but she didn't seem in a hurry to find him.
Then I was sorting through a packing case trying to find a suitable nighty. Towels; under-wear; socks; writing paper :-\ but no nighty. DH was telling me to 'get on 'cos the Boss might be along' and I quite frankly, was more worried about my nighty ::).
Do you wonder I'm fuddled all day :D - wonder what tonight's little gem might be.
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I was busy last night. One really rapid dream was about family some alive, some not. In the dream I saw them driving by here but they have never visited ....... I saw the car brake sharply before reversing. My uncle and aunt got out and dashed in here, pleased to see me. Cups of tea were made and drunk. The other persons that were in that car didn't come inside. They went away ..... then my aunt came in with a large bouquet of flowers "for your Mum" then went again. Mum did mention in November that she no longer sent presents to this particular aunt ::) .
Another was in my grandmother's property where the windows were all open. She was complaining that people were entering at night ..... the dream meandered as they do, it turned out that someone had come inside, taken and copied a key to the back door so that they could gain entry at any time. I was chasing that person away, shouting loudly :o ! Then I went round to shut and lock windows and doors.
I didn't want to wake this morning, far too tired :-\
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Last night: I was in a field by a river with a friend from way back. We were happily chatting. As it got chilly we decided to drive away but I suddenly found that I had to re-load the car. It took ages. Then I found that the tide had come in so there was 1 bridge which stretched into the distance and fog so that I couldn't see if anything was already on it. Next thing I was in a large hall, un-loading the car with jewellery etc..
After a while people were coming up to look at what I was offering for sale only to find that instead of the jewellery being pick up and look at, it was actually embroidered into a table cloth :-\ : WT?
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Yep. I want to stay asleep to finish the dreams but wake shattered :-\
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Yesterday I briefly thought of a friend who breeds Huskies ..... last night my dream with busy with them: she had 5 to walk of different colours but didn't think that I could handle 1. So I was charged with finding a dog walker [another friend requires someone to care 4 his new puppy] which meant wandering around in the dream. Finding out what it would cost, how often the dogs could be walked, how far they would be walked: all the while knowing that I am quite capable of handling a Husky :'(. It went on and on and ........ I woke feeling shattered.
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Two nights ago I walked miles in my dream, across the Fens. I could see Churches that I know but couldn't reach them. The dream began by a woman banging on our door and telling me that I knew who she was but the name and voice meant nowt :-\ - she opened the door and pushed a dog into the room - "you've got the Dalmatian from the list!" ..... said dog bounced into the house but none of the dogs in the dream wagged their tails :-\
I think we were walking across the Fen in order to find the owner. Down very straight roads with a dyke on each side, past a barn where I could hear a dog barking: "I wonder how often the poor thing gets fed and watered" went through my mind. Then we found a street of bungalows (the village I was in until age 3) and a scruffy Jack Russell joined in the walk - don't know where the Dalmatian had gone ...... it was getting dark so I suggested to Himself that we head to those Churches as we didn't have a torch. We walked and walked and Himself did ask what we would do with the JR ......... we never found out the names of the villages we went through ........
Last night: the dream has gone but I have woken tired so must have been busy again >sigh<
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The last two nights the big dreams have been back!
In fact the night before last when I woke it took me some minutes to establish that it was a dream, so life like! Checking my fitness band the last few nights I've had a lot of deep sleep which is unusual of late. Last week I was waking early and this week it's hard to wake up!
I don't know if it's related but I'm feeling very tired at the moment, fatigue tired. Just wondering if it's connected with not being outside so much now the cooler weather has kicked in Downunder, so I'm not sitting outside at lunch, cafes etc. Started taking the Vit D tablets again and see if that helps!
Seems the deeper I sleep, which is supposed to be good for you, the more tired I am the next day! Guess the body is playing catch up?
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Have not had nightmares since I was a child really but have had some experience if these since being in menopause, pretty scary. What a rough road this is what with the lack of sleep and the disturbing sleep. Surely some medical breakthrough will have to come in the future to relieve all of this misery!
Meg
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I was dreaming about Dad last night. He was waiting admission to a Ward for a routine op., he was side-by-side with another man on separate trollies in a room with white walls, no windows so artificial light. No bell to push. No toilet. Nowt. Mum flitted in and out muttering. I wandered around various Wards to find out if there was a toilet close by 'in case', couldn't find Staff anywhere but plenty of activity in the background as well as patients in mixed Wards. Found a closet but it was too narrow to get a wheel-chair or bed into ...... saw a large rat :o [Mum has rats in her garden].
I decided to buy a newspaper so that we could pass the time on the crossword .... then couldn't buy a pen! No Staff. The Consultant and a very young boy wandered in to that room by which time the other man had gone / where / ? It went on and on and ........ :-\
I'm knackered :'(
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I was busy giving a Lecture on Menopause to GPs - lots of people in white coats as well as members of the public who wandered in and out of the Hall. As I walked to the back of the hall :-\ I was telling my "You can do this, don't panic, you are in charge here!".
I was really explicit about how GPs aren't up to date with what symptoms for ladies mean, "Many GPs still think that when a lady stops her periods and has hot flushes, that is menopause, they have little idea as to the other symptoms ladies can suffer". I was wandering round and a line of ladies muttered MM Forum, MM Forum and I turned round and said "Don't give me away will you" - I didn't recognise any >phew<.
Apparently I gave Lectures on 3 consecutive days :-\ ........ quite successfully from what I remember ;D
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I dont seem to dream much but when i do they are like a normal story.
Which is a bit scarey. Only sometimes the dreams people and places change.
Im sure i do dream but its only the real ones i remember and i do remember them.
Which is even more scarey lol
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Nice to C U on board Suzi Q! If I don't finish the dream I don't want to wake up ::)
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Last night I was really busy ::)
We were at an antique fair but didn't know any of the Dealers except one from the BBC. It was in a HUGE house/chataux [too much le Tour] and some dealers were packing up their wares even though it was open for an hour yet. I was wandering in the various rooms which were nicely decorated. Outside. Back in. Sun was shining.
I met the owners somehow during the meander as well as a chipmunk :o and a JR - when the JR chased the chippie it turned onto it's back with feet in the air, playing 'dead' ;D. There was also an old wrecked car in the woods which went back to the 1920s apparently his grand-father had crashed it into a tree ...... and died as a result. It wasn't in the area open to the public but the owner took me to see it and I identified the type of car :o 8) ........ in the mean time, Himself was looking for me and I couldn't remember where we had parked the car ::) nor remember how to switch on my mobile >:( :(. The JR kept running in and out of the mansion and bite the end of my finger at one point ::) - then the alarm went off leaving me fuzzy headed, wanting to complete the dream.
PHEW!
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In my dreams if I'm not trying to find a loo, I'm spitting teeth. :-\
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CLKD people paid good money in the 60s to have dreams like you're ! ;D 🍄✌
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Thankfully at separate times sparkle. Last night was spitting chunks of teeth. But this time took myself to a doctor not a dentist. Woke before I found out the cause. Maybe that'll come tonight, ::)
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I have had dreams that run over several nights though they might be months apart ::)
Don't know where the chipmunk came from ;D ......... just got your gist dazned ::) :rofl:
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I was SO busy last night I'm still fighting tiredness.
I was at my Boss's house (from 1969) with his wife. I knew that I had to go to work but he didn't seem bothered to get me there on time. He had letters to sign and a manuscript to correct, his wife gave me an ice cream in a cone. 2 dogs appeared :o ....... and followed me everywhere, around the garden, up the road - I took the signed letters and was trying to find the Office :-\.
I wandered round worried that the dogs would get run over, an Asian man, very tall, took my hand [I wasn't worried by that :-\] and said that the dogs would find their way home ' "They do so very day, don't worry".
He led me back to my Boss's house and I looked at the Very Large Clock in their kitchen. It was 6.35 in the evening "Is that *really* the time :o, my husband will worry where I am" ...... apparently the latter sentence said out loud as Himself repeated it to me later.
I woke at 6.35 a.m. ???
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Oh I'm always shouting out in my dreams apparently when I'm having really vivid ones that I not only wake the Mr up but the dog too. If not that, I punch out. Luckily I sleep towards the door and not my OH or he'd be bruised from here to kingdom come.
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Sometimes I sing ;D
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Sing? Nope I don't think I've ever gone that far, although I do dream about Simon Cowell from time to time so I'll have a word ;)
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Oh I haven't flown for months, it's always over the Pier at Aberystwyth - no one else is flying but no on seems to be bothered ;D. I can actually feel the taking off 8) and gently breeze under my body ......... and a soft movement of arms allows me to turn gently in any direction. I never land though .........
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We have several threads on dreaming etc. ::)
Last night it was an octopus on my head :o - I had read an article on enormous squid and as I hate all cepholopods (sp) that was the basis of it. The octopus was curled round my head like a turban [snatched from a snippet about Judy Dench's new film ::). ] ...... and I kept thinking 'as long as I can feel it it won't eat that dog or small child' ........ someone did try to unravel it from my head but as fast as the legs were removed they kept clinging back :-\ ........... at one point it did leap off my head onto a small goat ......... then I woke up >phew< :-\ I really do hate them, like some hate spiders, ants, wasps ........
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For a few weeks I've had the same dream but with different people in it.
Large bedroom
Small room with toilet and basin next door
People driving me around a town - not ! I know
Looking for people .........
I wake, knackered !
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I have had so many dreams recently. Last night we were trying to buy a property that we rented over 30 years ago. I was finding rooms in it that we didn't have. There was also a man in one room ........ he recurs each time I have this dream in various variations. He was going to stay there until he died ...... 'sitting tenant'. I told DH to write to the landlady [who died 20 years ago ::)]. I miss that house so dream about it a lot.
I also dream about the house where Dad was raised, there was never a bathroom and I want to find out where one was eventually put when the property was updated ::)
Partly this is due to medication but in the main, issues that I need to settle.
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Since I've been on HRT I've been having the weirdest, most vivid and active dreams of my life. Usually I surface several times a night but then go back down into the same dream and it just carried on. I wake feeling exhausted as if I've been acting in a really physically demanding play all night. This has been getting worse the last few weeks although nothing else in my regime has changed- I'm wondering if there's any relationship between estrogen levels and dreaming, maybe another sign that mine are getting too high Will look it up.
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Yes, if you google it there's loads of stuff about hormone levels and increased dreaming - not just the amount but that the actual character of the dreams changes according to which hormone is dominant. So you're more likely to have active, aggressive, unnerving dreams in the early part of the month (if you still have a cycle obviously) when estrogen is high, and then more calming maternal dreams in the pre-menstrual period. Although having said that there's some variation of opinion in the different articles I read. Fits with me anyway - my estrogen level is high and my dreams are bloody exhausting and quite unsettling.
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Well, in my dream last night I received a final demand letter for something....and try as I might, could not open the envelope!! No idea what that was about....
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I dreamt that I was on a hospital bed waiting for a bus (I can't remember the last time I caught a bus) and I was desperate for the loo but didn't want to miss the bus so I just did a poo and a pee in the bed, got off it, scrunched up the paper roll and put it in the bin and carried on as 'normal'
I dream about toilets every single night but this is the first time I have dreamt that I soiled a bed !
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When I dream about finding a loo it takes many weaves: usually involves trying to find a hedge, a quiet field or a loo without a door on it: then someone wanders alone as I bob down >:(. Means my bladder is full so WAKE UP!
Last night we owned a Hotel with Staff and a Manager. There was a people carrier involved and I was left behind somehow, but DH was in the vehicle. But he never seemed to miss me :'( .......... I kept thinking that the bus would turn around to look for me, after all there was a spare seat! which should have had my bum on it :-\
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I have those loo dreams too - there's always loads of people around, or the door is broken / missing or the toilet is broken or backed up!! And yes, my bladder is painfully full when I wake up!
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Bumped