I said a couple weeks ago in a Totes Awesome Channel vlog that I have been having crazy dreams lately. They were all stress dreams at the beginning, and I was determined to do something about them, because they were interfering with my sleep. Things have shifted a bit and my dreams are no longer completely motivated by stress, but the crazy has not subsided.
Every night, all night long (it seems), I have these complicated and absurd dreams that feel so real that I wake up and can’t separate dream from reality right away. I woke up on Monday and thought, “I should just write these down and I’d have a book of short stories.” Often the cast of characters are not the people I talk to regularly, but the people at the fringes of my life–they make these weird cameos in my dreams that make me think maybe I should talk to them more when I’m awake.
This has happened to me before. It was particularly bad the year I was applying to PhD programs. I dreamed that (future) President Obama had agreed to write me a recommendation letter. But, at least that made sense, since there was so much going on in my life at the time. People on twitter have suggested that it’s probably stress that’s leading me to have these dreams, and I agree, but I don’t know what I’m so stressed about! Ahh!
So, this is my life right now: the days are interesting and the nights are crazy.
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I used to have crazy dreams, but they were grisly. I think they came from watching too much Criminal Minds. My cousin had a terrifying dream after watching Criminal Minds once. It was about Heath Ledger’s Joker. I used to have this recurring dream in college about a bull that tried to run me down, and I would jump up on this trailer stacked with hay to get away from him. It was really strange, but then I was more often than not really stressed in college.
Lucid dreams were and maybe still are JCO’s bron for creative writing. I’m not comparing but obviously you subconscious is trying to get you to do something, something that your conscious you is neglecting?
Obama! really?
Groetjes
In women hormone levels have a lot to do with dreams. During your cycle when progesterone levels are higher dreams can have a * “higher degree of vividness, imagery, specificity, and concreteness.” When I was pregnant my dreams were unbelievably detailed and so real! In fact, my dreaming was my favorite pregnancy symptom.
I’m realizing that this comment might be a little creepy, whoops, sorry.
xM
*source: http://guenishi.wordpress.com/dreams/
Don’t worry about those dreams that feel so real you are so overwhelmed when you wake up, you are thankful/or surprised to be back home in reality. Those dreams are fairly normal. They are just dreams. A realistic dream is memorable and better than any movie you will ever see! And I can’t name anyone who has lost something in a dream!