Nightmares

Champs28

Does anyone else have IF nightmares? Mine are centered around people asking me when in going to have a baby and me freaking out on them.

theholmanherd

***babies/pregnancies/children mentioned*** I've had nightmares like that before, too. Where I have kids and it's so real and the nightmare is waking up to realize it's not. As far as nightmares, like you describe, I've always had recurrent nightmares. Since I was very young. Not IF related, but yes I get them. A lot. It's important to quiet your mind before bed and make yourself think of something nice. Thinking about or having sex before bed seems to work for me. Haha TMI, I know. :P

emmuffy

I've had a few, and I don't normally remember my dreams. Mine usually centre around a friend who has a few kids and made some well-intended but insensitive comments to me.

RunCC37

@DaydreamSam - that is absolutely horrible! I'm sorry you've had that nightmare!

I don't usually remember my dreams more often than once every 3 months. Lucky me, they are always nightmares. The past three that I remember were not outwardly about infertility (as in there were no babies or pregnancies), but obviously about how lost I feel on this horrific journey.

Nightmare 1: I am running a marathon, and the race director keeps changing the course while I am running. Several times, I will go down a road just to find out that it was the wrong direction. So I need to turn around and run back to get back on course. There is an announcement made when I believe that I am on Mile 25 (1.2 miles to go) which tells me that the finish line has been moved. Now all of a sudden, I am on Mile 20. I am exasperated and realize that I'm never going to cross the finish line. End nightmare.

Nightmare 2 and 3: My dogs are in peril and I spend the whole nightmare trying to save them. My efforts are in vein, and I wake up just as they are about to slip beyond my grasp.

Hollowvic

I keep having weird dreams, I always dream about water, don't know if that means anything. @AlaskaDee23‌ some co workers and I were talking about dreams not too long ago and we've all had dreams of our husbands cheating on us, apparently it's common!!!

BunnyBerry

Ooh, scary!

My only baby-related nightmares are that my arms are full of slippery little babies that I can't keep safe. But I've read that's actually just a representation of stress over daily responsibilities.

@daydreamsam Whoa, that's awful!

@theholmanherd Same, so many times I've woken with a dreamy content feeling after dreaming that we had a lovely little child, and then BAM, reality hits.

@buttmonkey34 Whoa that's crazy, so glad it turned out not to be true!!

MrsLolaSky

theholmanherdBunnyBerry, my "nightmare" is waking up from a recurring dream where I have a little girl (about 2-4 years old in the dream)….  

(And, not sure why the recurring dream is of a girl… of course, I'd be thrilled to have a little boy, too!) I think the dream is a manifestation of my inner hope, especially when I'm feeling outwardly hopeless and depressed about it all.

I also have other nightmares (usually being caught in some natural disaster) but I think those are general stress and anxiety related!

kushie77

**babies mentioned**

The only crazy dream I had was the night before we had our RE consult I had a dream that the RE told us we were having triplet boys and H did something to piss me off and I named them all Eunice. Talk about RE anxiety.