What's your stress dream?

Re: What's your stress dream?

• countryrhodes90 member

  July 2015

  Mine is usally that I'm running SUPER late to something important, or that I suddenly find out I'm butt naked in a crowd of people. ) but here lately it's been about giving birth to something besides a human baby. For some reason it's been cats mostly. :-?

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• deleted22152218 member

  July 2015

  I've had a few dreams where I've given birth to my baby who turns out to be a small fury animal with extremely sharp teeth. In these dreams I'm trying to breast feed but just can't seem to get past the teeth! Ouch.

  I also have dreams where my boyfriend is leaving forever. Those are the worst.

  Lately, though, I've just had dreams where I name my baby something ridiculous. Last night it was Hoopdy Doopdy.  :-??

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• jadetree1080 member

  July 2015

  Like 3 nights in a row I have dreamed that I'm covered with head lice! My step son had a head lice scare a few weeks ago (turned out he didn't have them), and last week I flea treated the dog so I guess it makes sense, but I have woken up 3 mornings in a row and made DH check me. Of course there is nothing and he thinks I'm nuts haha. But it still stresses me out to wake up and feel like there are bugs on me. Gross.

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• archetypeblonde member

  July 2015

  I keep dreaming that I smoke a cigarette. The other night it was one in which I bummed a cigarette from an ex boyfriends sister, and it disintegrated in my hand before I could bring it to my mouth. The dream is less a reflection of stress than it is a cause for it when I wake up in a fiendish sweat. I feel so dirty!

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• j&gmiller2015 member

  July 2015

  Lately mine have been that I go into labor in the most awkward places. My water comes shooting out and everyone is staring at me like I pissed myself or something. No one even offers to take me to the hospital or anything. I think this comes from my husband working the night shift and my parents being 30+ minutes from me. I fear I will go into labor when he's not there to take me to the hospital.
  

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• toccoaparker member

  July 2015

  I have a dream my mom shows up, turns out she never passed away just faked her own death to get away from my dad, but left me with him(lot of backstory there). I always end up crying asking a million questions and then she just disappears again, super traumatic:(

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• lifesabeach85 member

  July 2015

  My usual ones are I show up for something or somewhere totally unprepared. Like a test I haven't studied for or to the airport with no luggage. Years ago I went through a really stressful period where I would no joke sleep pack. I would sleep walk and start packing a suitcase. DH was freaked out by that but luckily I stopped.
  
  Lately I've been stress dreaming about her name and how we don't have one. Eek!

  
  
  

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• breezymeema7 member

  July 2015

  My reoccurring stress dream is that I'm back serving tables. The restaurant is packed and I'm the only one on. I can't keep up with it all and I start to feel panicky. I always wake up sweating.

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• cseley321 member

  July 2015 edited July 2015

  I haven't had many pregnancy related dreams at all but I keep dreaming that I'm a survivalist living in the "end times." Too many movies I guess.
  
  Edit: hah, I just looked up the meaning. To sum it up, it is related to one aspect of your life coming to an end and your personal role in the world is coming to an end. Monday is my last day of work and I'm freaking out about it. I guess that explains it.

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• hitcj4687 member

  July 2015

  I have a lot of shark dreams and big body of water dreams. Either I'm walking on water and then realize it's water and start struggling. Or I'm in the body of water when I realize a shark is with me. He usually attacks me but I can fight him off for a little bit and then I wake up

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• Miz_Liz member

  July 2015

  In college I used to have a dream all of the time where I had a course that I completely forgot about and suddenly it is time for the final and it is too late to drop the class. I am always panicking trying to figure out how to not fail because a.) I have not been to a single class, so my attendance record is shot and some professors will fail you for that alone and b.) I have not read the material or learned it. Man I hated that dream. When I was pregnant with DS I would dream all of the time that I would forget him places, like in the bathtub. Or I would forget to feed him or change him. Luckily this pregnancy I have not had any of those at all, probably because it's not my first baby this time. Then a few years ago I started having a dream that I am in a play and it is opening night and I have not learned a single one of my lines and the curtain is about to open and I am trying to figure out how to get out of it. Ironically, IRL, probably around the same time, I suddenly developed a fear of public speaking even though my ENTIRE life I have LOVED public speaking and have always been really good at it. I have taught classes, given presentations, performed in plays, read readings at weddings and at church....love love loved it....now...panic attacks! And last but not least, for years now I will have a very vivid dream that I am in bed and everything looks exactly as it does IRL and I see a HUGE spider on my bed or on the wall above me. It wakes me and I jump out of bed and turn on all the lights and frantically search. Multiple times, yet I am still convinced every single time that that friggin spider IS THERE! Yikes.

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• abbybaby19 member

  July 2015

  I have the same dream of having to go back to high school for some reason and not knowing what my schedule is or how to get to any of my classes. I also dream that theres some sort of emergency and I have to drive somewhere. I dont drive so thats a high anxiety situation for me.

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• archetypeblonde member

  July 2015

  @Miz_Liz I have spider dreams every night! One time I even woke up SO and tore the sheets off the bed because I swore I could still see a spider the size of my hand crawling around by our pillows. Still only 98% sure it was in my imagination...

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• Miz_Liz member

  July 2015

  archetypeblonde said:

  @Miz_Liz I have spider dreams every night! One time I even woke up SO and tore the sheets off the bed because I swore I could still see a spider the size of my hand crawling around by our pillows. Still only 98% sure it was in my imagination...

  
  YES!! This is EXACTLY what happens to me. I have totally made him get out of bed and tear it apart looking too. It is so friggin vivid and not just like a normal vivid dream that is disturbing, but like all of the items on my nightstand that are there are exactly the same in my dream,etc. - makes me wonder if I am sleeping with my eyes open.

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• MamaMandy2015 member

  July 2015

  I have all sorts of stress dreams, forgetting the kids at school, losing things, my DH leaving for work and staying at work for weeks on end. Lately though every time I have those dreams, at the end I dream of my dad (who passed last year from brain cancer) comes up to me and we sit down and talk about everything, he tells me how peaceful and beautiful heaven is, I tell him about the kids and we laugh and joke and at the end he gives me a big ol bear hug and a kiss on the forehead like he always used to do, and he tells me everything will be just fine. It makes me feel much better because he was always the one I could talk to when I was upset, but damned if I don't wake up crying and really missing those bear hugs...Dang it now I'm a blubbering mess

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• deleted22152218 member

  July 2015

  My boyfriend must be getting stress dreams, too.  In his sleep last night he mumbled at me, "Just wait. The baby will come when she's ready."  It was cute. 

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• gulimz member

  July 2015

  abbybaby19 said:

  I have the same dream of having to go back to high school for some reason and not knowing what my schedule is or how to get to any of my classes. I also dream that theres some sort of emergency and I have to drive somewhere. I dont drive so thats a high anxiety situation for me.

  Me too!!! Except I'm my age now and I can't graduate high school because I keep ditching classes because I don't have a schedule !!!
  How bizzare to dream about high school since I graduated in 2001!
  

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• mommyofX member

  July 2015

  My normal stress dream (although I havnt had it in a while) is that in my dream I wake up in bed, and it feels like there's marbles in my mouth rolling around. Then as I try to spit it out.. It turns out I'm spitting a mouthful of teeth out!! Then I usually wake up and run to the bathroom to brush my teeth another 2-3 times back to back lol dreams are weird.

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• mjones0721 member

  July 2015

  I've been having dreams that the baby comes early and when we get home from the hospital we still hadn't bought him a bed so we have to make him a bed out of a dresser drawer like my grandma told me they used to do when she was a baby. I've been freaking out for weeks about him not having a place to sleep yet. DH took me to buy a bassinet yesterday so I'm hoping now that he has somewhere to sleep the dreams will stop lol

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• SHieb member

  July 2015

  My stress dreams are usually about whatever current situation I'm facing. So lately they've been about either babh coming early or having a huge saggy stomach after delivery haha

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• irohspupil member

  July 2015

  The setting will be different but the conflict is always the same: my legs feel like noodles, and I can't walk/run quickly enough.
  Or, my teeth will popcorn out and break. And I'll spit out the pieces.
  
  Those are my lovely stress dreams :-(

  
  
   
  Me: 25 | DH: 25  
  DD: Aug. 15
  

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• gladdyola member

  July 2015

  The more frequent one is me trying to get away from randoms following me, sometimes just one person or sometimes a whole group. Seriously freaks me out.
  The other one is one I've had since I was young - being stuck in the tank with Shamu. Something about whales makes me extremely uncomfortable even though I absolutely love them.

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• gladdyola member

  July 2015

  Also, more recently I've had dreams about LO escaping the bedroom while I'm sleeping! Sometimes I'll wake up in such a stress that i go searching the house for her before I realize (after an extensive search and a face palm) she hasn't even been born yet. )

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• CarelessDiva89 member

  July 2015 edited July 2015

  Yesss!! Bad dreams to me are my same stress dreams I have over & over again. They are always the same & It's always about my mom. She passed away 5 years ago & was only 39. I feel guilt everyday over it because we weren't in a good place due to her prescription addiction she got when diagnosed with MS. After 8 years of dealing with it everyday & trying to help her I cut her out of my life. It eats at me everyday. We hadn't spoke in months, 3 days before she died she called me & i told her how much I loved her. (So in my dreams were always fighting over her addiction & how i have to raise my sibilings because of her choices then she takes off) I always wake up crying.

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