I am always intrigued by those quizzes that tell you what your dreams mean. I never remember anything except that falling means something sexual... right? I also think I remember reading something about recurring dreams being kind of rare and indicating a higher level of crazy (I often have recurring dreams).
Anyway, I tend to have crazy, vivid dreams that have no place in reality. For example, a few weeks ago, there were a couple of nights where my dream involved me platform diving off of the Chrysler Building (except it was into the Caribbean where sharks and dolphins awaited me) with Matt Lauer and Meredith Viera.* After diving into the water, I was riding on a catamaran with the other people that I had been diving with... and the driver/tour guide was pointing out alligators; then, all of the sudden, he was wrestling with them.
But my point... I did have one. Oh right. So the past few nights, I was not myself in my dreams. I was my former self. I had a few dreams where I was a nanny in college again. I also had a few where I was inexplicably young and single (but the same age as I am in real life). Not that I was acting single, but it was just weird that my husband wasn't in my dreams with me. I mean, he is ever-present in my life... we do everything together. So it was totally strange to see myself living what would be a normal life if it weren't for the fact that another person was missing from it.
I woke up wondering what my dreams meant. Am I still trying to figure out who I am? Maybe my inner voice is saying I'm too young to be a mom. Or I could be freaking out that I won't be starting a career until a year and a half from now. Maybe my subconscious is driving home the point that next week I'll be in my mid-to-late twenties.
I am totally sleep deprived right now because Timmy thinks 4:30 or 5:30 is an appropriate wake-up time, so maybe it's just my mind's way of saying... "wow, remember the good old days when waking up at 4:30am meant that you had momentarily passed out in a friend's apartment after drinking too much and you had to stumble home to your own place to resume sleeping? Yeah, those were nice."
*Yes, I watch the Today show almost every day. No, I do not fantasize about Matt Lauer. (Brian Williams, on the other hand... I digress).
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My husband almost never dreams, but when he does, his dreams are inevitably lame. Like the dream where he mowed the lawn. Huh? After hearing him talk about those dreams, I figure there's no higher meaning - it's just random electrical pulses in our brains. (It's the only way I can rationalize it!) :)
oh wow- that is really weird! Maybe you are just relaxing and being free in your dreams because you need to get away from the stressful life of being a mom in law school. i have seriously crazy dreams that I rarely remember for more than an hour after I wake up but I agree with shelley that I don't really believe they have meaning. It's fun to imagine though.
I've had dreams that I was my former self as well, with a high school boyfriend, in undergrad, etc. It wasn't like I was going back to that time, I was just IN that time. A friend who's very into dreams told me that's normal at any crossroads of your life (like leaving school and starting work). It's not that you want to go back to that time or that you aren't happy where you are, it's just your subconscious examining each step along the way.
Even though I mostly agree with Shelley that dreams are just random electrical impulses, I found that explanation comforting. Especially since I really don't have feelings for my high school boyfriend anymore and was rather disturbed by dreaming about him several days in a row!
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