What Dreams May Come....

Dream A Little Dream of  Me

Sometimes I have such bizarre dreams I wake up thinking, "Thank God that wasn't real." I have a few re-accruing dreams that I have about once every week. I can only chalk it up to my life moved so fast that my sub-conscious is STILL trying to catch up.

The first re-accruing dream is about my Grandmom Fisher. This one I believe I dream b/c I feel things were ended much too quickly for her, almost accidentally, really. Her Dr. increased her coumadin medicine too much, which caused a brain hemorrhage. She called 911 and and then passed out. They had to axe down her front door to get to her. We all rushed to the hosp and my sister Sarah and I were able to talk to her for the one minute she woke up. They took her to surgery and she never woke up again. She lived in Phila and was going to come to live with my parents when she got out of the hospital, but that never happened. So I am constantly dreaming the exact same dream. We drive over the Tacony Palmyra bridge and we are in her house, in her kitchen, hugging her and asking ourselves why we waited so long to come visit her. And we make promises and plans for her to come live in NJ. It's a sweet but sad dream. A dream I don't really want to ever stop having.

I dream often of my Dad but they aren't always the same dream. It's always different scenarios and he is there with us, living and doing things. With dreams about him his presence is so real I wake up feeling like I've actually seen and touched him. I feel connected to him again. I don't want to ever stop dreaming of him either.

This one is another re-accruing dream I wish I would stop having. It's Chris and I not married and us desperately wanting to be married. At the end of the dream I always realize that we are married all along. It's like a cruel joke. I KNOW why I have this dream. Chris and I wanted to get married 6 months before we actually did. We wanted a fall wedding on Nov. 11th. I was the first of my sisters to get married and my mom, well she just wasn't quite ready for all that change. She asked us to wait. We told her we would wait 6 months until May,11th. We bring it up sometimes and kinda joke about it, but we still feel that desperation of wanting to be together and feeling like we can't be. Turns out years later my Grandpop Charlie DeGenova passed away on Nov. 11th, so it worked out for the better b/c our anniversary would be mixed with the sadness of losing him.

I think it's odd that we have no control over the dreams we have. I've woken up mad at someone I've had a fight with in my dream. I've woken up emotional or scared to death from certain dreams. Sometimes I have to wake Chris up and ask him to pray for me b/c I am so shaken by a dream. Those dreams were the worst when I was pregnant. If you have a re-accruing dream, share it with me on here. I am very interested in what others dream about over and over. Oh and Sweet Dreams.

Dream Catcher

"Dreams are successions of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that occur involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep. Dreams mainly occur in the rapid-eye movement (REM) stage of sleep—when brain activity is high and resembles that of being awake. At times, dreams may occur during other stages of sleep. However, these dreams tend to be much less vivid or memorable. Dreams can last for a few seconds, or as long as twenty minutes. People are more likely to remember the dream if they are awakened during the REM phase. The average person has about 3 to 5 dreams per night. During a full 8-hour night sleep, two hours of it is spent dreaming. Dreams have been seen as a connection to the unconscious. They range from normal and ordinary to overly surreal and bizarre. The events in dreams are generally outside the control of the dreamer.^{" _Wickepieda}