“Dreams”
Dreams are so important for self discovery at any age. I’m not talking about physical hopes and dreams one longs for the future, but the actual visions we conjure up while we sleep. These dreams, if we’re lucky enough to remember them, present us a keyhole to peep through a locked door into our soul, revealing our thoughts, fears and emotions we normally couldn’t express during consciousness. Some dream themes are so common amongst a lot of people because a lot of us have the same fears and/or fantasies rolling around upstairs: naked dreams, chase dreams, teeth dreams, flying dreams, falling dreams, and test dreams. Fear is a normal part of the human psyche, whether a person is willing to admit their fears or not. And just as your life is changing constantly, so do your fears, and most likely, your dreams.
My life has been changing a lot lately (I’m not going to state the obvious), so when I starting having pregnancy dreams, I wasn’t surprised. One night a couple of weeks ago, I had two pregnancy dreams. The first one, a friend of mine (not naming names because it’s not important) got really mad at me for one reason or another and kicked me in the stomach until I miscarried. It was quite disturbing but not really a fear of mine, for I know that person is happy for me and she’s not even a violent person! The second dream I had that night was more frightening because it “could happen”…I had twins. This is a legitimate fear of mine and thanks to my wonderful friends and family who love to tease me, so now I have a fear of having twins. Now, I seriously don’t believe that I’m having twins, but it’s still a possibility. By the way, the twins in the dream were both girls.
Last night, I was reading a new book my friend Krystle got me for my birthday called The Pregnancy Bible. In this fabulous book, there is a section on dreams, which inspired me to write on this topic. In this section, they gave a list of common pregnancy dreams so I thought I’d share them:
-The pregnancy isn't real and that you will give birth to nothing, or simply deflate.
-You give birth to a baby animal, or even some mundane household object.
-Your baby is damaged or deformed in some way.
One solution the book suggests for getting rid of these types of nightmares is thinking positively rather than worrying- especially right before you go to sleep. Think about cradling your baby, cuddling and loving it rather than something going wrong with it. I think its good advice so we’ll see how that goes. I’m curious to see what other dreams my unconsciousness will conjure up in the next seven months!
So cool! I had a dream that my baby was a puppy. Funny thing was that it didn't phase me and I was holding the pup like it was a baby. The nurse was the one who was freaking out and I told my husband that she had to leave the room!
ReplyDeleteIf you have twin girls, I think that the clan will completely flip!!!