Sooooo.....

[Betty]

I've not slept well for a few days now. Took tylenol pm one night and that helped but I'm reluctant to take it very often. Last night I finally seemed to get some rest until this morning when I had a dream that somone stole my purse at my kids school and I was so angry that no one would do anything about it even thought I'd caught the girl but still didn't have my purse.

I woke up feeling just as angry as I had been when I was dreaming and the feeling didn't let go until I got to work and got distracted.

Funny what dreams can do.... affect the way you feel even after you wake and forget large parts of them sometimes.

Dreams are an area that fascinate me. Do you guys have any reoccuring dreams? I'm a perpetually on time person but I have a reoccuring dream about being very late to work and I haven't called in.

Being late gives me anxiety. Is my brain trying to desensitize me to it while I sleep?

[alphabassettgrrl]

Could be desensitization, could be a reminder of what's important. I love dreams, too. I've been having dreams lately about being useless at work, which is a fear and kind of how I've felt lately.

Over time, I have patterns more than anything in particular that repeats. Some things repeat (the theaters where I work, Disneyland, my house) but it's more in how real or familiar things are. If things are real and familiar, with people that I really know, I know my waking life is pretty on track. If I start dreaming about strangers, I know I need to fix something.

[lindyhop]

I stopped at Borders on the way home from work and picked up some new books. So why am I staring at this computer screen?

[BarTopDancer]

I hate dreaming. I wake up feeling like I haven't slept at all.

[alphabassettgrrl]

I love dreaming and I've remembered my dreams since I was about 14. Some of those I still remember as clearly as if it were yesterday. It's fascinating. Sometimes it's just random noise, that someone described as "your brain defragging." Sometimes it's messages from my subconscious. Sometimes it's just fun stuff that seems to come from nowhere.

Love it.

[Prudence]

I've been having vivid dreams for the past two weeks, which means I haven't had restful sleep in the past two weeks.

[BarTopDancer]

There's an LOL cat for every occasion:

[RStar]

Should that be WTF was in that catnip, not WFT? Or am I missing something there. Besides that, it's very funny! I'm sure the circumstance that caused the man to have to save these animals was not funny, but I've had dreams that seemed just as crazy as that photo taken out of context.

Betty, is it going to sleep, waking early and not able to go back to sleep, or just staying asleep that is the problem? I use to have the hardest time getting to sleep. Then I started using Natural Calm Magnesium Citrate anti stress drink. I make a cup of herbal tea (usually Red Tea aka Roobios Tea) with NO CAFFIEN, and then add some Natural Calm. Within a few minutes of drinking it I feel very relaxed and ready to fall asleep. It's not a drug that makes you feel drowsy when you wake up, and not full of scary herbs or amino acids that have side effects.

Now, if I can keep from waking up after only 4-6 hours of sleep, unable to go back to sleep, it would be nice....

[lindyhop]

I don't usually remember my dreams but I was able to sleep in this morning and I had a few odd dreams in between waking up and reminding myself I didn't have to go to work today.

I was watching the men's figure skating last night but went to bed when it seemed the coverage would go on well past midnight. That explains my dream about watching the rest of the coverage and seeing my friend Dan as the last skater to perform. I was really surprised to see him especially since as a less experienced skater he shouldn't have been part of the second group. And since he wasn't on par with the others he had a hard time and the commentators barely paid attention to him. It just wasn't fair. It wasn't until well after I woke up that it dawned on me that Dan dances really well but as far as I know he doesn't skate.

[blueerica]

While I usually don't remember my dreams, I have a number of recurring dreams... one that happens annually since I was in the 3rd grade, actually. That dream isn't the exact same dream each time, but it's the same theme, same type of location, same problem/anxiety. Thankfully, it's just a dream.