Vivid Dreams

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Does anyone have vivid dreams every night? I have many and remember them in detail when I wake up. I have no idea what they mean other than they are processing issues I need to resolve.

One I had 2 nights ago was being driven home by a very long forgotten work colleague I’ve not seen for almost 20 years. Driving using her knees and generally not paying attention. Lots of near misses. She isn’t bothered. I am a very nervous passenger. Get to a roundabout near where I live and we crush a pedestrian. It’s all in slow motion and not real. If doesn’t seem serious but when I get out the pedestrian is in the car bonnet and can’t get out. I struggle to help them and they are lying in the road. I’m shouting for help and suddenly see lorries approaching from all directions about to hit the pedestrian. I’m still shouting for help but manage to drag them away. Car is dented but friend isn’t bothered. No idea what happened to the pedestrian (I’m a thoughtless dreamer!).

by this point I’ve woken up but does anyone else have such vivid dreams?

I had another one last night about staying at a hotel with my children and their friends and witnessing people being attacked in front of them. And then having so much stuff in our room that we can’t pack it quickly enough to escape.

it’s always the same pattern. Wake up
around 1/2am and can’t sleep. Fall asleep around 5/6 am and then have vivid dreams. Any one else? What do they say about my state of mind ATM??

I’ve had vivid dreams since I hit peri. I find some of them quite disturbing. I’d love to go back to the days of sleeping all night and not remembering dreams.

I wake up at 4am, wide awake for a couple of hours, then fall back asleep for an hour or so and have crazy vivid dreams - often quite stressful. Also in perimenopause.

Not every night. Last night I dreamt I kept changing a timeline to make things right but there was always something wrong

I love having vivid dreams. It’s like living my other lives at night. (Sorry, not very helpful).

My dreams are always vivid. Often I know I'm dreaming but I can't wake up.

That’s a great way to think of them!

I had another one overnight. I dreamt that I forgot to pick my son up from school as I was wandering around a neighbourhood in a completely different country to where I now live. I went into a house to watch TV and suddenly realised, but when I went outside I was back in my neighbourhood. I was running to his firmer childminder to see if she had him, to school and then home. When I got him, it wasn’t my house, and my mum had completely changed the back garden and was annoyed we didn’t like it. I went find my DH to see if he had my son she he told me he was in Tokyo with a friend. I rang his phone and his friends dad answered - I asked where they were and the dad told me he couldn’t be bothered with the hassle of speaking to me. When I went to speak to SH again I found him hyperventilating and visibly sweating as he’d sent an email in work he shouldn’t have done and thought he was going to be sacked.

I never got to the end of it all as I woke up! I have no idea what my subconscious mind is trying to tell me!

Yes, same. I even said to my husband last night as we were saying goodnight in bed that I loved dreaming and couldn’t wait to get to sleep.

Lot of anxiety evident in those dreams. I’ve found it useful to consider that every person in my dreams is an aspect of me. Something about considering that (from your example) I am the pedestrian, I am the driver, I am the lorries, seems to click for me.

There are theories that biphasic sleep was the norm pre industrialisation and electrification. Without artificial light, we tend to lapse into a pattern of heavy sleep, with a wakeful period, followed by lighter sleep.

But if you’re of an age where you might be perimenopausal symptoms like disrupted sleep and anxiety can be related to uneven oestrogen production.