Is there anything in a dream?

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Happily married for more than 10 years but last night I dreamt about leaving my husband for someone else who I am not attracted to.
It wasn’t someone I know well, more just know of so it was someone very random but certainly couldn’t ever find attractive.
I don’t know why I would have dreamt that, he’s not a patch on my husband but I feel really guilty this morning.

At the time of the Oasis reunion (I'm not a pop music person - classical really) I dreamt that Noel, Liam and their mum came to dinner at my house. Noel, his mum and me and my husband were sitting round the table having a conversation while Liam (fully clothed) sat in a hot tub in the corner of the room, with all my Denby crockery in there with him. He kept picking out pieces and saying how amazing the dinner service was.

I don't even fancy the Gallagher brothers (though I do have admiration for them for their talent), so what that was all about, I dread to think!!

When I fell pregnant with my oldest son I had the weirdest, most vivid dreams ever. I dreamt of being pregnant, lying on my in-laws chaise lounge eating grapes and wearing floaty dresses (just like a renaissance painting)
It was so REAL I HAD to do a pregnancy test to make sure.
So yes, I do think there is sometimes chemicals in the brain that do convert to dreams.

Last night I dreamed I was being chased down the road by a demon who then jumped over my head, landed in front of me and clawed me to death. I don’t think there’s anything in dreams.

I recently dreamt that DH snatched my baby and threw it through an upstairs window onto the concrete below.

we are in our 60s.

Dreams are mostly nonsense though I definitely have nightmares when I’m stressed. They are still nonsense though.

It doesn't mean anything, OP.

When I fell pregnant with my oldest son I had the weirdest, most vivid dreams ever. I dreamt of being pregnant, lying on my in-laws chaise lounge eating grapes and wearing floaty dresses (just like a renaissance painting)
It was so REAL I HAD to do a pregnancy test to make sure.
So yes, I do think there is sometimes chemicals in the brain that do convert to dreams.

OK, but I've had many, many dreams over the years about being pregnant or giving birth and I've never been pregnant in my life.

I've also dreamt that I had a baby that turned out to be made out of orange plasticine, so yeah, I don't think that's chemicals in my brain reflecting reality somehow.

Also, the chemicals in the brain realised by sexual desire are the same regardless of the object of that desire, so even if it was brain chemistry that caused the OP to have this particular dream, all that would mean is that there were some sex/romance hormones drifting around in her body. It wouldn't mean that she secretly fancies the person she dreamt about.

It's completely normal to have sexual or romantic dreams about people you don't find in the slightest bit attractive in real life. It means nothing.

I woke up this morning mildly shaken from a dream that I was having, but all I could remember was being in a restaurant with my in laws and not being able to find out from the menu if they did free drinks refills. Personally, I don't think dreams represent anything at all, they're just the mind wandering at night.