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  1. I have very vivid dreams if I doze off while in the recliner chair. I don't dream or don't remember them when I am sleeping in the bed. When I doze off in the recliner whatever happens to be on the TV becomes part of the dream, since I don't usually watch scary or gruesome stuff that usually isn't a problem, but when I had my wisdom teeth removed a while back I dozed off in the chair. It was during the first day when I had taken one of the prescribed pain pills. Apparently I fell asleep with my finger on the channel change button because I woke up from the worst, horrible nightmare about being tortured by having my teeth pulled. Apparently, I had accidentally let the remote go to some movie, where they were pulling teeth out to get information from someone. I woke up terrified from the dream I was having and then there it was on TV. For a few moments I couldn't figure out what was reality, since the pain pill had worn off and my tooth holes were hurting. That was pretty bad.

    One time recently I dreamed my friend and I ran into Caesar Milan, the dog whisperer, in the library. That was an entertaining dream.

  2. I have a recurring dream that it is the end of the school year and I "forgot" to go to math class all year so can't take the test that will enable me to graduate. Weird. I also have one similar to yours about trying to dial a phone number – usually a rotary dial and I keep messing it up. In both dreams I feel very anxious. I really liked this post – very interesting!

  3. I have very vivid dreams and some of them are indeed recurring. I used to keep a dream journal but that didn't last long. It was interesting to go back and look at my dreams. I rarely remembered any of them.

  4. I used to have the same dream over and over for years. Thankfully, it no longer happens. It was me living another life in another time but with the same husband and children. Very strange. I knew the house inside and out, it was so familiar. Perhaps a different timeline? Who knows.

  5. Here's what is interesting about your dreams of not being able to get back home — over the past few years, it seems like in your awake life you are getting more and more comfortable with yourself in your own home. Yet you still have this unsettling dream of not getting home. It reminds me of how I occasionally have a dream about my ex-husband, or about a man I was once engaged to who broke off the relationship. In the dreams, I'll be in a relationship with one of them, and he'll call and tell me to meet him somewhere. I'll agree, and go to the place, and then he'll never show up. I haven't been in a relationship with either of them for over 25 years, and I've been happily married to a very loving and dependable man for 11 years. So, I'm not sure why I have dreams about those people from the past who weren't there for me. I already know that about them. Maybe the dream is about something else, or about me still being vulnerable in some way. But I'm not sure.

    Regarding Linda's comment about dementia, I am intrigued by stories of people who are about to die, who say they've been visited by someone who already is dead. Before she died, my mother-in-law told me of visits she had from her sisters and her late husband. I always went along and did not try to contradict her. The people in the family in the medical profession just brushed it off as being related to her old age and medicine she was on. But, I've always wondered. To her, she really did see the people, and she wasn't upset by it. So, it seemed like a good thing for her to seem them.

  6. I've often thought that the dream state is another part of life, albeit one I often can't remember or understand. Sometimes I even wonder if dementia is closer to the dream existence…weird I know. Dreams must do something for us…work out what's going on in our lives, perhaps? I do have some recurring dreams…they tend to be the anxiety type. And my most vivid dreams and nightmares are always in the morning before I wake. Interesting post, Brenda!

  7. I am a very vivid dreamer. They feel so real to me. My husband never remembers his dreams. Maybe that's why he sleeps so well! 😉

  8. I love the Peter Pan quote too. Yes, I have recurring dreams. Sometimes troubling. And yes, dreams that stay with me. I'm always thankful that I have dreamed because it's a sure sign I have slept. 🙂

  9. I love that Peter Pan quote.

    I've never had a recurring dream, although hubby has. I've had dreams that have stayed with me, which invariably are the ones with the most meaning.

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