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Have Any Good Dreams To Share?

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I’ve been having a lot of weird dreams lately. Building things has been a prevalent theme, as well as organizing. It’s like I’ve been working in my sleep, and so I wake up feeling like I’ve had no rest. It doesn’t help that for the past week I’ve woken every morning between 1:30 and 4:30, at least once, and haven’t been able to go back to sleep. My mind becomes occupied with all the things I’m reminded I need to do in my waking life by my dreams and sleep eludes.

Every night when I get into bed I hope for a nice dream. One of the ones I sometimes have in which I’m madly in love with someone who loves me back, or I’m laughing or simply happy, hanging out in a shop with Johnny Depp, who is buying me anything I want. (Yes, I’ve actually had that dream. 😀 )

Dreams–good ones–can keep us going every bit as much as the bad ones can weigh us down.

What is your favourite dream?

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Author: Linda G. Hill

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  1. morgaine620's avatar
    morgaine620
    August 23, 2014 at 4:36 am

    Hi Linda, you know Johnny Depp has a holiday home around here and did his grocery shopping in the shop I used to work in. Unfortunately it was the admin lady who he asked for something. I was not at work 😦 I dream of tables and restaurants a lot lately. Wonder what that might mean….. 🙂 take care and have a great weekend

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    KG
    August 22, 2014 at 11:51 pm

    I really need to sleep well first to get a dream , good or bad 🙂 Life is kind of all messed up right now with all work and no sleep. And I have had more animals in my dreams than humans actually.

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    KendiBanks
    August 22, 2014 at 11:33 pm

    There seems to be this strange paradoxical relationship I have with sleep and dreams. I am a heavy sleeper but I feel like I’m never in really deep sleep. A lot of the time, I’m fully aware of my surroundings while sleeping. My dear mother is very loud and when she’s on the phone at the crack of dawn, I can her her talking as I sleep and whatever she talks about gets worked into my dream somehow. It’s kinda strange, actually. I also have had dreams where i’m consciously aware that it IS a dream and as it’s happening, I’m saying to myself “I’m Dreaming, this can’t be real.” I don’t know if other people experience this or just me. I’ve never been one to read much into meanings of dream, but something I read this morning sparked my interest. I’ve been having a recurring dream where all of my teeth fall out. I’ve had it at least three times this year. I hear on some news show that teeth in dreams are symbolic of communication issues. I have HUGE communication issues with my family. I feel like I’m NEVER heard even though I talk pretty loud. I just feel like that what I have to say goes in one ear and out the other. It was really eye opening.

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    Doobster418
    August 22, 2014 at 7:43 pm

    I very rarely remember my dreams. Sometimes when I wake up after a very vivid dream, I think to myself that I really need to remember it. By the time I get a pen and paper or boot up my laptop…pfft…it’s gone forever from my brain. About the only dreams I do remember are recurring dreams and I did write a post about them late last year, in case you’re interested: http://mindfuldigressions.com/2013/12/05/dream-a-little-dream/

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      Kheleya Fahrmann (khelwriter)
      August 22, 2014 at 7:47 pm

      I think the latest science is that we never truly forget anything, so all those dreams are buried somewhere in your brain, available for retrieval if you can get at them. But what we actually remember is not the event itself but the last time we remembered it, so there’s kind of a broken telephone effect (which has led to false memories becoming a controversial issue).

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      LindaGHill
      August 22, 2014 at 10:58 pm

      I try to keep a pen and a piece of paper beside the bed. Unfortunately these days it takes at least half an hour for my eyes to focus after I wake up, so if I do write something down… let’s just say I may as well be trying to remember my dream. 😛

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    jowensauthor
    August 22, 2014 at 6:08 pm

    Most of my dreams tend to be weird. Occasionally I’ll have a more normal one, usually related to my day job or my love life (or lack thereof atm). But for the most part they’re just totally weird, like the one a couple weeks ago that was Harry Potter/Narnia themed. Or the one where I dreamed about my miniature poodle, Cinnamon (rest in peace, sweetie), and she was running down the street with a car coming. I called to her and she ran back to be, just before the car could reach her. A man was standing next to me, for some reason, with a big dog (boxer? rotweiler? something like that). I picked Cinnamon up, for safety, and turned to the man. His dog sort of snarled or something, and showed his teeth, but it was human teeth (sort of like in the Dentastix commercials). I gasped and stepped back, and Cinnamon let out a startled yelp, then I turned around and took her back into the house. Like I said, weird dreams.

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    Meredith
    August 22, 2014 at 4:36 pm

    Linda, now I remember. I was saying wow at the déjà vu
    occurrences and dreams. I still plan to write a blog with
    this prompt . I’ve just about written myself out this
    morning.

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    joeyfullystated
    August 22, 2014 at 4:32 pm

    I love a good dream. I’d have to say sexy dreams are my favorites, then probably flying, and then the ones that don’t make any sense, but I wake up with a delicious feeling, like something really good happened to me 🙂

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    Good Lifestyler
    August 22, 2014 at 4:02 pm

    Reblogged this on Good Lifestyler.

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    Meredith
    August 22, 2014 at 3:52 pm

    Quite a response. It’s a popular subject. My favorite dream is one of flying. I fly over mountains, the plains, sometimes the ocean. I become afraid when I realize I don’t know how to slow down or stop. I haven’t fallen yet. Someone tell me that if you do fall in your dreams when you’re flying you’re dead.

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    Good Lifestyler
    August 22, 2014 at 3:20 pm

    I can’t decide my favourite but the other night I had a dream where I had a bunch of cats which could attack on command and were like my minions :/

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    authorleighmichaels
    August 22, 2014 at 2:52 pm

    I don’t have good dreams. Only bad dreams mostly, or occasionally neutral dreams (those are often about the characters in whatever my current project is). I have had dreams about things before they happen, and that is freaky!

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    Kheleya Fahrmann (khelwriter)
    August 22, 2014 at 2:11 pm

    I have no favorite dreams because I much prefer the non-REM state of sleep. For the past two mornings I’ve woken up wishing that I could enjoy sleep a little longer, just for the peace of unconsciousness. There’s nothing morbid about that. I just enjoy being unconscious the way other people might enjoy needlepoint or windsurfing.

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    mewhoami
    August 22, 2014 at 2:01 pm

    Good dreams can be very refreshing and sometimes a bit torturing because they make us desire certain situations even more. I would say though that my favorite dream, a recurring one, is spending time with my best best friend. We don’t see each other much (maybe once a year if we’re lucky), but in my dreams we take walks together, go hiking , sky dive, and sometimes we just cook together. No matter what we do, I always wake up smiling.

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    Silver Threading
    August 22, 2014 at 1:56 pm

    Ahhhh… the sign of a creative mind. When I was in college and when I worked as a bookkeeper, I would dream and figure out the tough problems. Many times I was able to write a paper with ease because I had subconsciously worked out all the kinks in my dreams! Do you have deja- vu dreams? I do. I remember dreaming about something and then later it happens…

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    • Linda G. Hill's avatar
      LindaGHill
      August 22, 2014 at 2:06 pm

      Oh yes, quite often. I’ve even shared a dream. Once – it was the middle of July – I was talking to my ex on the phone about a very vivid dream I’d had the night before about a Christmas tree. He’d dreamed the same thing. Weird. 🙂
      Great that you were able to figure out your dilemmas whilst asleep! I wish I could do that more often.

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      mewhoami
      August 22, 2014 at 2:07 pm

      Silver, your comment brought my strangest deja-vu moment to remembrance.

      When I was a teen I had a dream that a guy kissed me (a guy who I didn’t know at the time) in his basement (which I had never seen). About 6 months later, I walked into that basement. I stood at the bottom of the stairs in shock, because without even taking another step, I knew the exact layout of the basement and the spot where he would kiss me. And it all happened just as I had dreamed. It was both neat, and very creepy.

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