YES yes yes yes yes I know what you mean, even about just knowing they were "weird in some way" but you can't remember any details or what happened. It definitely adds to my anxiety as well. I have nightmares too which add to the negative down feelings.

I posted this type of question in another support group awhile back, I will try to find the link for you if you'd like additional feedback.

Yes please!

By the way ---

After describing this to half a dozen doctors over 2 years, one of them finally said, well, it's obvious, if you can remember so much of your dreams then you're not getting very deep, restful sleep!

Now I have a sleep-aid. Ambien did the opposite for me but Lunesta is working wonders.

Found it! I knew there was a reason for getting emails when your post gets replies, hehe.

http://www.dailystrength.org/c/Insomnia/forum/10110165-dreaming-and-deja-vu-experiences/lastpage

There is some stuff in the middle that is a bit bizarre and not totally relevant, but a few of the replies I received talked more about dreams.

Actually, I am getting enough sleep, I think. Sure, it is often difficult to get out of bed in the morning - I'm curled up under the covers with a good book, it's warm in bed and cold outside. Why would I want to leave my nest? ;o)

It's not that I remember a lot of dreams as such, I just remember one or two of the more vivid ones. Like the one where I need to pee and all the public toilets are filthy gross LOL.

Sometimes for me, I have that cloudy feeling in the morning. If I can't recall any of the details right away, sometimes they will sneak up on me later, too -- some hour in the afternoon once in awhile, but very frequently that evening as I'm getting ready for bed again, the moment I lay my head on the pillow and close my eyes, BAM, it flashes before me. It's as if my mind wants to pick up where it left off, like my dreams are some kind of television series.

"Previously in Your Strange Dreams... "

Thanks for posting that link to the other thread. It was a really interesting read and quite helpful too. Luckily I don't suffer from insomnia, although when I was first diagnosed with depression, I had the horrible experience of waking up in the middle of the night and not being able to get back to sleep.

I guess I call myself a prolific dreamer because I recall more dreams than anyone else in my household, but it's certainly not every morning that I wake up with "Hey, I just had the weirdest dream last night".

Perhaps you should write down your dreams and sell them as a TV series plot to a major network. Make some cash from your nocturnal mind wanderings!

LOL

That is a wonderful idea! haha. I don't really know who would really want to watch, maybe fans of some bizarre things like on Comedy Central....

I have dreams like that quite often. More often than not in fact. There was a week where I felt really off because my dreams were "normal". Ever since I can remember, even as a child, my dreams have been pretty vivid. I still remember dreams from my childhood. In some of my more vivid dreams I can think, smell, notice color, and feel, both emotions and textures. Sometimes I can recognize I am dreaming and do what ever I want. I remember when I was younger I would sometimes take naps because I enjoyed dreaming that much.

Hi Kiwi,

Sure, doesn't everyone?

Actually a lot of p[eople say they don't dream at all. But of course they do, they just don't remember it as they have a good sleep pattern. We tend to remember dreams when we are awoken from a deeper sleep, which is what I'mof was talking about.

If you have a normal sleep then dreams are in the middle and you don't wake half way through them and thus remember them.

I notice you are a lady and have a child. Now don't take this the wrong way but of my last 3 long term partners, each who had a child, they all got up several times a night to wee and came straight back to bed and were snoring before I could compalin about being woken up. Also is it possible hormones are playing with you too?

Those 3 ladies, 2 said they slept fine but my current partner knows she doesn't and just accepts it, no choice. It's often just one of the penalties of child birth, the body doesn't always recover fully.

The feeling anxious thing does happen to me too sometimes when I have a bad dream I CAN remember. So, what's the answer? I say they are just dreams and we shouldn't worry about them at all as they only reflect what we are worrying about when awake if they are bad. If they are good, great, more please.

To continue on this ... to anyone out there.

Have you ever been under the impression that something has happened in your waking life only to LATER come to realize (through conversation, observation of things around you) that those things DID NOT happen?

I have spent a lot of time confusing my dreams with reality.

No doctor has answered that part of my question yet either.

Hmmm, interesting one, that. Can't say that's happened to me. Except in the odd minor conversation with my hubby about something non-consequential. Often I'll talk about anything and nothing as I'm drifting into sleep and my husband likes to try and keep a conversation going as long as possible, just for fun. It's not long before I realise i've been talking nonsense and we have a good giggle over it.

In reply to midnightcowboy, it is possible hormones could be partly to blame, although I'm not going thru menopause just yet and my other hormonal cycles are normally pretty reliable and good. I usually get up during the night for a wee break :o) and get back to sleep within a few minutes. My daughter doesn't get me up during the night (she's nine).

Yeah, that has happened to me a couple times before where something happens that makes me realize what I had thought had happened turned out to be a dream.

my dreams i remember to any degree tend to be either absolute terrors, or they leave me with false hope that is shattered as soon as i wake up and work out it was a dream. sometimes though i will dream things and be convinced they were reality.

Have you quit or changed medications lately? I find that when I have those type of dreams it is usually after a med change.