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Off-Topic Dreams
OP: May 21, 2013, 04:06:23 AM
Well my H is in New Jersey, not really,but that's the weird dream I had.
My BIL ,who none of us are close too was at our house eating dinner.I brought up my H(his brother) and he told me that H was in New Jersey for a month for an unknown reason.I mentioned to him,that I thought maybe the H was in the hospital for depression,finally and trying to get help.
I have no idea why New Jersey!
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Re: Weird Dreams
#1: May 21, 2013, 06:54:44 AM
Not helping your thread much but you made me realise that I am recalling no dreams at all right now..for the last probably 12 months. I used to have quite vivid dreams but now...none.

I did have a pretty obvious dream early after BD...bumped into H who was with a woman who was short, young, short dark pixie cut hair, heaps of makeup, very cutesy-pie, flat chested. I woke feeling sick to the stomach but soon realised I had dreamed up an OW who was my exact opposite. So it wasn't like a prediction or anything just my brain over thinking stuff.
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Re: Weird Dreams
#2: May 21, 2013, 06:30:37 PM
I have had dreams of other women, in the past. I always use to wake up and just lay there looking at my H while he slept. I guess just a fear in the back of my brain that came to life in a nightmare. I don't dream much at all,really, maybe cause I am a light sleeper.
Just thought it was funny that in my dream last night I said my H was in New Jersey. ::)
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Re: Weird Dreams
#3: May 21, 2013, 06:33:26 PM
I will never forget a dream I had years ago in which H came to me and told me that he was leaving me.  I was initially devastated but then went back to him and said "No, I don't believe you".  Essentially MLC huh?
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Re: Weird Dreams
#4: October 29, 2013, 11:17:23 AM
Dreams are funny things. They can be deliciously capricious, weird, zany, meaningless. They can reflect anxieties, hopes, and fears. There are dreams we can discard, whether good or bad, as just a dream, and others that definitely reflect our inner psyche. There are things that come out in dreams that we have repressed during waking hours, and other dreams that help us to understand our problems.

Some people, like me, have vivid dreams when they're still awake. I'm not sure why some people do, but the quality of these dreams is definitely related to the emotions we are experiencing. When H first started the pre and post BD talks, these vivid dreams were dark and ominous (I have these very vivid semi dreams while lying next to him with my eyes shut). When his talk was kinder, I saw flowers and light. All very easy to explain

I also have dreams when the dead talk to me. My grandmothers. My father in law (who I never met). This are easy to understand too, without any paranormal explanation. although perhaps I'm wrong. I don't know why I dreamed about my father in law, who shook my hand, and said he wanted to pass a message onto his family.

And yet... since I was a child I have strange dreams that come true. These are not dejá vu brain shortcuts, but strange, intense dreams of the future. They feel different to normal dreams. I'm sometimes surprised by the dream, but not surprised when they come true. I've dreamed about finding jewelry in the street, then found it, about winning money, and then winning it really, about meeting someone I've never met, and then when I do meet them, they are exactly as I'd dreamed. I've dreamed about places before I've been there, to find they are like my dream and different to photos. I dreamed about H before I met him too.

Two days ago I dreamed about (ex) OW's mother, who used to be my friend, but got angry with me for "all the harm" I did to her daughter (!) I know the family is dysfunctional, OW is a narcissist, and Ow's mother is very fragile; she can't deal with reality and keeps up pretense to the outside world about a lot of things (which fools no one).

In the dream, (ex) OW's mother was coming towards me, smiling. Then yesterday, in a shopping centre in the city, I saw her, coming towards me, and smiling. Except when she saw me, her face froze, and she pretended not to see me. I felt so sorry for her. All I could see was someone who can't deal with her pain and with the world.

I don't know why this dream came, so unexpectedly, and so accurately.

Anyone who knows me knows that I'm not really into paranormal stuff. Yes, I do the iChing, http://mlcforum.theherosspouse.com/index.php?topic=2652.msg165066#msg165066 but this is a way of accessing my own inner wisdom. I'm not religious, although I was brought up catholic. Although I think that everyone has the right to their own faith and choices, I prefer the self direction of Buddhism.

Yet despite my preferred rationality about the world, I have these strange dreams...
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Re: Weird Dreams
#5: October 29, 2013, 11:34:55 AM
I had a dream a few days ago that my H and I renewed our vows and then he disappeared at the reception.  I sure hope that is just my brain working overtime and not a premonition of the future.  :D

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Re: Weird Dreams
#6: October 29, 2013, 11:39:51 AM
I had a very vivid dream about my husband coming home and telling me he made a big mistake and us having this wild and wonderful sex. Needless to say that I woke up very very depressed and spent the day upset. I got the divorce papers 2 hrs after waking up (this sunday morning) after those vivid dreams. Um, yeah great dreams :-\
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Re: Weird Dreams
#7: October 29, 2013, 03:05:03 PM
A few weeks after BD, I took the kids on vacation.  It was still a time of waking up during the night with my stomach in a knot, and that sick feeling, yet putting on a brave face for the kids, and doing the best to "enjoy" ourselves.

Had a dream about Jon Bon Jovi, which was fab, how could it not be, and quite vivid. Woohoo, lucky me ;)  Then, not long after, when we got home, saw him on TV singing "It's my life", and how appropriate was that, although I sobbed thinking of H liking the words :'(.

It's my life, it's now or never
I ain't gonna live forever
I just want to live while I'm alive

It's my life
My heart is like the open highway
Like Frankie said I did it my way
I just wanna live while I'm alive
It's my life

Now, more than a year on, I would LOVE to have another dream about JBJ!! ;)

Couple of weeks ago I dreamt of H :o.  Not sure if first one since BD?  He was lying on the floor on the carpet as he might have, leaning on his elbow, and saying to me something like, "oh, yes, I'm going on vacation with Amanda".  I have no idea about that one ::), but get the travelling part.  His OW not Amanda. 
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Re: Weird Dreams
#8: October 29, 2013, 04:17:39 PM
H told me a few weeks ago that sometimes he has trouble sleeping. Said the night before he kept dreaming of friends dying. Kept waking up in between. Said he had died in one of them and the last one that woke him up completely freaked out was of me stabbing him to death WTH is that about?!?

He has struggled with dreams about him dying for awhile. Sometimes it's close friends. But mostly him.
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Re: Weird Dreams
#9: October 29, 2013, 04:26:37 PM
I've posted this before but I like to use dreammoods.com to help resolve dreams.

Is has a place where you can look up the feelings you have during them also which is really important. Just type how you felt in the search.

This is EXCELLENT mirrorwork!

I don't have many..if i do I usually dismiss them.
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