Goodness knows what my subconscious is up to. If my dreams are anything to go by, it is working overtime. I am not sure whether it is that I have been ill and spending such a lot of time asleep, that I seem to have spent so much time dreaming such vivid dreams, or whether it is the mind altering effects of the Night Nurse I have been swigging back with abandon. Either way, in the mornings I wake up exhausted, after nights of frenetic activity.
I am not sleeping well anyway, and tend to wake up half a dozen times at least, so possible this contributes to my remembering the dreams. Except I don't really. I mean I do, just as I am waking, but then by late morning the dreams themselves have mostly gone, just the underlying emotions faintly still with me. There is a lot going on in there.
Many of the dreams feature my mother, or someone who is NOT my mother, but who is. Well, you know what dreams are like. Which is odd, because I never used to dream of her at all when she was alive. In some of the dreams, I am not me at all. Except I am, but a different me, from a different time and place and world. If I was a writer, I could see where a fantasy book could come from!
The mind is a fascinating thing. Who is to say, after all, that the awake me is any more real than the dreaming me?
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From what you say they don't sound as if they upsetting dreams but maybe you should try a night without the night nurse and see if you still get the dreams. It is odd how you can remember when you first wake up and then they fade. I am glad to know it doesn't just happen to me, I thought it was just my appalling memory! I had a particularly odd one recently when I was having driving lessons but had to learn how to use a shotgun first .... I wish I could remember more of it as I still haven't figured that one out.
ReplyDeleteAll this trouble sleeping...being sick...You definitely sound depressed to me. I wish you a speedy recovery.
ReplyDeleteAs for dreams, I dreamt last night that I was trying to seduce Jack from "Lost". I don't find him remotely attractive, but I seemed to be very into him in my dream. But the bloody bastard was having none of it! The cheek!