Dreams~

[angieskidney]

I find dreams are always unrealistic

[tubes]

I had a weird dream the other night.  I was walking through a town to get to dialysis.  I was pushing a stroller and looking for a gas station I wanted to stop at and buy my snacks.  On the other side of the street, it was gas station after gas station but none I would stop at.   Then I was walking through the crosswalk and a lady leaned out her window and asked if she could see my baby.  I yelled no and kept walking.  The only thing in the stroller was a blanket for me.  I finally got to the road where my unit was on and stopped at that gas station.(this was a very vivid dream) I picked up some Mambas and Cheeto's, took me awhile to choose.  By the time I had chosen the clerk was gone.  Next thing I know I'm in my unit.  I'm sitting in my chair and the nurse comes up to me ready to stick me.  I try to get my lidocain creme and she says that they use this other stuff now.  It looked like a stick of glue.  The needles were like the size of pencils and made of plastic and she stuck me in my freaking knee.  Then she walked away.  The needles weren't secured.  I started shaking and the needles came out but I didn't bleed, but I developed a blood blister under the skin.  Two nurses started freaking out and were trying to unwrap some gaz.  Next thing I remember the building is gone.  All the chairs and patients were still there, just no building.  I'm looking off in the distance...there are some flashes then I see a tornado, more flashes the tornado changes into a silhouette of a woman then back into a tornado.  The whole time I'm yelling tornado and nobody listens, until the tornado is right on top of us.  Everyone starts running.  There are hills everywhere. I'm looking for someplace to hide and there are people flying past me.  I start coming up off the ground and I wake up.

I can still see that dream as if it had really happened.  It's weird how dreams can be so vivid and how much detail you can remember.

[Ohio Buckeye]

Wow, it's no wonder we are such a tired bunch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Spend our sleeping time escaping fires, tornados, getting shot at, certainly
would make one weary. 
I've had dreams where someone shot at me and I would wake up, but always
have wondered what would have happened if I hadn't woke up. 
I had a dream recently where something was going on and I was the speaker (believe
me I'm not a speaker) and it was almost time for me to speak and I still didn't know
what I was going to speak about.  As it got closer I was becoming more nervous
and anxious and I woke up feeling really nervous and anxious.  It took a long time
to relax and get back to sleep.  It was really strange.

[angieskidney]

I had an odd dream that my brother was depressed but when I woke up I knew it wasn't him but really a manifestation of myself worried about my financial future and relationship and all other worries right now.

[mallory]

Do you think you dream differently with kidney disease than you did before you had it?  It seems like my dreams are more frantic and confusing than they used to be, and I wondered if it's because I don't sleep very well or because of the medications I take.

I have this recurring dream that I'm supposed to be meeting with God.  So I go to the place where we're meeting and it looks like a movie theater.  There's no one in the theater, and I start walking down toward the front where I know that God will be, and I can see that there's like this oasis at the front, with palm trees and everything, and I know that's where He'll be.  So far, I've never got down to where He's supposed to be, I just keep trying to get down there.  The other thing that I remember is that the carpet and the seats in the theater are all purple.

Weird, huh?

[angieskidney]

I wonder if they will be playing your life on the theater screen

[glitter]

fighter

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Since I started dialysis I've been having many more nightmares than before. I have always had vivid dreams almost every night (although I don't always recall them afterwards), but nowadays and especially the three nights a week after my dialysis I have these dark recurring dreams in which I'm always anguished or frustrated and bad things seem to happen to myself and everybody around me. Strangely I have yet to dream about dialysis itself, maybe my subconscious mind is still in denial!

Does anybody else get these nightmares? I really wonder why I get them because my thoughts during the day are never dark and I (almost) never feel depressed or afraid, though obviously I have some measure of apprehension when I think that I could be called upon for a transplant and opened up with a scalpel any day now...

They don't really bother me except that they sometimes affect the quality of my sleep.

Anyway, any thoughts are welcome...

my husband has been complaining of this same thing-dark,dark dreams-sometimes so real he has trouble discerning reality.I am asking his Dr. about it-they are so vivid......

[kitkatz]

My dreams have been wild and very vivid the last two weeks since I came home from the hospital. I think it is from being under anesthetic during surgery.

[Ken Shelmerdine]

Fighter
Have you by any chance just recently started taking beta-blockers. Since they became part of my medication I have had not so much nightmares as frustrating dreams. Dreams where I can't find where I parked my car or this one which re-occurs. I'm staying in an hotel which is surrounded be freeways and I'm trying to get to it in my car but I keep taking the wrong exit and finishing up on another freeway which is taking me further and further away.So I turn off at the next exit and get on a freeway which is bringing me nearer, then I take another wrong exit. I can even see the hotel but just can't get anywhere near it.

[Russ]

I've been having a recurring dream since I started dialysis.  I'm in a public restroom and peeing for like 10 minutes.

[kitkatz]

Fighter
Have you by any chance just recently started taking beta-blockers. Since they became part of my medication I have had not so much nightmares as frustrating dreams. Dreams where I can't find where I parked my car or this one which re-occurs. I'm staying in an hotel which is surrounded be freeways and I'm trying to get to it in my car but I keep taking the wrong exit and finishing up on another freeway which is taking me further and further away.So I turn off at the next exit and get on a freeway which is bringing me nearer, then I take another wrong exit. I can even see the hotel but just can't get anywhere near it.

I get a dream where I have to call in to work and report I am not coming in and I cannot dial the phone number.  It is so frustrating in the dream! I have cried and screamed of the telephone in the dream!

[goofynina]

 

[Sluff]

I don't dream much anymore but when I dose off during the day and wake up i think I see smoke in the room. It's kind of scary I ask my son to come in the room to see if it's just me or what. It's just me.

[MyssAnne]

That's odd, Sluff. I've seen smoke in the room too, when I wake up. Weird. I have very vivid dreams, mostly
of my parents (my mother died last year), and one or the other is really mad at me about something. I wake
up feeling very disturbed when I have those dreams.

[nextnoel]

I periodically have a repeat dream that I look forward to.  In it, I am reading a book, and all you can see is the open book, as if I were really looking at it.  I read down the left page, then down the right page, and then I see my hand come into the frame and turn the page, and it continues on.  It is always a very peaceful, restorative dream, and when I wake up, I can tell the story I just read, and it actually makes sense! 

When I was in college, sometimes I would dream I was singing.  My roommate said I drove her crazy, because I would be humming in my sleep, and she never could identify the song, but it was a real song, not just disconnected notes.  It, too, was a very restorative dream, and I would wake up so happy and peaceful!

[MyssAnne]

Nextnoel, that's a nice dream to have, either the reading one or the singing!  Isn't it odd, how our brain/mind works?

[lamillinger913]

Last week I dreamed I was having lunch with Simon Cowell (the American Idol judge). But he was being very sweet, helping me find something on the menu that would be OK with the dialysis diet.

[goofynina]

Sorry my friends, i cannot share last nights dream with all of you cuz, you all were in it    (i really should stay out of that chat room)   lol,   

[kitkatz]

Come on girlfriend, ya gotta tell us that one! Especially if we were in it!

[goofynina]

Unh uh, no can do my friend,  i think i may have some members mad at me (then again, maybe not) hmmmm

[Sluff]

OMG Goofynina I can't believe you shared that dream with me. I won't tell anyone.

[goofynina]

If you do, i want a percentage of everything you make... i believe that can be worth some BIG BUCK$  what do you think?

last night before i went to bed, i put my kitty's new flea collar on her, took me a minute cuz she was trying to get away but because of the ordeal and me talking to her about Fleas and stuff, i had this dream that our house was infested with fleas, Sam wanted to get rid of the cat but i was fighting him, i was crying and refusing to let her go, so, Sam left and we lived happily ever after   oh Lord, what is this cat doing to my life?? lol, I LOVE HER 

[Sluff]

If you do, i want a percentage of everything you make... i believe that can be worth some BIG BUCK$  what do you think?

last night before i went to bed, i put my kitty's new flea collar on her, took me a minute cuz she was trying to get away but because of the ordeal and me talking to her about Fleas and stuff, i had this dream that our house was infested with fleas, Sam wanted to get rid of the cat but i was fighting him, i was crying and refusing to let her go, so, Sam left and we lived happily ever after   oh Lord, what is this cat doing to my life?? lol, I LOVE HER 

I don't blame you, I have dreamed about a little kitty myself on occasion.

[goofynina]

If you do, i want a percentage of everything you make... i believe that can be worth some BIG BUCK$  what do you think?

last night before i went to bed, i put my kitty's new flea collar on her, took me a minute cuz she was trying to get away but because of the ordeal and me talking to her about Fleas and stuff, i had this dream that our house was infested with fleas, Sam wanted to get rid of the cat but i was fighting him, i was crying and refusing to let her go, so, Sam left and we lived happily ever after   oh Lord, what is this cat doing to my life?? lol, I LOVE HER 

I don't blame you, I have dreamed about a little kitty myself on occasion.

I am sure you have amigo, BUT the difference between my kitty and her fleas is the "kitty" your dreaming about probably has crabs  ...lmao, sorry, bad joke   ok, ok, my bad   sorry, couldnt resist, what? i said sorry, 

[boxman55]

be carefull what you dream about it can come true or has already..Boxman55