Anyone else having vivid nightmares?

Like most woman of my age group (60s) I haven’t slept well for some years, however, this week I had a good night’s sleep but dreamt about my late parents. One of my first thoughts the following morning when I woke up was ‘I must ring Mum and Dad to make sure they are coping’ . How odd was that?

I am missing the grandsons. Last night I dreamt I was in a café and met a work colleague who had a baby in a pushchair. I stopped to chat and then remembered I had left the grandsons on their own at home. When I got home the baby had cried himself to sleep on the floor. The older one was playing inside a plastic bag. Another night was a dreamt I was on holiday on my own. Everyone paired up and went off on trips and no one asked me so I was left out. Then I met a young girl who some boys were laughing at. She came up to me and said "now you know how I feel". I never normally have such strange and vivid dreams.

I have been OK so far, but I am very strict with myself about what I watch or read. I take in all the information I can cope with in the news first thing in the morning and at lunchtime and then no more. 2pm is the shut down. No more news, no more reading social media if it is about You Know What, no long worrying phone conversations, if needs be I ask people to ring me in the morning. In the evening I watch something light hearted, read an uplifting book and then go to bed with my mind firmly fixed on positive things. I used to suffer from anxiety and bouts of clinical depression and had to try to learn to get my mind under control. Mostly it works.

Yes, but I have very strange and vivid dreams all the time, due to the antidepressant I take.

Never dream/nightmare as never reach REM sleep...I’ve cat-napped my way through the last 20 years!

It would be interesting to see what a dream analyst could tell us about our dreams.

I too have a mixture of horrible dreams and some nice. Last night my Dad came into a room in which I was in bed sleeping, he was with two other people. He sat on my bed. I asked where my Mum was and he got upset, to the point that the two other people had to carry him out. He was shouting and yelling (not much noise tho). That's when I woke up. Others are a mixture of what I have seen, talked about and all jumbled up. Callistemon. I get that dream quite frequently, sometimes the toilets bowls are full or really dirty! Strange times we are living in

Oh Alita, I so empathise with you. Missing our grandchildren so much, even with Facetime and I have been dreaming of losing one of them and running about trying to find them. Easy to work out what that's about but very upsetting nonetheless.

I am a very calm person, and always have the attitude that everything will be ok.
I haven’t had any nightmares, but often dream, recently, that I am trying to get somewhere, but I never know where. In my dream I wander the streets endlessly, not knowing where I am. Obviously it is either related to the wondering of where and when this situation will end. Perhaps, also, the lack of opportunity to go for walks with the freedom that we used to have.

Ive always had very vivid dreams

No, because I do all my worrying while awake. It was the same when I had cancer. So stressed while awake, that my subconscious had no work left to do.

Not sure if that is a good thing or not.

I am just hoping that I will wake up one morning soon to find that this whole situation was just a horrible dream!

Rainbows and fluffy toys - that's because people have been painting rainbows and putting them in their windows to say thank you to carers and Teddy bears in windows for children going on a bear hunt on their daily walks!

No nightmares, but more vivid dreams than usual, when I eventually get to sleep.

Yes, having a lot of disturbed nights but make the effort not to sleep during the day. However, I had the same problem in the 80s, what to do in the case of the bomb

When I was full time working I used to get really horrible, vivid dreams every night of my holidays and then once back at work again they stopped. Always thought it was something to do with my mind not being busy during the day. This stopped happening once I stopped full time work.

Can't remember nightmares but keep waking up at about 3.30, for about an hour then dropping off again until about 6.30. It's weird the things I think about at 3.30 in the morning.

I always dream so vividly every night that sometimes I wake up tired out! I have the weirdest dreams about things and people from years ago.

I once met a man at an airport (trying to con my lovely but gullible husband) and he told me I think too much at night! Think he must have been right!

I dreamt I went to a friend's house to help with a nativity scene. There were life sized cradles in their living room, all with still figures in except one smaller one that had a baby in it struggling to breath and holding it's hands out towards me. I tentatively held the baby's hands and it seemed to calm it down. My friend wasn't present just her husband who said she was upstairs. Quite disturbing.

I have had a few weird dreams. No doubt the strange worrying situation, and also another issue that is causing me anxiety at the moment, related to my daughter. I have been very stressed lately. The other night I dreamed that I was going round a supermarket trying to pick up a few items, and people weren't staying 2 metres away. They were all crowding round me and leaning across me, even coughing, and I was trying to keep my distance, but then I couldn't reach the items on the shelves. I woke up feeling extremely stressed.

I used to have bad nightmares (o.k. are there good nightmares)
then I got some Dream catchers,, in both bedrooms.

honestly, not had one since!

I sympathise as I’ve had those. It’s very unsettling and have to phone all of family just to hear their voice. Try an app called Calm. It’s pretty good.

I always do have vivid dreams not every night but every few weeks, the family call it my self preservation, have done for years, as often things happen withing 24 hours of me having one of my dreams.

I keep dreaming that I've left my grandchildren alone somewhere, such as in the car, or at my house when I'm out. I look after them most days and so I'm finding this very hard.

I dreamed last night that I had contracted the virus; I was terrified, and woke up coughing and hot, and felt in that split second that I truly had it in reality. A drink of water, a calming five minutes looking out at the night sky by the open window, feeling grateful that I hadn't. We are all in an unreal world; those of us retired are probably better prepared than most as we are home based and not now in a pattern of early rising and travelling like the majority of the working population. It must be so strange for them as life has changed completely.