Anyone else having vivid nightmares?

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 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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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?

My sleep has been quite disturbed but I am having long periods of complicated dreams involving all sorts of people and places. I’m laying in until much later than I normally would. I’m trying to do some deep breathing exercises to help with relaxation as some nights it’s hard to get to sleep. I wake every day thinking I must be imagining this is happening! It’s like something from a horror movie.

I had a vivid dream yesterday, but even my daydreams have been vivid lately too-

I dreamed I visited my son and on entering asked where my five month old granddaughter was. He said '' oh, she's in the slow cooker, warm and cosy in there ". I screamed " no " and ran into the kitchen, pulling the lid off the slow cooker, to see my lovely Una's face bobbing about in gravy , dotted somewhat with carrots and beaming at me. Somehow that made it all ok and I left her there !

I always have relaxation music on in our bedroom on a night. Helps me distract to sleep. I put it back on if I wake.

I have been using it since my husband passed 2 years ago unexpectedly. I use YouTube for it

Thousands of choice with it guided or just the music

I am surprised if any one can sleep' like a babe' in this current situation.We do not how long it will last, in spite of the dedication of our wonderful NHS who must be thoroughly exhausted, none of us know when it will end.

I think it’s affecting us all, even DH who normally says he doesn’t dream.
Last night I was being chased by a man dressed as a crocodile,
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The night before I saw a baby in a pram with a dark green head like a cabbage, it was crying, and I said to it’s Father ( he was pushing the pram) looks like it’s hungry.

The night before that, I was walking in a (very detailed) High St somewhere, but he walked off quickly and I couldn't find
him again, I was really angry and shouted up at the sky, Right! That’s it, I’m not playing these games, I’m going for a coffee and then going home!! At which point the dream faded and I woke up.
Looking for a toilet is a usual dream ? for me....but now it has ramped up somewhat.

Sorry, it was DH who walked off in my dream.

Last year in mid November, I repeatedly had the same dream, where I was being chased up a tower that had a spiral staircase. When I was at the top, I could see the night sky, and flew for a short while, to escape my pursuers . The last time I had the dream, I flew off the top of the tower, but was twanged back by a giant piece of elastic.
The following day, when I got up I found my husband unconscious. We tried CPR but couldn't revive him, neither could the paramedics. He died of heart failure, but no one knew he was ill.
I haven't had the dream since. I'm not saying it is connected in any way, but it seemed strange, and I keep thinking about it.

Definitely not sleeping properly. Wake so often about 2 and often stay awake for 2-3 hrs. I have decided it’s because I’m not getting the exercise I normally get plus the weird situation.

LOL Callistemon I didn't KNOW this was a dream anyone else has. I am ALWAYS having these dreams. You keep looking and looking and every loo you come across, you can't pee for one reason or another? Haha obviously our sub conscious telling us not to wet the bed eh?

Valerie it's the only recurring dream I tend to have.
It's always in the same place too, somewhere I visited just once many years ago, yes, I then wake up and have to trek to the loo!

I dreamt I was at a funeral wearing my nightie.

Most of these dreams represent fear of loss, concern for loved ones in one form or another, and searching for people. They are all virus related I feel, due to our anxiety about the situation. Dreams are just visual images of our feelings and if you think of them like that they can be interpreted. We all have extreme worries at the moment which are being played out in our dreams and keeping us sane.

My most recurrent dream theme is exams and yet I was never specially worried about them when I had to take them. Last week, I dreamt I was taking a Latin exam and couldn't remember the word for 'plough'. I don't think I ever knew it even when I was thinking of taking Classics! Exams must stand for something else in my life which I brush under the carpet in my waking life.

Dreams set in schools or round exams mean that you feel you are being tested and are anxious about failing. That is how we all feel at the moment, being tested in our resolve to abide by the rules and withstand the social distancing.

Glad to read I am not the only one having very unpleasant dreams. I have stopped watching the late evening news as I think that has made them worse. Last night I had one with a man coming up to me to speak and then he caught hold of my shoulders and was holding me. I woke DH up struggling to free myself, most unpleasant. They have been very vivid recently. I am sure it is due to the current terrible situation.

Rachel711 How awful for you. Losing someone like that is so traumatic. My poor neighbour had a similar experience, and came running to our house for help. Her husband had had a massive heart attack, and couldn’t be saved, though we tried our best.
Stay safe and well.