Yvonne suffers from strange dreams, you probably recognize it too. You can't control them, but strange dreams do affect you, even when you're already awake.
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I wake up sticky with sweat. I turn on my back and feel with my right hand that Husband is still next to me. I sit up and take a deep breath. We are not divorced yet, luckily it was just a nasty weird dream. After a sip of water I try to resume my sleep but I am flooded with thoughts. negative. What does such a dream say? Does my husband want to escape my reins?
But hello? What woman lets her husband go on holiday with another woman – in a group or not. I'm taken out of my thoughts by Husband who asks why I'm tossing and turning.
"Dear, do you want to ski?" Husband sounds sleepy and asks if we really should discuss that in the middle of the night.
Yes we should.
“I dreamed that you wanted to sleep in the room with another woman during winter sports.” Now Husband starts laughing. “Pretty good idea,” he laughs. I want to respond to his comment but he beats me to it.
"Honey, it's been a hundred years since I went skiing, and when I go skiing it's either with you or the kids. And now sleep well again please.”
Our dreams continue on what occupies us during the day, says American psychiatry professor Milton Kramer in his book The dream experience . We still have all kinds of unresolved issues and in our dreams we start working on them. How well we can process this during our sleep has a direct influence on our mood, says Kramer:it determines whether we are ready to face a new day after weird dreams, or whether we get out of bed on the wrong foot and prefer to go under again. the covers crawl away.
Not the sleep, but the content of our dreams is related to that mood change during the night. What we do and the characters that appear in our dream seem to determine how happy we feel the next morning.
Little Man enters my bedroom screeching. "Mommy, mommy. Daddy is going to take me to school. Do you like that?' Little Man looks around the corner of the bathroom to see what I'm doing. "Mommy why are you looking so glum?" "Mommy isn't glum, but mommy just didn't sleep very well."
“How come?” “Mommy had a really weird dream last night.” “Did you have a nightmare?” “Yeah, you can call it that.” “Mom, do dreams always come true?”
I hope not, I want to answer.
“Some dreams sometimes come true and they often have a meaning, but mom doesn't know what either.” That afternoon when Little Man comes back from school and we have a drink together, Little Man suddenly stands.
"Mom, I dreamed that suddenly there are a lot of presents hidden in my room. Can I go find them?'
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Ievy
