stress and dreams

[Guest guest]

, I know just what you mean... I've been doing that all week!

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BMI: 50.1, 5'7 " , 320, age 40

Pacificare/Sutter Medical Group/Approved

Dr. Rabkin/Dr. Jossart BPD/DS

SURGERY DATE: 11/27/00!!!

[Guest guest]

Ok, I thought I was pretty calm.....but I *just* woke up from a terrible endless dream, where

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I think that is exactly what dreams are for ... we let our fears out in our dreams ... so we can be calmer and more sane in our working moments! Let em go!!

Judi in MS

Awaiting Ins Approval

Dr. Booth

BMI 59

[Guest guest]

Ok, I thought I was pretty calm.....but I *just* woke up from a

terrible endless dream, where I was trying to get to the hospital in

time for my surgery and couldn't. People kept lunching and chatting

and cars got towed and love affairs intervened and traffic stopped and

directions and maps were wrong and streets disapeared and the hospital

moved.....man, it was endless.....but pretty funny in

retrospect......guess my calm facade ain't so thick!!

(very awake, very early)

[Guest guest]

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Whenever I am under a lot of stress I have the " it's the last semester of

College and I just remembered that I graduate in a few weeks and I haven't

gone to any of my classes all semester " dreams. And I graduated from College

16 years ago!

My favorite dream is where I am in a store and I can just fly down the

aisles! I start running and I lose control of my speed and I am just flying

and free. I have lost a significant amount of weight three different times

in my life and in a way, I felt I could fly without the additional 60 or 70

pounds on me.

I just pray that when my new insurance (UHC) takes effect on 1/1/2001, they

will approve my surgery so that I will be able to " fly " again and never be

grounded!!!

in Illinois

[Guest guest]

> I *just* woke up from a

> terrible endless dream, where I was trying to get to the hospital in

> time for my surgery and couldn't.

I have two recurring dreams, one of them stress related:

a) I'm a student again and it's the end of the semester, when suddenly I

realize I've forgotten a whole class and am hopelessly behind (but trying

to catch up).

I'm alone at one of my grandmother's houses

The former is stress related, and quite common among students (and

especially grad students, who tend to be even more mentally unstable than

undergrads). It's a literal manifestation of failure anxiety and fears of

losing control. This dream is so common that it has been parodied in

several films.

I have the latter because I miss my grandmothers and know that there is no

way to go back to the way things were when they were alive. In a larger

sense, it's my mind's way of concluding that " you can't go home again. "

Anyway, you'll be fine. Dreams (even bad ones) are healthy. Don't take them

too seriously.

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Rousey