According to my weekly email from babycenter.com, strange dreams are likely to occur from this point on. From this point on? I've been having pregnancy nightmares for months! The most common is, of course, that my water is breaking or that I'm in labor and something is keeping me from getting to the hospital. What's funny about the water breaking dreams is the water between my legs always feels so real! You know when you were little and you would dream that you were walking into the bathroom, and then sitting on the toilet and going? And then you ALWAYS woke up peeing the bed? The sensation of water between my legs is so real in these dreams I always wake up thinking that my water MUST'VE actually broken. I quickly reach down to feel my pajamas and the sheets and am always shocked when I feel nothing but dryness.
I'm sure these kinds of dreams are to be expected, but some of my other dreams have been extremely scary! Apparently I've even woken up Berto from the panicking in my sleep. He'll shake me and try to wake me up, without much luck, at least that I can remember. The next day, I'll have no memory of him waking me up, just very vivid memories of the horrible dream. Two dreams in particular that stand out and have reoccurred in some form:
-Someone breaks into our house. Berto goes downstairs to investigate and the intruder stabs him with a large steak knife. I go downstairs and pull the knife out of Berto's back and stab the intruder. The intruder's wife/girlfriend (apparently they are some kind of Jack & Jill robbery team) then shows up with another knife and stabs me directly in the stomach! I'm horrified but slowly realize that I don't feel any pain from the knife. Maybe everything will be ok, I think. As if reading my mind, Jill smirks and says, "you know when it doesn't hurt, it's because the baby's already dead." Then I wake up.
-Berto & I are on a hike somewhere in the desert when a snake comes from out of nowhere and bites the top of my hand. And when I say out of nowhere, I really mean it. I have no visual of the snake crossing our path, or me seeing or approaching it. It's just suddenly attached to the top of my hand, and Berto & I know without a doubt that it's venom is deadly. I take my other hand and rip the snake's fanged grip out of my skin by the back of it's head. Immediately some sort of emergency response and park ranger team is on the scene and examining my hand. They say "We could give you an antidote to save your life, but it will definitely kill your baby. So what'll it be?" spoken as casually as if I'm about to place my order in at a drive thru window. The end.
Terrible, I know. I wish there were something I could do or some way to not remember these horrible dreams. Just another reason I would LOVE it if Rhina could make her debut sooner rather than later! Why couldn't I just have amazing sex dreams like so many other pregnant women?
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Liz! Oh my god! These are the most terrible dreams I've ever read. Seriously. I had lots of dreams about drinking water and how delicious it was. That and drinking gallons of milk.
I did some research for you:
"When you are fighting with a snake, it means that you are resisting a change or struggling with a decision or feelings in your waking life. It may represent a power struggle in your intimate relationship or at work.
Being chased by a snake means that you are facing an intimidating situation in your life that is haunting you. Emotions that you have not dealt with are coming back at you.
A dream of being attacked by a snake, it could be calling you to explore a challenging situation in your life and how to deal with it.
If you are dreaming of being bitten by snake, it means that you need to pay attention to something that you’ve been avoiding because it was too intimating or uncomfortable."
Good luck with the home stretch!!
holy moly liz! those are some intense dreams! you told me they were bad but i didn't realize they were absolutely horrid. i'm one of those that has the sex dreams.. sorry!
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