If you suddenly found yourself pregnant, not married, not dating anyone, and ready to give birth, what would your first thoughts be? Perhaps, who is the father? Or maybe, what is going to happen to my future? Something sensible, certainly.
Apparently, my first thoughts would be: “Natural birth or epidural?”
Last night, I found myself in a rather tricky situation. I was suddenly pregnant and ready to deliver, with no recollection of how it happened or who the father was. Furthermore, since I was quite literally ready to deliver (I was already in the hospital), I was panicking, because why hadn’t I done my research on this sooner? Where were the people who could give me information about my options? What on earth is going on? Why don’t I know anything? And seriously, WHERE IS MY IPHONE SO I CAN RESEARCH THIS?
I woke up extremely disturbed, as you can probably imagine. I also woke up with the strangest resolve to do more research on natural births, because I hate going into things without first doing my research.
I wish I could tell you this was the strangest dream I’ve ever had, but I can’t. However, it begs the question: What is the strangest dream you’ve ever had, and did it involve babies falling out of your uterus?
If I told you my strangest dream, I’d have to kill you, gorgeous.
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August 17th, 2009 at 5:52 pmStrange. My friend and I were sort of discussing something related to pregnancy all afternoon after she… well, some tricky stuff is going on with her right now. :S
I have FAR too many strange dreams. In high school I had a recurring dream about WWII where all my guy friends were in the war, and I was left at home, but I could tell how they died and they all died. Urg.
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August 17th, 2009 at 6:15 pmThis post grabbed my attention..
I tend to dream of giving birth regularly each month while I’m ovulating… many many odd ones. You aren’t alone :)
Reply: You know what’s so odd? I remember reading this about you somewhere – you might have written it on your LJ way back when – and thinking I might be ovulating because of that! Funny what the mind remembers.
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August 17th, 2009 at 6:17 pmI cannot tell you how many times I’ve dreamt of offspring flying out of my nonexistent uterus.
IT INVOLVED A VAMPIRE.
In truth: my dreams are rather bland because of my fleeting memory.
Reply: LOL! That sounds like one weird dream!
My dreams are non-existent at lot of times because I don’t remember them … but every once in awhile, I’ll get pretty vivid and/or memorable dreams that stick with me. Like this one.
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August 17th, 2009 at 6:35 pmMy strangest dreams involve marriage to random strangers. Last night, I was conscious while dreaming due to sleep paralysis … so I spent most of that dream trying to wake up.
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August 17th, 2009 at 7:19 pmOh I have. It was so, so horrifying!
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August 18th, 2009 at 1:37 amThat is really interesting. What a strange dream. I must admit when I read the title I thought you were really pregnant though! :P
To answer your question, I have a lot of really strange dreams and I tend to remember my dreams a lot. Just as a random example, the other night I had a dream that included my friend’s wedding, being awkward, super awesome light shows with kites and sparkles that only I was able to see amidst a crowd of people, huge doors that led to nowhere, searching for my baby that people took away from me (I don’t even have a child but apparently I gave birth and didn’t know about it and I had a 1-year-old). I then found the child and saved it from a rabid bear.
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August 18th, 2009 at 10:53 amAhh, the old biological clock ticking away. Any day now you’ll be trolling Craigslist for a sperm donor. Does that sound about right? High five!
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August 18th, 2009 at 11:13 amSomething I’ve also heard a lot about recently is home birth, with the help of a midwife… something you might want to think about in your next dream.
Everyone has plenty of strange ones, but I most often think back to the one where I saw a very pleasing arrangement of about 5 highways crisscrossing one another. The sight filled me with an amount of joy one wouldn’t expect from seeing highways. Perhaps it’s some sort of sign?
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August 18th, 2009 at 6:40 pmI think if I had that dream, I’d be traumatised. See I already don’t ever want to have kids or give birth to kids, to have a dream like that would definitely nail my decision into the metaphoric coffin.
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August 19th, 2009 at 10:49 amI think I’ve only ever had one dream in which I had a child, but it wasn’t even the actual birth; I was just holding a baby in my dream and it was mine. No idea who the father was because I wasn’t dating anyone at the time, no idea how old it was. I suppose it should have been frightening but it was fairly harmless.
It kind of surprises me that I’ve never had a dream about giving birth, because I’m so excited to eventually have kids. Maybe it’s just my mind’s way of trying not to turn me off of that XD
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August 20th, 2009 at 8:40 amI can never remember weird dreams when someone asks me about them. Most of my dreams are wonderfully weird. And I think there has only been one dream, that I can remember, where I was pregnant.
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August 25th, 2009 at 12:38 amMy strangest dream involved me also being pregnant. The biggest problem was that I had never had sex before, so I was trying to figure out how I was going to explain my Virgin Mary situation knowing no one would believe me.
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August 25th, 2009 at 5:30 pmhmm wierdest dream i ever had, i dreamt that my older brother was drugging his kids in high apartment buildings he happened to get one of them pregnant and her belly got bigger and when she was laying there one night the belly exploded and snakes came out and started gnawing holes through her, that was messed up.
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August 25th, 2009 at 7:30 pmHa. My strangest dream involved dying. I prefer not to go into details. :)
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August 25th, 2009 at 8:46 pmstrangest dream: i dreamt i witnessed the second coming..except it was fake…the details have faded
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September 6th, 2009 at 10:40 pmI cannot tell you how many weird dreams I have had. This is eventually going to be a blog post on my site, actually!
1. Killing Freddy Krueger with a butter knife.
2. Dreaming about dinosaurs and stuff like I’m in Jurassic Park but hadn’t seen anything about dinosaurs in years.
3. My nephews legs broke off at the knees and I carried him home in 3 pieces.
4. Playing basketball and getting bit by the cop dog.
Those are the top ones I can remember recently.
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September 12th, 2009 at 9:35 amOh, I’ve had “strangest dreams” by the dozen but “most disturbing” was waking to think I had murdered someone – but who?
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September 14th, 2009 at 9:52 pm