Illness-related dreams

[Artemisia]

Place to log / discuss our dreams related to illness here.

Last night:

I'm on the second level of some building. A bunch of people are on that upper level with me. Seems to be a shed house made of plywood.

I start to descend on a ladder. It's a flimsy ladder and falls out from under me. So I grab the floor of the second story and hang suspended in mid-air, asking for someone to help. They all just stand there watching. I know I can't hold myself there for long but no one moves

This is how I feel in life -- hanging in the air, about to crash to my imminent demise and everyone stands around and watches.

feel free to post your own

 

[Byles]

I find a lot of comfort in my dreams usually; I'm my old self and pretty often hang out with friends. I also dream about work and sometimes I'm surprised how well I'm able to do work and that's when I realise I'm dreaming and wake up. Waking up from nice dreams to waking reality can be confronting, but other times the afterglow is really soothing.

 

[Artemisia]

Last night's dream.

I'm out with some friends, trying to pretend not to be sick so I can feel normal. I get separated from them and see a booth for ME awareness. Several people are working there. One of them talks to me and says grains are not good for people with ME. I try to ask if oatmeal is okay but I'm crashing and I can't get the words out.

This dream is kind of annoying to me. I was gluten-free and very limited grains for maybe 10 years. I don't know if it really helped all that much but it felt like something I needed to do. I can be very regimented about my diet.

But lately I've been eating oatmeal...and also long fermented sourdough bread from non-fortified organic flour that I order online for a pretty penny. I'm just so tired of eating the same limited diet and it felt like a positive step to have a couple slices of sourdough bread a day. But now this dream makes me feel like I shouldn't be doing that.

I guess this raises a perennial question. Are dreams telling me something from a higher source, or is it just digestion of thoughts and experiences from my waking life? I think I get a mixture of both. But I don't know which one this particular dream is.

 

[Blazer95]

Awesome Idea.

I have nightmares of being mistreated and abused by doctors. A few days ago 2 doctors killed me in a dream and i woke Up after.

I think I might have medical PTSD. Lol.

 

[Dysfunkion]

I also tend to feel ill in my dreams even if something good is going on but generally mine are pretty wacky and uncomfortable. Like last night in mine I was doing something in some town, seemed to be a social event going on of sorts where I was going around trying to interact with everyone but it didn't seem to like anyone could hear me or interact with me. I also kept periodically finding myself almost but not quite sliding off sudden steep cliff sides in this place as I was trying to talk to people. It was one of those really sad, anxiety inducing one's. Mine always tend to be a really abstract representation for how I feel at the time and what I'm currently desiring.