Category: Dreams

Posted in 2026, Dreams

Commitment and Change

Posted on by nancyb422

I have lived a life of problems with change and commitment. Changing jobs, breaking up with obviously terrible boyfriends. I guess once I was committed, it was hard to change because I hate change. So, fast forward….

Our dear Wally, a chihuahua/terrier mix, passed away last March at the age of about 15. His last year was not filled with vets and illness, but just a slow decline where you know he won’t get better, but those good days, you prayed they would continue. My friend, who communicates with animals, told me both before and after Wally passed, that he knew he was loved and he’s coming back. Probably around this time of year, in the form of a tan chihuahua. Laugh all you want, I believe it!

My son and daughter-in-law were over on Sunday for dinner, and she suddenly started sending me links to dogs! My brother-in-law out of the clear blue sky, sent me one too! I contacted the agencies on both, but liked the sound of the second, Missy, history better. So I got my husband on board, and sent in an application, spoke with the rescue coordinator, and went to bed. And Dreamed.

I dreamed I had rsvp’d to go to Kyle Richards’ wedding in California! But I had just been IN California, and didn’t want to fly back. But they were waiting for me! They had a dress for me! “You need to take responsibility”, someone said. Next, I see in my dream, a baby I’m supposed to be taking care of! Whose baby? Not mine – I’m 65! Who is taking care of them?

Ugh – change and commitment! Do we want another dog? We like to come and go as we please, but is it because Wally was so incapacitated towards the end and couldn’t go to my brother-in-law’s kennel? Should we think back and watch the videos of when Wally first arrived and how we’d play with him? Is a dog what our home needs? Someone else for the two of us to think about and care about?

I don’t know the answer, but I found out this morning that Missy, the dog we were interested in, has an adoption pending. Did the fates answer the question “Are we ready for another?” by giving her to someone else? My friend said our next dog will come to us when we’re not looking, so I think I will put aside the pet rescue websites and be patient.

Another part of my dream involved riding my e-bike. In two separate instances, I put the bike down, tucked it away, and when I returned, it was gone. Both times Pete Hegseth had walked by. Did he steal both of them? I’ll never know. I woke up.

Posted in 2025, Dreams

Second Sleep

Posted on by nancyb422

Do you ever wake up early on the weekends, decide it’s too early to get up and you’ll “get up in 15 minutes”, and find yourself falling back to sleep for another 2 hours?

I do! It usually happens on Saturday, like this morning. I was wide awake at 5 am – 45 minutes earlier than my weekday morning time and thought I’ll lay here until 5:30, then get up. Then I fell asleep and woke up again at 7am.

These second sleeps are usually filled with crazy dreams about people I haven’t seen in years, and I’m usually traveling somewhere. This morning I was at a baby shower for a friend’s daughter and they live in California. I live in Connecticut so I don’t know where we were, but I drove somewhere, and then had to come back home for a baby stroller. I remember popping the truck of my car. Weird. But at the baby shower, I was there early, like I was one of the hostesses, but then I ended up in one of the bedrooms, and during the shower. I kept hearing a machine-like noise, and finally turned around to see a woman vacuuming in the bedroom.

Later, I was in a room with my husband, sister, and niece and someone I didn’t recognize. I couldn’t hear my niece’s conversation but she was implying she didn’t have any money for food. Then we were driving to a store for my husband and I to pick up food, but she was flying, so I offered her the bottle of MIO I had in my pocketbook, and, for what it’s worth, I did have a bottle of MIO in my pocketbook the other day to bring to my office!

When I wake up from these sleeps, I’m usually so groggy, I would like to just fall back to sleep and capture the thread of the dream. When I was in my teens and 20s, I usually would just wake and sleep until Noon! Ah, those were the days!

If you’ve read this far, thanks for hanging in with this stream of consciousness post. I looked it up, it’s a thing, and I’m here for it.

Have you ever experienced this second sleep and what do you think about it?

Posted in 2025, Dreams, life

Interpreting Last Night’s Dream

Posted on by nancyb422

Actually, it was a dream from early morning after I woke up at normal weekday time but fell back to sleep. That is when I usually have the strangest dreams!

While we sleep…

Here’s what happened:

I’m somewhere with a group of people and there is another group of people (women) in another room. A young girl, Beth, is going to be performing(?) and I’m not sure how I feel about her. I don’t know how old I am in the dream.

I leave the table and when I come back, there is something, like a small poster, rolled up and secured with tape with Beth’s name on it. But not the shiny scotch tape, the matte kind that I think is for presents? Anyway, of course I have to open it! Inside there is a motor vehicle violations ticket and I think, “haha what did she get herself into?”, only to realize it’s a joke ticket designed to surprise her from the people she is with in the other room. They couldn’t have it delivered to the table she’s at, so put it on my table.

I roll the ticket back into the poster but now have no way to secure it because the tape won’t re-stick! Oh no! I leave with the poster in hand to find some tape, none….can I find an elastic band? I find one – it breaks. What about ribbon? I think I have ribbon somewhere. I find it but I can’t tie it without someone to hold it and no one is there. What do I do?!

I roll it super small. It’s all grubby and the edges mangled. I bring it to the table, only to realize everyone has left and her party is going to wonder what happened to it!

I run out to give it to her telling her I found it and yes, this is what it looked like when I found it!

Then I woke up….

My initial thoughts are feelings of jealousy and my “curiosity killed the cat” curiosity. Feelings of being left out, and lying to avoid confrontation.

Could it have anything to do with the fact I succumbed to yes, curiosity and read some Facebook posts and comments that irritated me!

Any thoughts?