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Stacey thanks the web chat rooms that make her feel sane again

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

Yet another side effect from my pregnancy is my craaaaazy dreaming. No wonder I’m so tired, I can’t have a good night sleep because I am having nightly nightmares about the most bizarre stuff. Usually, I hate when people tell you about their dreams. It’s actually a pet peeve of mine. So I won’t go into too much detail, but it was getting to the point where I started to feel insane.

For instance,during a nap the other day I had the most vivid dream that I stole a bunch of farm animals and Ollie threw a piglet off our roof. I just remember hearing the “thud” and this terrible squeal when the pig smacked the ground. It stuck with me all day. Actually, I can still hear that damn pig! Another super real one was when I dreamed I was trying to feed Cheerios to a cat with only two legs. It got mad at me and tried to smear its own shit around on the carpet to punish me. What the hell? I also have a recurring dream that all of a sudden I realize I’m wasted. I’m slamming margaritas and wine and then suddenly I remember: “Oops! I’m pregnant! I shouldn’t be drinking!”

Then I keep finding myself sitting completely upright in bed in the middle of the night. Sometimes I’m talking gibberish and other times I’m silent. I’ve also had a few cases of sleepwalking/sleepeating. The other night I found myself downstairs shoving graham crackers into my mouth and I’ve also awoken sitting at our dining room table with a glass of milk. I’m afraid Grey’s going to have to install a video camera in our fridge if this happens again. I fear the amount of weight I’ll gain!

So with all this, I honestly started to doubt my own sanity. But whenever I feel like I’m losing it, I always turn to the BabyCenter Community Forum and read about other people’s even more wacked out dreams and behavior and then I feel OK. People on there are seriously deranged…or at least, more so than me! Sure, it doesn’t help the root of my nutty dreaming, but at least I can feel sane by comparison.