Dreams

Something wonderful happened to me last night, but unfortunately it was only a dream and I woke up feeling disappointed. I was talking with one of my friends yesterday about something and it was no doubt part of the reason I dreamt this particular thing. I find dreams SO fascinating! Here are a few thoughts about dreams/dreaming that I want to share. Let me now if you can relate do any of these things:

• Do people from your past – someone you haven't thought about in ages ever pop up in your dreams? (It might be a former teacher or classmate or someone you used to work with or babysit.) It could be someone you knew from just about anywhere that you haven't thought about in a long time. Sometimes I wake up after dreaming about someone long forgotten, and I think, "Whoa! Where did they come from?!"
• Do you ever dream about someone you've never even met…real or made up? I have. I have had dreams where there might be a "character" who is someone I don't know. It makes me wonder how I can dream about someone I've never met, although I'm sure a dream expert might say that they represent someone. I've also had dreams about real people that I've never met. Anderson Cooper, for example. (And yes, I was truly asleep and not just daydreaming!) ;)
• Do you ever dream about someone who is dead? I dream about my dad quite frequently. I know there isn't anything so strange about dreaming about a loved one who is deceased, but what IS weird is when my dad has just "come back to life" after being dead for more than 12 years. That's what seems so weird!
• Do you ever dream that you are fighting with someone, and you actually feel angry with them when you wake up, even though you know you were just dreaming and they've done nothing wrong?
• Sometimes I wake up from a dream, but when I fall back to sleep, I get sucked back into the same dream. Sometimes this happens three or four times where I keep going back to a dream, even when I've woken up several times during the night.
• I think it's interesting when you're having some sort of nightmare where someone's chasing you with knives or when you're  involved in a war/combat-like dream.
• It's also interesting how vivid a dream can be and how you remember it when you wake up, but the longer you're awake the less you remember. 
• Everything always seems to make perfect sense in your dream, but when you wake up you realize that whatever it was you were dreaming about could never happen!
• I'm usually not paralyzed in my dreams, but occasionally I am. I might be desperately trying to do something that I know I should be able to do, but my body won't cooperate, just like my real life paralysis.