Dreams

Do you dream when you sleep?  Dreams that you can remember? Whether it is a small dream or a long dream, dreams can really play a role in your life, or at least I think they do in my life.  I know my dreams are just things my brain is playing out from what is going on in my life.  I have had dreams as far back as I can remember and I know when I wake up that it is just my brain trying to make sense of things that are going on in my life.  I have reoccurring dreams and those that I can not even remember.

Recently, since I have moved, I have been dreaming every night about people that have been in my life at some point.  People that I have not seen in my life for more then 25 years or people that have been in my life throughout the years.  I know these people played a role in my life then and I know they play a role in my life now.  Now after 7 weeks of living here and having a different dream every night, it is just my brain trying to make sense of what I have just done. Moving and leaving people in my life that I have either saw everyday for years or even people that I used to see every once in awhile.  All people that make up who I am along my life's journey.

One thing I wish I would have done is started to write down the people I have in my dreams.  I thought about it last week that I would have quit a list of names if I had started to write them down.  I knew at first that I was having these dreams to help me cope with not seeing the people I knew in my everyday life.  After about week five I started to think, how long will I be dreaming like this?  Today I know it might be awhile.  Some dreams have multiple people so that helps.  I realize that I have known a lot of people in my life.  From jobs that I have had to school.

I have told people when I have had them visit me in my dreams, however there are quit a few that I have not.  How weird is it if you tell someone, 'oh I had dream about you last night!'  I know that these dreams are not harmful but there are many dreams where I wake myself up crying.  I know it's my brains way of coping with a loss.  Not that those people are dead but the loss of not having those in my life everyday, once a week or even once a month.  Some people I have not seen in years and I don't even know how to tell them.

I wonder what to do with all these dreams.
Happy dreaming.