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I found an article related to our post about the strange dreams we had a few months ago....apparently they've done studies on this!?
I have only included an excerpt from the article...you can read the rest of it here
New moms often have disturbing dreams
Tue, Sep 4, 2007 (Reuters Health) - After giving birth, women commonly experience anxious dreams of their new infants being in peril, a study shows.
In one particular type of dream, researchers found, the mother may act out a dream of looking frantically for her lost infant in the bed, groping through the sheets, sometimes waking up the husband, and sometimes crying out in alarm to 'watch out the baby is lost in the bed somewhere.'
The vividness of this so-called baby-in-bed or BIB dream "often reaches hallucinatory proportions," study chief Dr. Tore Nielsen told Reuters Health. "Such dreams appear to be common reactions to the potentially overwhelming situation of new motherhood, in particular to the combination of chronically disrupted sleep and the intense pressures of maternal responsibility."
"Interestingly," Nielsen said, a small percentage of fathers also reported dream-enacting behaviors concerning their newborn.
2 comments:
I've always known I'm a little weird. But it's nice to have it confirmed in a study that I'm part of a small percentage of fathers who experience hallucinatory dreams...
Creative people have odd & colorful dreams. We're not weird. We're creative. And we're part of that small percentage of father who actually care enough about their kid to be concerned enough to dream about it.
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