Random thoughts about dreams

I have quite vivid dreams, and often remember them, but I realised this morning that I have never ever dreamt about either of my children. I very occasionally dream that I am having/have had another baby, but my existing two children never appear or even exist in my dreams. I wonder why that is?

When I become stressed and anxious I have a recurring anxiety dream. In this dream I am taking my A-levels (exams at 18, needed to get into Uni) again. In the dream it is always an A-level I didn’t actually take (such as Maths or History), and I realise the night before the exam that I haven’t done any revision. The odd thing is that in the dream I usually know that I already have a University degree, which can’t be taken away from me, so why do I get so bothered about the A-level exam?

After my father died I dreamt about him for months, always alive and well, recovered from the cancer. Those were horrible dreams to wake from.

Punting on the Cam

My mum and stepdad visited us this weekend. On Sunday morning we decided we’d take them punting on the river in Cambridge, as they hadn’t been before. Both children were very keen too (they haven’t been before, either). I told DD that she had to sit very still in the punt, so that she didn’t fall in the river, and that if she was good she would get a gold star to stick on her T-shirt when we got home (still a major incentive at 3 years old!).

We set off in the punt, with DH punting (as an ex-Oxford and Cambridge man his punting skills are considerably better than mine!) and DD sitting next to me. After about 5 minutes it occurred to me that she was being unusually quiet. When I looked at her I realised she’d taken my instructions literally - the poor little mite was sitting ramrod straight and stiff as a board, not even daring to turn her head, she was so focussed on sitting still!

I had to gently explain that total immobility wasn’t quite what I had meant....