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If you are having strange dreams during your pregnancy, well, you have got company! There are numerous hormonal changes occurring in pregnancy making it a roller coaster ride for the mother. Many pregnant women complain of weird pregnancy dreams, which basically reflect their feelings and thoughts.
All your emotions get translated into dreams and will probably change almost every day. They are mostly seen during REM stage of sleep when the brain is drowsy and slow. The duration of dreams may vary from a few seconds to 30 to 35 minutes.
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Your dreams are as weird and crazy as never before. The probable cause of pregnancy dreams are summarized as under:
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Expectant women tend to remember all their dreams. This recollection of dreams is related to recency or ‘the recent the first’ for example if a mother wakes up in the midst of the night and goes to the washroom as she feels urgency, she tends to remember her most recently seen dreams.
If she wakes up in the morning and has a sound undisturbed sleep, she is expected to recall only her last-seen dreams. She can explicitly recall the details of the dreams, the color of her dreams, and other minor things vividly. Speaking about the type of dreams most pregnant women have reported having dreamt about sex, huge magnificent buildings, and talking animals.
Most pregnancy dreams occur when you sail from drowsiness to mild sleep and then to REM (rapid eye movement) sleep. You dream maximum during this span and subsequently slip into a deep sleep. Then you return to REM sleep and mild sleep before traversing down to deep sleep.
Following are the common weird dreams of the first trimester along with their plausible interpretations:
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The weird pregnancy dreams seen during the second trimester usually involve lots of images. Some might dream about delivering a litter of kittens, sleeping with an ex-boyfriend, or trying hard to make a sustainable gateway.
Common second-trimester dreams are:
Dreaming about the newborn, her face, and her name are common in the third trimester.
The best way of tackling your weird dreams is to enjoy your sometimes frightening and sometimes fascinating dream world. You can also share your weird dreams with your husband and ask him whether he too is having dreams. Also,
Pregnancy dreams depend largely upon your mental and physical state and also upon how you feel during that time span. It is very difficult to predict what kinds of weird pregnancy dreams you are going to have. If you are a first-time mom, you might dream about giving birth to a healthy mature baby or even a grown-up baby. Your dreams might also involve your anxiety about going back to work or tension about the loss of a missing baby’s childhood.
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Dreaming is a natural and healthy element of the sleeping process. However, you may notice a variation in the frequency and sorts of dreams when pregnant. Hormonal changes may be the only cause of odd dreams reported by pregnant women. And it’s perfectly natural.
Many women report that their dreams become more complex and convoluted during pregnancy. Early in pregnancy, a lot of women report having weird dreams.
After 36 weeks, when the chance of pregnancy problems drops substantially, one research reveals, weird pregnancy dreams become less prevalent.
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