Sickness and Weird Dreams... Anyone Experience This?

CallMeKate

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I know there are a few threads about dreams, but I'm deciding to start one for dreams during or after being very sick. I'm recovering from the worse sickness I've ever had. Food poisoning from a neighbor's cake. Anyhow, I don't dream often at all, but last night was a doozy.

So I'm standing in a room outside a courtroom, I think it was. Two men were there turned away from me... a man and his uncle. I needed desperately to hug the nephew. I'd known he did something horrible but also knew he needed to be hugged. I couldn't see either of them until I was hugging him and then his face became very clear and I knew it was the right thing to do.

Okay, none of that's the weird part... but... it was Michael Franzese. 😲😲😲😲 Why the heck am I needing to hug ex-mobsters in my dream?!

Do totally ridiculous dreams happen more when sick? I hadn't even heard about or thought of Michael in years!
 

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I think more often than not, the substance of dreams reflects the characteristics of one's personality. For instance, if you are a very caring person, then your dreams will reflect that by hugging and comforting others. an imaginative person would tend to have more imaginative dreams, and one who has more anxiety or anger in their life would tend to have it expressed in dreams as the body needs to vent those feelings.

Since a person tends to sleep more when sick, as the body is trying to heal itself, you would likely have more dreams. Ridiculous dreams are quite common because that part of the brain that governs reasoning is only functioning at a bare minimum when asleep, so it's like a drunk story writer just weaving together random memory traces.

As to Michael Franzese showing up there, who knows. You may have had a recent passing thought that you gave little attention to, but enough to leave a recent trace. Other than that, I have no idea.
 
Thanks, Bob... good thoughts. I've always preferred dreamless sleeps, but no way to control that.

I decided to get nosy research it a bit... and the answer (there were a number of reasons) presents a word I've never even heard before (cytokines)... very interesting!
3. Inflammation and immune response
Cytokines (chemicals released by your immune system) can influence brain activity and neurotransmitters, which affects mood, perception, and dream content.
 

Wonder what was in your neighbor's cake to make you that sick, Kate?

The worst food poisoning I ever had was from one of these, but I figured it had to do with the preservatives in a frozen cake?
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CallMeKate said:
Do totally ridiculous dreams happen more when sick? I hadn't even heard about or thought of Michael in years!
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Yes, I've noticed that for years. They are also more intense. I associate those dreams with a fever, although I haven' kept close enough track to know that fever is the cause. But my dreams are definitely different when I'm sick.
 
I was told that fevers may cause malicious dreams. I have been very ill with pneumonia twice with a high fever. Both times I had bad dreams. Back when I had adult measles and was very sick, I had some really weird dreams, but not bad dreams. I remember one dream I was fishing and my boat wouldn’t start and I was several miles out in the ocean with no help getting it restarted.

Glad I woke up.
 
Michael Franzese had seen hard things and remained functional as he walked away from the mob and retired to California, becoming a motivational speaker, commentator, and writer.

He represents someone who navigated a dangerous world and came out intact. As you are "very sick" and likely dealing with stress, the mind may reach for a symbol of endurance.

Comfort doesn’t always come from “soft” figures. Your mind, aware of physical discomfort, needed a hug from someone associated with steadiness, survival, and control rather than gentleness. In the logic of a dream, he wasn’t Michael Franzese the man so much as a stand-in for resilience and reassurance.
 
Naturally said:
Michael Franzese had seen hard things and remained functional as he walked away from the mob and retired to California, becoming a motivational speaker, commentator, and writer.

He represents someone who navigated a dangerous world and came out intact. As you are "very sick" and likely dealing with stress, the mind may reach for a symbol of endurance.

Comfort doesn’t always come from “soft” figures. Your mind, aware of physical discomfort, needed a hug from someone associated with steadiness, survival, and control rather than gentleness. In the logic of a dream, he wasn’t Michael Franzese the man so much as a stand-in for resilience and reassurance.
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WOWZERS.... Okay, I absolutely love your take on this! That suddenly makes the dream not so weird at all any longer. Hope you're right about it... that would kind of be cool. Yes, he saw a lot and walking away from daddy, Sonny Franzese (and "the family), was surely something a lot of people couldn't have done successfully. Actually, I think I read that "the code" dictated Michael and his brother be killed as informants, putting Sonny under strong pressure, but it didn't happen.

Michael (very wisely, I might add!) has always stayed quiet about mafia murders. @Naturally If you ever hire out as a shrink, send me a business card. :giggle:
 
Never heard of him but wiki says he became a christian.

Michael Franzese - Wikipedia.


I once had a dream about Milosevic and his wife. He was in The Hague in prison at the time, ages ago. I shared the Gospel to them in that dream and they were very interested.
Who knows. The dream may be from God.
 

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