Pregnancy Dreams, and Sleepwalking

I've just returned home from repairing houses in Wisconsin, only to find that our apartment was remodeled by my husband without telling me. But wait... didn't he go to Wisconsin with me? And why are my feet in so much pain? I have high heel shoes on. That doesn't seem like practical footwear for a construction site in the Midwest...

There have been some crazy dreams in this pregnancy thus far. I've stolen jewelry with Leonardo DiCaprio from a strip mall in New Jersey (that's where all the best jewelry is kept after all), been involuntarily part of a 18-wheeler high-speed chase on the Interstate, and have successfully blown up the moon. I normally don't do these things, but I guess it's just the way things are going to be until December. I really hope I can evade the law until then.

According to stuff I've researched on the web (because there is not better source for real medical insight), this is a normal part of being pregnant. One wonky suggestion is that I should have been having dreams depending on the trimester I am in. In the first trimester, I should've been dreaming about water (because I'm making amniotic fluid) and fertility (since you know, something is growing in there). In the second trimester, I should be dreaming about animals and other cuddly things that represent babies. Because.... ? And during the third trimester, I should start having nightmares of labor and delivery, and the baby should talk to me in my dreams.

Needless to say, I call horsefeathers on all the above suggestions (except the labor one... I could see myself having those nightmares). Whether or not it's because of hormones or that we are just more likely to wake up and pee in the middle of the night and remember where we left off... I'm still committing crimes and travelling to the Midwest.

However, I used to walk, talk, and occasionally break wash dishes in my sleep. So, while I'm happy to read that the internet is telling me this is normal for pregnant women, I'm definitely interested in seeing if I will ever fall into a "normal" dreamland. And we will also see if Tom will need to install a buzzer system, alerting him if I leave the appointed areas after midnight. Because yes, as a kid, my parent's installed an alarm at the end of the hallway.


So tell me...
Have you ever been pregnant and had crazy dreams?
Did you sleepwalk as a child? If so, did it make pregnancy dreams more ridiculous?


                 
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