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lisa-e
lisa-e Member Posts: 819
edited June 2014 in Living Without Reconstruction After a Mastectomy

When you dream, do you have breasts or are you flat? The question occurred to me last night, when I woke up after a dream. Thing is I can't remember if I had breasts or not in the dream.



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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited March 2009

    Funny you should ask. I've been having breast dreams lately. The dream turns sexual, but I am quick to explain to my "paramour" that I don't have breasts. Then I look down and I do! I think I've even had a "wet dream" kind of experience with them. I guess I do miss them......sigh.

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  • Kessala
    Kessala Member Posts: 189
    edited March 2009

    Ever since my right mastectomy in 2005 I'm not only missing that breast in my dreams but I'm being careful (in my dreams) to protect my affected arm!  In real life I worry about developing lymphedema and in my dreams I run to put on sunblock or make sure I don't pick up something heavy with my right arm.

    I even dream about the medication I'm taking!  I've dreamt I'm out of town and forgot to pack my Femara, having to locate a pharmacy and trying to buy just as many tablets as I'll need until I go home.

    I also dream about losing my prosthesis and searching for it.

    Now that I'm saying this it sure looks like breast cancer has dominated my life.  But I assure you I have always been a vivid dreamer and my dreams are full of a lot more fun and pleasant things than breast cancer issues.

    Kessala

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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited March 2009

    My blood pressure medications give me VERY vivid dreams. Ask someone you know on those kind of drugs and they'll tell you! I can touch and feel and smell in my dreams. I can wake up and remember every detail of a piece of wood or how soft a scarf was. I shop in my dreams. It is much cheaper. I also create things in my dreams and wonder when I wake up why I am too lazy to duplicate them in real life......sigh.

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  • wallycat
    wallycat Member Posts: 3,227
    edited March 2009

    Barbe, that is so cool.  My sister is on BP meds, but doesn't get that side-effect (though the label says she should).

     It's funny because I had 3 very vivid (in a row) nights of boob dreams that bolted me out of my sleep and started this BC ride (for checking).

    I've since had 2 boob dreams and I didn't have any in my dream.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited March 2009

    Whem I had a RMast/Immed TRAM I ended up about a D rather than the B I started with. Does that mean my stomach was even bigger than I thought? I ended up with nerve damage (totally different story!) and opted for an implant on the good side. Therefore, I am a D now, when I was a B before. WHENEVER I dream, I am even BIGGER! WTF? I don't like being a D and wish I knew then what I know now. And I dream bigger????? I am on BP meds and don't get the vivid dreams, so it must be time to switch!

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  • lisa-e
    lisa-e Member Posts: 819
    edited March 2009

    I finally had a dream involving breasts that I remembered. In the dream I was hugging someone I haven't seen since before my mastectomy. I was nervous about what she would say or if she would even notice. However, the scene shifted before she said anything to me. Interesting - the dream addressed a lot of the the issues I am feeling these days - meeting people I see infrequently and meeting new people.



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  • Roya
    Roya Member Posts: 346
    edited March 2009

    I will tell you  how my dream saved my life.  One night I dreamed that an angel or spiritual being appeared to me in a dream.  It told me to hurry to go to the Dr.  In my dream I asked why should I do this.  The angel pointed to my breast and told me " there is a lump.!"  She repeated this 3 times while pointing to my left breast.

    When I woke up the next morning, I felt my breast and the lump was there!

    DH and I already had a Dr appt scheduled since we had been planning to get pregnant.  Instead we went to get checked for the lump.  And there it went from there.

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  • lisa-e
    lisa-e Member Posts: 819
    edited April 2009

    Well, I am still processing stuff in my dreams.  Last night I had a dream that I met an old sweatheart of mine and of course, wound up in bed with him.  Amid the passion, he noticed that I didn't have breasts anymore.  He looked horrified and asked me what that (gestured to my chest) was about.  I told him; he left.

    In real life I have no idea what his reaction would be and no way to check as he died several years ago... sigh...

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