Anyone else dreaming about their hair?

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NatsFan
NatsFan Member Posts: 3,745
edited August 2017 in Chemotherapy - Before, During, and After

I finished chemo 6/17, and am finally starting to get a little stubble on my head.  Last night I had two different dreams that I had hair.  In the first one, my hair was below my shoulders and was in a beautiful smooth curve that curled under (something I never could have gotten my real hair to do - it looked great!).  In the second one, I had Jamie Lee Curtis short hair, and I was putting gel on it to make it spikey.  Later in the dream it was a bit longer and very curly, and I was putting gel in it and scrunching the curls to hold their shape.  I remember being so happy that it was finally growing in.  Needless to say, I was sorely disappointed this morning to wake up and find I was still bald! Yell

This is not the first time I've dreamt that my hair was back, but it's the first time I've had two dreams in one night about it.  Guess I'm missing it a bit, huh? 

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  • Yogi70
    Yogi70 Member Posts: 654
    edited July 2008

    NatsFan,  I feel ya. I have a little peachfuzz but that's it.  I haven't had the dreams yet but sometimes I find myself reaching for a comb and brush when there is no need for one.  When I'm in Wal-mart I find myself in the hair products aisle and I'm like WTF am I doing here?   The other day I found a pair of hot curlers and it kinda made me sad.  So, yes, it's safe to say you're missing it.

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  • lisa39
    lisa39 Member Posts: 255
    edited July 2008

    I haven't had dreams about my hair yet...but I do have hair-envy.  Whenever I see a woman on the street or in a magazine or on tv who has a great head of hair, I get these pangs of longing (maybe jealousy?).  I want mine back!!!!  This weird fuzz ain't cuttin' it!

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  • Deen
    Deen Member Posts: 105
    edited July 2008

    Hi All,

    I was dreaming of just the same thing when I started a thread on 'when does it come back'. A few of us have been having a lot of fun with it .... groaning about fuzz.  It's "Hair, Hair, Hair: Another Question".

    D. 

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  • LorenaB
    LorenaB Member Posts: 937
    edited July 2008

    Early on, a few weeks after I lost my hair, I had several dreams about having hair -- not someone else's, it was MINE.  And I hear you on the hair envy.  A couple of months ago I was sitting in a meeting with 4 or 5 women, and I couldn't stop thinking "oh, their hair is so beautiful!"  All of it -- straight, curly, graying, unstyled, it didn't matter, it was hair and I wanted it.

    I knew that losing my hair would be especially hard on me because all my life, I've had nightmares about being bald.  It started when I was five years old and dreamed about the episode of Sesame Street when Ernie cut Bert's hair off -- seriously!  I don't know why I've always had such an attachment to my hair.  This has truly been like living a nightmare, every single day. 

    I finished on May 8th and my head is totally fuzzy (or furry, as my seven-year-old says).  It's growing faster now -- but still not fast enough!

    Lauren

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  • otter
    otter Member Posts: 6,099
    edited July 2008

    Yeah, I had a brief episode of hair-envy just this morning.  It has been 3 months since my hair fell out, and I had actually reached a point where I liked not dealing with all the shampooing and blow-drying etc.  I was thinking, hey, when this stuff grows back, I think I'll keep it cut a lot shorter than I used to.  (My hair has always been chin-length or longer, in a bob-style cut.)

    So, this morning I was going through some old, pre-chemo pic files on my computer.  I ran across some self-pics I took, just so I could see what I looked like pre-hairloss.  And, guess what?  I really like my old hairstyle after all!  Dang it.  I thought I could move on to something new and different, but instead, I'll be dreaming about my same old hairstyle.

    Maybe not, though.  I'm at least 15 months away from having chin-length hair, assuming it grows back at the "average" rate of 1/2 inch per month (which it won't, after chemo).  That's plenty of time to start dreaming about shorter hair again.

    otter 

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  • NatsFan
    NatsFan Member Posts: 3,745
    edited July 2008

    Darn those old pictures!  My dh was going through all the pix on his Treo the other night, and there were tons of pix of me with hair!  I'd also thought about going with shorter hair, but now that I saw those pix, I had the same feeling as you, otter - I liked my old hairstyle!  As you say, dang it!  (I'm thinking stronger words, but this tends to be a pretty G-rated board, if you don't count all the frank talk about various body parts!)

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  • onwardandforward
    onwardandforward Member Posts: 32
    edited July 2008

    I dream about having hair almost every night....doesn't look like mine (blown out mine was gorgeous high-lighted blond and way past my shoulders, not blown out it was combo wavy and ringlets)...instead in my dreams, it's usually black or salt-n-pepper and thick/straight and I'm always surprised that it "grew back so fast".... then I wake up bald again....oh well....hair will grow back......

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  • wishiwere
    wishiwere Member Posts: 3,793
    edited July 2008

    I have to admit, that I woke up one morning, so thoroughly bummed, but not even mad, it was so sureal.  I had a full black and white beard (mixed together), but don't remember if I had any head hair.  The beard though was like 6 inches long and completely full and rounded and just so perfect!  I swear, I walked, didn't run, to the mirror, with my hands to my face wondering where the heck that came from?  But it was like everything else in this journey, I just took it in stride and wasn't really that upset.  THAT was the weirdest of thing I thought.  Must have been the chemobrain, b/c I didn't have any other dreams after that one!

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  • gramadeb
    gramadeb Member Posts: 210
    edited July 2008

    Last night was the first time I dreamt about my hair. My dream started with the current length after chemo and right before my eyes it grew about 2 inches so I could style it before I had to go someplace - how weird was that! Of course, it grew in brunette and I was a redhead. Someday it will be 2 inches long. I had short hair to begin with and saw a picture of me from last Nov and I didn't realize just how short my hair was then - so optimistic it won't take me too long to get there again.

    Deb

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  • JoLizz
    JoLizz Member Posts: 1
    edited August 2017

    I have dreamed about it 3 times I guess. Now I'm in the middle of my rads and can't wait for my real hair start to grow. Last night I dreamed I had short hair like a bob and brown like my own hair, it was so real. And I felt the same disappointment when I woke up with my little fuzz lol. Gosh I miss my long hair but I'm patiently waiting

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  • Jackster51
    Jackster51 Member Posts: 357
    edited August 2017

    I've been dreaming about my beautiful hair for 5 years... as it did not come back after Taxotere :-(

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