Nesgirl, that makes some sense, if your sleep patterns were disrupted easily by insomnia, you were more aware of the dreams.

As I read up on dream signs, I see that they are not the same as recurring symbols. From what I read here, dream signs usually include some aspect of being 'unreal' or apart from our waking reality. Is that what I'm to understand?

So, my water dreams are dream signs (standing right infront of a tidal wave and watching it come at me... or even swimming under water in a creek for extended periods of time) but the inclusion of my cousins (I have to journal to see if what we are doing is based on reality or non reality) may not be. Obviously flying is a dream sign. The furniture moving is too, because there's no way I could do that in real life!

I have to pay attention to those small animals... I really have no recall about my relationship to them.

S