7 Things Meme

Ordinary Life's Janet has tagged me with this meme. I am supposed to come up with seven random facts/habits about me. Here goes....

1. I am a nail biter. Almost my whole life I have been a nail biter. About ten years ago I stopped biting my fingernails. It was just out of the blue that I noticed one day that I hadn't been biting them and they were growing out. For some unknown reason I had lost the compulsion to bite them and they grew out and looked so nice. I would paint them and file them and spent a lot of time making them look nice. I got compliments on them all the time too which was amazing to hear considering all the negative comments I had gotten over the years when I bit them. During my serious illness in 2002 I started biting them again and unfortunately I still do. Hopefully one of these days I will stop this awful habit!

2. I talk in my sleep. Sometimes I wake myself up by the sound of my voice talking out loud. A few times I have been dreaming something very upsetting and I am crying and have woke myself up by my sobbing. One time I woke myself up to hear myself talking in a jibberish language that sounded like a real foreign language.

3. I have several dreams every night. Very vivid dreams. Sometimes my dreams are like long movies. Sometimes I am an observer in the dream and other times I am an active participant. Sometimes in the dreams, I am me but I don't look like me. I also have two recurring dreams that I have had since childhood. In one of them I am flying (like Superman) over a large golf course. I swoop up and down and sometimes my tummy grazes against the tops of the trees. It is an extremely exhilarating and satisfying dream. In another dream I dream about walking through a tall grassy field up to an old house with gingerbread trim on the porch. The house is out in the country. I walk inside the empty house and walk up the stairs. I open up a door upstairs and enter a large white walled room. There are two doors on the left and one door on the right. I consider which of those rooms I want to check out. I open each of the doors on the left and look inside and see nothing that interests me. I walk over to the right and feel very nervous about opening that door. When I do open that door there is something inside that scares me and I wake up from the dream. I never remember what was in that room though. I always remember all the details about the outside and inside of that house and it seems like it is a very real house that exists somewhere. I also have lots of dreams with water in them. Either raging rivers where I am in a boat or I am flailing in the water or peaceful oceans or fun water parks. As you can see I am fascinated by dreams and love to hear about other people's dreams too.

4. I have never dyed my hair. I always wanted to but don't have the nerve to do it.

5. I have a fear of losing my teeth. I have just one filling in a back molar. That cavity appeared about six years ago.

6. I don't like to have a whole lot of ice in my iced drinks. Just three or four cubes of ice will do it for me.

7. I sleep with a lot of pillows. I have two large pillows, a smaller neck roll pillow and two large body pillows that I hug and fling my leg over as I lay on my side.

The hardest part of this meme is that I am supposed to tag others. I will tag cmk, ksquest, Tink, Mrs Who, Kees and Sue . ;-)