Dreaming Alters

 I wish I knew more about DID.  I have so many questions, questions I don't find answers for while watching Youtube videos or articles on DID.  

Do alters dream?  When I am sleeping, do my alters dream like I dream?

My alter, Sammy, loves to dance.  She loves all dance and she loves music.  She loves moving her body to music....the other night I had a dream about dancing.  I was dancing on roller skates, skating and dancing beautiful ballet type moves...like if I was ice skating.  I have also had dreams of dancing on a stage, and dancing in stores.

Is Sammy dreaming about dancing?  

another time, I dreamed about the "bad man", that he was coming to my advocates house to visit.  In my dream I was scared of him and he was a friend of the advocate...in my dream he scared me.  In reality he is just a drunk, but NOT the bad man...so did Ally dream that dream?  Was it her fear of this man, did she dream the dream.

But, when the alters are fronting I have no memory.  But I remember the dreams...so is it just me dreaming or the alters.

I use to have recurrent dreams of planes crashing, cars crashing, people screaming and running, pandemonium everywhere...is that Ally dreaming of the plane crash she witnessed?  Those dreams have stopped.  Did they stop because Ally is not scared anymore?  So did she stop dreaming?

I don't know who dreams my dreams....I have vivid dreams but then can't remember them in the morning...is that the alters dreaming because of the fact I don't remember?  Or is that me, Sparrow, dreaming?  Isn't it normal to dream vivid dreams but then not remember?  

I dream constantly of Piper.  My little Italian greyhound who died 5-6 yrs ago...I have had countless dogs and cats, but it is Piper I dream about all the time....was one of my alters connected to Piper?  Was Piper Tessa's dog?  Sammy's dog, Ally's dog??  I thought she was mine, but maybe one of my alters felt she was hers??  I miss Piper so much, if I think about her too long I will start crying...I don't miss my other dogs that have passed that much, not like I miss Piper.  Is that intense loss intensified because one of the alters misses her too???

I also have dreams that are prophetic...I have dreamed of future events, and those events come true.  Do my alters know more about the future than I do?  Nobody can predict the future, but so many times my dreams happen...its a weird feeling.   Not major happenings, like a house burns down...but smaller things...Maybe its just coincidence or the universe talking to me...

Days I struggle with depression, I will dream about walking around a cemetery...Ally sought refuge from her abusers in cemeteries...Is that Ally dreaming again???

I wish I knew someone with DID well enough to be able to ask them questions and to "compare notes" so to speak.  My advocate does not like me watching videos or reading articles because he doesn't want my mind influenced at all...people with DID are highly suggestive, so I get why he does not want me reading anything or watching anything with out him.   

I know that my alters can influence my decisions:  for instance, Sammy loves soft pretzels.  She can put the thought of the pretzel in my head...and it will nag at me, until I get and eat one.  Same with meat...Tessa is a meat eater, they all are...and I will get overwhelming desires to eat meat...hamburgers, steak...but I cannot eat meat because of my chronic stomach problems... I found Beyond meat (vegetarian burgers) and it satisfies the desire to have and eat meat.  I believe the alters like it too.

So do alters dream?  That is the question......

S