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25 Mar 2012, 9:37 pm

Today, I heard the term "blue baby" used to describe a baby that did not get enough oxygen during late pregnancy or birth, for the first time. I was a blue baby, so I have NVLD. I was originally going to be a leftie, but about 30 minutes of hypoxia changed that, so I have a right temporal lobe problem known as NVLD.

I then remembered a dream I had in second grade, one that was so vivid that I never forgot it. I told my grandmother at the time, so I know for sure I did dream this then.

I dreamed that there was a voice saying over and over again "Blue Baby! Here's Blue Baby!" and the occasional "We see you, Blue Baby!" Then this ferret-like thing bit my shoulder, saying to me "Got you now, Blue Baby!" Before the ferret-like thing got me, I was being driven around in a friend's mom's SUV, until they dropped me home. The friend was the one that told me that I was basically screwed because the ferret things had seen me, but dropped me home after a bit anyway. (Wow this sounds really crazy when I type it out).

The ferret bit my left shoulder, and people with NVLD tend to have left-side problems. In fact, if it weren't for the hypoxia that struck my right hemisphere of my brain, I would've written with my once-dominant left hand. Instead, I mostly write with my right hand, but use the left sometimes. Again, weird symbolism there.

I was never diagnosed then, but it was around then that, like most people with NVLD, my condition began to affect my school work.



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25 Mar 2012, 9:52 pm

I have had a handful of dreams that were so weird/vivid/disturbing that I remember them, even from early childhood.
The first one was I was some kind of mechanic/scientist working on something, someone shouts a warning and there is an explosion. This is actually the VERY first dream I have re-call of..
Another one, much more disturbing is this: I am standing in a room & a hole suddenly opens up and I fall in..
to land in some other place, where the same thing happens again.
And again. 5-8 times before I wake up.

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25 Mar 2012, 10:03 pm

Matt62 wrote:
I have had a handful of dreams that were so weird/vivid/disturbing that I remember them, even from early childhood.
The first one was I was some kind of mechanic/scientist working on something, someone shouts a warning and there is an explosion. This is actually the VERY first dream I have re-call of..
Another one, much more disturbing is this: I am standing in a room & a hole suddenly opens up and I fall in..
to land in some other place, where the same thing happens again.
And again. 5-8 times before I wake up.

Sincerely,
Matthew


I had a dream like the hole one once. Only, they were mud-holes in the floor. Things kept sinking into them, and I cowered onto my bed, trying to avoid them. Finally, I had to venture out of my bed for sustenance. Then, a voice said, "I've given you many chances" and then I slipped into the vortex of a hole. Another time, there was a hole at the end of a slide, which then led to other holes, and other holes, until I woke up.

I just think that dream had a lot of relevant symbolism, but I have no idea why. At the time, I thought the evil ferret things were Blue Baby, like a group of some sort. Now I realize they were calling ME "Blue Baby".



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26 Mar 2012, 1:48 pm

Yeah, the hole one was REALLY disturbing. Like you, even when I tried to avoid falling in, I kind of fell into the next one any way!
Seems like a statement of my life, actually.

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26 Mar 2012, 3:32 pm

Matt62 wrote:
Yeah, the hole one was REALLY disturbing. Like you, even when I tried to avoid falling in, I kind of fell into the next one any way!
Seems like a statement of my life, actually.

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Yes, my life too....



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26 Mar 2012, 5:09 pm

jpr11011 wrote:
Today, I heard the term "blue baby" used to describe a baby that did not get enough oxygen during late pregnancy or birth, for the first time. I was a blue baby, so I have NVLD. I was originally going to be a leftie, but about 30 minutes of hypoxia changed that, so I have a right temporal lobe problem known as NVLD.

I then remembered a dream I had in second grade, one that was so vivid that I never forgot it. I told my grandmother at the time, so I know for sure I did dream this then.

I dreamed that there was a voice saying over and over again "Blue Baby! Here's Blue Baby!" and the occasional "We see you, Blue Baby!" Then this ferret-like thing bit my shoulder, saying to me "Got you now, Blue Baby!" Before the ferret-like thing got me, I was being driven around in a friend's mom's SUV, until they dropped me home. The friend was the one that told me that I was basically screwed because the ferret things had seen me, but dropped me home after a bit anyway. (Wow this sounds really crazy when I type it out).

The ferret bit my left shoulder, and people with NVLD tend to have left-side problems. In fact, if it weren't for the hypoxia that struck my right hemisphere of my brain, I would've written with my once-dominant left hand. Instead, I mostly write with my right hand, but use the left sometimes. Again, weird symbolism there.

I was never diagnosed then, but it was around then that, like most people with NVLD, my condition began to affect my school work.


What do you mean by "people with NVLD have left-side problems?"

I've been trying to figure out why I have weakness in my left arm now for over 6 years. My mom said I was always this way and that I'm just now becoming aware of it. Is this common with NVLD? I've read that NVLD is very similar to Aspergers but I never read about problems on the left side?



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01 Apr 2012, 2:49 am

most of my dreams have been of the very weird variety.

In fact, many dreams I found to be so scary, if I could remember them after waking up I could easily sell them to Hollywood, and they'd likely rival anything that the movie machines are currently churning out right now...or even back in the '70s and '80s.