During pregnancy, everything pretty much gets chocked up to “hormones.” Why are you feeling nauseous and vomiting? Hormones. Why are you feeling bloated? Hormones. Why can pregnant people be moody or have the most random food cravings? Hormones. Apparently, I even read that “pregnancy rhinitis” is a thing. That’s when women in the second half of their first trimester and beyond are just suddenly super stuffy in their noses all the time, or their noses itch like crazy. Oh wait, that could be me; my nose is itching CONSTANTLY, and it’s the worst when I’m on a work Zoom call, and it’s itching so badly that all I want to do is turn my video off to just scratch the top of my nose nonstop.

Anyway, so another funny thing that pregnancy hormones also get blamed for… are very vivid dreams during pregnancy. Granted, I’ve always had vivid dreams, but lately until the last couple of weeks, I really haven’t remembered much. Yet suddenly in the last week or so, I’ve had multiple dreams including Simu Liu, one in which he was trying to hit on me, and another in which we were sitting and eating dosa together. I’ve also had a whole string of dreams in which I am basically watching other people on their dates: I’m basically watching a live movie, except the people in the movie are right in front of me. One couple was on their very first date, as they’d met through friends. It was super awkward, and they clearly did not care much for the other. The second date I observed, I’m not sure what number date it was, but the chemistry was extremely thick; it was as though they were going to tear off each others’ clothes right in the restaurant! The third date appeared to have been arranged by the two individuals’ parents, as they kept mentioning so and so’s mom or aunt; sounded almost incestuous, but hey, to each their own.

Dreams as movie watching – who would’ve thought about that?