Dream Sequence

So, I am having a week or two of crazy vivid dreams. I have not had many dreams for about 6 months. However, with M's father passing away and school responsibilities, I must not be sleeping quite as well. So, the dreams are back. The most amusing to me was a dream about M's father's paintings. In my dream we went to visit a gallery that currently has some of his dad's paintings and the gallery owner had managed to get all of his dad's paintings and had sold them all. M gets very mad and buys a small painting by another artist and then proceeds to rip it up. I see the gallery owner coming toward us and I worry that she is going to be offended by what he has done, so I stuff all the pieces of the painting into my mouth. M and I had discussed earlier in the day the fact that whatever it is that keeps oil paints pliable is toxic. So in my dream my mouth and throat then proceeded to swell up because toxic paints had been used. I woke up soon after that with my mouth dry from my breathing through it. :)

I find dreams so fascinating. I find it interesting that my mind took some of the things I am worried about...ie will we be able to have a few of his dad's paintings for M and for future generations?, how is all of this impacting M?... and turned it into a somewhat of a coherent dream. I am thinking a painting must be quite tiny for me to fit all the pieces into my mouth (no comments from the peanut gallery on this topic), but overall a somewhat reasonable dream. I have many dreams from my past that I still vividly remember. For a while I went through a phase where I dreamt about gun violence on a regular basis. I was very happy when those stopped. I also have many dreams with talking animals. Anyway, anyone else go through periods of vivid dreaming or have reoccurring themes with their dreams?