Sweet dreams are made of these

I've been having a lot of really weird dreams lately. I know that they say that dreams come from stuff you've been thinking about before you go to sleep, but I've never had them be such a blatantly obvious combination of things I've been thinking about before.

For example, I'm helping my mom do invitations for my grandfather's 90th birthday party. My grandfather had 12 siblings (he and his youngest sister are the only ones left), so my mom has a lot of cousins. We've spent a lot of time lately talking about which cousins belong to which siblings. One night I had a very weird dream in which they all kept showing up. It was present day and I knew quite well that these people were no longer alive, but they were there.

I had another dream that involved the Plaza Mayor in Madrid, an evacuation, my brother, a kid in a football uniform and someone hiding in a washing machine. And yes, I was thinking of or saw pictures of all these things earlier that day.

My mom thinks it's stress as these dreams all had very stressful undertones to them. But I just found it SO weird that as soon as I woke up from these dreams, I knew exactly why that combination of things took place in the dream.