Usually, my dreams are filled with responsibility. I find myself working a graveyard shift at a former job, for example. It's not a bad feeling, just a tremendous sense of being responsible. In other dreams I am caring for adult friends.

I had a dream 2 nights ago of my mother unconscious and facing heart surgery. She really did have severe cardiac issues; for example, she had her aortic heart valve replaced when I was 14 years old. Her doctor in the dream was extremely kind, but I felt frightened because my mother was not conscious.