@DeAnn, @Strings, @Nigelglos, These replies are absolutely fascinating and you can see that talking like we are here shows how we have similar ‘traits’ - if I can call them that - following a stroke. It makes me feel a lot more comfortable about myself and my many idiosyncrasies. I too, have nightmarish dreams and end up with my arms lashing about and my wife talking and calming me down again.
I don’t ever think about ‘life’ in my dreams like @DeAnn mentions, but I do have a similar thing when it comes to making appointments, etc., where I will not use a phone or engage in conversation to book an appointment, but choose to email/text and give my available dates. I know if I have the discussion on the phone I would have to have a library of dates and times available in front of me otherwise I wouldn’t remember, and if the receptionist happened to say, “I’m sorry we can’t fit you in on that date, how about…” That’s me finished! 
Speaking of odd dreams: last night I dreamed I learned the answer to some huge issue that would be very helpful to humans everywhere. I knew I was dreaming so I woke myself to write it down so I would remember once I got up for the day. The next time I awoke, I realized I must have fallen back to sleep without writing it down, and of course, not only had I forgotten how to solve the issue…I forgot what the issue even was. The answer was only two words.
If anyone thinks of them…please share…I would really like to remember!
@DeAnn the answer is forty-two
Oh, good one! Is 42 the year? or the atomic number?
Hi @DeAnn Were the two words either:
Wake up!
or
Alarm clock
That was funny to wake up to and read DeAnn. Hopefully everyone will put a list of their two words on here and maybe you will find the right ones
I can’t believe I forgot that! Now I have to read it again, or maybe just watch it.
Exactly same with me …. I noticed a difference not long after I had the strokes … actually in 2022 all within 2 months, I had 10 TIAs and 2 small brain bleeds. TIAs lasted 15-20 mins, with numbness in hands, shoulder, mouth too, but no droops … just couldn’t get my words out … never got to see a doctor in hospital or kept in any of the 3 times I was taken in by ambulance … we have a certain crap hospital up here …. But after a few weeks I realised my words weren’t getting out properly, and I often repeated myself, but brain was perhaps slower as I love quiz programmes, especially University Challenge as I like to try and get a few right …. But I knew answers, just couldn’t get them to my mouth quick enough to say out loud, some were on the tip of my tongue, just couldn’t reach them or “find” them …… and I would babble on too (just like now ! ) still like it now though 2 years ago 
…. sorry folk, I will shut up now x
No need to shut up or stop babbling on here @Ismeval - we are all sailing along in the same boat, just chatting and finding out similarities, so keep 'em coming! John aka Bert
New stroke survivors are coming on here all the time. And all they want to know is if what they are experiencing is common post stroke and will it get any better.
If they read your post, your “waffle” and can relate it to their own experience, that’s all that matters! Your “waffle” brings relief and reasurance because you tell it in simple words that won’t overtax their minds.
So you need never apologise for getting your words out in the best way you can. I was reading posts on here for about a year before I was able to post myself. And post like yours brought me to tears, just knowing I’m not the only one. And it can, and will get better 
Personally, back then, the simpler the language in a post was, the better. If I needed a dictionary in order to understand what was being said, I just skimmed or skipped over those posts 
Even terminology such as “learnt non-use” I hadn’t a clue about back in the beginning. And with the heavy time limits my brain put on me back then, I didn’t have the luxury of time to look it up on the internet 
That’s why I still try to keep my writing simple for the newbies . . . . although I do forget myself at times