With my first pregnancy I experienced terrible morbid thoughts and frightening nightmares. If my DH was only 10 minutes home late from work, terrible thoughts of where he was or something bad had happened to him. The nightmares where at times quite extreme and often I would be woken by the sound of me crying. I couldn't always remember them, but would wake frightened and upset. Both pregnancies I would grab hold of my DH while in bed and we were both asleep....I would dream regularly that he was falling and I had to save him. In time it passed and I returned to peaceful slumber and the thoughts of death and dying gradually disappeared.

Debbie, you are definately not alone and I would say that it is hormonal and our sub conscience and imaginations working overtime.