The Post-Gazette asked five local residents to share their dreams over a two-week period in September. Here is one volunteer:

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	Tara Deringor shares her dreams with Post-Gazette readers.
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Tara Deringor, 33, of Squirrel Hill, was pregnant with twins as she kept a journal of her dreams for the Post-Gazette. She gave birth to a girl and a boy, Ava and Finnigan, on Oct. 28.

Dream researchers say that people dream more during adolescence and pregnancy than at any other time of their lives because of the surge of hormones in the body.

Born in Bermuda, Deringor has lived all over the world. Her father is English. She is a pediatric physical therapist, providing early intervention for babies and young childrenwho have developmental delays and other problems. She and her husband Kevin also have a 2-year-old son, Riley.

She recalled 17 dreams in the 15 days between Sept. 6 and Sept. 20. She dreamed twice about her wallet being stolen, although there was no similar parallel event during her waking life. And not surprisingly, there were many dreams about giving birth and her babies.

I was at the hospital having a scheduled C-section when we realized we forgot the kits to save the babies' cord blood. The doctor took the babies out, then left me on the table and sent Kevin home to get the kits. While I was waiting (still hadn't been sewn up) I got up from the table and was walking Riley, my son, up and down the stairs. I felt fine and then when Kevin got back, they took the cord blood and sewed me back up.

(Note: The couple did save the cord blood from the twins' birth.)

I went into labor and everyone insisted I fly to Turkey to deliver the babies. I went down the street to help a neighbor assemble a ride on a gadget (such as the Segway). A friend who now lives in Washington state and another from high school in England were there to help because the instructions were in Japanese. The house was beautiful, a very open floor plan with lots of outside covered decks. There were wild animals all around the house and orangutans came up to the decks and then all of a sudden there were Aborigines wandering all over the house. The owner of the house said that they were able to get in even with locks on all the doors. I was baby-sitting at someone's house when I looked up at the drop for the laundry shoot and this huge snake head appeared. I screamed and it looked right at me and pulled itself out of the shoot, jumped in the air and leapt into a new hiding place. I was pushing a stroller leaving work for lunch and my boss yelled out the window that I had already taken too long of a lunch and therefore owed the company $1.75. I apologized and said I did not realize that I was taking too long. My boss made me write a check and I never got to lunch. I was on vacation on an island and I had my diaper bag/backpack on. This old woman and man came up behind me and stole my wallet. I chased after them and grabbed it back. I tried to report them and throw them off the island but the next boat wasn't until the next day so the old couple ended up staying with us and having dinner. A friend was going for a modeling job and wanted her friends along so six of us were in the elevator and the people we were headed up to see pushed the wrong intercom button and we heard them say how my friend wasn't good at all but maybe her friends would be worth looking at! We went to look at a house outside of the city (Greensburg I think). Our agent was our old agent's daughter. Upon first glance the house was normal, then when we explored, it was mansion on a lake with a pool, screened in patio, ballroom etc. There was an apartment on the first floor but nobody had been living on the ground floor. We were very tempted to buy it but we really didn't want to leave our neighborhood. I wasn't going home to England at Christmas until Boxing Day. Old family friends lived close by so I called them to see what they were doing for Christmas and the oldest son was having a party. He convinced me to sing (Karaoke) Billy Idol's "White Wedding" on the phone. (I can't sing to save my life). I was on a train and my husband came up from downstairs (on the train) holding a baby and said look at our little baby girl. (I was a little confused because I had not given birth yet, and my belly was still full of babies!) But he said that everything was OK and I should come with him. I followed him downstairs and we had a baby girl who weighed 8 pounds, 11 ounces, and a boy who weighed 4 pounds. My belly was still big, and I had not yet delivered, but the doctors told me everything was OK.

(Note: Deringor, who had tracked the size of her babies through ultrasound tests, knew that her girl was bigger than her boy. Upon arrival, Ava weighed 6-pounds-7 ounces and Finnigan weighed 5-pounds-14 ounces.)

I was watching TV with Kev (husband) when the top of my belly began to stretch and stretch until I could clearly see two feet and a hand -- my skin was so stretched out it was almost translucent. I was yelling to Kev to look but by the time he looked, the babies were moving back down. I was on a cruise and bodies kept disappearing. We were sitting at dinner discussing this and someone mentioned that they kept seeing this woman (we knew her) go to the eighth floor (which was closed off). A couple of us went to the eighth floor to see and saw this women filling bodies with coins (to make them heavy) and throwing them overboard.