Does Anyone Else Have Night Sweats?

[lawmax52]

A few nights ago I had a dream about a boy's residential school that I was in when I was 13/14 yrs. old. The dream was about an event that happened and was quite accurate, I woke up with the dream still running in my mind and I was dripping sweat.
I have many dreams about that period of my life, it's like having flash backs in my sleep.

 

[candletea19]

I have a lot of flashbacks while I sleep/nightmares. Depending on the night, my brain either recreates what happened, or creates various new scenarios related. Sometimes it's not even related, but a lot of the time it is. It doesn't happen every time, but I do often get night sweats along with them, specifically with the flashback dreams. I don't know if it's a coincidence, or related, but I know the dreams itself are quite normal, so my psychologist says.

 

[PDH]

I get terrible night sweats too. Most of the time they are associated with nightmares/flashbacks, but sometimes I'll wake up drenched in sweat panicking, but don't have any memory of a dream.
Most nights I sleep on a towel now because its so bad. Fun times :-/

 

[physicist13]

yep... sometimes I know I had a nightmare and I wake up sweating, and sometimes I just wake up sweating and I can kind of assume I had a nightmare that I don't really remember... fun times

 

[EmmaOwl]

yep... sometimes I know I had a nightmare and I wake up sweating, and sometimes I just wake up sweating and I can kind of assume I had a nightmare that I don't really remember... fun times

That's me. And I am grateful when I don't remember the nightmares - in my case, remembering does much more harm than good.

 

[Deadman]

Yup, for a long time I would wake in a sweat. Sometimes I remembered the dream, sometimes I just woke up because the sheets were soaked.

 

[Vidistus]

I have very vivid, detailed nightmares. But I usually only remember them when I wake up in the morning. I mean, I have remembered before in the middle of the night of course. But not usually. Or I don't take them into account yet. But I always wake up in the middle of the night covered in sweat. It stopped for about six or seven months, the nightmares, too, and then I had a family member get sick and it started again. Have been coping fine with both, though I am getting tired of it, and worn down. I don't understand why I sweat. Do I just not remember the dreams in the moment or something?

 

[Deleted member 12723]

I used to get night sweats when I was caregiving my husband, not connected to dreams that I could remember but I would be so soaked that I would have to change my clothes and lay a towel on the bed. After my husband had died, the night sweats went away, I attribute it to the amount of stress i was under at the time. I had also done EMDR with success so it may have been connected to that as well. It is not fun.