KP the nut
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I slept well, the dreams were just that dreams.
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How Did You Sleep Last Night?
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AWESOME. I slept AWESOMELY last night. Finally. Awesome.
I lucid dreamed a couple of nights ago, because I'd been doing flying mental imagery for weeks without any results. My dream was quite similar to the rest of the nightmares I've been having recently--some kind of authority figures chasing me and usually other people who are with me, but I didn't recognize it while I was dreaming. As I was being chased with this other nondescript girl, I just suddenly stopped and was like, "Come on, we have to get out of here," and flew up into the air. As I began to rise, I realized that it was a dream, because I had been focusing so much on trying to fly in dreams while I was awake. So when I was in the dream, I realized, "Oh. Finally. I'm flying." I find it almost impossible to remain asleep while simultaneously holding onto this recognition, though, so I quickly stopped thinking about the fact that I was asleep.
Heather, I went through about a MONTH of dreams where I was having sex with lots of really random people. I remember telling my very, very dearly close friend about it over lunch one day while we were studying. He said, "Well, have you had dream sex with me?" I looked at him over my book, then raised the book higher to hide my face. He is probably still laughing right now.
I generally do not lucid dream to begin with and am not aware I am going into the dream state while it happens, though I can imagine that this is common with lucid dreamers. Usually I am able to lucid dream when I am very aware of my dreams while awake, thinking about them a lot or writing them down. Then when I'm dreaming, I will catch something in the dream that tells me I am dreaming. It's easiest to do in recurring dreams, because I have a sense of weird familiarity and try to find the source of the familiarity, and then I realize I'm in a dream.
I lucid dreamed a couple of nights ago, because I'd been doing flying mental imagery for weeks without any results. My dream was quite similar to the rest of the nightmares I've been having recently--some kind of authority figures chasing me and usually other people who are with me, but I didn't recognize it while I was dreaming. As I was being chased with this other nondescript girl, I just suddenly stopped and was like, "Come on, we have to get out of here," and flew up into the air. As I began to rise, I realized that it was a dream, because I had been focusing so much on trying to fly in dreams while I was awake. So when I was in the dream, I realized, "Oh. Finally. I'm flying." I find it almost impossible to remain asleep while simultaneously holding onto this recognition, though, so I quickly stopped thinking about the fact that I was asleep.
I so feel you, Reign. I have corrected my sleep cycle no less than six times this month.
Heather
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I didn't sleep well at all. Only about 5 hours. I had horrible dream about being chased and then shot at.
There was this man in a nursing home with an open fracture that I had to help stabilize with foam rubber -- it was gross. YUCK. His bone was literally sticking out of his flesh.
There was this man in a nursing home with an open fracture that I had to help stabilize with foam rubber -- it was gross. YUCK. His bone was literally sticking out of his flesh.
Heather
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Thank you Sunshine!!! You just made my day:D:laugh:
This is really interesting.
I've never heard of lucid dreaming but I now realize I do it a lot. Apparently this is how I've skipped the nightmare part of PTSD? But I may have broken my brain. :P
I'm high functioning autistic spectrum. It's actually way easier to think in pictures than in "words."
When I was about twelve, I started making up "stories" - really vivid fantasies - about near death experiences, rescues, heroes, victims, super romantic in the sense of cheese and corn.
I got better and better at it until I could actually see and hear my fantasy almost as well as real life. I'm talking years later.
Anyway, I can still relax and go into REM sleep at will, choosing the subject. I can't choose subsequent topics, but I have a lot of freedom and rarely have really horrifying dreams.
I can always fly at will, in a pinch.
On the other hand, I constantly get lost, I never have a safe place or a home, and I constantly lose people. Sometimes out of desperation for some consistency I even try to go back to scary people and never can.
I've been have tons of those dreams lately. I actually dislike flying dreams. There's rarely a place to fly *to* - and it's always tiring. I'm always exhausted and depressed the morning after those dreams. Last night was pretty awful, with one per hour.
Suddenly I can't control *whether* I dream as soon as I sleep. I do every time. That warranted a med of its very own from my normally very conservative psych doc. He wants to stop all the out of cycle REM stuff.
I've never heard of lucid dreaming but I now realize I do it a lot. Apparently this is how I've skipped the nightmare part of PTSD? But I may have broken my brain. :P
I'm high functioning autistic spectrum. It's actually way easier to think in pictures than in "words."
When I was about twelve, I started making up "stories" - really vivid fantasies - about near death experiences, rescues, heroes, victims, super romantic in the sense of cheese and corn.
I got better and better at it until I could actually see and hear my fantasy almost as well as real life. I'm talking years later.
Anyway, I can still relax and go into REM sleep at will, choosing the subject. I can't choose subsequent topics, but I have a lot of freedom and rarely have really horrifying dreams.
I can always fly at will, in a pinch.
On the other hand, I constantly get lost, I never have a safe place or a home, and I constantly lose people. Sometimes out of desperation for some consistency I even try to go back to scary people and never can.
I've been have tons of those dreams lately. I actually dislike flying dreams. There's rarely a place to fly *to* - and it's always tiring. I'm always exhausted and depressed the morning after those dreams. Last night was pretty awful, with one per hour.
Suddenly I can't control *whether* I dream as soon as I sleep. I do every time. That warranted a med of its very own from my normally very conservative psych doc. He wants to stop all the out of cycle REM stuff.
Hi Hazen
Have you tried amitriptyline? it is non addictive & helps to reset your sleep patterns without leaving you feeling too drowsy the next day.
KP the nut
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((HUGS)) Cat, that is so brave, good for you.
KP the nut
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I slept well, disturbing dreams as always but the nightmares are easing. Unfortunately I've started snoring so poor H is still not getting his sleep.
I haven't tried any prescription meds. I am finally starting to acknowledge that I need them. But at this point I'm ready to try a frying pan on the head to knock me out. Amitriptyline sounds better than that! Thanks for the tip.
And nice work singing on stage! Congrats on that!
I slept about 3 hours last night and when my alarm went off I shot out of bed like I never fell asleep. I'm starting to worry that I will never figure out how to sleep more than six hours even when I take meds. My sleep debt must be something like 8,000,000,000,000 hours by now.
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