-lemurlibs91-
Bronze Member
Recently, as I start falling asleep, I apparently start having full blown conversations and moving about. Each time it happens, my boyfriend has to try and calm me down - normally I'm stressed out in the situations. Sometimes they are related to what I'm feeling like in normal life, but I don't understand why they've only recently started happening, and why I'm in child mode.
Examples:
1. My legs were running and I was whimpering - I explained it (in the semi-asleep state) as I was trying to cross the road without getting run over.
2. Whimpering lots - I explained it as everything was too busy and going too fast
3. Saying "medic, medic" - I explained that the dog was throwing up so he needed a medic - my boyfriend reassured me that dogs often throw up, that he wasn't ill and so he didn't need a medic, then described the dog running around happily. It was only then that I was able to sleep. [bear in mind we don't say "medic" in my country].
It feels different to when I have nightmares as I'm falling asleep - I'm prone to those, but they're always flashbacks or trauma related in general and I need to be woken up by my boyfriend as I start thrashing, crying and having panic attacks.
This is more like whimpering, moving, talking and I stay in this semi-asleep state during the conversations we have, and then just settle down to sleep once he's calmed me. I am in total child mode and he does have to talk to me like a child otherwise it doesn't work and I get more wound up.
Any ideas on why this would have started happening? Anyone get the same thing?
Examples:
1. My legs were running and I was whimpering - I explained it (in the semi-asleep state) as I was trying to cross the road without getting run over.
2. Whimpering lots - I explained it as everything was too busy and going too fast
3. Saying "medic, medic" - I explained that the dog was throwing up so he needed a medic - my boyfriend reassured me that dogs often throw up, that he wasn't ill and so he didn't need a medic, then described the dog running around happily. It was only then that I was able to sleep. [bear in mind we don't say "medic" in my country].
It feels different to when I have nightmares as I'm falling asleep - I'm prone to those, but they're always flashbacks or trauma related in general and I need to be woken up by my boyfriend as I start thrashing, crying and having panic attacks.
This is more like whimpering, moving, talking and I stay in this semi-asleep state during the conversations we have, and then just settle down to sleep once he's calmed me. I am in total child mode and he does have to talk to me like a child otherwise it doesn't work and I get more wound up.
Any ideas on why this would have started happening? Anyone get the same thing?
