How Did You Sleep Last Night?

[Lucycat]

Bad night sleep last night. Wierd dream. Woke up worrying about my wee brother, who I speak to very rarely. But I phoned him up just to be sure it really was a bad dream and he was OK. He is fine, but said he had bad news for me. My one surviving great Aunt, in her nineties had passed away last night.

It felt freaky. I am not sad, after all she was very old and had not known who anybody was for a number of years, because of dementia. BUt I feel flat, and wierd that I had felt the need to phone.

The mind is very strange indeed!

 

[LawPhotos]

I actually got a few more hours sleep than usual this week (I probably averaged 4 hours an night) but I paid very dearly. I had twice the number of nightmares that I usually have. Nothing like meeting your demise every night! Let's see this week alone I was burned to death in a fire, beheaded in foreign country and slid, ever so slowly, off the top of the Sears Tower in Chicago (tallest building in US)--I spent half my childhood in Chicago. Well, they do say variety is the spice of life (read with sarcasm)

 

[jasmin]

I dreamed that my housemate was seeing the same therapist as I.. and I felt.. jealous.. or angry ??? And my other housemate accidentally released noxious gasses into the sky that formed an aurora bourealis looking display (the gasses were to be the main visual spectacle for an event he was working at). Our house was a big house like a Greek palace situated on a cliff face looking out over a large body of water. I could climb from my window onto the roof which was a massive cement courtyard. There were other things in the sky.. heaps of patterns and whatnot, I think maybe they spelled out words or phrases but I can't really recall.

 

[The Albatross]

Last night was the third untroubled sleep in a row. Part of me is wondering if I've turned a corner, the other part is wondering if or when the bottom's gonna fall out. I'm on a roll, and how nice it must be for people to do this on a nightly basis consistently.

 

[Si P]

Forgive me if I'm mistaken but I couldn't find anything similar to this listed in the threads.

I thought it would be a really good tool to have. To talk about how you slept last night or any dreams you may have had etc..

Last night my sleep wasn't so interesting but it did strike me. I slept amazingly; I didn't move at all, I woke up in the same position I fell asleep in. Though I cannot remember any dreams. I think my body really needed a rest like that.

 

[Si P]

No Dreams But I woke a number of times in a cold sweat! Does any body else get this? I have been having it all week. Waking very often too.

 

[KP the nut]

OMG, I slept for 13 hours. A couple of bad dreams but managable. It had been a busy week, v enjoyable but I don't think I realised how drained I was. I also didn't have my usual relaxing afternoon after EMDR on Wednesday.

I started to feel guilty at not waking until 1pm but as H said I must have needed it. So in the new mind set of being kind to myself, I needed the rest and I feel better for it.

 

[Sazza]

From what I remember last night once got off slept quite well woke few times but went back off. Wold later this morning and wanted to stay there longer so tired, hope I sleep well tonight.

 

[cat]

At the moment I'm not sleeping at all, I've been awake for several hours. I cant wait for the chat room to come back!

 

[shell]

I've started having nightmares again, awake on and off all night. I wish they would just go away.

 

[elizabethnueve]

What

Rob Dog, I would recommend trying lucid dreaming techniques/mental imagery before bed. I learned to lucid dream a very, very long time ago and barely remember how I started, but as I say above, the mental imagery seemed to really pay off.

My T's suggestion was to envision a rope or ladder, some kind of escape route, before I went to sleep. I prefer to envision myself with wings, because I have had a lot of success with flying in the past.

What is lucid dreaming?

 

[elizabethnueve]

At the moment I'm not sleeping at all, I've been awake for several hours. I cant wait for the chat room to come back!

I can't sleep either. I tried unsuccessfully since 9:30PM.