How Did You Sleep Last Night?

[Deleted member 12723]

Hi-

I slept great, but I had a nightmare, about dead bodies not being quite dead and they wanted me to clean them up. They were decaying and that was a impossibility.

At least I can sleep. Grateful for that. Thank god for trazedone and risperdone. The risperdone is supposed to help me not to remember my nightmares.

I used to have nightmares every night and I called it my night life. It was a real drag. Glad I do not have to deal with that anymore.

 

[KP the nut]

I really hate tarantulas. Dreamt about tarantulas

Oh dear, will you please stop having my nightmares:eek:;). One of mine is spiders in gerenal, although they are usually very big.

I never knew why, but I've had spider nightmares all through my life albeit very infrequently. During EMDR for my trauma I began having awful nightmares where I would end up trapped, crushed, unable to escape and in mortal danger. My spider nightmares also increased.

My T and I decided to work on the nightmares and T asked me if as a child I'd ever been locked in a confined space. At first I said no as I had no memory of that. Then I uncovered a deep hidden memory. As a joke (some joke) I'd been locked in an outhouse. It was dark, confined and spiders were in there.

I still have my nightmares but at least with the spider ones I now know why.

Wishing you sweet dreams
KP

 

[Philippa]

like a log!

 

[intothelight]

I fall asleep just fine, but wake up every morning around 4 A.M. Seems like I am programmed right now to sleep around six hours. In the past I would have been fine with that, but I am so tired in the early evening, I know I need more.

Just can't seem to stay asleep. Very frustrating.

 

[TSG]

I would do anything to have the nightmares stop. They are the reason I avoid sleep as long as possible. This morning, I screamed myself awake, yet again, after my usual 4 hours of sleep. I woke up with a wet face (been crying in my sleep). This was the first time I had a dream about the actual assault that nearly killed me only this time, he had my teenage daughter instead of me. I was outside the window and couldn't get in. I wish that I could just die in my dreams and not anyone else. It's way worse when I'm helpless to stop someone I love from being killed. I think I die more and more each night. I'm so sick to death of having all of these images in my head (I vividly remember each nightmare, and have since I was a girl). All I can do is sit her in the dark, all alone, crying like a baby and whining on a forum. I hate myself. I think God must hate me, too.

 

[Lionheart]

TSG,

You might want to ask your doctor about a medication called minipress for PTSD nightmares, it has stopped the nightmares for me and could be a benefit to you as well. (best of luck):tup:

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Without the klonopin for insomnia I have difficult getting to sleep and then, I generally sleep two hours on and two hours off. But last night, I took a long hot soak in the bathtub, showered off, and then got in the bed and slept like it was going out of style.:sleep:

I slept somewhere around 10 hours total. I still feel tired, but that is because of chronic fatigue syndrome and can't be helped. Still, I know it does my body and brain good to get the kind of rest it needs to function and I hope I have more nights like last night.

 

[AngelaMarie]

I fall asleep just fine, but wake up every morning around 4 A.M.

That is the time I wake up. I go through periods of time where I wake up every night around that time. It is frustrating!

I slept over 12 hours! Very nice!!:)

 

[Anna]

slept from 22.30 til 4.45, then from 4.45 til 6.00

Woke up feeling really bad though like I hadn't slept at all. Was weird.

 

[Lucycat]

Like a baby ! :sleep:

 

[Srain]

That's been happening to me too. Is it normal?

It depends on what kind of pain and what is going on. For me lately it's been my Migraines, other times it can be body pain which can be from something entirely different. If I nightmares I could twist my body up so tight that just unwinding out of a position is agony, or the nightmare was a flashback/memory type and I'm crushed and I feel it physically.

Does this help?

I slept slightly off last night, had a hard time getting to sleep and woke around the witching hour but somehow managed to go back to sleep only to have a vivid nightmare. But I'm well rested so yeah?!

 

[KP the nut]

I did sleep, but had nightmares again. Now I just feel so very tired.

 

[Jen93]

Horribly. I couldn't fall asleep, and I can't even go to Mu parents bed anymore because I'm so scared of being there.