How Did You Sleep Last Night?

[Lionheart]

I slept okay, but I awoke after only four hours and could not get back to sleep. This is the usual pattern when I forget to take my night meds, which I did. Fortunately though, there were no PTSD nightmares and for that I'm grateful!!!!

 

[Anna]

Slept 3 hours straight, then 2 hours. Getting tired of it. Sleeping 4-6 hrs a night... It is what it is I guess.

 

[NarcSis]

Very tired today, many weird dreams, found it hard to gear down.
I have this repeated dream that I'm back in uniform and doing calls, but at some point someone (or me) always realizes I'm not supposed to be there and I have to hide/leave the scene lest I get in trouble.
I find it an exhausting and disturbing dream because there is usually a traumatic incident of some sort occurring.

 

[PepperAnne]

I seem to have no trouble falling asleep. Once I am asleep however, the nightmares start. When I finally wake up from a nightmare and get myself grounded again, the process starts over. This can happen 3 to 6 times a night, and by morning I have been in bed for 8 hours, but only truly slept for 5, and that was restless nightmare sleep.

Last night, that was my pattern again. This is day 4 of this type of sleep.

I'll keep trying, and maybe tomorrow will be better.

 

[KP the nut]

I slept really well but I had such trouble getting out of bed. I could have stayed there all day.

 

[HëllaBubz]

Slept ok overnight, but by morning was exhausted, so must have been dreaming again. Went back to sleep, and the past 1 and a half hours have been full of horrible, emotionally draining nightmares.
I'm so exhausted I can barely see the screen, and trying to type is an effort.

I'm too scared to go back to sleep.

 

[Curvy]

Normally I sleep very very poorly. I have nightmares almost every night, high anxiety and pain. They've tried lots of meds and remedies to sleep and they've never worked. But I tried ativan this weekend and I've slept well every night since friday. :)

 

[Wordgirl]

I had a rough night in dream land. I dreamed I was shot in the left arm, and I was trying to detonate a smoke bomb to let somebody know where I was so that they could help me. The bomb consisted of steel wool in a can, and some paper. I realized that nobody was coming, so I held my arm and realized I couldn't walk. It was a typical dream. I woke up exhausted.

 

[Deleted member 12723]

I keep falling asleep when I am reading at night. I slept very good. It is a blessed releif after all of the years of bad sleep. I get a full8 hours.:tup:

 

[Jen93]

Well, I just spent an hour in the corner, 10 minute flashback, stood in the corner another twenty, then spent time having more flashbacks in the corner; kept disagreeing with everybody, and then I spent half an hour sitting in the corner with my knees tucked under my chin, wondering when my teacher was going to tell me it was okay to come out of the corner-had to convince myself that she wasn't there, and that it wasn't me that got sent to the corner but another girl in my middle school English class. :( then I felt bad cause she'd been sent to the corner. Argh! Not a good sleep-every time that happens I know I'm in for a rough night, a very rough night. I have school and I need to be up in 4 hours too. :(

At least the good sleeps are still outweighing the bad lately.

 

[AngelaMarie]

Slept exactly 8 hours.:)

 

[lighteningdarkness]

Very glad for everyone that is getting some sleep.

Jeez Wordgirl your dreams sound like mine, always somehow about fighting, shooting and generally saving the planet (or someone) and not being able to. Very disturbing and extremely lucid. And exhausting.

And the therapist was right when she said the EMDR may cause more dreaming...

Hugs to everyone who is struggling in the darkness