How Did You Sleep Last Night?

[DMerish]

Took a sleep aid last night (Unisom). Slept seven hours. No dreams. I'm thankful for that. I feel/think I'm repressing things. That's good and bad. Got to a point where I need to just to get some shut eye - I look like a frickin' raccoon from the dark circles and wish I could just hibernate for about a week.

 

[Tinyflame]

I keep having the same nightmare, to the point of about 6 or 7 times. It's almost a 'stupid' nightmare, but I can't remember it. The last time I even thought here's the same nightmare, in the nightmare. I know I could write it down when it wakes me up. The nightmare makes no sense to me whatsoever, I can't remember it now but 'during' it seems to have no meaning/ representation. Every time it's identical, is all I can recall.

In the past I've had one nightmare about 80 times, slightly different variation on it but it finally stopped maybe 4 or 5 years ago? It's was 'night terror' type, really.

Ridiculous.

 

[DMerish]

Slept seven hours, woke up twice but got back to sleep right away. Unisom (OTC sleep aid) is kick a**! Going to give it one more night then start using my tapes again - I need the affirmations to replace the negative thoughts in my head.

 

[BloomInWinter]

Nightmares. Though, I don't have nearly as much bloody ones anymore. Thankfully!

 

[BlackbirdSinging]

I fell asleep sometime after 3am and woke up suddenly at just after 4am. It took a little while but I was able to fall back to sleep until 7:30am. I'm tired.

 

[DMerish]

I slept seven hours without disruption. Physically felt okay waking up, but waking up with intrusive (negative) thoughts still in the back of my mind.

 

[DharmaGirl]

Unisom, you say? I slept 2 hours last night. I've been up since 0130. I have a busy day today, but I was able to ditch one thing. I took my nightmare meds, but then I have the nightmares and my body doesn't react because of the beta blockers, and I get to have the whole nightmare instead of waking up screaming. I don't know what's worse.

 

[BloomInWinter]

Better. I went to bed at a slightly earlier time.

 

[StarChild]

Slept 4 hours. Then woke up shaking and full with deadly terror. Even my dogs felt it and tried to lick my face and cuddled up very near.

 

[DMerish]

Monster - That sounds terrible.
Someone on the forum (I think it was "Bell" or "Bubzilla"- not sure) suggested the active ingredient and I found it at Rite Aid in Unisom. Since you're taking a beta blocker also, you should check with your doc about the right dosages for everything.

 

[Zef]

I have had this real weird thing happening for the last 10 days or so. I cannot will myself out of bed once I wake up. It is like part of me has control of my body and really, really wants me to go back to sleep. . .back to nasty dreamland. The only way I've been able to get to work in the morning is by staying up all night.

This morning, I just sat on the side of my bed to put socks on. . .and almost wasn't able to stand back up.

 

[DMerish]

Nine hours of sleep! Slept from 9pm to 1am (something from outside woke me up).
Was up from 1am - 2am, then back to sleep to 8am. No Unisom. No nothing (dreams, etc.) Oh, blessed sleep, let's do that again tonight please :)