How Did You Sleep Last Night?

[jaccat]

More nightmares last night. Dad was in it again, in the background. Mostly it was me running to catch up with something and failing, and it ended up with a friend of mine being badly betrayed by someone I used to know, who was being called a 'hero' by the newspapers for doing it.
I've started writing the dreams down now.

 

[Anrish]

Had a horrible night. Couldn't fall asleep at first. Woke up after a nightmare where I was chased and threatened by some fantasy figure (like a mixture of Jack Skellington and Mad Hatter). I had problems to continue sleeping because the fear kept me awake. I resigned at four o'clock and remained in that horrible state between memories, sleep, being awake and fear...

 

[Changing4Best]

I only got 3 hours, because my MD is taking me off of clonazepam (for restless leg syndrome) and since it has helped me with sleep, among other things, I don't even feel tired at all. I had a little trouble concentrating is all. I hope tonight I get more sleep. I don't have an appointment with my psychiatrist until March 3rd. I have some other stuff that I take when I have trouble sleeping as needed. I will take some of it tonight.

 

[jaccat]

Another nightmare, today I'm feeling kind of vulnerable because of it. In it my mouth was full of sequins, they coated my tongue, my throat, the roof of my mouth. I couldn't tell anyone what was wrong and I was running through a large building, looking for somewhere to hide where I could try to scrape them off.
When I think about it I can almost feel them in my mouth. I can feel my gag reflex trying to kick in.

 

[holdenmonty]

I slept like shit last night. Went to bed at my usual time which is 2130 after taking my melatonin supplement at 2100 and still tossed and turned had random thoughts running through my head decided to play on my phone a little to try and get myself tired, finally felt tired tried to go to sleep and had the stupid random thoughts about anything and everything running through my head I think I feel asleep around midnight and then woke up around 0300 with random shit running through my head and managed to fall back asleep until I had to wake up at 0500 to get around for the day. I'm so tired I got myself some coffee this morning.

 

[rainy_daze]

I got 6 hours after midnight.

Now today it is 3.30am and I'm not sleeping, as I awoke after a couple of hours and couldn't get back to sleep.

I sometimes wonder if I could run a marathon if I slept well enough ;):laugh:. I've decided just to take the sleep when I can get it, because although I am trying to go to bed before midnight (sometimes I'm even in bed by 11pm :eek:), I'm still struggling to fall or stay asleep for long.

I'm practising sleep hygiene, but sometimes insomnia wins.

 

[Tinyflame]

I had the most horrific nightmare, like Criminal Minds with the graphic details included. :eek: :( Some 'guy'(?)/'thing was killing all the people in families, I went to 3 different families/ homes, & in the nightmare I couldn't stop 'him' but I could only try to get each family member safe (& they were all unaware & quite clueless). And I couldn't & each one was getting 'hacked up'. OMG, sorry for sharing! :( :tdown:

Strange thing was, there wasn't one element that was 'ridiculous' in the nightmare, & not a person I recognized.

Yuck. Ugh. :( It was highly disturbing. :( I think it came from my heart racing.

@rainy_daze , try 'sighing' about 6 times. I followed this thing, where you say a prayer & sigh, funny thing is every time I yawn & amazingly sometimes can't make it to 6! You could use whatever you like to think of. This coming from the person who couldn't sleep no matter what.. :wideeyed:

 

[WildMermaid]

@Junebug we have similarly styled dreams. :( *hug*

Last night very little sleep. I'm averaging about 3-4 hours a night but no terror dreams last night, and that is a small start.

 

[Tinyflame]

Oh @Glitterkitty , I wish that were not so! :( :eek:

Sweet dreams tonight. :hug:

 

[roaminggnome]

I had no problem falling asleep but staying asleep is simply not meant to be since my Zyprexa was stopped last week. I had a reaction to the Zyprexa. I didn't sleep through the night for months before taking it. Now I don't know what will happen without it.

 

[WildMermaid]

@Junebug and @roaminggnome how is your sleeping now? I've had a slight tapering off of nightmares, but I often just feel a bit dazed and sleep is restless. Wishing both of you sound and healing sleep.

 

[moonbeam]

Badly. Forgot to silence my phone so just as I was falling asleep at 9am I got a bunch of messages. Oi.