Sleep

[Just tryin to heal]

is it possible to have nightmares and not remember having them. I had them constantly as a child and always woke up with achenes and feeling physically exhausted but i always remembered them. This morning i awoke feeling that way but i do not remember having a nightmare.Vary Stressful! Any thoughts?

 

[Anarchy]

The dreams that got bad enough to wake me up were usually fairly scary before it got bad enough to wake up - so, without any way of knowing directly (presumably some researcher somewhere, has wired volounteer sleepers up to monitor indicators of stress responses), my guess is yes, it could be possible.

 

[Deleted member 28403]

From the little research I did on sleep, I can share some information.

An average person has 5-6 dreams a night, but doesn't remember them. That is because a person normally remembers only a dream in which they were, if it was broken. If they awoke due to an alarm clock, someone waking them up or huge stress due to dream content that forced body into wakeness. So it's quite possible.

Most dreams are also forgotten within 5 minutes from waking up.

Human brain eventually erases dreams as the space is needed for other stuff.

 

[Momofthree]

I often wake up feeling 'out of sorts' after having a night of bad dreams, the only time I wake up during a dream is if it is a night terror as apposed to a night mare (they have different clinical definitions and characteristics.). I don't remember the dreams most of the time, but I know they were bad because of the feeling they leave me with, and a lot of times when I do 'remember' them they are like a bad acid trip and the only way I could explain them to someone is to explain how I felt in the dream.

 

[Just tryin to heal]

Thank you @Anarchy ,@otakujome ,and @Momofthree your replies are definitely helpful

 

[Just tryin to heal]

I should mention this has happened before but its been awhile

 

[holdenmonty]

I have been this way for quite a while now I don't remember much if any of my dreams but tend to wake up in the middle of the night feeling really anxious and on edge. I talked to somebody about it don't remember if it was my therapist or the doc that gives me my meds but they said that most people don't remember their dreams and that I wake up feeling really anxious and on edge that I was probably having a nightmare. It makes me wonder about doing a sleep study and see what they find out, but at the same time I tend to wonder what they might find out, or if it might sound like I'm searching for some kind of diagnosis but I think I will talk to my therapist about it at my appointment on the 3rd of March

 

[TonyG]

All of my flash backs were while I was asleep, I would wake up in sheer terror and I have been doing it for thirty years, my wife can confirm that. I still have the dreams and wake up feeling like my trauma just happened, Since I started seeing a psychologist and unlocking my memories I have been having the flashbacks while I am awake, much worse, but I can now talk about it and with the help of medication my anxiety is lower.

 

[Ocean5]

I'd wake-up with rapid heart beat - very intense fear. Psychiatrist said it was nightmare. But I rarely remember any dreams past several years.

 

[holdenmonty]

It's weird tonight I dint feel like going to sleep. I'm a little tired but I just don't feel like putting up with the hassle of trying to fall asleep