Twitching, Talking And Shouting

[KP the nut]

Ok, my H admitted that it was like sleeping with the dog.:eek:. Luckily, he likes dogs:), and loves me.

I know I have weird dreams. Some are about car crashes (not mine), others are nice and fluffy but all end with something going horribly wrong, I am in deathly danger and I end up paralysed, frozen to the spot, terrified.

That is the point I usually wake shouting out. I wasn't aware that whilst I dream, I twitch and mumble to myself, this increases until I shout. This continues most of the night.

Well on the nights I sleep anyway. Other nights I lie awake with thoughts going round and round.

Does anyone else experience this?

KP

 

[cherryblossom]

Oh Yes! Only this morning I woke myself up by answering someone in my dream. Or should I say I shouted " Yes OK, I'll be there!" I kind of woke up, trying to work out what had happened, then wondered (embarassed), if anyone else in the house had heard me. It would seem not, because I could hear that the rest of the house hold were downstairs! I was staying with my family. But about an hour later, my Dad came up knocking on the door to see if I was ok, becuase I was still in bed, and it was late morning.

More seriously, I do have nightmares, and have woken up in strange places - usually cowering in a corner of my bedroom. I live alone, so I don't know how much I 'sleep' walk, or how much I usually scream or shout in my sleep. I have been told in the past that I talk in my sleep. I usually take sleeping tablets to sleep, which lessens my dreams and nightmares, and sleep walking. But it's pretty scary, waking up somewhere different to where you went to sleep. I used to sleep naked, but now I always wear PJ's just in case a midnight wander takes me out of the house! A friend of mine (who doesn't have PTSD), also sleep walks, but only when she's really stressed - she once woke up trying to 'escape' through the upstairs bathroom window. Good job she woke up :eek: Maybe an increase in stress makes you more prone to nightmares?

 

[KP the nut]

I sleep naked, maybe PJs are a thought, the image of me dancing in the street is not good.:eek:.

A couple of weeks ago I dreampt someone was hiding behind a door, with a knife. I woke shouting out 'Brian'. I have no idea who Brian is, my husband is Graham:oops:. Luckily what I clearly shout gets lost in translation, and H is not the jealous type.

 

[cherryblossom]

Yes - I highly recommend PJ's (unless it interfers with your sex life:p), if you ever start sleep-walking. I thought about hiding the door keys, but figured that wouldn't work, if it's me that had "hidden" them!
And yes - all sorts of stange and wonderful people have turned up in my dreams. I get quite disappointed when I wake up to find that George Cloony isn't rescuing me from a fire. When in fact I'm just sweltering because I have a kingsize duvet wrapped round me 3 times!

 

[KP the nut]

Yes - I highly recommend PJ's (unless it interfers with your sex life:p),

My what

 

[blwnawy]

I came in here attracted by the title, but I'm just going to tiptoe tiptoe very quietly out again softly softly no-one will know I was even here

LOL

 

[BloomInWinter]

My what:p

ROTFLMAO at that one! OMG my hubby is yelling down wondering what my gut-busting sounds are from!

Thanks!

 

[Gloria]

Ok, my H admitted that it was like sleeping with the dog.:eek:. Luckily, he likes dogs:), and loves me.

I know I have weird dreams. Some are about car crashes (not mine), others are nice and fluffy but all end with something going horribly wrong, I am in deathly danger and I end up paralysed, frozen to the spot, terrified.

That is the point I usually wake shouting out. I wasn't aware that whilst I dream, I twitch and mumble to myself, this increases until I shout. This continues most of the night.

Well on the nights I sleep anyway. Other nights I lie awake with thoughts going round and round.

Does anyone else experience this?

KP

I have only recently been diagnosed with C-PTSD but have been "fighting" in my sleep since I was a little girl. I guess it's a symptom of abuse but I couldn't share a bed as a child as I would scratch and bite in my sleep. Only the during the last year because I have really worked hard on my PTSD, have the nightmares calmed down quite a bit. My subconscioius mind is actually communicating during the nightmares where I am now beginning to be rational and talk and argue in my dream. I did write a thread on my brainwave machine which actually puts you in a state of hypnosis and changes your subconscious mind. It's so radical that I don't think a lot of people would try it - something similar to shock therapy for depression. It actually sounds much scarey than it is.

Hope you sleeping better KP!!
Hugs!
Gloria

 

[Gloria]

CB,
I just went to the doctor to discuss waking up in nightsweats and having nightmares. I asked her if I was having hot flashes? We determined that I sleep in a closed bedroom with my three small dogs. Well, those little furry furnaces heat up my room and interfere with my sleep. So my doctor told me that I wasn't having hot flashes but rather having "dog flashes". So I tried leaving the door open, window open and kicking the dogs out. It did cut down on my nightmares quite a bit but I still have a few. BTW, I met George Clooney. He is so gorgeous in real life but I must tell you that he is very short. I was at least 4 inches taller than him.:)

Hugs!
Gloria

 

[MissMacD]

My dreams have been escalating lately, the most noteable was one where I was wandering through a brambly over grown area in a foreign place and suddenly this old medecine woman found me. She took me into a hut and put me face down on an examening table. She began to massage my scalp, it felt good with little pinches every now and then. She told me that what she was doing would help me come to terms with my pain.

I've had a few dreams about guns even though I have never been threatened with one. In one dream I am being chased down the street with a machine gun and he is firing at me and I have to dive out of the way to avoid the bullets, in another I am in an elevator and there is a man who has a gun pointed to my head. When I escape from the elevator I end up in a maze of cubicles and the police come.

My dreams don't scare me anymore, I don't know if it's because I am dissocating or I am learning to cope better. Should I be scared when I wake up from someone chasing me with a firing machine gun?

I used to scream in my sleep. Blood curdling shrieking -- and I didn't know that I'd done it but everyone that house was woken up by it and came running.

 

[MissMacD]

I wonder if the machine gun dream has anything to do with feeling like I am full of bullet holes at times.

 

[KP the nut]

I sleep naked, maybe PJs are a thought, the image of me dancing in the street is not good.:eek:.

My husband has told me I'm now sleep walking. I apparently go around the house turning lights on, I have no memory of doing this. And yes, I still twitch, talk and shout.