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Vivid Dreams cause of excessive sleepiness
For years I have been "suffering" from excessive dreaming. I have dreams that are extremely graphic, detailed and vivid. Most of the time I am aware that I am dreaming and cannot wake up. It does not occur every night, but several nights a week. I wake up feeling EXAUSTED. I nod off during the day, cannot keep my eyes open. Last night (for example) I got 8 hours of sleep and yet today I'm so tired I could cry! I should also mention that I fall asleep almost instantly and I dream as soon as I fall out. There are some days where I "fall asleep" here at work and begin to dream instantly, it's almost as if It's an instant hallucination. My husband says I'm lucky to fall asleep when I hit the pillow but I'm to the point where if sleeping makes me THIS tired I don't want to. The dreams are often traumatic and I'm tired anyway. What's the point of sleeping?!
I'm not suffering from depression and I have a regular schedule in terms of sleep (Usually get at least 6.5 - 8.5 hours a sleep). My diet is pretty good and I get an average amount of excersize. Everything I do is in moderation (no drugs either, btw).
Can someone PLEASE shed some light on this? Why am I dreaming so much and why do I feel exhausted after a "good" nights sleep?
Perplexed,
Ms.April
I'm not suffering from depression and I have a regular schedule in terms of sleep (Usually get at least 6.5 - 8.5 hours a sleep). My diet is pretty good and I get an average amount of excersize. Everything I do is in moderation (no drugs either, btw).
Can someone PLEASE shed some light on this? Why am I dreaming so much and why do I feel exhausted after a "good" nights sleep?
Perplexed,
Ms.April
I just wanted to say thank you to everyone that has posted on here. It validates and somehow lessens the burden I have been carrying around because of my dreams. I was literally in tears to hear that I am not the only person suffering from such vivid relentless dreaming...not that I'm happy anyone has to go through this. It is a heavy burden to carry, living lives of dreams and then having to wake only to live yet another.
I first noticed there was something irregular with my dreaming when I was 19, when I would dream every night that I was either shadow or light (meaning that there was a light behind my opponent that caused him/her to be a shadow and the light was on me.) We would use whatever we could create in our imaginations to throw at each other, but never harm each other. The winner each night would seem to be whomever could come up with the most spectacular display. That dream reoccurred every night for over a year.
After that I would dream in movies, where I was either a character or sometimes some ambien, ethereal onlooker watching a play or scene unfold. It would range from future, to present, to past. The locations would be sometimes familiar, and at other times alien. Sometimes it was people from my waking life and often it's people I've never seen before or met.
Lately my dreams have been so demanding that they will "let" me get up to walk my dogs or maybe load some laundry or do some other tasks in a dazed stupor. The requirement of such though is that I "have" to lay back down and pick up exactly where I left off, as if some pause button was pushed and something compelling me to finish. Sometimes even pausing 3-5 times until it unfolds as it wants.
The outcome of all this dreaming is generally the same. I feel mentally and physically exhausted in the mornings. It's as if the actions of the dreams coalesce into my muscles. I have to take hours after I wake to recover. I had thought that it was possibly something in my diet, but I eat an extremely well rounded diet. I love ALL fruits and vegetables raw and/or cooked (except watermelon....don't laugh...it just grosses me out lol.) I don't do drugs, I can count the number of times I've drank alcohol each year on one hand, I don't smoke, I don't even drink sodas or anything with caffeine.
I feel embarrassed, frustrated, and ridiculed by friends, family, and my doctors when I speak to them about this. They see it as if it's an excuse, or blown out of proportion and exaggerated by me. So I try and force a smile and continue forward.
I don't know whether I'm cursed or blessed or a combination of both, but I'm just tired either way. I am tired of being tired for the past 15 years and it helps to hear I'm not the only one. Thank you.
I first noticed there was something irregular with my dreaming when I was 19, when I would dream every night that I was either shadow or light (meaning that there was a light behind my opponent that caused him/her to be a shadow and the light was on me.) We would use whatever we could create in our imaginations to throw at each other, but never harm each other. The winner each night would seem to be whomever could come up with the most spectacular display. That dream reoccurred every night for over a year.
After that I would dream in movies, where I was either a character or sometimes some ambien, ethereal onlooker watching a play or scene unfold. It would range from future, to present, to past. The locations would be sometimes familiar, and at other times alien. Sometimes it was people from my waking life and often it's people I've never seen before or met.
Lately my dreams have been so demanding that they will "let" me get up to walk my dogs or maybe load some laundry or do some other tasks in a dazed stupor. The requirement of such though is that I "have" to lay back down and pick up exactly where I left off, as if some pause button was pushed and something compelling me to finish. Sometimes even pausing 3-5 times until it unfolds as it wants.
The outcome of all this dreaming is generally the same. I feel mentally and physically exhausted in the mornings. It's as if the actions of the dreams coalesce into my muscles. I have to take hours after I wake to recover. I had thought that it was possibly something in my diet, but I eat an extremely well rounded diet. I love ALL fruits and vegetables raw and/or cooked (except watermelon....don't laugh...it just grosses me out lol.) I don't do drugs, I can count the number of times I've drank alcohol each year on one hand, I don't smoke, I don't even drink sodas or anything with caffeine.
I feel embarrassed, frustrated, and ridiculed by friends, family, and my doctors when I speak to them about this. They see it as if it's an excuse, or blown out of proportion and exaggerated by me. So I try and force a smile and continue forward.
I don't know whether I'm cursed or blessed or a combination of both, but I'm just tired either way. I am tired of being tired for the past 15 years and it helps to hear I'm not the only one. Thank you.
It is comforting to check in on our thread and see that we are not alone, and most everyone on here understands what it is like.
That alone is therapy.
Especially until the solutions emerge.
That alone is therapy.
Especially until the solutions emerge.
i have been having these dreams for as long as i can remember, i wont go into details since alot of comments on this forum are amazingly similar to mine, i could copy a few and paste as my comment.. im shocked at the amount of people that have it. i had been wanting to research this for a long time, each morning i wake u and struggle to get up, i say to my self, i have to google this, today i have.
i have been meaning to call my family doctor to ask if its something that needs to be checked but reading here that no doctor knows whats wrong just put me off..
heres what i have to say as a possible solution, i dont know if its a psychological treatment or spiritual one, each time i read the psalms (psalm 91 to be precise) from the bible before i sleep(as advised), i wake up peacefully with no memory of a dream. i wake up light headed and i get up easily. and say to my self "WOW!!, i found the cure".. i have dreamless sleeps or pleasant dreams if i dream and wake up feeling fresh for about 2-3days and i get carried away and as a result i forget to read the verse and also because i dont keep it in mind that my dreams would make me feel exhausted when i wake up, i tend to sleep like that..
now that i have realised that this is a world phenomena, i will make it an obligation to read the verses every night now to be able to access if it really helps me sleep A LOT better and post it for all to try. As i type this, my heart still feels heavy from my sleep/dream of last night. its now 11:45am, woke up 8am and of-course i was late for work.
i have been meaning to call my family doctor to ask if its something that needs to be checked but reading here that no doctor knows whats wrong just put me off..
heres what i have to say as a possible solution, i dont know if its a psychological treatment or spiritual one, each time i read the psalms (psalm 91 to be precise) from the bible before i sleep(as advised), i wake up peacefully with no memory of a dream. i wake up light headed and i get up easily. and say to my self "WOW!!, i found the cure".. i have dreamless sleeps or pleasant dreams if i dream and wake up feeling fresh for about 2-3days and i get carried away and as a result i forget to read the verse and also because i dont keep it in mind that my dreams would make me feel exhausted when i wake up, i tend to sleep like that..
now that i have realised that this is a world phenomena, i will make it an obligation to read the verses every night now to be able to access if it really helps me sleep A LOT better and post it for all to try. As i type this, my heart still feels heavy from my sleep/dream of last night. its now 11:45am, woke up 8am and of-course i was late for work.
Ive recentley had really bad nightmares, like hurting people very badley in my dreams, like my boyfriends ex's or my own mother. Ive had dreams of hurting them, by beating there heads over things, and i wake up scared to death. I feel like its all so real, and then i wake up. Im only 16, and im pregnant with my second kid, so stuff like this scares me when im bout to have my second baby. I woke up the night before last cause i had a dream my babys father cheated on me with his ex, an i beat her head over the floor at our high school. I am scared to go to doctors about it, cause im scared they will say im not fit to take care of my kids, when i am perfectly fit. I just have bad dreams, and not about my kids. Ive had alot of sleep loss and ive been very sick with a cold or somthing for like 2 weeks, and its very bad, and the doctors just keep giving me antibitotics, but they dont seem to be working. I cough all through out the night, And ive been peeing on myself when i cough. I am very scared of these dreams and when i had the dream of my babys father cheating on me, when i woke up, i wanted to leave him, cause i felt like it was real... idk who to turn to or what to do. I am just terrified and would like to hear back from someone with some advice.
I am so grateful to have found this site. I have almost everything that others mention here. Sleep studies are ONLY to find and treat Apnea, which I've proven I don't have. I am convinced that if I could just sleep some of each night without dreaming most (if not all) of my health issues would resolve. I've been dreaming this way since as long as I can remember, and my health issues have gotten progressively worse as I've gotten older. I worked my but off since I was 16, but have finally gotten to the point where I am unable to work about 4 years ago. Most days I couldn't even sit up to type this.
There is one thing I KNOW works everytime and for every second I am on it.....ANESTHESIA.
Since that is not a viable option, has anyone tried XYPREM which is a fairly new medication for narcoleptics to take at night in order to sleep deeply? My regular doctor and sleep doctor won't give it to me because as they state "I'm just not familiar enough with it" and that it is against "Kaiser's Policies" to let patients have it.
There is one thing I KNOW works everytime and for every second I am on it.....ANESTHESIA.
Since that is not a viable option, has anyone tried XYPREM which is a fairly new medication for narcoleptics to take at night in order to sleep deeply? My regular doctor and sleep doctor won't give it to me because as they state "I'm just not familiar enough with it" and that it is against "Kaiser's Policies" to let patients have it.
One thing besides lessening sugar that has helped me is to set an intention at night before I go to sleep.
I will tell myself something like this: Thank you for the wonderful messages you have blessed me with. Tonight I only want to remember dreams that are absolutely beneficial to me.
Or what ever it is that you want. It may take a few times before it works, but I find that being kind to myself always produces the best results.
I will tell myself something like this: Thank you for the wonderful messages you have blessed me with. Tonight I only want to remember dreams that are absolutely beneficial to me.
Or what ever it is that you want. It may take a few times before it works, but I find that being kind to myself always produces the best results.
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