The Insomnia Thread - #TeamNoSleep

PJSiren

Just woke up from a lucid nightmare, and can't get back to sleep...I hate those fuckin' things...lucid dreams would be cool except that every time I have one it's a nightmare and I wake up feeling sick.

whispering hands

PJSiren said:

Just woke up from a lucid nightmare, and can't get back to sleep...I hate those fuckin' things...lucid dreams would be cool except that every time I have one it's a nightmare and I wake up feeling sick.

Oh my god! I have these too! They SUUUUUUUCK! Only mine are usually suppressed memories, where I wake up terrified to go back to sleep. I'd say try reading a little afterwards, to redirect the brain a little. I also will watch a favorite movie to help me calm down, but I can't imagine your husband would appreciate that.. But reading really does seem to help. I totally feel your pain on this.. This is the primary reason I don't sleep..

JWPearl

im hoping i get back to sleep, no nightmares here just silly dreams that make no sense at all as of late, but im still tired so i may get some more sleep hopefully tired of this 4 hr a night sleep

PJSiren

whispering hands said:

PJSiren said:

Just woke up from a lucid nightmare, and can't get back to sleep...I hate those fuckin' things...lucid dreams would be cool except that every time I have one it's a nightmare and I wake up feeling sick.

Oh my god! I have these too! They SUUUUUUUCK! Only mine are usually suppressed memories, where I wake up terrified to go back to sleep. I'd say try reading a little afterwards, to redirect the brain a little. I also will watch a favorite movie to help me calm down, but I can't imagine your husband would appreciate that.. But reading really does seem to help. I totally feel your pain on this.. This is the primary reason I don't sleep..

Yeah, I texted with my friend for a bit and got on instagram and facebook on my phone, it helped my brain to calm back down and finally after an hour was able to get back to sleep...they do suck...I wonder if it's something with bipolar? I had my first one back when I was a teenager when I think my BP first kicked in and they have haunted me ever since....

whispering hands

I know for a fact that mine has nothing to do with the Bi-Polar. If you read in BP, it is brought in by either a strenuous physical trauma, or a severe mental trauma.. Although prolonged bouts if stress with no reprieve can also cause it.. In my case it was several cases if the first two, which is why I ended up with it so young.

Mine has nothing to do with the BP, and everything to do with the PTSD, which along with other incidents in my childhood, I believe caused the BI-Polar, which in turn resulted in the ADHD.
I have dealt with these nightmares, which are called Distress Recalls, since I was 18, and while I haven't had one in a few years, niw that I have started therapy to deal with my alcoholism, they have started to return.. And it is hellacious! I keep praying that I get through these insets, but it seems until I deal with the root causes, I'll be having these stupid lucid recalls of things I'd thought were buried. That's the hardest part, is having to come to terms with the fact that what I'm seeing in my sleep, are things that I actually witnessed it happened to me. That's what makes them the scariest.. Is knowing I can't comfort myself with that old adage, " it was only a dream".. Instead I have to remind myself, " you're 41 now, that was decades ago, mom is dead, and no one can do these things to you ever again, you're safe now, and that's over." But it doesn't make the recalls stop.. So like I said, I've found ways to calm
Myself and deal with these memories.. At least it's not as bad as it was in my early 29's where one little reminder would send me into regressive recall, which is the equivalent if waking nightmares. I was remembering in real time, like dreaming while awake. So at least these things are happening in the solitude if my room, where I can wake screaming, and attack my pillow, and not a person. That in itself is it's win relief in a way. I never knew Bi-Polar people had these too. Until I was hospitalized one year, and my psychiatrist explained that it's very common to have these during sleepless fits, because the melatonin and serotonin are so off that it can cause extreme lucid dreaming.

Hope you find a good solution for it.. Mist of the times, if it's a recurring recall, I just make shut tons of coffee and stay awake. Hopefully no other person has to go through that! I wouldn't wish this on anyone.. So..

whispering hands

whispering hands said:

I know for a fact that mine has nothing to do with the Bi-Polar. If you read in BP, it is brought in by either a strenuous physical trauma, or a severe mental trauma.. Although prolonged bouts if stress with no reprieve can also cause it.. In my case it was several cases if the first two, which is why I ended up with it so young.

Mine has nothing to do with the BP, and everything to do with the PTSD, which along with other incidents in my childhood, I believe caused the BI-Polar, which in turn resulted in the ADHD.
I have dealt with these nightmares, which are called Distress Recalls, since I was 18, and while I haven't had one in a few years, niw that I have started therapy to deal with my alcoholism, they have started to return.. And it is hellacious! I keep praying that I get through these insets, but it seems until I deal with the root causes, I'll be having these stupid lucid recalls of things I'd thought were buried. That's the hardest part, is having to come to terms with the fact that what I'm seeing in my sleep, are things that I actually witnessed it happened to me. That's what makes them the scariest.. Is knowing I can't comfort myself with that old adage, " it was only a dream".. Instead I have to remind myself, " you're 41 now, that was decades ago, mom is dead, and no one can do these things to you ever again, you're safe now, and that's over." But it doesn't make the recalls stop.. So like I said, I've found ways to calm
Myself and deal with these memories.. At least it's not as bad as it was in my early 29's where one little reminder would send me into regressive recall, which is the equivalent if waking nightmares. I was remembering in real time, like dreaming while awake. So at least these things are happening in the solitude if my room, where I can wake screaming, and attack my pillow, and not a person. That in itself is it's win relief in a way. I never knew Bi-Polar people had these too. Until I was hospitalized one year, and my psychiatrist explained that it's very common to have these during sleepless fits, because the melatonin and serotonin are so off that it can cause extreme lucid dreaming.

Hope you find a good solution for it.. Mist of the times, if it's a recurring recall, I just make shut tons of coffee and stay awake. Hopefully no other person has to go through that! I wouldn't wish this on anyone.. So..

Time to print more decoder rings!! Sorry, I type for shit!

PJSiren

whispering hands said:

whispering hands said:

I know for a fact that mine has nothing to do with the Bi-Polar. If you read in BP, it is brought in by either a strenuous physical trauma, or a severe mental trauma.. Although prolonged bouts if stress with no reprieve can also cause it.. In my case it was several cases if the first two, which is why I ended up with it so young.

Mine has nothing to do with the BP, and everything to do with the PTSD, which along with other incidents in my childhood, I believe caused the BI-Polar, which in turn resulted in the ADHD.
I have dealt with these nightmares, which are called Distress Recalls, since I was 18, and while I haven't had one in a few years, niw that I have started therapy to deal with my alcoholism, they have started to return.. And it is hellacious! I keep praying that I get through these insets, but it seems until I deal with the root causes, I'll be having these stupid lucid recalls of things I'd thought were buried. That's the hardest part, is having to come to terms with the fact that what I'm seeing in my sleep, are things that I actually witnessed it happened to me. That's what makes them the scariest.. Is knowing I can't comfort myself with that old adage, " it was only a dream".. Instead I have to remind myself, " you're 41 now, that was decades ago, mom is dead, and no one can do these things to you ever again, you're safe now, and that's over." But it doesn't make the recalls stop.. So like I said, I've found ways to calm
Myself and deal with these memories.. At least it's not as bad as it was in my early 29's where one little reminder would send me into regressive recall, which is the equivalent if waking nightmares. I was remembering in real time, like dreaming while awake. So at least these things are happening in the solitude if my room, where I can wake screaming, and attack my pillow, and not a person. That in itself is it's win relief in a way. I never knew Bi-Polar people had these too. Until I was hospitalized one year, and my psychiatrist explained that it's very common to have these during sleepless fits, because the melatonin and serotonin are so off that it can cause extreme lucid dreaming.

Hope you find a good solution for it.. Mist of the times, if it's a recurring recall, I just make shut tons of coffee and stay awake. Hopefully no other person has to go through that! I wouldn't wish this on anyone.. So..

Time to print more decoder rings!! Sorry, I type for shit!

haha, no I totally understood what you were saying! :-) I have to decipher my best friend's talk to text emails every day....that's way harder...lol

I have had shit for sleep this week so the sleepless bout kicking me into lucid dreaming makes sense...mine have luckily never been memories of anything that has happened to me, but in mine I feel things that happen to other people in the dreams....like once I was reading a book about Vlad the Impaler and had a lucid dream about him where he got his head cut nearly clean off, I was fully aware it was a dream but I could not wake myself up and I could feel the blood that was dripping down his throat like it was pouring down mine...it was disgusting...and had I not woke myself up when I did last night I don't know what I would have felt, I shudder to think...the dream was awful! I woke up with a start and in a cold sweat and a sick knot in my stomach....I'm so glad my husband will be home tomorrow!

whispering hands

PJSiren said:

whispering hands said:

whispering hands said:

I know for a fact that mine has nothing to do with the Bi-Polar. If you read in BP, it is brought in by either a strenuous physical trauma, or a severe mental trauma.. Although prolonged bouts if stress with no reprieve can also cause it.. In my case it was several cases if the first two, which is why I ended up with it so young.

Mine has nothing to do with the BP, and everything to do with the PTSD, which along with other incidents in my childhood, I believe caused the BI-Polar, which in turn resulted in the ADHD.
I have dealt with these nightmares, which are called Distress Recalls, since I was 18, and while I haven't had one in a few years, niw that I have started therapy to deal with my alcoholism, they have started to return.. And it is hellacious! I keep praying that I get through these insets, but it seems until I deal with the root causes, I'll be having these stupid lucid recalls of things I'd thought were buried. That's the hardest part, is having to come to terms with the fact that what I'm seeing in my sleep, are things that I actually witnessed it happened to me. That's what makes them the scariest.. Is knowing I can't comfort myself with that old adage, " it was only a dream".. Instead I have to remind myself, " you're 41 now, that was decades ago, mom is dead, and no one can do these things to you ever again, you're safe now, and that's over." But it doesn't make the recalls stop.. So like I said, I've found ways to calm
Myself and deal with these memories.. At least it's not as bad as it was in my early 29's where one little reminder would send me into regressive recall, which is the equivalent if waking nightmares. I was remembering in real time, like dreaming while awake. So at least these things are happening in the solitude if my room, where I can wake screaming, and attack my pillow, and not a person. That in itself is it's win relief in a way. I never knew Bi-Polar people had these too. Until I was hospitalized one year, and my psychiatrist explained that it's very common to have these during sleepless fits, because the melatonin and serotonin are so off that it can cause extreme lucid dreaming.

Hope you find a good solution for it.. Mist of the times, if it's a recurring recall, I just make shut tons of coffee and stay awake. Hopefully no other person has to go through that! I wouldn't wish this on anyone.. So..

Time to print more decoder rings!! Sorry, I type for shit!

haha, no I totally understood what you were saying! :-) I have to decipher my best friend's talk to text emails every day....that's way harder...lol

I have had shit for sleep this week so the sleepless bout kicking me into lucid dreaming makes sense...mine have luckily never been memories of anything that has happened to me, but in mine I feel things that happen to other people in the dreams....like once I was reading a book about Vlad the Impaler and had a lucid dream about him where he got his head cut nearly clean off, I was fully aware it was a dream but I could not wake myself up and I could feel the blood that was dripping down his throat like it was pouring down mine...it was disgusting...and had I not woke myself up when I did last night I don't know what I would have felt, I shudder to think...the dream was awful! I woke up with a start and in a cold sweat and a sick knot in my stomach....I'm so glad my husband will be home tomorrow!

Now THAT is a trip!! I've felt things that I dreamt in just regular dreams, but I don't think I've ever felt things that happened to other people..

PJSiren

Yeah it's not fun, luckily I slept a bit better last night and didn't have another lucid dream, though I woke up about every two hours...

RKCNDY

I wish I could have an on-demand massage... with the heated blanket and laying face down getting a massage, that really puts me to sleep. Ugh, 1:48...

JWPearl

i can give a great massage but i need one myself at the moment, my back is sore from wood work

JWPearl

cant sleep had too many sweets after lunch and now im restless and tired and sore, know of any natural remedies apart from know myself out

RKCNDY

Stupid drunk people keeping me awake when I'm trying to sleep. In the last 24 hours, I've had 2 hours of sleep...I wonder if Ed has insomnia and writes when he can't sleep...I used to write really cool stuff when I would be up for days on end.

whispering hands

RKCNDY said:

Stupid drunk people keeping me awake when I'm trying to sleep. In the last 24 hours, I've had 2 hours of sleep...I wonder if Ed has insomnia and writes when he can't sleep...I used to write really cool stuff when I would be up for days on end.

I still do that or draw pictures.. But recently, my awake thoughts have been grossly overwhelming. However, the last two nights I have gotten a solid six hours! So refreshed! But this means more sleepless nights are coming.. I hate my brain!!

dimitrispearljam

this shit is endless

whispering hands

Back to not sleeping... :-(

PJSiren

Had a migraine all night I kept waking up...wasn't good sleep at all....

whispering hands

Fell asleep early last night.. Woke up at 1 am.. Been awake since! I call BS! Lol

ldent42

Yea I'm so annoyed. I been up for 20 hours & I really wanted to get a nap in but I have been trying to sleep for 3 hours with no luck. Considering I left myself 5 hours to try and get some sleep it looks like I'll have to go another 10 hours without any sleep at all. I wish I had access to a low dose Ambien type thing that knocks you out immediately but only for a couple hours, so you don't get that hangover when you wake up

chadwick

can you cut a ambien in half? the hangover from a sleep aid medication is absolutely horrible. i won't take that stuff, i have & i wont ever again