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Nightmares and coping
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I call them nightmares for lack of a better way to describe them. I dream and see things that have no basis in my experience. They are detailed and terrible or horrific, and always extraordinary. When this happens I sleep more deeply than usual. I have to fight to wake up.
As to the content... the most troubling part of all is that it doesn't seem possible that that content could have originated in my mind. If you took all of the atrocities that mankind has inflicted on itself, put them in a random generator, and then asked Clive Barker or Caligula to spice it up a bit you might get dreamscapes like the ones I'm talking about. They are exactingly detailed. More like waking experience than sleeping experience. I am not scared for myself in the dreams. I'm not usually 'there' at all. Just being forced to observe. My observation feels like my eyes are being held open. Although I want to wake up I can't seem to do it. When I manage to pull myself out of the sleep I am incredibly anxious. Chest pain, nausea, increased heart rate, headache and dizziness. Reality doesn't feel real. The anxiety persists. It lingers with me for a day, maybe two. It just doesn't seem possible that this stuff is coming from my brain. I have had nightmares in the past that are obviously the result of the events of my life. I wake up from these in a sweat, calm myself or distract myself and then either sleep again or not. This isn't like that. I remember the first time this happened to me. It was about five or six years ago. It didn't coincide with any new stress or life event. The episodes have come during periods of great stress in my life and also when things were actually pretty decent. I can't pick out a pattern except for that when it happens I cannot wake up for ten hours or more and that when I do, I am in a severe state of anxiety that takes a while to get control of. I am not receiving any treatment for my anxiety or my depression. I understand that sometimes medication can create dream states. I would like to know if there is anyone reading this who suffers similarly. If so, how do you cope if you do? Posted on 06/12/07, 03:06 pm |
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I have nightmares like that all the time and the seem so real to me. I just try not to watch crazy movie are anything at night i read or study because if i watch like a mafia movie next thing i know im a don in my dream living th life of a mobster. They seem so real too for a while i didnt even want to go to sleep because of them. but i just let them ride now its like watching a movie to me now but in my sleep if you need someone to talk to hit me up. 
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