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golego55

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I was just wondering if anyone else here gets violent during their sleep?

I sometimes wake up ready or actually in the process of kicking out or throwing a punch at someone. Just a few days ago I woke up my brother at night by shouting "get back!" at someones or somethings that were attacking me in my sleep. Every few weeks or so in my sleep I'll have a dream where someone is getting violent with me verbally or physically.

Fortunately I don't have a sleep partner so there's no risk of me hurting someone else. I've only ever punched a wall once or twice and it didn't cause any damage to my fist.

I've read about cases of dangerous sleepwalking and sexual activity during sleep that are interesting but horrifying. Fortunately I'm not going through anything like that.
 
Occasionally I will have a dream where I get in a fight with someone, and then start throwing punches in my sleep. I've actually injured myself doing this by punching objects. Punched a spikey metal lamp and my hand swelled up for over a week, hit a tendon between my knuckles very hard.

I'm not sure exactly what causes it, but it typically happens when I'm coming off drugs or otherwise have intense dreams for whatever reason.
 
It's good you aren't sleepwalking. I'm tapering benzos and have some really strange dreams and sometimes wake up disoriented and in a panic. It sucks, but I haven't punched a wall yet.

The stories I've heard about sex during sleep and dangerous sleepwalking were usually from people on Ambien.
 
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I punched an ex hard in the head while dreaming years ago, she wasn't thrilled at all.

Only time anything like that has happened to me though, and I wasn't on anything out pof the pordinary that night (just the usual cannabis I think). Oh, have woken up shouting a couple of times too

Not a hugely helpful answer, I guess it may help to know it can happen randomly maybe
 
I get this in daydreaming too. Sometimes my mind will be jogged about something that really pisses me off, maybe something bad that happened in the past, maybe something that just makes me angry because no one gets dealt with for it and keep doing it whilst the little people get their heels dragged across the coals for something that isn't even a fraction as bad. I get angry. I get "punchy". I've bruised and swollen my fists several times, I've inflicted rather serious head injuries to myself (I struck myself in the head about 50 times, and they were serious blows every last one of them did damage), one that might have resulted in me having to have brain surgery to put a drain shunt (though I suspect that was caused by COVID and all its fucked up vascular problems that it causes, along with all that fucking tinnitus). My whole head felt like fucking Play-Doh and it was swollen as fuck, black eyes, dizziness, nausea, the works.

Usually I just punch my own hands, or hit myself in the legs, knees, thighs, etc. Sometimes I punch the door frame, and I punch it hard, a real loud ear drum shaking BANG! when I hit it.

Often I think about bad things happening to babies, kids, and animals (yes, even farm animals) and I want to destroy the fucking monitor sitting in front of me. I have come so close to putting my fists through it, but I won't abide having to pay $2k to replace an OLED monitor to get a good one, a 27" 4k one will set me back $2k and that's not the kind of money I want to be splashing out on when I already have one.

So, my screen lives for another day, and then it lives for yet another day because I've decided it's too expensive to pay for a screen with a fist-sized hole through it. So I guess it's either wait until I have some money come in, and I get upgrade to a new PC, and a new screen, or just wait another couple years and see what comes out after that time. OTOH I've offered my sister and her kids the monitor I use now, which is an LG OLED 27" 1440p and it has nice colours.
 
Flynnal said:
Often I think about bad things happening to babies, kids, and animals (yes, even farm animals) and I want to destroy the fucking monitor sitting in front of me. I have come so close to putting my fists through it, but I won't abide having to pay $2k to replace an OLED monitor to get a good one, a 27" 4k one will set me back $2k and that's not the kind of money I want to be splashing out on when I already have one.
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I have a book that's a sort of biography about the serial killer/etc. Richard "Ice Man" Kuklinski, with most of the material coming from interviews of Kuklinski by the author of the book. It's hard to believe much of the things in the book are true. But one thing I remember reading was that when Kuklinski would get super pissed in front of his nuclear family members, he would slam his head into something to knock himself out so that he wouldn't physically lash out at his family.
 
kris66 said:
It's good you aren't sleepwalking. I'm tapering benzos and have some really strange dreams and sometimes wake up disoriented and in a panic. It sucks, but I haven't punched a wall yet.

The stories I've heard about sex during sleep and dangerous sleepwalking were usually from people on Ambien
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I'll always remember the first time I slept on my arm accidentally, and woke up to not being able to move it or feel anything in it. It might sound stupid, but waking up and not having my brain working fully I thought at first that I'd had some sort of stroke or something. I can't imagine what it's like to have sleep terrors, being hag-ridden or something such.
 
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