I thinks I've just had another bad night vs a Problem shared is a problem halved

[Allein]

JC never has one of my favorite old tracks felt so relevant, It's only 2am but I just woke for possibly the worst dream I've ever had, and I had some terrible dreams.

We all share different time zones and sleeping patterns btu may other may feel the need to share there Bad Night

I'm going to kick off tomorrow as best I can in the hope it might help

 

[T. Calderone]

I think dreams sometimes manifest themselves from repressed issues, good or bad. Is there something you're struggling with but can't verbalize? Also any new medications could cause this. Hope you get some sleep!

 

[Allein]

Maybe some of this was my fault I've been taking and increasing dose of Gabapentin to deal with nerve damage from a recent Operation over the last couple of weeks. I also tapered pretty quick off 70mgs of Amiltriptyline prior, the Gabapentin has been making me feel really ill in various ways .

I fell asleep in bed with my partner about 11:45pm, but awoke around 2am still in the grips of the what feels right now like the worst and most disturbing dream I've ever had.

Like those sort of dreams often are it seemed like it had been going on a long time, days maybe. Writing it all out is beyond my abilities but the long and short of it was the last section involved me talking ( some how ) to my now dead wife, who I had clearly lost to the big C. I can't begin to tell you how much I love her, being without her (along side losing one of our children) rates as my worst and darkest fears and thoughts

When I awoke I was shaking and crying but with her there I soon pulled myself together but feel in an emotional mess so I've come down stairs to sit up a while with the TV, I might even just get my work laptop out and get my mind onto other things.

I know other have trouble with the night times, maybe you may want to post here sometime

 

[Maya]

I agree with TC, I would usually dream of problem related issues or some dreams where I assume the result of my problems. Sometimes some of my dreams are easier to interpret and for the past year I have had more dreams about running away from something or someone, and I am running away from a lot of things or st least trying to avoid them.

 

[Allein]

I know this is a genuine fear due to the loss of my mother in law a few years ago not something that has not been spoken about, I don't think this one was even vaguely metaphorical.

It's odd, I've suffered from terrible nightmares due to Antidepressants, horrific horrer movie stuff and just learnt to shake them off for the empty bad images and narratives that they were, aside from one other dream I had whilst taking 5HTP this is the most disturbing one I can recall.

I fell a little more settled now, I was honestly scared to go back to sleep in case the dream began again and i was just to shaken up to contemplate sleep.

Over the last few years I've suffered a lot of insomnia so my family are use to me getting up in the night and coming down stairs, I know others suffer with the same and WDs from most things seem to almost always bring sleep problems.

I've no sleepers, don't drink so I'll juts have to ride it out, thanks for responding I don't feel quite so alone down here now

 

[herbavore]

Sometimes when I have those kinds of dreams that seem so real and also seem like they have been going on forever I have to get up and wake fully up. Otherwise I'm afraid to go back to sleep because the dream felt so real I feel like it just may start right up where it left off. I've been having some really hard ones lately, too. Just all around crap sleep between the shoulder and the dreams and the fact that my cats seem to have a new habit of pinning me under the covers.

 

[Maya]

^ have had those, I think I shared one of my dreams where I was raped by my sister's husband then tried to run away but couldn't so I killed myself. This is the most terrifying dream so far which I had about a month and half ago or so iirc. I had an instant anxiety attack as soon as I woke up.

 

[Allein]

Sometimes when I have those kinds of dreams that seem so real and also seem like they have been going on forever I have to get up and wake fully up. Otherwise I'm afraid to go back to sleep because the dream felt so real I feel like it just may start right up where it left off. I've been having some really hard ones lately, too. Just all around crap sleep between the shoulder and the dreams and the fact that my cats seem to have a new habit of pinning me under the covers.

You have it exactly, it felt like it had been going on for years, or at least there was a whole reality that went back years. I got up knowing there would be no chance of settling and every chance of just re-entering the same dream.

I got up about 2am, posted here and spent a little time on BL before firing up my work machine and doing some work for an hour, then watched TV and must have fallen to sleep on the sofa at about 4am. then just woke at 5am having re-entered the same dream, wasn't as freaked out by it so drifted back off back into it again got up about 5.30am and called it a Bad Night.

My going out to all that struggled with a decent nights sleep, I'm just glad that one is behind me