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Night terrors

escapingwonderland

escapingwonderland

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I have been experiencing night terrors for a while now. After quiting opiates, I get them alot more, maybe 3 to 4 times a month. I usually wake up still not so coherant in a state of panic and I think I am going to die. I jump out of bed and start to react to what I believe is happening (someone in my house with a gun, house burning, world ending, room filling up with water and me drowning.) I finally snap out of it and go back to bed. Has anyone else experienced this? Did it seem to get worse with w/d?
 
My sister gets these, except she doesn't become coherent before returning to sleep. Granted, she never does drugs, but it still is scary for her when she does remembers the day.

My theory for you, however, is that since you are no longer using, the drugs that you have previously been using are no longer deadening these dreams out for you, and you're just now having a clear enough mind to process them.. Either that, or the dreams could be some sort of metaphor for either sobriety or using, like a variation on the theme of using dreams.

Maybe try keeping a dream journal, writing down whatever it is that you dream about, and whatever it is that prompts you into getting out of bed (world ending, drowning, etc.). Seeing it on paper may at least help you to identify patterns in the way your brain works when asleep.

Sweet dreams, dude, hopefully this doesn't last too long.
 
i used to have chronic night terrors from the age of 5 months old up until i was 16 . always ona full moon too! i would literarly run around jumping over things in the pitch black some how not hitting into anything, and when i used to live at home my mum would find me with my eyes wide open ballling my eyes out and i wouldnt remember anything until the tears. the dreams as such I can still remember but they are so hard to describe. sorry that i kind of hijacked your thread. im just glad im not alone that other people experience night terrors.
 
Mine is not sleep paralysis. I think that mainly happens if you sleep on your back. With my night terrors I jump out of bed my heart is racing and once I literally heard someone say "your going to die" and another time I heard the sound of a shot gun being ready to be shot (can't remember what you call it) The odd thing is I know I am in my room, I know where my door and window is. My heart races and I really think I am about to die. Then all of a sudden it hits me that it is only a bad dream and I go back to my bed and go back to sleep.
 
sounds like a mix of night mares and delusional thinking. Hearing sounds that are not there, thinking your going to die, heart racing...

Its prob as a result of the drugs you did before... I get these too but nothing has helped..... dunno what to tell you doctors can't seem to much about night mares I have asked.. kinda a gray area there are no drugs for it. Just eat healthy, live healthy, hopefully your brain goes back to normal some day.
 
I use to get night terrors as a child, I barley remember them but I've been told I would sit up in my bed screaming with my eyes open staring at nothing, my parents had to shake me to snap me out of it.

As an adult sleep paralysis has been more common for me, ive heard voices, crying, visual distortions even music when it's dead silent.

The only time I had something remotely similar to your experience was when I woke up, sat up in my bed and tried to scream but nothing would come out, I've noticed it's more common when sleep deprivation or caffeine is involved but I really have no idea; I just know I don't enjoy it lol.
 
I use to get these as a kid to.. They were horrible, now the sleeping pills I take knock me out so good I don't dream. When I do though, it's usually nightmares. I don't have good dreams ever..
Sux dude, sorry
 
Thanks for the responses. I hope it isn't the caffeine, because I need so much now to make it through the day. It is delusional, that is the main reason I don't own a firearm. I am scared to death that I would shoot someone that didn't deserve it without realizing it. I tried talking to my dr about it and they just disregard it. I don't want meds anyways, sick of addiction (yeah yeah, caffeine I know I am not ready to give that up).
 
You know after I quit OP's this started for me too.. I remember in jail having horrible vivid nightmares of being back in the mental hospital... every night I had sleep paraliszying dreams where I didn't know where I was and every night was just horrible... I still get them even after a year.. dunno if suboxone makes it worse or if my roomate is fucking with me at night by doing something to make them happen... dunno... sometimes its like some one wispers at night horrible things to make me have nightmares.

nothing helps.. I want to drink to ease it a bit because I never dreamed when I drank ... but I also remember that I had horrible ones after quitting drinking and I never want to go through the nightmares I had they were painfull beyond pain.. worse then the surgarys I had all my life like stomach tucks and gastric bypass. I had nightmares I was beiong pushed down on broken glass and catactis's and I could feel them

I still believe that someone put something under my bed or something to make me feel pain because it hurt so bad its hard to except it was all my mind.... god help the sick person that did that to me
 
I only had this or sleep paralysis once and that was when I went camping with friends, drank a fair amount of beer, and then I woke up later that night after the alcohol had worn off and I wondered WTF was going on.

Thankfully it didn't last long though.

Just remember to breathe deep, that it will be over soon, and that you're OK.

I have never withdrawn from opiates but isn't it true that you get nightmares/night terrors, or strange dreams when this happens? I do not know if this is true or not?
 
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Like someone said earlier. Keep a dream journal. When I quit smoking spice I always had nightmares. Keeping a dream journal helped me. Maybe it will help you?
 
Hi Escaping wonderland,

I have had exactly what you are talking about at different stages through my life. Its a buildup of adrenaline triggering the fight or flight mechanism in while you are sleeping. Basically you wake up having a panic attack. First things first, its not a big deal. I know it definately seems like it is but its really not nothing bad will happen, it is just unpleasant. You have gone through some big changes in your life and you maybe have had a lot on your mind, causing anxiety that has built up over time and led to these things happening.

I would suggest looking into help on anxiety. It is definitely a time for healing and being good to yourself. I would also lay off the caffeine as it will exacerbate things.

PM me if you want talk about it more, or if you need any help in any way as I have a bit of experience with the old panic disorders :)

All the best
 
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