Does anyone have dreamless sleep but with nightmares off and on?
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I didn't used to be like that, but lately I have been having a similar experience.  I think, for me at least, its because my life is going through a lot of changes, and I'm experiencing a lot of stress due to that.  I think its my mind's way of playing out my fears, since they are constantly on my mind.  I would suggest you try a cup of chamomille tea before you go to bed; it works wonders for me.
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A nightmare is a disturbing dream that causes the dreamer to wake up feeling anxious and frightened. Nightmares may be a response to real life trauma and situations. These type of nightmares fall under a special category called Post-traumatic Stress Nightmare (PSN). Nightmares may also occur because we have ignored or refused to accept a particular life situation. Research shows that most people who have regular nightmares have had a family history of psychiatric problems, bad drug experiences, people who have contemplated suicide, and/or rocky relationships. Nightmares are an indication of a fear that needs to be acknowledged and confronted. It is a way for our subconscious to make up take notice. \n\nWe all have had nightmares at various parts in our lives. They are quite normal. But what is exactly a nightmare and why do we have them?\n\nNightmares are a subcategory of dreams. The distinction of a nightmare is its frightening and/or emotional content. You tend to wake up in fear in the midst of a nightmare. Because of its frightening nature, you tend to remember your nightmares and the vivid details. They have a bigger impact upon your waking mind and its images stay with you throughout the day.\n\nOne reason for nightmares may be a way of our unconscious to get our attention about a situation or problem that you have been avoiding. It is time to take notice and confront a problem or situation. Nightmares serve an important purpose in showing you what is troubling you from within you deeper levels. Discussing, analyzing, and understanding your nightmares can lead to a solution for some problem, internal conflict or personal difficulty.
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sounds like a repeat nightmare to me lol
1110431
The scariest dream I ever had was when I dreamt of how I died in a past life.  I woke up in the most intense panic I've ever felt in my life.\n\nIf you talk to your doctor, he/she can prescribe a medicine that keeps you from remembering your dreams.  I have a co-worker who takes medicine because she has night terrors like you, and she's almost 50.
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This is one of the most common—and disturbing—nightmares that people have. The funny thing is, it’s not really a nightmare! \n\nWhat you are feeling when you are asleep and trying to wake up is a phenomenon known as “REM pressure.” Your body is trying to keep you asleep so it can continue dreaming. Why? Because you haven’t received your daily quota of REM! (Does your late night clubbing have anything to do with this? You bet!) \n\nWhen scientists first discovered REM in 1953, they began performing all sorts of tests to see how the body—and the mind—would react. For example, it was popular to believe that dreams released the psychological “pressures” of our subconscious minds. By extension, many people were quite sure that, if we didn’t dream, we all would simply go insane. \n\nOnly one way to test a theory, right? :-) \n\nBeing inquisitive minds, these scientists soon began recruiting subjects to experiment with REM deprivation. (To be fair, many of the scientists participated in the experiments themselves.) But the question remained: Would a REM-deprived person soon begin to hallucinate—and maybe hear voices during the day—as unconscious pressures began “seeping” into waking experience? \n\nThe answer, they soon learned, is no. REM-deprived patients are tired and grumpy, but they are not psychotic. What the scientists did learn, however, is that the body has an exceptionally strong drive to achieve REM sleep. Toward the end of the experiment, over 35 awakenings (per night) were required to prevent people from dreaming! (The body wants—and needs—its REM!!) It is significant to note that the experiment “ended” when the scientists no longer were able to keep their subjects awake. The subjects fell into a deep sleep, immediately began dreaming, and could not be awakened. \n\nWhat’s the moral of the story? You’re a little bit (maybe a lot!) REM-deprived. If you keep track of when these bouts of sleep paralysis occur, you will note that they almost always are associated with periods of sleep deprivation. Instead of your body waking up when your brain does, it’s asking you (well…insisting, really) that you let it sleep in a bit. The reason why you feel paralyzed is because you are! The body is unable to move during REM—so we don’t act out our dreams. \n\nWhat’s the good news? You’re not going insane! What’s the bad news? You may have to take a night off of your party schedule…to let your body catch up with your brain!
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A couple of years ago I went through a period which lasted around 3 months where, every night just after falling asleep, I would feel unable to breathe, I could feel my heart beating faster and faster and I would be trying to scream to wake myself up but I couldn't move or make a sound. I would consciously know that I was asleep and I knew that I needed to wake up but there was nothing I could do. In the worst instances, about 5 times, I was sure I was going to die. Then after what seemed like a long time I would manage to yell and my husband would wake me up, in reality I'm sure it was probably only a couple of minutes. In the end I would try to keep myself awake as long as possible because I was too scared to sleep. I can't exactly recall when or why it stopped happening so regularly, it still happens to me very occasionally, maybe once or twice a year. The best way I can describe it is like having a panic attack in my sleep. I've never technically had it diagnosed at sleep paralysis but after reading up a lot about it on the internet since it started happening I'm pretty sure that this is my problem. I'm not sure if this is what you were after but I hope it helps.
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I do.  My sister says I even sing lullibies.  That was when we use to share a room.  Now I live with my fiance and he says I talk in my sleep, cry in my sleep, I have even tried to tear off his penis in my sleep (he said I grabbed a hold of it and wouldn't let go and was trying to roll over or something).  Anyways, apparently I am just as hyper in my sleep as I am while I am awake.\n\nMy mom snores something HORRIBLE, sound worse then a train!\n\nI also you to have Night Frights, my doctor said it was where I was sleepwalking and having a nightmare at the sametime or something.  Said it was most likely caused by the fact that I loved horror movies.  I didn't remember it, I just remember my mom telling me about it and my grandpa yelling at me one morning because I walked out the back door in my nightgown (middle of winter in VA, snow on the ground) and nearly stepped off the side of the bank a small creek they had.  But it was a good two foot drop and into the water in the middle of winter would not have been very healthy.
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I have a ton of recurring dreams. none of them are particularly frighting or happy. I have dreams that really happen. I've had dreams about buildings, haveing never even been in the same state as that building, and later i have moved there and been in that building and known exactly how to get around in it, because its all so familiar.\n\nOr i might dream about a town or neighborhood, and years later be driving some where and see it for the first time, and even reconize the people. \n\nmy favorite dreams are the ones that mean nothing in real life. The ones that dont actually happen later, (trust me, even after two decades it starts to get creepy) like where iam flying, or being chased by people and iam so fast and strong that i get away with little effort. \n\nDreams can be very important things. More than just keeping us busy while we're asleep. :)
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I also suffer from night terrors and I notice when I am either under lots of stress or when I am very tiered I get severe ones. However I've had them since I was a child, and what I've learnt is that you have to tell yourself it is not real and it's just a dream.\nI am 26 and only in past year or so I've been able to deal with them better.\nMy solution came to me when one day (yeah I get them in the day too) I had night terrors and I realized I was dreaming. I wear glasses and I knew that is had to be a dream because there is no way I could see so clearly. Since then I have been able to pull myself out of my night terrors easier because I am almost certain they are dreams.\nYou need to learn to control them in you sleep. \nThere is no way to predict when they are gonna happen but good things to do is try and rememberr things in your room like a painting or a mirror on the wall and look for it in your dream and focus on it. I know it's hard but it gets easier with time.\nGood Luck and I hope it works out for you.
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To be honest, I think it is just what you suspected : While you may have felt that you never slept......you really did drop off a few times each evening.\n\n  If you do any reading on this subject, it's pretty clear that the brain needs sleep, or the person really does start exibiting some fairly serious symptoms. \n\n   Not just being tired, but....things like rather major delusions and hallucinations of fairly spooky proportions.\n\n  So.....if you actually spent some time in bed.....my guess is that you did get sleep, even if it may have not seemed like it at the time.\n\n  Bob J.
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No, I haven't, but if you have you may want to see a doctor so you ask them about Night Terrors or other sleep disorders.
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nice question!\nwell. i've had mixed experiances..\ni've actually had some really bad nightmares regarding my family members and loved ones.. not just once but a few no. of times n that too not just for a single person.. (strange is'nt it!)\nthankfully.. nothing wierd has actually happened.. to any1 of them.  \n\nbut i hv also had an experiance similar to urs.. \nnot too serius like an accident.. he just got fired!
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Well first of all if you watch lots of horrer films or else if you listen to rowdy type of music or devil type music. It always depends on how you feel before you go to bed to. If your in a bad mood your in for a ride. Found something right off the web about it...\n\nThere are a number of possibilities. Some nightmares can be caused by certain drugs or medications, or by rapid withdrawal from them, or by physical conditions such as illness and fever. The nightmares of early childhood likely reflect the struggle to learn to deal with normal childhood fears and problems. Many people experience nightmares after they have suffered a traumatic event, such as surgery, the loss of a loved one, an assault or a severe accident. The nightmares of combat veterans fall into this category. The content of these nightmares is typically directly related to the traumatic event and the nightmares often occur over and over. Other people experience nightmares when they are undergoing stress in their waking lives, such as difficulty or change on the job or with a loved one, moving, pregnancy, financial concerns, etc. Finally, some people experience frequent nightmares that seem unrelated to their waking lives. These people tend to be more creative, sensitive, trusting and emotional than average. \n\nIf you want more info go to http://www.asdreams.org/nightma.htm more info.
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YES I DO, ALMOST EVERYNITE I HAVE THE SAME DREAMS, THERE ARE DIFFERENT PEOPLE IN THEM BUT ITS BASICALLY THE SAME, THEY ARE WATER DREAMS,I SEE THIS BEAUTIFUL BLUE,BLUE LIKE YOUVE NEVER SEEN. I HATE TO WAKE UP. THE THING IS I AM ALWAYS LOST IN THESE DREAMS, MY CELL DISAPPEARS, MY PURSE AND MONEY ARE GONE AND I HAVE NO WAY OF GETTING HOME, I WANDER AROUND ASKING PEOPLE WHICH WAY IS MY TOWN BUT NO ONE HELPS ME, ANOTHER DREAM IS I AM LOST IN MALLS WITH THE SAME PROBLEM, I CANT GET OUT,NO MONEY.NO CREDIT CARDS,THE PEOPLE I GO THERE WITH ABANDON ME AND I AM STUCK THERE ALONE WHAT THE HECK DO THESE DREAMS MEAN, IVE BEEN HAVING THEM FOR AT LEAST SIX MONTHS, I WAKE UP AND KNOW AVERYTHING THAT WENT ON, IF I COULD DRAW I COULD DRAW A PICTURE OF THE EXACT WATER DREAMS.........K
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yes I have that disorder, although I have never been diagnosed by a physician, I get a lot of comments about having sex dreams from friends when I stay the night at their houses, but mine all started when I was really really young and my sister died...hope that that helps
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One of my worst nightmares I've ever had (I basically used to have one horrible nightmare a night up until recently) was where like either I didn't have a head or maybe I had part of a head, but every morning for some reason I had to slip on this dead, cut off, gross, head over my existing head, and it was heavy and I could feel the cartilage and the skin was gray and it smelled and it was sooooo gross.  Also, another worst nightmare was in this yellow wheat field, a bunch of us were standing around, the sky was gray, and then hundreds of black crows/ griffen looking things came flying out of the sky and started to attack this man, eating him alive, and we just stood there and watched- and I saw this in my dream- he was being eaten down to his muscle, down to his bone, I saw his skull exposed even, and then he just collapsed.  Those are just two of my memorable dreams that I had...I have tons more.  Most of my dreams are weird, I like them, but they are not the traditional definition of good/ best- they are in different worlds.
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Im not sure but EVERY WOMAN?? ... must have some nightmares.. lol hope ur around only hot ones... so u have sweet dreams