Dreams

[soundersfootballclub]

My one and only regret since starting xPAP.

Before xPAP, 90% of my dreams, were incredible. I'd bolt upright in bed, saying: Daaaaaammmmmmmnnn!

(or: "F**king Ambien!!" if it was a bad dream)

Now, I can't remember a single one.

My wife says that during those Wizard-of-Oz-in-Glorious-Technicolor dreams, my apnea made me I look like I was dying:, choking, gasping and not breathing for what seemed like . . . minutes.

She often shook me awake if I had awakened her.

I sometimes wonder if I was half-way heading "into the light" . . . and my dreams were the coming attractions .

My sleep doc told me you only remember dreams when you wakeup. So that is actually the goal ultimate goal on CPAP, to not remember dreams! I myself am now experiencing longer and more vivid dreams again since on CPAP. I am also getting up more often due to leaks. I don't mind it but I if I have to give up dreaming to get perfect sleep so be it.

[Sharppointy1]

Boy, I'll be happy when I can wake up not remembering dreams. Because my husband and I are on different schedules -he goes to bed at 10 and wakes at 5, I go to bed at 1230 and wake at 730 - when he wakes at 5, I wake up in the middle of nightmares. Awful, depressing, "God I hope that was a dream" nightmares. If I'm lucky I can go back to sleep, conciously trying to change my dream.
I sometimes take either klonopin or ambien to sleep w/o dreams. My doc has also prescribed prazosin, which is used to suppress nightmares but I have been afraid to try it.
I had hoped I was suffering from sleep debt dreaming, but I have been faithful to my elephant nose (as our grandson calls our matching cpaps) since I was diagnosed in Feb. I would think the debt was better, but maybe not yet.

[kennyr121]

One of the first things I noticed since starting my treatments with CPAP is my dreaming? As long as I can remember, I used to dream infrequently! Now I dream every night! If I need to get up in the middle of the night I actually start another dream when I return to my sleep.

[justbreathe]

Dreams are one of those things that are soon forgotten and not long remembered even for young people.

Now that my mind has matured I tend to forget things quickly even when I am awake.

Therefore when sleeping if I don't wake in the middle of something that woke me from being so great or startling there is not a chance I would remember it.

[jimnsc]

....and the plot thickens.

[Mike6977]

I sometimes take either klonopin or ambien to sleep w/o dreams.

Before xPAP, I only slept for 2 and 3 hour periods, but those is-it-live-or is-it-Memorex™ Vivid Dreams almost made it worthwhile.




soundersfootballclub, that is the greatest SDB avatar ever!

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