Dream and cpap

[Ynebiy]

does the therapy of cpap help with dreaming. Meaning if it make dream more or remember your dreams. The first day I used my machine I had a long and vivid dream. Only the first day. I like to hear more about the subject
Thanks

[palerider]

does the therapy of cpap help with dreaming. Meaning if it make dream more or remember your dreams. The first day I used my machine I had a long and vivid dream. Only the first day. I like to hear more about the subject
Thanks

the more you wake up, the more you remember your dreams, if you sleep through them, they fade into nothingness shortly after ending.

[Bill44133]

Since I have been on this therapy, I don't remember a single dream to date.


I wish you well...

[Sheriff Buford]

I heard a lady (a so-called expert) on the radio say the other day that dreams are normally filed in your short term memory side of brain. That is why we forget most of them. For sure, the better-quality of sleep will produce more dreams. I probably dream every night. Prior to cpap therapy, I would seldom dream.

Sheriff

[chunkyfrog]

Before cpap, I had several dreams every night--and precious little sleep.
The dreams were uniformly horrible, strenuous lost causes, which left me exhausted and stressed out.
Good riddance.

[Krelvin]

Have good dreams in a regular basis, don't remember most minutes after I wake up, but some I do. Very unlike before using CPAP.

[Pugsy]

Most of my life I had dreams I would remember in part. Then menopause hit and brought OSA along with it and I stopped remembering dreams. Since my OSA is worse in REM sleep where the bulk of our dreaming occurs (it can happen in the other stages of sleep too) it stands to reason that when I would get to REM sleep the OSA would get worse and cause arousals and kick me out of REM sleep so I never got much REM sleep so couldn't remember the dreams because they weren't happening much. Never did have the typical OSA dreams of drowning or suffocating or stuff like that.

After cpap therapy was started I found I was starting to remember some of my dreams which goes along with getting into REM stage sleep like we should.

For people who just start cpap therapy and find they are having an excessive number dreams being remembered they might want to google "REM rebound" and see if it might apply to them. I don't think I ever had that issue though.

For me things just sort of went back to the way it was before menopause hit...I would remember some dreams well and some not so well but I would have the "feeling" that I had a dream of some sort.
I have read that we don't remember our dreams much unless we get woke up in the middle of one and that sort of goes along with what I have experienced. I have other health issues that will sometimes cause a lot of awakenings and thus increases the chance of maybe getting woke up during a dream.

[Mowgli]

My dreams have become more vivid and I remember them more. I do have a cat though and he may be waking me up in the night....hard to tell. I also wake up yo use the bathroom. If that interferes with REM sleep, I do not know. I only know I sleep MUCH better and actually remember my dreams more. Some of my dreams are now more "out there" than they ever were before. I am not sure why.

[knothead]

I love to dream. I daydream a lot and since starting CPAP I dream a lot during sleep, very seldom do I not remember my dreams. They seem so real, nothing wild or scary, just ordinary daytime stuff like hunting & fishing...there are some night time dreams but they are private...

[jlaw3x7]

I have been on cpap a few months. Before cpap I could not remember dreams. Now I do. When I wake to go to the bathroom I often notice I am in REM and dreaming. It still surprises me because I went so long without it. I think wow I am dreaming again. At least that is a good sign, but I would like more energy.

[karen773208]

I used to dream all the time. Crazy, vivid dreams that made no sense. I would tell my daughter and she would look at me like I was crazy! Now I remember some of them, but they fade away really fast. I look at a dream interpretation website to see if I can figure out what my subconscious is trying to tell me. I think I'm just a weirdo! I kinda miss those dreams, some were pretty entertaining in a crazy sort of way, but I sure don't miss falling asleep at my desk at work and all the other side effects of apnea! It's kinda strange to not remember my dreams after so many years, but I'm getting used to it now.

[palerider]

I used to dream all the time. Crazy, vivid dreams that made no sense. I would tell my daughter and she would look at me like I was crazy! Now I remember some of them, but they fade away really fast.

dreams fade away really fast if you don't wake up during or shortly after they're over.

so this means: you're sleeping better.

[chunkyfrog]

Dreams don't matter if you never wake up.
Always mask up; leave nothing to chance.

[palerider]

Dreams don't matter if you never wake up.
Always mask up; leave nothing to chance.

good point, I amended what I said above

[Enchanter]

Before cpap, I had several dreams every night--and precious little sleep.
The dreams were uniformly horrible, strenuous lost causes, which left me exhausted and stressed out.
Good riddance.

Yea my dreams are mostly negative. When I wake up in the morning, I don't remember anything. I'm not saying I don't remember my dreams, I'm saying I don't remember what's happening in life. It takes about a minute before everything starts to come back.