lynninnj wrote: ↑Sun Aug 07, 2022 8:07 am
And JFTR I was wondering specifically if waking abruptly from my dream was the result of an apnea, or if the waking up was directly due to the dream.
To answer this specific question....could be either and we really have no way to know for sure unless you know exactly what time the dream happened and you woke up and you had an apnea event right at the same time and even then still not a concrete cause and effect.
It's common for OSA to worsen in REM so a lone apnea event in REM wouldn't be out of the realm of possibilities for the event to coincide with the end of a REM cycle where we wake up anyway and thus have a greater chance of remembering a dream.
So...the answer is really "maybe" and hard to know with 100% certainty because like I always say...everything comes with a YMMV sticker.
Sometimes we just don't/can't give a clear cut 100% definitive answer to any question.
It is also entirely possible that simply having a bad dream will cause the wake up and thus the remembering part.
It's all tied to the waking up part though. If we don't wake up we won't remember a dream. At least that is what I gleaned from reading about a dozen papers when I googled it yesterday. It's the waking up part that is critical.
And yes...we do have some forum members here who resent seeing the same question over and over and will just offer "search the forum" or "google it" as their most helpful response.
It is the nature of forums like this.
We also have had experience with lots of people who never want to do any work on their own and they want to be spoon fed answers.....so those people have sort of left some of us with a bad taste in our mouths.
And remember...we are a forum composed of people who sometimes don't get enough sleep for any number of reasons and thus we can be a bit grouchy at times so very short on patience.
It's why I often reply to a newbie account post with a link to my "newbies please read" thread and nothing else.
I had a bad night and just don't feel like composing a bunch of crap that I already posted in the "newbies please read" thread and their question would have been answered in that thread that they obviously didn't bother to read despite it being at the very top of the main forum page.
I can be grouchy just like everyone else.
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