Insomnia - Or trouble sleeping

[BigFaker]

As I'm sure many of you know (or perhaps not) I tend to suffer from insomnia, and occasionally if I can get off to sleep I'm a bit of a lucid dreamer and tend to carry my dreams over to real life. Anybody else experience things like this or have any stories to share?

Here's one, last night I'd dreamt I'd fallen off the bed, and discovered that the left half of my body was paralyzed, naturally i panicked a little bit and started calling for help.

This woke my girlfriend up who was confused at what I was mumbling to her, when I finally came too the dream was still so vivid I had trouble getting off to sleep again.

I've got more stories that I'll share later.

[burke211]

Ever since I was a kid I've always had difficulty sleeping. It honestly doesn't bother me though. At the absolute most, I get about 4 or 5 hours sleep a night. Having a dog who likes to be walked at around 5.30am probably doesn't help in that regard.

Aug 9, 2010 18:04:03 GMT -5 BigFaker said:

Here's one, last night I'd dreamt I'd fallen off the bed, and discovered that the left half of my body was paralyzed, naturally i panicked a little bit and started calling for help.

This woke my girlfriend up who was confused at what I was mumbling to her, when I finally came too the dream was still so vivid I had trouble getting off to sleep again.

Sounds like possibly a mild case of sleep paralysis. I used to suffer from that years ago but thankfully it was never anything serious. Shit really is terrifing at first though.

[Synyster Gates]

Lucid dreaming is awesome. I used to hate the fact that you don't notice yourself falling asleep so without learning how to lucid dream I'd probably have been uncomfortable going to sleep for the rest of my life. I love being able to do whatever the hell i want in my dreams, few nights ago after playing Reistance 2 online I dreamt that I was back in school, but of course with lucid dreaming I decided to change things and put myself in the world of the video game, no more bad dreams, ever. And the best part is being able to alternate between levels of conciousness, you can literally bring yourself back from REM so you can take a piss and thengo back to sleep and recreate the dream you were in before you got up, everyone should learn how to do this.

[burke211]

I'm jealous of those people who have all these awesome dreams and then can't wait to share them with you and everyone else afterwards(I'm convinced they just make half of them up though). I don't know what it is, but if I have a dream, guaranteed that within 5 minutes of me waking up I'll have already forgotten all about it.

[THE Man They Call Uberto]

I love dreams, I frequently dream of zombies, water parks, amusement parks. Or in some extreme cases a hybrid of the three where one time I was at a water park/amusement park in my dreams, and I have dreamt about it for well over two years now. It's pretty awesome and the coasters are sick, so yeah going down water slides with zombies sliding down after you hilarious.

Best case of lucid dreaming I have is my work dreams, where I tell mad customers off except the people I like. I normally get put into dreams that people could consider nightmares but I make them fun. I have dreams where I'll remember the entire thing vividly. You know what was the worst recurring dream I had. Waking up in the dream not really waking up and getting ready going to school, sit through all 9 periods go home on the bus normally either I got home or as I leave the last period to go on the bus I wake up in real life with a whole actual day of school. Do you know how bad it is to sit through school twice in a day?

[Synyster Gates]

Aug 11, 2010 1:54:59 GMT -5 THE Man They Call Uberto said:

I love dreams, I frequently dream of zombies, water parks, amusement parks. Or in some extreme cases a hybrid of the three where one time I was at a water park/amusement park in my dreams, and I have dreamt about it for well over two years now. It's pretty awesome and the coasters are sick, so yeah going down water slides with zombies sliding down after you hilarious.

Best case of lucid dreaming I have is my work dreams, where I tell mad customers off except the people I like. I normally get put into dreams that people could consider nightmares but I make them fun. I have dreams where I'll remember the entire thing vividly. You know what was the worst recurring dream I had. Waking up in the dream not really waking up and getting ready going to school, sit through all 9 periods go home on the bus normally either I got home or as I leave the last period to go on the bus I wake up in real life with a whole actual day of school. Do you know how bad it is to sit through school twice in a day?

Thats one of the few problems of a lucid dream is that if you dream you're waking up and then getting up to go about your day you're just going to assume that its not a dream because your lucid dreams would usually have you in some becrazed situation and not waking up in bed which you were expecting to do anyway. That happened to me a few weeks ago that I was lying in bed and I saw all of a sudden it was light outside so I assumed I had fallen asleep, woken up hours later and not had any dreams. Then I heard a buzzing and saw a wasp crawling on the pillow beside me, then it flew off and I heard another one the opposite side, when i looked around there was four of them there, when I looked down they were all over my bed and a few were flying around the room. I was freaking out naturally because I thought I was awake and then I tried to get up and could barely move because it felt like the wasps were gathering together and pinning my arms and legs to the bed, then like 15 of them got together in this big swarm in front of me and flew straight into my face . . . That woke me up and it was the only nightmare I've had since learning to lucid dream. I believe after that I just fell asleep again and was back into the normal lucid dreaming that i had become used to.

[Mutant Crouch]

Aug 10, 2010 19:35:09 GMT -5 @burke211 said:

I'm jealous of those people who have all these awesome dreams and then can't wait to share them with you and everyone else afterwards(I'm convinced they just make half of them up though). I don't know what it is, but if I have a dream, guaranteed that within 5 minutes of me waking up I'll have already forgotten all about it.

That happens to me about half of the time. What is really annoying is when you're having an awesome dream and someone wakes you up then you attempt to get back into the thread, but it never happens and then you're too irritated to go back to sleep.