lltomich

I have nightmares sometimes I wake up with my heart beating rapidly and honestly I think this is mostly benign, you are just reacting to the fear the dream creates. I have read that there is a certain point when you fall asleep your heart rate increases a lot and if you wake during this period your heart will be higher than normal and that could scare someone not used to it. I had AVNRT which means your heart spontaneously goes up to 180 - 220 beat a minute or more and that's fast but sinus tachycardia is often benign. Waking up at night after a bad dream would most likely just put you into sinus tachycardia and I think that is common. I'm not saying you shouldn't be checked by a doctor but I know a lot of people that wake up with tachycardia at night. Even when they catch that on a holter moniter the doctors tend to think it's fine unless it's a bad arrthymia. He could do a holter moniter to be certain it's not a dangerous rhythm but it most likely isn't. A lot of time we are stressed out, life it tough anymore, you go to sleep stressed about something you have a bad dream wake up with tachycardia but it ends up coming back down. Best Wishes.