PLEASE HELP, TOO MUCH DREAMING - Sleep Disorders Message Board

msninak · 01-04-2001, 04:08 PM

Please someone help, i dream all night long, every night. i can not recal one night that i did not have dreams. i often start dreaming before i even fall all the way asleep. if i were to take a 15 minute nap, i would dream. i wake up exhausted. i have several long dreams a night and can remember them. i am even aware that i am dreaming while i'm dreamming. i hate this. i want to sleep and get good rest. what is wrong with me? is this normal? how can i wake up several times a night and go right back into the same dream? HELP!!!!!

TrickyDick · 01-05-2001, 12:50 AM

Dreaming every night is normal. I wish I could pick up where I left off in a dream. I have some doozies.
The body gets plenty of rest while dreaming, look at getting more sleep...ie- more hours.

someone · 01-22-2001, 08:59 AM

I believe that when you dream, you're in REM sleep, so you're actually sleeping harder than someone who doesn't dream.

skip_to_my_lou · 01-25-2001, 07:51 PM

Everybody dreams even if you don't think you didn't, you just don't remember everything that you dreamed. During REM is when you dream. More time is spent in alpha level sleep (REM) than in the deepest sleep at the end of the period which is why a person tends to remember the last dream before waking.

There are different levels of sleep that you go through each night.(I got this out of a book called "Dreams" by Frank Garfield and Rhondda Stewart-Garfield, so that's why I sound so knowledgable.) Light sleep, Rapid Eye Movement when dreaming occurs where alpha brain waves indicate this, Deep sleep (theta brain waves), and the deepest sleep (2 levels of delta brain waves).

Dreams are a way of the subconscious to deal with problems going on in your mind. Dreams hold a lot of symbols and messages to ourselves in our daily lives. It's a time to work through things and also realize what's really going on in your physical and emotional life. That's what I believe.

So it's not a horrible thing that you're dreaming. That's pretty cool that you are aware of them. Just take note of what you are dreaming. It could be your mind just working through things or trying to help you realize things that you're struggling with in your waking life. I've been looking at dream analysis books and analyzing my dreams. It's pretty cool and it gives me insight into my emotional life.

I tend to dream a lot and know when I'm dreaming which gives me some power to control what I'm dreaming in a way. I also wake up many times during the night because I suffer from insomnia.

NotJustRight · 02-17-2001, 09:07 PM

Hi. I dont know if you have gotten your dreaming worked out, but i read all of the messages, and i have had a simialr problem, that the other replies seem to brush off. Are you on any kind of medications?? I am on antidepressants, and some of them can increase REM sleep, and decrease the deep sleep phase. There are medications out there that can help with this. I am taking Doxephin 100mg at bedtime, and it has helped me a lot. I dont have the vivid dreams that concern me all day long. It has really helped me sleep better. The reason i went on the doxephin is because i am really tired during the day all the time. and my doctor and i thought it was becuase of the increased REM sleep. I am still really tired during the day though, he said it will take a while to catch up from before.. i hope it is soon! Hope it helps if it still concerns you!
Christy