Back in 2005, I experienced a sleep disorder condition that lasted everyday for almost a year. I would sleep with ease, but would remember my dreams very clearly and wake up feeling not rested and tired through the day. Prescribed medication did not help. I tried all means i.e. exercising, meditation, melatonin etc, all did not work. But after a year of torment, the condition just randomly left me after a year when I started full time work & undergrad studies. Over the years I do still get this problem especially when Im overseas for short / long trips. It seems quite random as sometimes it happens, sometimes it don't. Present The same issue revisited me and its Day 6 already. Same thing, I would go to sleep but having very vivid dreams (not nightmares) and wake up feeling tired / unrested. Sometimes halfway through the dream, the ringing of telephone etc (in reality) would suddenly wake me up and it feels as if someone had just pulled you out of the dream. Can anyone advise? Im out of ideas
6 likes, 170 replies Report / Delete 6 carolineallard7 zeroX14Edited 2 years ago i have sleep problem for 4 years now and i have learned somethings about sleep that we do not know about... the phase where we fall asleep is a transition from conscious to unconsious. this phase takes us slowly to a deep sleep where we are not conscious about time and ourself. it is very relative on how long we get there. but once to the edge of going on the other side (unconscious) this is a matter of seconds. I will call it "the switch". While we get to the "switch", what happens is that after putting our head on the pillow, our thoughs keep going in our mind just like when awake, controlled by our mind. And as we relaxe and advance toward the edge of switching in unconsciousess, our thoughs are transformed because they become uncontroled by our mind so, our unconscious mind is now letting our inside uncontroled thoughs out. That is what we call dreams. Our dreams our only our uncontroled thoughts from deep inside, revealing our unconcious mind. So, pay attention to your dreams and try to translate them in association with emotions. This reveals what you want to tell yourself that you do not want to see when conscious. So, you are lucku to be conscious of these dreams because you place your unconscious thougths in front of your conscious mind (meanwhile not really sleeping. But the good thing is that you are not sleeping but at least you are relaxing which is better than being busy and doing things). During this pre-sleep phase, we usually do not realise the switching because we go right into deep sleep and that leads us to the end of the sleeping phase, usually fallowed by another complete phase. But, when you spend your whole night into the dream phase, it is because you do not cross the edge and you do not switch into a deep sleep where growth hormones are produced, hormones essential to body repaire. That is why you do not feel rested... Because you do not restore since you do not produce growth hormones. What I have learned, for compensating that fact (that I do not sleep), I have learned a technique of meditation that helps me not create any negativity around the fact that I don't sleep. So when I don't sleep, i do this technique and in the morning I do not feel as tired as if I only stayed in bed without sleeping. I wishthis can help you understand better this phase that keeps you fromdeep sleep and find a way to get pass it when you go to bed. I have also found out that there parts of our brain that are responsable for entering into deep sleep and is located on the left side of the brain. When you are conscious but in bed, notice if your thoughts are located in the upper part of your brain and try to bring your conciousness to the left side, lower, closer to the top of the ear. Easyer if you put lay your head on your left side. I have noticed that falling asleep is done there, on the left side. Report / Delete 4 Reply
Hel8312011 carolineallard7Posted 5 years ago You may be on to something! I can't believe that simply lying on your left side would help but I swear I just woke up from a very vivid dream, some of which I could control and sure enough I was on my left side. I think I usually fall asleep on my left side. Report / Delete Reply Lincon carolineallard7Posted 4 years ago This is so true. Thank you you so much. Tip; it is all in relation to your life. If you are struggling with something or alot of time unsure of what you are doing is right or not. It just might be a reason that your mind is telling you that you are looking it the wrong way. Once you put everything on paper, it is easier for conscious mind to build a picture and solve the problem. Once your write it, relate that dream with your life, emotionally. Look in what situation in real life you find yourself similar to dream. In many times as you can see some people don't give up for their dreams, even when all other people are teling them to quit. But they keep believing and in the end they become rich. Believe in your dreams and you will become unstoppable. What meditation to use? I would say that every person has to have their own meditation. Simply because everybody has their own view of life. To fix the problem you just have to look at the problem with different perspective What ever makes you happy and to beleive in yourself. Once you find a problem, it is time to take action and work on solution. It is never easy to work on problems with yourself, especially if you have to do it alone. But remember that if you take few weeks or a month to fix the problem, what is that in relation to the life ahead of you. Imagine what will you be able to achive. Report / Delete Reply james-manc-uk randallaliciousPosted 2 years ago I've just come across this article, there is a lot of information out there from what appear to be reliable scientific resources. Its something to do with the way your stomach and organs are laid out. I'm going to give it a go tonight and see how I get on. Report / Delete Reply Nasteha85 FortchyEdited 2 years ago I agree, people should not be able to come on here and just say whatever they want to say. The people running this site need to make a rule that says, all claims need to have reliable resources included. Report / Delete 1 Reply franlove zeroX14Posted 8 years ago there could be a physiological cause to your problem . You could have sleep apnea Or you could have a form of narcolepsy . It sounds as though you are skipping the first stages of sleep & going directly into the deep sleep / dream stage . This keep you from feeling rested because if you skip the first stages of sleep , you will not wake rested . Report / Delete 1 Reply zeroX14Posted 8 years ago Typically im a heavy sleeper (no snoring issues etc) zzz from 1-2am to 8+ am in the morning. There's the occasional day-night reverse (work through the night & sleeping only at 7+ to 8 am in the morning). Generally with 7-7.5 hrs of deep sleep, Im good to go. The last time I had this issue was early last year when I had to relocate to another country. The vivid dreaming issue lasted for almost 3 weeks and went away almost immediately after I had to resort of an off the shelf herbal supplement. Retrospectively, it might have been a placebo effect but it did work. Here's what happened in the weeks leading up to this current issue: Went for my first blood donation about 3 weeks ago and felt very fatigue after that. Was sleeping as early as 7pm for a straight 12-13 hrs. This went on for almost 2 weeks right up till Tuesday while I had a series of very bad stomach flu. Then the current sleep issue came out of non-where from last Tuesday... Report / Delete 3 Reply
sorrywerefull zeroX14Posted 5 years ago 12-13 hours is your answer. You are over sleeping. Also, just as a side note, if you have any stomach problems, try taking some antacids before bed. Lastly, drink water before sleep. It thins our your blood and makes it easier to pump, so night time anxiety doesn't make your sleep cycle take so long that you feel like you have to sleep longer than 8 hours. Report / Delete Reply daniel06637 sorrywerefullPosted 5 years ago Sorry but I must chime in here. With all due respect I think that if the only solution to this condition was to not oversleep we would have all figured this out by now. Granted, oversleeping a lot of the time makes it worse, usually because that extra sleep is in the morning where there is more REM activity. But sleeping 'normal' hours are not the solution to this problem. I'll sleep 7/8/9 hours and still feel extremely unrested. On your second point, I would not recommend antacids for anything. Your gastric acid contains valuable digestive enzymes that help break down food, help the immune system and fight bad bacteria. It is certainly not something you want to diminish. Taking antacids or acid blocking medication may give you more problematic symptoms in the long term. Report / Delete 2 Reply zeroX14Edited 10 months ago I went to the doc and was prescribed Xanax. Initially I doubted it would work as it did not back in 2005 (which my psychiatrist went to do give stronger dosagaes / medicine). But hey, this time it actually worked ! & only on 0.25mg. Report / Delete 22 Reply
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