April 26, 2008...6:35 pm
Don’t Panic
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Once upon a time I suffered from insomnia. While I used to complain about it, I kind of secretly liked it. If anything-it gave me ample time to be creative. On my days off, when the rest of the house was asleep I could unleash my creativity a bit without the annoyance of being uninterrupted.
Since returning home from my vacation I no longer seem to have a problem with insomnia. I have been tired at normal hours, and even on my days off, when my body would normally be out of sync-there’s no issues with sleeping. This should be a good thing.
However, with sleeping normal hours (and the recommended amount) comes a new issue. Dreaming.
I’ve been dreaming a lot. Often times when I wake up, I feel as though I hadn’t really slept. I had been too busy acting out my dreams (not really-I don’t sleep walk or anything).
I can’t remember a good part of my dreams. When I awake, I just have this vague sense that I had been in the middle of a dream or something. I like to remember my dreams, so this is kind of annoying. When I can remember my dream though…they have been bad. Not terrible. Just…stuff that I’d rather not dream about. In one dream I remembered-I was driving in the car with my mother and we got pulled over by the cops. Then, today I had a dream that my brother and sister were in a minor bus accident on the way to watch a track and field event in Philadelphia (which they did, earlier this week). I remember being on the phone with a nurse from a hospital assuring me that it was okay. Strangely, in my dream I knew the nurse.
The dreams are nothing to be worried about, but I just wish I knew why I seem to be dreaming more than normal.
12 Comments
April 26, 2008 at 9:22 pm
I really wish that I could remember my dreams but most of them fade before I’m even fully awake. The ones that I can fully remember are very surrealistic and weird so not ones I’d want to remember to begin with! I know they say to keep a pen and paper next to the bed so that you can write your dreams down before you forget them but I forget the pen and paper is there and by the time I remember, I’ve forgotten the dream! Pathetic, eh?
April 26, 2008 at 9:30 pm
What position do you usually sleep in? I’ve been told that if I sleep on my stomach, I won’t have bad dreams, or at least I won’t remember them. When I fall asleep on my back, I have startling dreams.
Just the fact that you seem to be sleeping harder lately just gives your mind the chance to act out weird stuff.
April 27, 2008 at 12:16 am
I remember most of my dreams… I used to write them in a little notebook, just for fun. Nothing big though…
Insomnia sucks. It’s a vicious circle… the less you sleep, the more you’ll be anxious about sleeping and the less you will sleep.
April 27, 2008 at 9:46 am
I wonder why that is? Maybe it’s a phase, or maybe you’ve been having too many midnight snacks - a Faz-favourite.
April 27, 2008 at 10:57 am
its nice to be dreaming..I always feel cheated when I dont….
April 27, 2008 at 6:10 pm
Whenever I dream it’s always nightmares. I prefer not to dream because of it.
April 27, 2008 at 10:19 pm
I been told we dream every night and if we don’t recall our dreams that we aren’t ready to handle that part of our life.
I’ll dream and dream about I call strange stuff.
Then I won’t dream for a long time.
April 28, 2008 at 4:31 am
As you say, both the insomnia and the dreaming are double-edged swords and, like you, I’ve suffered both all my life. I see the dreams as my subconscious clearing itself out and the insomnia as my creativity going mad.
Puss
April 28, 2008 at 9:09 am
i used to quite enjoy my insomnia too - the house is so lovely and quiet at night isn’t it? like yours, mine went away on it’s own.
as for the dreams… i’m not why you’re dreaming more often… maybe because you’re sleeping deeper or better than before. i always very vivid dreams and always have - i usually always remember them too. i find when i have a string of bad ones it’s cos i’m stressing about something.
April 28, 2008 at 2:46 pm
I never remember my dreams….unless of course I am having a nightmare…why in the world do I remember the bad dreams, and never the good ones?
I still get insomnia (every 28 days) and it usually lasts for a week or so….and then I go back to ‘regular’ sleeping.
April 28, 2008 at 2:58 pm
I go through periods like that, too, when I wake up and recall very colorful dreams full of symbolism. Then after a couple days, poof! I wake up remembering none of my dreams. (The last time this happened, my favorite memorable dream “starred” Frank Sinatra as the only one who understood me. Go figure.)
There’s a site called dreammoods.com that may be able to help you “decode” your dreams.
May 11, 2008 at 1:17 pm
Lately I got this insomnia too. Hardly sleep and when I don’t get enough sleep I will be so weak and sleepy the next day. Thats bad… even though I kinda agree with you that we can be creative and work without any disturbance.
Hopefully I can recover from this insomnia. I got it once and took some sleeping pills. Now it comes again… :O)
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