a dreaming thread

over the past week i've noticed again that i'm dreaming much more, leaving me feeling exhausted when i wake up to the point of feeling like i haven't slept AT ALL. my mood is still ok so far but i'm feeling so DRAINED because of it and i wonder if it will start to affect my mood badly again soon...

my dreams aren't awful but they aren't random either - they're often about stuff that's happened in the day.. anyways i usually get used to it and can know what's a dream and what isn't but i'm starting to lose that again as well so that i wake up thinking i have essays to do (i don't!) and that it's May when it's June and thinking i dreamt stuff that really happened and blah... it's so weird.

and it's making me SO TIRED.

meds? stress? (I actually have none now, ahah) what? anyone else experience stuff with dreams related to their illness?

My boyfriend has been having problems staying asleep and it's affected his cognitive functions a lot (he and I both have mood issues and neither of us can afford treatment right now). He has several times now though things have happened (conversations, agreements, etc.) that haven't. It's been scaring him pretty bad. Also, he's had some problems with sleep-walking or black outs or something; he'll be alone during the day (he's currently unemployed due to another undiagnosed illness), he'll maybe start mowing the lawn, then he'll wake up somewhere in the yard next to the mower, wondering how he got there and when he could have fallen asleep.

Since his sleep hasn't been very good, he's tired all the time and it's made his dyslexia get worse again. It also causes a number of misunderstandings between us, especially since I've had trouble getting good sleep lately, too.

I've noticed that when I have dreams that seem very literal (and not far-fetched), I usually feel like I never went to sleep when I wake up, but the strange dreams usually rest me better (so long as it isn't a nightmare or something).

I guess that's not exactly what you're experiencing, but similar maybe. I think I sleep better and have better dreams when I do something like watch something funny or play a "colorful" video game (by which I mean something like Mario where everything has a smile or whatever as opposed to something like Doom or Silent Hill). It may not help at all, but at least it doesn't cost anything to try (I'm all about trying things that might help that don't cost anything).

One other thing you might try is keeping a dream journal. I've kept one since I was about 11 or 12. If nothing else, it can be entertaining to go back and read about dreams you had over 10 years ago. I'd like to hear more about your dreams, too (I think dreams are neat).

Been too having dreams throughout the night that leave me exhausted after 10+ hrs of sleep. Not fun. And in the twilight, the dread of waking up (and suicidal thoughts on bad days) haunts me until the point of actually waking up.

Hi, I just joined MoodTracker.
I've been having some vivid dreams lately, so much so that when I wake up I can recall salient details about them and if I think about it I can recover the gist of the narrative or other important features. (This isn't usually the case for me.) I believe this is related to one of the medications I take. My mood is baseline right now, but one of my warning signs for elevating mood is difficulty sleeping. I just got off the phone with my psychiatrist and I asked him which of the psych meds I take is probably responsible for the vivid dreams. He told me that seroquel is the likely culprit.

My situation is perhaps different that yours because despite only six hours of sleep last night, I do not feel tired (I have had several good nights of sleep for the prior days, however).

With regards to your boyfriend's situation, Polaris, I sometimes have trouble remembering if a certain event (usually a conversation) took place in the past or I only dreamed or planned to say that thing to that person. It sounds like his situation is much worse, though, so I hope he gets better.