Insomnia attack....great!

I read that when our dreams are very vivid, as yours are, and often mine, that we are waking up after dreaming and just before the most restful sleep...another form of insomnia.  There are so many forms, most think not being able to get to sleep is insomnia.  I am finding there are many, many types of insomnia.  I can't help you with the problem, I can only tell you it happens to me too.  I haven't figured out how to change me!

Wow you said just like me the last little while. I have extremely vivid and realistic dreams, I am dreaming about very normal, mundane things and I don't know when I have actually had a conversation with someone or if it is all in my head! And my insomnia has been really bad, not falling asleep all night and not staying asleep when I do. I have been taking my sleeping pills a lot. Friday night this week, though, I actually got tired right before bed and slept about 4 hours without meds! This is a big deal right now. Then I got up for a couple hours and went back to sleep for another hour. I was so happy.

Last night I fell asleep and slept most of the night, but I had also drank a bottle of wine so that could have helped, LOL. Either way, I am hoping this trend of SLEEPING without meds keeps up.

Hey all,

Deb, I read that having these vivid dreams can also be the symptom/result of neurological issues I guess I shouldn't be surprised, but, SURPRISE! Lol.

SarahBear, I have the same problem and it drives me NUTS!! I'll be falling asleep at 8pm watching TV, my husband comes in to brush his teeth later on, and I'm WIDE awake!!

And Moonsinger, I'm happy to hear you can get any sleep at all Knowing us, any sleep is good sleep, lol.

It's interesting how our minds do this weird thing with dreams eh? I love when my dream is so real and there's a celebrity that I'm gah-gah for in it . I remember THOSE ones for days and days and makes me feel at ease. Hmm..maybe the purpose of those dreams are to release happy hormones

I just wanted to tell someone... I slept again last night! I am really so happy right now. And I only woke up for a little while at 3:30 and fell back asleep. I REALLY hope I can keep this going!!

Don't get me wrong, I am still exhausted today, LOL. But this makes me hopeful that I wont have to take sleeping meds for a while.

I've been a severe parasomniac since way before i ever had any fibro symtoms but even so i think there might be some connection. I found the bit about the waking up after your dream-sleep but before your deep-sleap very reckognizable. I ussually take around 1 to 2 hours to get to sleep; i ussually crawl in bed by 11PM that means i ussualy sleep between 1 and 2AM, than i ussualy wake up again once between 3 and 4 AM and again around 5 to 6 AM and have to get up for work at 6.30. So u can see i have a very disturbed sleep pattern. On top of that I: Grind my teeth excesivly
I sleepwalk
I have vivid nightmares somtimes waking me up in a panick
I do like sexual things wehn i sleep( embarrasing!)
And i'm sure there is something i'm forgetting to mention, but anyway as you see i am one very disturbed sleeping individual :)

Fiona

Take all her electronics, screw the windows shut and alarm doors-LOL!! I remember sneaking from the 3rd floor right past my parent's door and out the door.

Where there's a will...good luck

Maggie