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Posted 1/12/2015 5:24 PM (GMT 0)
Am I experiencing that worst symptom of lyme as it effects the brain?

I woke up this morning from this horrible nightmare. The images of it are still in my mind an hour later. I cannot stop my eyes from watering. They were of fire in our home while i was away, me coming there and the roof is burned away. Neighborhood teens had taken to partying in the place and raiding the fridge of all its good context. I could not quieten down the boom boxes blaring the music. I wanted to phone the fire department but could not find my cell phone. i went from room to room under the night sky and all i could do was sob and weep and try to find a corner of the place where i could curl up into a fetal position. My estranged daughter found me like this and tried to tell me this was nothing and she was disgusted with me. Somehow the scene sifted to the driveway. She wanted to leave and i needed her to help. I could not stop her. i lay down in the drive way and she tried to back up her car over me and but then stopped, angry with me. She just stepped over me and was gone. There were also images of wife and my deceased brother trying to help in their own way but they were so ineffective. There were so many more images i could tell you about and they are still in my head an hour after i am up and after walking my dog. I cannot seem to shake the cobwebs out of my head of these bad images as they still bring tears to my eyes.

The only good thing about this nightmare was that i was walking normally and not with that limp which has now been with me for 11 months with my bad knee.

I know it was a nightmare. I know it should be a good day today. Why is my mind not letting go of those horrible images.

From my understanding of the lyme bacteria, i know it does attack the brain too and produces all kinds of chaos. Within the next hour wife and i should be on our way for our weekly treatment with our lyme literate lyme practitioner.

I want to really leave this nightmare behind, but as i am going over my breakfast routine now, those images and many i did not put down here are still haunting me. what an awfull way to start the day.

I am still just totally rattled and upset. I know i will be ok somehow though.

xfmlg
Posted 1/12/2015 5:38 PM (GMT 0)
Wow that sounds really terrible, I'm sorry that you can't seem to shake the images from your mind. Lyme does really strange things to sleep and dreams. The weirdest and most difficult thing for me would be the sleep paralysis. I would have dreams where I was almost completely paralyzed and it felt like an elephant was putting out a flaming arrow on my consciousness and I would have to fight to wake up and try to stand up as demons would come for me. It wasn't uncommon to successfully pull out of the dream "gravity well" and have a false awakening and then have to do it again. The weirdest thing is that after I woke up from those I would still be hallucinating when I was awake for real. One time I woke up and jolted up because that's what I was trying to do in my dream and I punched my dog who was laying next to me because I was hallucinating him as a demon frog lunging at me and making this awful croaking sound (he forgave me right away but I felt so awful). I also have woken up and seen friends sitting in my office chair (that's in my bedroom) looking at me with demon eyes. My vision is also sometimes fractured like my field of view is a sheet of plate glass that got dropped and cracked throughout the whole thing (for about 3-5 minutes after I wake up).

But sorry to distract from your post. I just wanted to show that yes, Lyme can do very weird stuff to your dreams but hopefully that gets better as everything else heals up to. In the meantime I hope that those images will fade from your waking life and you won't have to encounter them again. Have a great day!
Posted 1/12/2015 11:49 PM (GMT 0)
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