Nightmares and bad dreams

dianetavegia
dianetavegia Member Posts: 1,942 Member
edited March 2014 in Colorectal Cancer #1
I've had more nightmares in the last few weeks than in my life! They seem to be based on news stories, t.v. shows or even commercials. Dumb stuff that turns scary.

I've never had trouble sleeping but this is waking me, sometimes several times a night. Anyone else?

I'm not on any medication and my caffeine intake hasn't increased. Not eating after supper. Don't drink. Hmmmmmmm

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  • PhillieG
    PhillieG Member Posts: 4,866 Member
    #2
    Things that Go Bump in the Night
    I've been having stranger dreams too Diane. They are not really nightmares but they are often disturbing and from time to time they are about current events. There are SO MANY things that are going on all over the world that are deeply disturbing, it's no wonder they find their way into our dreams.

    I seem to sleep hour to hour also. I am on meds for pain and side effect stuff and also I've had trouble with my legs hurting so I know that doesn't help either.

    Maybe we need to watch different stuff before bed
    -phil
  • lizzydavis
    lizzydavis Member Posts: 893
    #3
    PhillieG said:

    Things that Go Bump in the Night
    I've been having stranger dreams too Diane. They are not really nightmares but they are often disturbing and from time to time they are about current events. There are SO MANY things that are going on all over the world that are deeply disturbing, it's no wonder they find their way into our dreams.

    I seem to sleep hour to hour also. I am on meds for pain and side effect stuff and also I've had trouble with my legs hurting so I know that doesn't help either.

    Maybe we need to watch different stuff before bed
    -phil

    Jay Leno!
    Jay Leno! Just laughs and funny stuff.
  • coloCan
    coloCan Member Posts: 1,944 Member
    #4
    lizzydavis said:

    Jay Leno!
    Jay Leno! Just laughs and funny stuff.

    nitemares
    wish I could sleep long enough to dream
  • Shayenne
    Shayenne Member Posts: 2,342
    #5
    coloCan said:

    nitemares
    wish I could sleep long enough to dream

    I'm Strange!
    I love nightmares, it's like watching a horror movie, which I am a horror fan LOL...sometimes I wake up in a sweat because it was so scary, but they're forgotten about soon after.

    Want to hear something scary??? I don't know if you know Tommy Lee from Motley Crue, but HE was in my dream last night, I woke up thinking, "What the hell was that guy doing in my dreams??? I never think about him" LOL...that was scary!

    Hugsss!
    ~Donna
  • dianetavegia
    dianetavegia Member Posts: 1,942 Member
    #6
    I think you're right, Phil.
    I think you're right, Phil. Monday night I dreamed I was shot right between my eyes. I like the new TV show, Trauma, and a guy on there killed a lot of people that way. That's on from 8 til 9 and I didn't go to bed til almost midnight.

    Another night I dreamed our house was overrun by ROACHES. We do get spiders in the house.... Another dream was about hairy armpits. Hubby had paused on the Hispanic channel watching a reality type contest and one of the guys had armpit hair almost to his elbow (okay, I'm exaggerating but there was a HUGE amount of hair). Well, I dreamed I shaved and shaved and couldn't get rid of the hair under my arms. The darn dream woke me!

    I woke up one night with my heart pounding and I was breathing so hard from 'running' from something.

    I love vampires, mummies and spooky movies, too, Donna. Not really guts and gore, tho. Nick plays Call of Duty and I like to watch him kill Nazi Zombies. LOL

    I don't like waking up with bad dreams, tho. I've noticed I try to keep myself awake later at night, too. During chemo, I know I did that to make the time between treatments longer. It's 60 days til my blood work and check up with the Physician's Assistant. I don't think it's that this time.
  • robinvan
    robinvan Member Posts: 1,012
    #7
    Nightmares
    My Nightmares are usually in response to the sedative/sleep drugs I get while I'm in the hospital. They are horrible. Hallucigenic and extremely frightful!

    I think you and Phil put your finger on it when you name the toxic media world we live in.

    Perhaps a "media fast" is in order!

    Sweet Dreams... Rob; in Vancouver

    "Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things,
    a semi-deliverance from the human prison."
    Henri Amiel
  • dianetavegia
    dianetavegia Member Posts: 1,942 Member
    #8
    robinvan said:

    Nightmares
    My Nightmares are usually in response to the sedative/sleep drugs I get while I'm in the hospital. They are horrible. Hallucigenic and extremely frightful!

    I think you and Phil put your finger on it when you name the toxic media world we live in.

    Perhaps a "media fast" is in order!

    Sweet Dreams... Rob; in Vancouver

    "Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things,
    a semi-deliverance from the human prison."
    Henri Amiel

    Baseball?
    Looks like tonight will be baseball. That should nightmare proof me. EEK
  • Shayenne
    Shayenne Member Posts: 2,342
    #9
    dianetavegia said:

    Baseball?
    Looks like tonight will be baseball. That should nightmare proof me. EEK

    The....
    ...New Underworld movie is on tonight on cable, going to watch the vampires and werewolves :)

    Hugsss!
    ~Donna
  • Buzzard
    Buzzard Member Posts: 3,043 Member
    #10
    Shayenne said:

    The....
    ...New Underworld movie is on tonight on cable, going to watch the vampires and werewolves :)

    Hugsss!
    ~Donna

    I too dream about the ..................
    last thing im thinking about when I go to bed...So I make sure that only pleasant things are going through my mind when I start to doze such as fishing, camping, etc...I never have nightmares now because of it...Shayenne, if you love nightmares then yes, you are different..LOL...and as far as Tommy Lee goes, Im glad he was in your dream and not in mine.LMAO........Later Sis.........Clift
  • thready
    thready Member Posts: 474
    #11
    dianetavegia said:

    I think you're right, Phil.
    I think you're right, Phil. Monday night I dreamed I was shot right between my eyes. I like the new TV show, Trauma, and a guy on there killed a lot of people that way. That's on from 8 til 9 and I didn't go to bed til almost midnight.

    Another night I dreamed our house was overrun by ROACHES. We do get spiders in the house.... Another dream was about hairy armpits. Hubby had paused on the Hispanic channel watching a reality type contest and one of the guys had armpit hair almost to his elbow (okay, I'm exaggerating but there was a HUGE amount of hair). Well, I dreamed I shaved and shaved and couldn't get rid of the hair under my arms. The darn dream woke me!

    I woke up one night with my heart pounding and I was breathing so hard from 'running' from something.

    I love vampires, mummies and spooky movies, too, Donna. Not really guts and gore, tho. Nick plays Call of Duty and I like to watch him kill Nazi Zombies. LOL

    I don't like waking up with bad dreams, tho. I've noticed I try to keep myself awake later at night, too. During chemo, I know I did that to make the time between treatments longer. It's 60 days til my blood work and check up with the Physician's Assistant. I don't think it's that this time.

    Call of Duty
    My husband also plays "Call of Duty", he has had dreams where the zombies are getting him, often grabbing his ankles. Maybe your brain is grabbing onto some of this stuff and trying to process it during your sleep. Maybe you need to watch an infomercial instead (maybe that would be more terrifying that zombies!)

    Might try a glass of milk before bedtime. Hope this calms down soon.

    Jan
  • Shayenne
    Shayenne Member Posts: 2,342
    #12
    Buzzard said:

    I too dream about the ..................
    last thing im thinking about when I go to bed...So I make sure that only pleasant things are going through my mind when I start to doze such as fishing, camping, etc...I never have nightmares now because of it...Shayenne, if you love nightmares then yes, you are different..LOL...and as far as Tommy Lee goes, Im glad he was in your dream and not in mine.LMAO........Later Sis.........Clift

    Ha Ha!!
    Aww, come on now bro, he's a very talented drummer, he isn't all that bad, LOL..guess what I'm watching now with my kids..."SCREAM" gotta love the horror stuff LOL....Later my bro..

    Hugsss!
    ~Donna
  • maglets
    maglets Member Posts: 2,576 Member
    #13
    Shayenne said:

    Ha Ha!!
    Aww, come on now bro, he's a very talented drummer, he isn't all that bad, LOL..guess what I'm watching now with my kids..."SCREAM" gotta love the horror stuff LOL....Later my bro..

    Hugsss!
    ~Donna

    nightmares and dreams
    I have them all the time Diane and I also call out and mumble in my sleep. In some ways I think this is just our psyche woking things out. I mean if you consider the trauma, pain, fear, surgery, chemo and constant threat of cancer that most of us live with....maybe our little brains just purr away there at night trying to work things out.

    Don't know ...just a thought....
    LOL Donna you can have the horror stuff :):):):)

    ~mags~
  • dianetavegia
    dianetavegia Member Posts: 1,942 Member
    #14
    maglets said:

    nightmares and dreams
    I have them all the time Diane and I also call out and mumble in my sleep. In some ways I think this is just our psyche woking things out. I mean if you consider the trauma, pain, fear, surgery, chemo and constant threat of cancer that most of us live with....maybe our little brains just purr away there at night trying to work things out.

    Don't know ...just a thought....
    LOL Donna you can have the horror stuff :):):):)

    ~mags~

    Mags
    That makes sense. Since they've come upon me a month after chemo ended.... I think you're right. Thanks.

    Diane

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