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lately ive been confusing dreams with real life...idk my dreams seem super real ...like i talk about something that i swore happened and no one knows what im talking about. this happened to me before when i was younger..but i never paid attention.
1. *first one i had* i was drinking the night before and so i passed out and i woke up and went to pee and i went to sleep..then "i heard noise and so i opened my door and saw someone running down the hallway throwing up" the next day i asked my cousin who that was running down the hall throwing up and leaving a trail of throw up on the floor...and he was like there was no one here and i didnt throw up so wat ar eu talking about and i was fighting with him and he was like ur buggin...so i guess i was.
2. "i woke up from my sleep and it was insanely hot in my room so then my brother comes in and asks if im hot and i tell him im dying of heat and so he goes ok..ill turn off the heat" then i woke up "again" ..super hot and i was like i could of sworn he turned it off so i went to the thermostat thing and it was on. and i got confused like didnt he turn it off?
i keep getting confused..like things happened that didnt, things were said that no one said...people think im losing it lol
1. *first one i had* i was drinking the night before and so i passed out and i woke up and went to pee and i went to sleep..then "i heard noise and so i opened my door and saw someone running down the hallway throwing up" the next day i asked my cousin who that was running down the hall throwing up and leaving a trail of throw up on the floor...and he was like there was no one here and i didnt throw up so wat ar eu talking about and i was fighting with him and he was like ur buggin...so i guess i was.
2. "i woke up from my sleep and it was insanely hot in my room so then my brother comes in and asks if im hot and i tell him im dying of heat and so he goes ok..ill turn off the heat" then i woke up "again" ..super hot and i was like i could of sworn he turned it off so i went to the thermostat thing and it was on. and i got confused like didnt he turn it off?
i keep getting confused..like things happened that didnt, things were said that no one said...people think im losing it lol
My one friend use to think she was dreaming all the time, She has no formal diagnoses but that doesn't mean anything except she refuses to go to the doctor for help.
One time I lay in bed half asleep thinking there was a meth head woman with a dirty butcher knife stalking me in my bedroom and if I stayed perfectly still she couldn't see me to kill me. Even when I was fully awake I kept checking the house for the meth head. I couldn't figure if it was real or not.
Another time I was sleeping in the living room and my sister came in an blasted the tv in the middle of the night. I yelled at her to turn it down. She said, "What?" and I yelled louder. I yelled so loud I woke myself up and there was no one in the room, tv was off, room was dark, but I woke everyone up yelling!
http://www.hypnagogichallucinations.com/
My dreams are so real that I think they are.
I even get chest pain, like I ran a race or something.
My therapist says it is common with the abilify.
ttfn AnnieEm
Somewhat related - my sleep schedule has been very erratic recently. Yesterday I fell into a deep sleep in the afternoon and woke up to see the digital clock at 5:40 glowing in pitch darkness but I had no idea if it was AM or PM. I took me quite a while to figure it out it was PM.
When any of this happens I fear I'm slipping into dementia.
The other day I fell asleep and had a dream that I yelled at someone for turning on the tv to watch criminal minds while I was asleep. When i woke up the tv was off, but I turned it on and criminal minds was on! I asked my brother if it actually happened, and he said it never did!
My dreams are really realistic and people have gotten used to me asking "Hey did this happen or was that a dream?"
I was now about to create a post like this here. Yes it happens to me. And I have to just sit a while struggling to rem if what I'm thinking of was a dream or not.
Sooooo frustrating!!! Lol! Funny that we all seem to be kinna going through this. Maybe there's a BP Moon Phase??
But for me its not the meds. I have deampt like this since I was little. The meds just give em a boost like they are on steroids!!
Your definitely not alone in this one!