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Post by tink on Oct 22, 2014 7:33:20 GMT
Do ADDers dream (at night) more than non ADDers??
I wake up every morning feeling shattered, feeling as though I've been in another world all night!
Sometimes I wake up not knowing whether what I've dreamt is real or not and have to think about it for ages to work out it was a dream.
It makes me feel I'm losing the plot some mornings.
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Oct 22, 2014 21:19:28 GMT
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Post by Bee on Oct 22, 2014 21:19:28 GMT
I second that! Yes, my dreams seem so real sometimes I don't know whether I am remembering an actual real event or a dream I once had.
I distinctly remember telling my friends at school that your hair is made of dead brain cells, because I had a fuzzy recollection of being told it.
I know now that I dreamt the brain-cell-hair thing. But I did NOT dream telling everyone such rubbish, or the ridicule afterwards..
My dreams tend to leak into real life as well. I'll dream I'm on a boat or something, and when I wake up (wake up for real) I'm confused as to why I'm on a boat (which I'm not, I'm in my bedroom, but I believe with all my heart and soul that I AM on a boat).
I don't know if it's ADHD or just us as individuals though
Xx Bee xX
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Oct 22, 2014 21:48:31 GMT
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Post by juliet on Oct 22, 2014 21:48:31 GMT
I do this too! I have so many dreams about trying to sleep (only, there's an octopus telling me to do push-ups or a werewolf tearing up my living room - or things that make it less clearly a dream), that I often wake up confused and angry because I spent the night exercising at the whim of a tyrannical octopus...
I also feel like I have more vivid dreams than most people, or at least more that I end up remembering.
No idea if it's actually an ADHD thing though.
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Oct 22, 2014 23:59:48 GMT
Post by mc1250 on Oct 22, 2014 23:59:48 GMT
These dreams sound more like night terrors. Where you can't tell if you're awake or not because like you said the room might be normal but one thing in there just isn't.
I've had times where I've woken or thought I'd woken up multiple times into different layers of the dream. By the time I finally wake when I'm 110% sure it's the real world I feel exaushted and slightly scared to go back to sleep. Kinda reminds of me of that DiCaprio film.
Anyway I thought it might just be me but it's beginning to sound like yet another symptom of this lovely affliction I have.
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Post by Wavey75 on Oct 23, 2014 23:52:47 GMT
Now that you bring it up, I don't think I've had a dream (that I remember having) since I started my Concerta XL in January.
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Oct 24, 2014 14:26:57 GMT
Post by supine on Oct 24, 2014 14:26:57 GMT
I'm going through phases at the moment re:dreaming. Like tink said, sometimes you wake up like you need a good nights sleep! I used to keep a dream diary and also tried astral projection (waking up during a lucid dream and controlling it to some extent basically). I found that the more I kept a diary, the more I could remember and the more aware I became in my dreams. I stopped it after managing an AP because it was making me so tired in the mornings. This recent thing though, I wasn't keeping a diary and I Wasn't remembering that much, but it felt just the same. My wife, who I am certain has some form of ADHD, gets night terrors regularly, even injuring herself jumping out of bed onto the floor etc. - it's horrible, and the screaming!
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Oct 25, 2014 7:27:38 GMT
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Post by blaze on Oct 25, 2014 7:27:38 GMT
I cant remember where but I remember reading alot of articles and sm research about hpw people w adhd go through different sleep cycles and dont get as much of the restorative sleep as nts, it was several yrs back but im sure itd ve easy enough to find if you looked. Dreaming is part of the sleep type we get more of but remembering dreams is also linked to waking at the wrong.part of sleep cycles. I get seriously vivid waky dreams these days, but thats related to the opiate pain meds I.have (tramadol is jst plain funny for this effect) previously I had alot of nightmates, but thats related to ptsd and.mostly settled after.therapy. uote author=" tink" source="/post/84389/thread" timestamp="1413963200"]Do ADDers dream (at night) more than non ADDers?? I wake up every morning feeling shattered, feeling as though I've been in another world all night! Sometimes I wake up not knowing whether what I've dreamt is real or not and have to think about it for ages to work out it was a dream. It makes me feel I'm losing the plot some mornings.[/quote]
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