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(Message started by: Big_Dan on Apr 29th, 2003, 12:29pm)

Title: 'nother question of the day....
Post by Big_Dan on Apr 29th, 2003, 12:29pm
I know that we've all been known to refer to Freddy Kruger when we get an attack while sleeping.

What I wanna know is, how many of you have had odd dreams or nightmares associated with night-time attacks, and what where they like?...

-Big Dan

Title: Re: 'nother question of the day....
Post by JDH on Apr 29th, 2003, 12:47pm
The only nightmares I have while in a cycle are the ones that wake me up about an hour after going to sleep.
I wish it was a dream but it never is.
If I'm lucky enough to sleep long enough to have dreams, I don't remember them.

Jim

Title: Re: 'nother question of the day....
Post by brain_cramps on Apr 29th, 2003, 12:50pm
NO SLEEP = NO DREAMS   (except while working  ;) )

grant    8)

Title: Re: 'nother question of the day....
Post by don on Apr 29th, 2003, 2:15pm
Fucked up dreams all the time.

Even when I'm sleeping.

Title: Re: 'nother question of the day....
Post by vig on Apr 29th, 2003, 2:43pm
no dreaming at all, for me.

Title: Re: 'nother question of the day....
Post by Brian_Y on Apr 29th, 2003, 2:45pm
I dreamt I was drinking ketchup with a straw during an episode once.  And once I was the Skipper on Gililgan's Island except we weren't starnded on an island.  Instead it was Saks Fifth Avenue.  I was being forced into a blue polyester shirt.  I woke up screaming from that one.

Title: Re: 'nother question of the day....
Post by Wolfmom on Apr 29th, 2003, 3:53pm
I always dream of a dark shadow standing over me..within minutes..I awake to the beast banging on the door to my brain. :'(

Title: Re: 'nother question of the day....
Post by vig on Apr 29th, 2003, 3:55pm
Are you free to react in your dreams?
What if you got up and whacked off it's head with a machete before he got to your "door"?

I know, I'm really reaching here...

Title: Re: 'nother question of the day....
Post by echo on Apr 29th, 2003, 4:00pm
Usually no dreams.  Sometimes I dream that I am falling and then I stop with my eye suspended about an inch off the floor with my legs straight up in the air, and I can't get down.  I'll wake up, fall back to sleep, and 5 out of 10 times the SOB attacks me within 2 hours.

Title: Re: 'nother question of the day....
Post by catlind on Apr 29th, 2003, 4:36pm
I have lots of dreams, both nightmares and bizarre.  I also can control them.  Until I was in a sleep study I thought everybody could do that.  I simply redirect what is occuring in the dream.  

I have never been able to change the beast coming though.  It doesn't seem to care if I dream or not.

Cat

Title: Re: 'nother question of the day....
Post by vig on Apr 29th, 2003, 4:38pm
very cool thought,
could be very powerful if you could control it...

Title: Re: 'nother question of the day....
Post by Wendy the Brit on Apr 29th, 2003, 5:10pm
Cat

Saw a programme on telly about people who could travel around at will in their dreams, can't remember what it was called. How amazing!

Wish I could control my dreams, I have all sorts of horrible persecution ones with weird possessed people or undead or ghosts chasing me.

Big Dan- haven't noticed any differences with dreams since developing CH.

Vig
I'm a great believer in the power of the mind. You might have something there, has anyone tried it?

Wendy

Title: Re: 'nother question of the day....
Post by don on Apr 29th, 2003, 5:35pm

Quote:
Wish I could control my dreams, I have all sorts of horrible persecution ones with weird possessed people or undead or ghosts chasing me.  


Thats just us on the MB

Comes with the territory.

Title: Re: 'nother question of the day....
Post by eyes_afire on Apr 29th, 2003, 5:54pm
Many strange and horrible dreams no matter what.  Makes Freddy look like he's playing in the sandbox.  I've been to places that can't exist, seen animals and plants that are not of this earth, I've become animals, have been eaten by them, and have died many deaths.  Sometimes I have humorous dreams.... such as that 'talking telepathic dalmation dream'..... oh nevermind....

Title: Re: 'nother question of the day....
Post by Ted on Apr 29th, 2003, 6:04pm

on 04/29/03 at 15:55:15, vig wrote:
Are you free to react in your dreams?
What if you got up and whacked off...


I've had those dreams too.

Yup Dan. Many people have posted about having nightmares before waking up in an attack. I know it happens to me when I get up in pain... or I guess before I get up in pain. When I do dream, whether before an attack or not, it's usually nightmares anyway but when it precedes an attack it takes on a different stage of scariness. Although I don't know if I woke up with it and wasn't in a lot of pain if it would seem as scary.

Title: Re: 'nother question of the day....
Post by Charlie on Apr 29th, 2003, 8:16pm
Interesting stuff.

I've dreamt a few times that I was having an attack but never felt the pain and knew I wasn't. I've read that we never actually feel pain while dreaming.  So far,  I haven't seen anything to contradict this......so far...I suspect we'd never sleep if it weren't the case.

Sweet dreams

Charlie

Title: Re: 'nother question of the day....
Post by Frank on Apr 29th, 2003, 8:36pm
I usually don't dream... at least I don't remember if I do.Most times I just have nightmares before I fall asleep about what is to come later :'(

Title: Re: 'nother question of the day....
Post by Roxy on Apr 29th, 2003, 8:56pm
I dream all the time, sometimes I remember them, sometimes I don't.  They aren't nightmares, just really strange and bizarre.  The last few months, I'll be in the middle of a dream, and I will start getting hit in the dream.  I get my fill of ch's when I'm awake....don't really want to dream about them too.  But, whenever I dream I'm getting hit, I will wake up in the middle of a real beauty.  It's a little weird.

Title: Re: 'nother question of the day....
Post by Big_Dan on Apr 30th, 2003, 10:40am
...hmm... maybe I wasn't clear...

I'll give an example...

Once, I had a dream that I was laying in a dry lake bed, and an I-beam was scraping my scalp off, and it hurt like hell... I then woke up seconds later in the midst of a K-10...

... another time, I was at some party, and people kept putting these "neck wraps" on me... the kind that you put in the fridge and wear when it's hot to help cool down... anyway, it was giving me an attack... when I woke up.. I actually was having one...

-Big Dan

Title: Re: 'nother question of the day....
Post by Drk^Angel on Apr 30th, 2003, 11:12am
Don't sleep... Must not sleep... Sleep bad... Relaxation bad... Must not sleep...  Lookee all the perty colours... Musn't sleep...

PFDAN......................................... Drk^Angel

Title: Re: 'nother question of the day....
Post by BobG on Apr 30th, 2003, 1:58pm
A quick search for dreams...........a much discussed subject here.
For ya’ll that aren’t familiar with the “old” board, after the page opens scroll down to get all the replies.

http://www.clusterheadaches.com/wwwboard/messages/41462.html

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Title: Re: 'nother question of the day....
Post by oringkid on Apr 30th, 2003, 11:41pm
I don't think I have nightmares but I do dream that I have a headache in my dream and wake up with one.  Other times I have dreamt I had one and woke up and didn't have one... don't know what is up with that....

Sherry

Title: Re: 'nother question of the day....
Post by CLR on May 1st, 2003, 11:55am
Hello Big Dan,
When my cycle was at an end I started to have bad dreams.  The one that sticks in my mine was, I was gettting hit in the head with a rock.  I screamed in my sleep and woke myself up.

I can understand why I would dream after going through so much hell for over 3 mos.

Pf days,
Cindra

Title: Re: 'nother question of the day....
Post by Kenzie60 on May 1st, 2003, 1:41pm
I have weird and bizarre dreams, but I think it is from all the medication we are all on.  Don't  you  think?  My dreams are so weird, my husband said that I have been talking in my sleep also.  He said that I actually hold conversations with people and if he really listens he can usually figure out who I am talking to.  It really freaks him out.  It only happens when I am near the end of my cluster cycle.  At least that is how it has been for the past couple of years. ::) ::)
Roseanne

Title: Re: 'nother question of the day....
Post by vig on May 1st, 2003, 1:45pm
The brain challenge I've been getting lately that's related to CH's is disorientation.  When I come out of a good attack, I often have no idea where I am.  I don't panic, because I know it'll come back, but I'm usually lost for a few minutes.



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