Dreaming weirdness

[carynb]

For most of my life, as far as I can tell, I just haven't dreamed. I mean, I know I must - there's the whole "you go insane without R.E.M. sleep" thing, and I think I'm still sane (stop snickering, angelfire1969 and mycrazyhair) - but I never, ever remember anything I dream about.

Three times since Sunday night, I've had vivid, unpleasant dreams that made me wake up in a sweat. Sunday night's was fairly mild - M & I were having an argument because he'd called a cab too late to get us to the airport on time. Of course, we were at his place in Cambridge and the airport involved was Heathrow, which would make a cab ride...difficult at best. Still, that's dreams for you. This one's even fairly transparent in cause - his habit of procrastinating until the last possible moment on big, life-changing decisions drives me nuts. I'm a big fan of certainty.

Last night's, though, qualified as a full-on nightmare. There were dead cats, and being stalked, and... it really wasn't nice. It's faded, mostly, now - all I can really remember is being afraid - but it was bad. At least M wasn't in that one. *g*

So now I'm wondering, what's going on in my subconscious that this would be happening now? More importantly, how do I make it stop? I'd really like to get a full night's sleep sometime soon.

Comments

[mycrazyhair.livejournal.com]

(((hugs)))

Stress is bad. And you're still in an uncertain place, what with M. not knowing for sure about his living arrangements. Two ways to improve the situation: you can either treat the symptoms or treat the root cause.

Now, if it's just the current uncertainty about living arrangements, there's not much you can do about the root cause. If on the other hand, you're worrying more generally about this trend toward procrastination, you can deal with it by talking to M. about it.

Symptoms? Lots of physical exercise tends to help. Soothing music as you go to sleep. Stuff like that. Good luck, hon.

[carynb.livejournal.com]

The stress has dropped a fair bit on that front as of Tuesday, actually. He can keep the place in Cambridge(yay!). There are still issues - like the fact that he needs to find a roommate, like, now, but at least he still has a place to live. I think Sunday's night's dream at least partially came out of me refusing to think about the issue all weekend, though. *g*

On the other hand, I have no idea what triggered last night's fright-fest. But maybe I'll try soothing music as I fall to sleep. And exercise is always good, right? Maybe if I make it to the gym tonight that'll help...

[mycrazyhair.livejournal.com]

Maybe if I make it to the gym tonight that'll help...


If you go, I'll go. Wanna find dinner afterward?

[carynb.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm likely to be able to get to the gym before 8, which, given that I'm already pretty tired, means that I'm not likely to get there at all.

However, depending on your timing, I could certainly meet you after your workout for dinner. *g*

[carynb.livejournal.com]

Actually, I'm NOT likely to be able to get to the gym before 8... See? I'm tired already, missing words like that...

[mycrazyhair.livejournal.com]

Heh. Losing words is bad. Dinner would be good. I'll probably be done at the gym by about 7 or 7:30. I can make it a bit earlier if need be. What time would you like to meet up for food?

[carynb.livejournal.com]

I'm likely to get home sometime around 7:30, so I can head over Y&E way as soon as I drop my stuff off and get changed. How about we meet in the Indigo around 7:45?

If I getout of work earlier, I may see you at the gym... It just doesn't look to likely, right now.

[mycrazyhair.livejournal.com]

Sure. See you at 7:45, unless I hear differently. Good luck with work.

C

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

Yeah, stress can kick up nightmares pretty good.

[carynb.livejournal.com]

Thanks

I think I'm gonna have to start dealing with stress a little more directly, if it's gonna do this when I do my usualy ignoring the problem & it'll go away thing. *g*

[zoarazul.livejournal.com]

As a stop-gap solution, you might want to try upping your intake of B-complex vitamins. I started taking a B6/B12/Folate supplement about a month ago, and even though I wasn't having any serious sleep problems, my sleep patterns have improved tremendously. I'm much more aware of my own "sleepiness," fall asleep very quickly (used to take a looong time) and wake up naturally after 6-7 hours of sleep (haven't used the alarm in weeks!). B vitamins are -- if I'm remembering this correctly -- often used as "stressbuster" vitamins, which is probably why better sleep is a side effect ...

[carynb.livejournal.com]

B vitamins, eh? I already take a multi-vitamin, but maybe I should look into that..

Thanks!

[zoarazul.livejournal.com]

I bought the B6/B12/etc. supplement at the SDM at Y&E. They're potent little suckers -- even on a veg. diet I only take them every other day. The kind I use are sublingual tablets, which is a weird delivery method ... but they're also cherry-flavoured, which is a yummy delivery flavour!

[mycrazyhair.livejournal.com]

SDM? What/where is that?