Welcome to Sleep Issues & Dream Interpretation

Have trouble sleeping? Need suggestions to try and put your mind to rest at night?

How about a dream or nightmare you'd like to share to gain other people's opinions and insights?

Feel free to share here!

Enjoy,
DocJohn

What a nice forum! Thanks Doc

Thanks, Doc John, for creating this forum! A great idea.

I dream a lot, and find that I am trying to work thru issues, often from long in my past. Occasionally, rarely, I have a dream which reaches some sort of "resolution" of a problem or issue. Mostly, though, my dreams end without such, though they are usually entertaining adventures!

Patty

Hey guys this is fab

I have really big problems with sleep. I work shift work so my sleep pattern is all over the place. I will go to bed at between 10pm and 12am. But i wont sleep until 3am or even worse 6am.

I do not eat or drink anything after 6pm

I listen to easy music before bed. But i still cant drop off to sleep.

I am not stressed out or anything. I did go to my doctors and she gave me insomnia info and that was useless. I haven't been back since as that trip was a waste of time. I keep a sleep record and have done since the start of the year and i sleep roughly between 3-13 hours a night.

My aunt suggested a sleeping pill which is over the counter called forgive my spelling someinex? But i can not find it anywhere.

I also work Night Shifts at least once a month and at least 2 sleep over's a week which depending on the guy i look after i could get anythign from 2-6 hours sleep at night but this is normally broken sleep as he gets up as he has behaviour problems

Any advice would be great as its now nearly 1140pm and i am not tired one little bit

I do some shift work, too, also with one overnight a week with clients with behavioral probs. I find that regardless of when I got to sleep I have to try to get up close to the same time every day. It may mean taking a nap later or staying up sleepy all day but it helps tell my body when to go to sleep. I also use a light therapy lamp that helps my body know when it's morning, even when I feel like sleeping first thing. I'm also useless if I don't have a snack before bed. My doc says it's fine as long as it's not high in sugar or fat and my T says whatever works (within reason) is great.

Don't know if that helps...

Im so glad you made this thread I dream all the time and my dreams are like movies really vivid, sometimes when I wake up it feels like it really happened and I have to adjust to the fact it was just a dream.

Hey DocJohn! i've always had issues with sleep, for the las 10 or so years..yep,its been awhile..the worst part is: im taking diazepam, and i still wake up 4 or 5 hrs and ill be sleepy and yawning like hell all day!! and feel tired, sluggish, fatigued and that affects my mood as well, and performance, my eyes burn like hell, i already went to a sleep disorder center, they did tests and all kind of stuff..no luck, i dream everynite n remember all of them.. so ill appreciate your tips thanx!! bye

i can't remember when i last had regular sleep patterns. when my last child left home about 33 months ago it got worse as i was not needed by children or able to work a regular job. i really got bad when i got my laptop 2 years ago (approx). i went through a long infatuation with it and stayed up too late on it many times. i am dissociative and live with a spouse who denies the existence of d.i.d. and apparently considers me a malingerer who just doesn't want to get well. no medication works regularly for me and i feel safer sleeping in the day. all in all this just ticks off my spouse who wishes i would be a good stepford wife and get over myself and my problems. not doing too well with that. never will. i am in therapy and have been a long time. i really do wish to get well and join the middle american life i am supposed to be living. i'm getting sort of desperate. back to the wall desperate. really scared.

Pardon my sluking here , Multi pixie, but Matha Stewart BE DANGED,

for you all.

I was just leafing through one of my many misplaced combination all purpous write it down now note books . I found a repeate dream that scares me . I must have murdered someone in a former life and tried to hide it pretend it it didn't happen.

anyway .. scary stuff, hard to interpret but facinating and I belive a path to healing.

I'm a frequent dreamer in technicolor.


I logged on and saw this . Great forum.

Patricia

Wow! What a great idea.

This could end up being one of the most fascinating forums on the site.

I like Paul McKenna as a self-help author. He has recently released a book I Can Make You Sleep, which looks quite good. I have only skimmed through it myself.

Dream interpretation is a fascinating business. I definitely believe it is possible, although I'm somewhat sceptical of its practical value.

Books I have read about this include:

The Interpretation of Dreams, and On Dreams by Sigmund Freud.

Dreams, Memories, and Reflections, by Carl Jung.

The Innocence of Dreams by Charles Rycroft.

Freud believed that dreams could only be interpreted by means of the dreamer's assistance. His method of dream interpretation was to break the dream down into its elements, or objects, and to get the dreamer/patient to free-associate with respect to each element or object of the dream in order to identify what it meant for them. I have tried this with respect to some of my dreams, sometimes with stunning success.

Jung had different ideas. He was into studying the symbolism of mythology and using this to identify the meaning that our dream symbols have.

Of course I am over-simplifying massively, according to my rough and ready understanding of the subject, but I think this is the jist.

Awesome Forum DocJohn
This looks like it could be really interesting. I personally believe that dreams are very meaningful; messages from our subconscious that tell the absolute truth about something (past, present, future) if only it can be understood. I am a huge fan of dream interpretation. And, being a teenager, i have truly horrible sleep patterns.

I am certain there is a difference between "dreams" and (for me) "visits", and probably many other types I'd love to hear of.My reasons are that I have lots of trouble sleeping. But when I am asleep.I'll know I slept.Anyway 1 example is that I lost my 19 year old son to suicide,and often while praying ask that he know howloved and missed by me he is.One nite,WHILE praying,so AWAKE.I felt the lips that were his alone,on my forehead,and a quiet "I love you Mum".a few days later,in alot of pain physically,I felt ONLY his hand, a Mom knows! One pushed hair from my forehead,the other rested on my prayer-folded hands with whisper"it will be alright you need to rest. Many other unconvinced it was the wind type of Heaven sent messages! Kept me going a very long time!

i have a dream EVERY NIGHT that I go outside and my car has been repoed. I do not even have a car note...

ALSO, I SLEEP A FEW HOURS GET UP AND EAT... I wake up with food all over and do not remember eating it!! I have gained alot of weight due to this.

Any help?