Dreams...feel exhausted/bummed waking up.

Posted by JB @wgatap21, Jun 29 9:28am

75 years old. Good health. Taken medications over the years for anxiety/mild depression. Apnea tests were mild/wearing mask was not helpful!! Years ago. No apnea now. Main problem is I DREAM so much it's crazy. No nightmares. Past people I hardly knew/weird but never scary or disturbing. Why? But stress lately. Problem is I am in a funk waking up. Then tired around noo.! I do take and have a small amount of clonazepam(.25) a.m. and p.m. Also Cymbalta ER 30mg in a.m/pm.
For years. But so fatigued lately. Quit smoking/ nicotine gum use.

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Scott R L | @scottrl | Jun 29 10:58pm

I have dreams that are cinematic; they go on and on, in complex stories.

The bad ones -- nightmares -- I wake up from quickly, so I get up and watch TV for a while.

But the good ones can seem to last for hours, and are quite pleasant. People talk to me, ask my opinion, need me to solve problems, are happy to see me.

Those are tough to wake up from, when I realize I'm back in reality, where nobody is glad to see me (except my wife), I'm still disabled, I don't get out of the house... It's a kind of torture.

dreams999 | @dreams999 | Jun 30 9:49am

I used to (and still do) journal my dreams. 35 yrs ago I could write 5 lengthy paragraphs a night and now I rarely dream. Prescriptions haven't changed much. Now I am having either no dreams or night terrors.
I also sleepwalk (past 6 yrs). Sometimes I know I am doing so and other times I have no recollection.
I have even done art at night and took all of my supplies out and put away when done.

JB | @wgatap21 | Jun 30 10:02am

Are you exhausted a bit later in the day?? quick naps?

dreams999 | @dreams999 | Jun 30 11:06am

I sustained a head injury in 2001. ( luckily it was a moderate traumatic brain injury) and my cognitive abilities went down. I didn't have to relearn what a fork knife spoon was. My neuropsyc calls it brain fog. I take trazadone for sleep and my Dr out here won't switch me to Ambien as I tried some of my moms when I went home to visit and i.slept really well and woke w/o brain fog.