LC since 9/2020
Yes! Dreams usually about close family members and/or friends. Some I haven’t thought of in a long time, but oddly disturbing. This has been going on only for the last several months. Med reaction???
LC since 9/2020
Yes! Dreams usually about close family members and/or friends. Some I haven’t thought of in a long time, but oddly disturbing. This has been going on only for the last several months. Med reaction???
In the majority of my dreams, my peeps are generally upset/disappointed/frustrated/angry with me. ie: My nephew was getting very impatient and frustrated with me because I couldn’t figure out a math problem. He is a numbers guy. Made betting (and winning) his extra income job in college. Was a CPA and now a mortgage financer. 😜
Maybe it’s the LC. I feel so useless, unproductive. I can’t even do the simplest math in my head. By simplest, I mean standing at the register at a restaurant staring at my ticket because I can’t add a $3.50 tip to the total. I don’t think they are, but it makes sense for people to be upset/disappointed/frustrated/angry with me. Sigh.
I feel as though we’re twins, sharing the same horror. The one thing that helps me a little is to do puzzles like Wordle (look it up if you need to). When I need to concentrate on the answers, the “nasties” tend to go away.
Review: I'm 70 now. COVID March 2020. Since COVID I have had dreams with a repeating theme. I'm trying to get to work, (but I retired in 2017). So why am I focusing on work? It's when I worked in an old building which had an elevator that sometimes didn't work well so I would walk up the 5 flights of stairs. In the dream, I can't get to work and the stairwell is always blocked by debris. It all relates to the feeling of uselessness. I had about a year of mild brain fog which cleared up mostly by March 2021 when I stopped eating gluten. COVID leaves you with the feeling that you are not on your game. You can't think quickly like you did beforehand. Your PCP says you are just getting older but this ability to figure things out and be organized changed quickly, And along with this comes worry and anxiety which makes the thinking worse. and especially effects short term memory. What brought back my scientific think ability and memory? It was better after my March 2021 diet change (No gluten, no dairy, no deli meat, no red meat) but I think it was the one ounce of pumpkin seeds a day which I started eating in Oct 2024 which returned me to pre COVID thinking. Why? I don't know but that's the only change over the past two years. COVID is a whole body inflammatory response and the pumpkin seeds appear to address that?
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Yes. Disturbing dreams...not nightmares....but vivid and sometimes depressing. I wake up in the night and early mornings& have to calm myself down.
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1 ReactionI am definitely have lots of vivid dreams, but they really aren’t bothersome dreams.
That's odd. So do I. I sometimes get so upset by something I dreamed and don't even remember what it was.
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1 ReactionExactly!!! None of my dreams are scary (yet!), but they sure are disturbing. Several months of this and no relief in sight!
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1 ReactionI’m almost afraid to go to sleep — too disturbing.
LC since 9/2020
Yes! Dreams usually about close family members and/or friends. Some I haven’t thought of in a long time, but oddly disturbing. This has been going on only for the last several months. Med reaction???
I could have written exactly what you just posted. That makes my skin crawl — that’s the “cast” of almost every one of my dreams.
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1 ReactionIn the majority of my dreams, my peeps are generally upset/disappointed/frustrated/angry with me. ie: My nephew was getting very impatient and frustrated with me because I couldn’t figure out a math problem. He is a numbers guy. Made betting (and winning) his extra income job in college. Was a CPA and now a mortgage financer. 😜
Maybe it’s the LC. I feel so useless, unproductive. I can’t even do the simplest math in my head. By simplest, I mean standing at the register at a restaurant staring at my ticket because I can’t add a $3.50 tip to the total. I don’t think they are, but it makes sense for people to be upset/disappointed/frustrated/angry with me. Sigh.
I feel as though we’re twins, sharing the same horror. The one thing that helps me a little is to do puzzles like Wordle (look it up if you need to). When I need to concentrate on the answers, the “nasties” tend to go away.
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1 ReactionReview: I'm 70 now. COVID March 2020. Since COVID I have had dreams with a repeating theme. I'm trying to get to work, (but I retired in 2017). So why am I focusing on work? It's when I worked in an old building which had an elevator that sometimes didn't work well so I would walk up the 5 flights of stairs. In the dream, I can't get to work and the stairwell is always blocked by debris. It all relates to the feeling of uselessness. I had about a year of mild brain fog which cleared up mostly by March 2021 when I stopped eating gluten. COVID leaves you with the feeling that you are not on your game. You can't think quickly like you did beforehand. Your PCP says you are just getting older but this ability to figure things out and be organized changed quickly, And along with this comes worry and anxiety which makes the thinking worse. and especially effects short term memory. What brought back my scientific think ability and memory? It was better after my March 2021 diet change (No gluten, no dairy, no deli meat, no red meat) but I think it was the one ounce of pumpkin seeds a day which I started eating in Oct 2024 which returned me to pre COVID thinking. Why? I don't know but that's the only change over the past two years. COVID is a whole body inflammatory response and the pumpkin seeds appear to address that?