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Post ICU Nightmares / Hallucinations

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@janegigi @deltakay @jslate @rckj @glinda @muriel66 I think you might be interested in this discussion that @kariulrich started about nightmares persisting after being in the ICU.

Kari, thanks for sharing so openly and some of it for the first time. I, too, am grateful you had a dear friend who understood and was willing to hold your hand so you could get much needed restorative sleep. I had never heard of auditory hallucinations before. You say that stress can bring the sounds back again. Does hearing actual loud rock music trigger you?

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Certain songs trigger the memories but not the auditory hallucination. The auditory hallucination has happened at home when it is completely quite, it is so real I could swear my sons were playing music up in their room, but each time they never have been. I do associate it with stress, however cannot pinpoint what stress.