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Anyone wake feeling exhausted after seemingly dreaming all night

Sleep Health | Last Active: Oct 30 7:19am | Replies (158)
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@brandysparks

These seemingly realistic dreams - but often in unrealistic situations (like tiny elevators, stratospherically-high skyscrapers, marauding T. rex's on the skyline 🙂 ) - seem to occur especially in the hour just before finally getting up.

Other common topics are looking for a car parked somewhere - I have no idea of where - and frustration trying to find it and/or finding out in the dream it was stolen...

Teresa, you mentioned 'in reaction...to disorders like Parkinson's'...though not asking for a dream analysis, wondering about how some kinds of dreaming may be indicators of Parkinson's or other forms of cognitive impairment? Any links to NIH studies or Mayo research?

Thank you!

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John, Volunteer Mentor | @johnbishop | Jul 27, 2022

@brandysparks I thought I would post a few research articles that you asked about for Teresa @hopeful33250.

-- Cognitive Impairments and Self-Reported Sleep in Early-Stage Parkinson’s Disease with Versus without Probable REM Sleep Behavior Disorder: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7016995/
-- Distressing dreams and risk of Parkinson's disease: A population-based cohort study: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(22)00204-8/fulltext

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Teresa, Volunteer Mentor | @hopeful33250 | Jul 27, 2022

Hi @brandysparks

The websites that John, @johnbishop, provided offer some good information. If you were wondering specifically about sleep problems and Parkinson's here is some information from the Davis Phinney website which you might find helpful and informative,
https://davisphinneyfoundation.org/why-is-it-so-hard-to-sleep-now-that-i-have-parkinsons/.
While this does not answer about the type of dreams, it does explain the type of sleep problems that people with PD encounter.

Do you have any other thoughts or concerns?

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