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Anyone wake feeling exhausted after seemingly dreaming all night
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The DR who made the diagnosis of Epic dreaming described it as non-REM dreaming. I can take a short nap and dream. They seem to start as soon as I nod off. The dream continues for what seems like hours. I can be drifting in and out, partially awake, and go right back to the same dream. The only way to end it is to physically get up and walk around. When I return to bed a new dream starts and goes on and on.
This has been going on every night basically my whole life. I can't believe that I have been stressed every single day or that it is medication related since I wasn't on any when younger.
I asked the DR if there had been any research for cause and treatment. His reply was that no one wants to spend time and money on rare disorders.
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I create an account just to reply to this thread. I grew up thinking everybody experience the same sleep until I shared to my friends and found out this was abnormal. I once experiment by setting up random alarms at several random nights and yes I was dreaming all the time, from the moment I drift into sleep to waking up. I also don't know if I wake up tired or not because I have been like this my whole life, so there is no bar of "refreshness" to refer to. I just seem to have super low energy compared to an average adult without having any mental disorder (not sure if it's sleep-related or just a personality thing).
Thank you for sharing. It is somehow comforting to find out I'm not alone. Also, glad to hear you live to this age healthy (I suppose). I hope there is more research to this and we get to somehow improve our sleep quality.
"They seem to start as soon as I nod off. The dream continues for what seems like hours. I can be drifting in and out, partially awake, and go right back to the same dream. The only way to end it is to physically get up and walk around."
I relate a 100%. Saddens me to think you have been going through this for so long.
That's exactly what I'm experiencing for a few years now: even if I fall asleep and someone wakes me up a minute later, I can recall at least 30 seconds of my dreams. I can't remember the last time I was not dreaming when I woke up, and I typically can recall very long dreams just after waking up. I don't have PTSD, I am not stressed and I don't take any medication -I just dream non-stop, and it is very tiring, almost like I've been studying for an exam for the last 8-10 hours non-stop.
Ah, they are normal dreams, not "banal physical activities", so they can have all sorts of themes, being boring, scaring, weird, happy, sad, with known people, with made-up people... In fact, not many of them are nightmares, but they are all very very long.
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I’ve also had this since I was young; I don’t take any medication, but I force myself to get up and walk around. The problem is when I go back to sleep the next night or if I’m still tired and take a nap; I will sleep a few hours but dream days passing, thereby facilitating total exhaustion. I find it is particularly worse when I am subconsciously stressed.