Started acting out things in my sleep? Help!
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I've been experiencing problems sleeping, not being able to get to sleep, waking up through the the night, constant vivid dreams and hypnogogic type things but last night I remember sitting up in my sleep, throwing my pillow and then spitting at something before realising this wasn't normal and I'd been awake, I was also intensely hot and soaked in sweat and my heart was racing through the roof. What the hell is this? I'm really terrified? The only thing I could find similar was REM behaviour disorder which is in people with neurogenerative diseases. Is there something wrong with my brain? I'm really scared as to what's going on
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girl02520
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aaron11751 girl02520
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girl02520 aaron11751
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I get hypnic jerks but only get sleep paralysis very rarely. This was weird and I had no idea what I was doing. I was told it might be a night terror but I thought you didn't remember them? I'm sleeping a bit more than I was but I find it hard to get to sleep, I wake up about 3 times in the night and I have these vivid dreams I can always remember and when I'm trying to sleep but haven't fallen asleep yet I can here all this random chatter or see dream like images in my head even though I know I'm not asleep yet. Makes me so scared theirs something wrong with my brain or I'm going mad
aaron11751 girl02520
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I have the exact same thing happen to me almost on a nightly basis. Especially vivid dreams and the chatter when in between waking and sleeping stages. One of the things I hear the most above the chatter is someone opening my front door. Always jumping up to check no one's breaking in. I hear my name called a lot like someone is in distress. I get sleep paralysis at least once a week, and have since I was little. The other stuff you describe has been going on for about 10 years now. The psychiatrist I used to have told me that it could be a side effect of my complex PTSD. Any chance you have something like that?
girl02520 aaron11751
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This only started happening two months ago, I had a migraine type thing where I lost my vision and it happened around that. I keep getting things like forgetting things and tripping over and getting my words mixed up. It makes me panic it's something neurological but I guess mental things can cause similar symptoms. I get this weird like chatter in my head like nonsense words or like I'm talking to someone in my head when I'm tired too. I'm just really scared it's something horrible.
christofffff girl02520
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What do you think has changed since when you were sleeping well?
Is your bedroom not too hot or cold?
Are you comfortable when you lie down
Clean?
Gareth51625 girl02520
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I have had very similar symptoms since September, soaking sweats in bed even in Winter, taking a long time to get to sleep, waking up frequently after vivid dreams. So I ended up resorting to drinking alcohol every night. It's not ideal and wouldn't suggest you do the same as I am now addicted but at least it gets me off to sleep faster and I only have maybe 1 dream now.