Question
I dream everytime and anywhere I go to sleep. I talk in my sleep to the people I am talking to in my dreams. I scream, kick, fight, and act out while dreaming. Last night I was dreaming I got off a bus on a dark street and started walking to a cemetery when a large crowd of people stared coming towards me and I jumped over some bushes to hide and I woke up while I was crawling out of bed onto the floor. In my dreams I was telling a lady that she didn't have faith in God and my husband told me exactly what I said while I was asleep and before I told him what I'd said in my dreams. One night I was fighting his ex-wife in my dreams and I was kicking in bed and he had to wake me up to stop me. This behavior while I am asleep is really frustrating and I want to know what is this called, why this happens and what can be done to stop it and if I need professional help
Answer
What you are having is if it happens just before you awaken or fall off to sleep its called hypnangogic hallucinations, dreams can be frightened because technically you are awake and yet still asleep. The brain and body are synchronized to fall asleep and awaken together but there is a nano second lapse and thats where the problem lies. Instead of shaking to wake you dont let him touch you but simply call your name out loud and over and tell you its allright for example jane this john im here its allright wake up, constantly if you can try to move your eyelids from right to left you will awaken. Now if this affects your wakefulness during the day then you need to go to a sleep center where they can monitor your sleep overnight, they probably will put you on antidepressants but in a baby dose as research finds it holds back some of the dreaming, however we all need to dream so a few do break through. otherwise youre not crazy its normal . Now the simplest thing to try is 3 hours before your bedtime stay away from caffeine, tea, coffee, caramel colored soda like coke and pepsi,gingerale, root beer, chocolate and exercise all this make for restless sleep. 30 min. before bedtime take a hot bath immerse palms under water which send impulses to brain to tell you that its time to relax and lastly but most importantly take a glass of warm plain milk. Milk when heated contains tryptophan a natural amino acid that makes for calmer sleep. go to sleepnet.com punch in hypnangogic hallucinations which can be a symptom of narcolepsy only if your daytime wakefulness is affected otherwise its natural phenomenon.also go to talk about sleep.com where they have weekly live radio shows with doctors you can email in live to speak to. feel free to email again karel
