Oddly, I've had a very similar dream recently. I could feel heart palpitations that became slower and slower until my heart finally stopped and I died. It was more scary than I imagined. Usually, I never die in a dream. I wake up right before. I had recently relapsed to anorexia, and I often wonder if my heart is struggling while sleeping and it manifests in a dream.
Anyway, I often feel like I don't get any reprieve while sleeping due to my regular nightmares. Thanks, PTSD. I hope you can shake the feeling and get some sleep tonight. I know it's not very easy when it feels so real.
Thank you :) I was able to sleep after I calmed down because I was very tired. I used to woke up before I died in my nightmares too. This was the first time it was like witnessing my death and it felt so real.You know I asked myself the same question because lately every time I start falling asleep my breathing becomes slower and slower and
and I breathe a little with difficulty
not enough oxygen reaches the brain and sometimes my heart skips beats, maybe it's possible that I was stopping breathing when i fell asleep and with the nightmare my brain made me wake up. Incredible what our mind is capable of doing in order to survive.Sorry you are dealing with anorexia and PTSD...it's hard!
I've had several dreams where I either get shot, drown or hang myself - every single time the feeling is such an absolute bliss that I kinda regret waking up. I don't associate dying with nightmare, I don't see monsters or anything even remotely scary.
But then again I'm not a very emotional person so even my dreams are dull, lol.
I understand ... I was happy that I was dying in that moment too but the problem is that the dream turned into something monstrous, it was like being trapped. I felt like there was a negative and evil presence. I was really afraid. Were not painful the deaths in your dreams? sure it was just a dream but when you died in the dream it seemed that you felt pain?
It sounds like you get sleep paralysis. I also get them but rarely. I also sometimes get "out of body" experiences when trying to fall sleep. I usually see a replica of myself floating up to the ceiling and at first it's amusing and I want to see what's beyond the ceiling, but then I get frightened and wake up.
And how I love them nightmares. I wake up with no reprieve because I realise that I'm just in yet another nightmare. One continuous nightmare.
Wow.... the world of dreams and nightmares is really interesting Incredible what our mind is capable of creating while we sleep(:
I get night terrors. I'm always being chased or hurt or something. I sort of get to a point where I start waking up so I scream in my dream and then I wake up screaming. In full flight and panic mode. It's been on and off for years.
Sometimes I yell in my sleep ….so I've been told.
Then you wake up and you're just in a different hell.
It sucks and the first time must have been beyond terrifying. I'm really sorry you have to deal with that.
Sending a big hug.
thank you :) :) I am also very sorry that you often have these kinds of nightmares It's terrible ... Is it possible that even in sleep we can't have some peace? It's a pain ... I hug you :)
I have nightmares but nothing as bad as that. Our minds do like to torture us and it sounds awful what you have had to deal with. I have dreamt about ctb before, as it is on my mind a lot during the day. I hope you find some relief.
Thanks :) it's true, it seems our minds were made to torture us! I guess you felt relief while ctb in your dreams...
