Suffocating 'dream'

[Soluna]

I was having trouble sleeping last night (or, more trouble than usual). I was distinctly noticing how quiet things were outside of the house - and thinking back, although I did not check to see what 'time' it was, I recall that afterwards, the birds began to sing so it must have been early morning.

I was on the edge of drifting off to sleep, and I think I had convinced myself that there was 'something' in the house, besides my husband beside me in bed and our 3 cats. I think I had images in my mind of Greys - although I'm fairly certain it was just my imagination.

I don't know if I actually went to sleep and was dreaming what followed, or whether I was just slipping in and out of sleep.

I felt that I needed to open my eyes, to 'catch' or 'see' whatever was in the house - but I couldn't hold them open for long enough, or wake up enough to hold them open. I was finding it difficult to breathe. I 'think' I turned over to my husband (but am unsure whether I was 'dreaming' this) to try and see past him into the hall, again to try and 'catch' a glimpse of what may possibly be in the house. I was trying to 'call' out to my husband, to try and ask him to help me wake up properly - I couldn't breathe or keep my eyes open. I felt I was suffocating or 'drowning' into a sleep that I couldn't wake from. I couldn't vocalise properly, and as I was trying to say my husbands name it 'sounded' breathless and too quiet; he wasn't waking up to help me 'wake up'.

It was very frightening, and although I didn't really think there was anyone else in the house, that I felt I couldn't properly drag myself out of sleep to 'check', and that I couldn't breathe, was very scary.

I think I finally managed to rouse my husband enough that it woke me up properly, and I laid for a while with my eyes wide open - trying to belly breathe deeply to confirm my wakefulness, and then the birds started to sing.


My dreams are often so vivid I can't tell when I am truly 'awake' or not - when I remember my dreams (which I would say is mostly every day) I am rarely in the house that I currently live, so it struck me as odd that I would be 'dreaming' of struggling to wake in my bed.



I have been feeling very 'wasted', head-achy and spread thin this week. Almost floating through each day as though it was a kind of dream, and unable to concentrate.

Touching my forehead right now - it feels foreign to me, as though the skin belongs to someone else. I don't know how to describe it.


Oh! I remember - when I had the impression that it was Greys in the house with us - vividly thinking, that they wouldn't care whether I 'saw' them or not, because we were just 'meat bags' to them - they couldn't care or feel empathy.

 

[Oxajil]

Hi Soluna,

You mentioned that you had this experience somewhere in the early morning. Are you familiar with REM sleep? Because REM occurs mostly at the end of our sleep, close to morning. During REM sleep the muscles are inhibited, so they are hard to move. This could relate to you feeling like you were stuck and not being able to move.

More info on REM sleep: _http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_eye_movement_sleep

REM sleep normally occurs close to morning.[4] During a normal night of sleep, humans usually experience about four or five periods of REM sleep; they are quite short at the beginning of the night and longer toward the end. [...]

During REM, the activity of the brain's neurons is quite similar to that during waking hours; for this reason, the REM-sleep stage may be called paradoxical sleep. [...]

Subjects' vividly recalled dreams mostly occur during REM sleep. [...]

The release of certain neurotransmitters, the monoamines (norepinephrine, serotonin and histamine), is completely shut down during REM.[7][8][9] This causes REM atonia, a state in which the motor neurons are not stimulated and thus the body's muscles do not move.

So you may have been woken up while your muscles were still being inhibited, being sort of still in REM sleep, until you fully woke up.

I have been feeling very 'wasted', head-achy and spread thin this week. Almost floating through each day as though it was a kind of dream, and unable to concentrate.

Touching my forehead right now - it feels foreign to me, as though the skin belongs to someone else. I don't know how to describe it.

If you want to, you can look into the Life Without Bread thread to check out the updates on information on diet and health, where dietary changes are discussed that have been helpful with physical and mental issues. I've experienced the same as you, but having made dietary changes and doing EE regularly I don't get it anymore.

Hope this helps and I hope you feel better soon!

 

[Soluna]

Thank you very much for your response =)

Regarding the REM and muscle inhibition - this makes a lot of sense. Perhaps I was tired and hovering in and out of REM sleep, with my thoughts disturbed by what I was thinking about as I was falling asleep - and then finding it hard to 'wake up'.

As I remember so many of my dreams - I often feel as though I don't get enough proper sleep or rest. I feel 'tired' of dreaming (and often of living) and simply would like some peaceful rest at times! I imagine I need to read more on dreams, I have so many that I find upon waking, are disturbing and uncomfortable!


I have been reading and learning about the diet - and implementing changes where possible. I do get frustrated and disheartened when I think deeper into food contaminants - I doubt there is much on this planet that is 'uncontaminated'.

 

[ana]

As I remember so many of my dreams - I often feel as though I don't get enough proper sleep or rest. I feel 'tired' of dreaming (and often of living) and simply would like some peaceful rest at times! I imagine I need to read more on dreams, I have so many that I find upon waking, are disturbing and uncomfortable!

Maybe you can begin to do Dream work