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Hypo dreams

DiaBethic95

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Location
Saltash, Cornwall
Type of diabetes
Type 1
Treatment type
Insulin
Is it just me or do other people have really strange dreams when they go hypo in the night when you're asleep?
I always wake up so confused ... Maybe that's just the low sugars though haha

Beth


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I saw a vision of my dads face after one... Makes me laugh coz when I had that hypo I was sweating buckets and I thought to myself "I am turning into my dad!" Who used to have the same symptom when he was hypo. My sister called me psychotic but I believe something different


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I get those but I don't think they are actually dreams I think they are related to the hypos.. One I frequently get is lists of numbers dropping in front of my face a bit like in the Matrix film. I am an accountant so work with spreadsheets a lot so think this is related. I am a very active dreamer anyway but when I hypo I often am aware that I am running my hands up and down my face. That normally wakes my wife up who wakes me up properly to sort myself out.
 
I can only remember one dream when I went hypo in the night. At the time I had a baby that was only a few weeks old and in my dream she was screaming but I couldn't get to her because everything around me was speeding by so fast I couldn't get hold of her. As I started to come round everything began to slow down a little until it came to a halt, at which point I regained consciousness. And there she was in her cot next to me screaming for food. I've always thought the speed of everything in that 'dream' was my brain activity or something related to the fact that my brain was starved of glucose.
 
Interesting subject, I do recollect once dreaming I was hypo and woke-up and I was. Dreams are fascinating, they never make any sense in the cold light of day
 
A good few years ago, long before blood test meters, I started to have nightmares which began not long after an insulin change. They were very bad and very scary and in each one I was being chased by something evil. It sounds daft but I always got the sensation just before I came out of the nightmare of floating down onto the bed, escaping from the creature that was after me.

I spoke these through with my GP as I was beginning to think I was going mad. He suggested I had some bread before bedtime as he felt I was going hypo when sleeping and this was the brains way of waking me. I have no idea if his theory is correct but the bread just before bed stopped them from the very first night I took it.

Bill
 
Back in the mid 90's i awoke from a hypoglycaemic dream & asked my girlfriend (now wife.) according to her."where can i get a pogo stick"..? What you see in my right hand in my profile pic is the result.. A pogo mike stand hybrid converted from one of the boom stands i used to smash up...

I normally go on "auto pilot" when hypo..
 
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I had a crazy dream last year with a hypo that actually got me up and out of bed, opened the window and stuck my head out!!!!!!!! I woke up slowly while I was half hanging out the window and was incredibly confused, blood sugar was 2.1!!


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I've always had dreams but since becoming diabetic I can never seem to remember them waking up to a blood sugar of below three a few times that was a scary feeling when everything I did didn't seem to work
 
I've had some pretty scary and strange dreams when in a hypo, for instance being stuck on an aircraft carrier being bombed by planes and seeing Darth Maul from Star Wars....
 
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