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Patch

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Anybody wanna talk about BG levels and dreams???

This has been happening to me for a few years now - tell me what you think of it:

My alarm goes off at about 7am and wakes me up. Most mornings I have not had a dream. I hit snooze, and doze back off to sleep for 9mins. I start to have vivid dreams. Alarm goes off again at 7.09am - I hit snooze again ( I like snoozing!), and doze back off. More vivid dreams. Alarm goes off again at 7.18am and I get up and go about my business.

When I was younger, I used to dream every night, without fail. Vivid dreams. This was before I was diagnosed T2 Diabetic. I'm wondering if dreams are related to high BG or high insulin levels? And if this is the case - could it be the dreaded dawn phenomenon causing my dreams during snoozing???

If it IS the dawn phenomenon making me dream during snoozing, could I AVOID the dawn liver dump by NOT going back to sleep for a snooze? Could it be the sound of the alarm waking me abruptly that causes my liver to dump? (Y'know - to give me the energy to go out and hunt a Wooly Mammoth for breakfast?(primative brain, n' all that)).

I'm really keen to hear from others. The link between brain and pancreas/brain and liver is very interesting to me. Any insulin users have any thoughts on this?

Any thoughts on diabetes and dreaming?
 
Wow, what are the dreams about? :wink: sounds fun.

Psychologists say you always dream when you sleep, whether you remember them or not. The kind of vivid dreams you are talking about I'm not so sure, they sound quite unusual. Low sugars certainly make me more liable to, shall we say - imagination. But thats while I'm awake 8)

I think it sounds to me like a personal thing. I personally have always been an insomniac, and have periods where I can hardly sleep at all This problem hasn't changed really at all for me, and happens regardless of good control or bad control, and I've had extreme examples of both over the years. So my personal experience makes me not sure if sleeping and BG levels can be that closely connected.
 
My husband(not diabetic) has vivid dreams when he has been eating cheese .He relates them to me in great detail but I know if I went near to test his BGs he would run a mile :shock: So I cant help you there.
CAROL
 
carty said:
My husband(not diabetic) has vivid dreams when he has been eating cheese .He relates them to me in great detail but I know if I went near to test his BGs he would run a mile :shock: So I cant help you there.
CAROL
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My missus is the same, she's even woken and had a paddy because she thinks the smoke alarm is a spider that's going to get her, sure enough the next morning she will deny everything.

No more cheese for her before bed!! :evil:

I suppose its just down to the sort of experiences you have had throughout the day :)
 
I don't know. I have had more vivid dreams over the past few years but thought it was stress!
I shall test the next time I have one and report back!
 
What a lovely post!

That snooze button is the work of the devil i'm sure - my alarm goes off at 5.55am and I must be up by 6.15 so I have 2 presses built into my morning routine. That's the theory anyway. I usually have 3 presses and end up getting up at 6.25 leaving a mad rush to be out of the house by 6.45.

I can remember my dreams from these snooze sessions too but I have put it down to these little mini naps being at the forefront of my mind and the big sleep gone and dream forgotten.

I have lovely dreams sometimes and 'get back into them' picking up where I left off before the snooze scenario.

Overall I am a terrible sleeper. I seem to have short mini sleeps all night and really crave a big long sleep. I usually have to get up for wee part way through and feel obliged to go downstairs and let the dog out too. Its great (not) standing in the garden in your jim jams at 2 am whilst the dog goes to the toilet.

I have been taking my ipod to bed for the past 2 or 3 years to fill the gaps in between my sleeps as time seems to pass so slowly doesn't it.
 
Gadge said:
My missus is the same, she's even woken and had a paddy because she thinks the smoke alarm is a spider that's going to get her, sure enough the next morning she will deny everything.
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I dream about spiders regularly - I can relate COMPLETELY to your missus! I can wake up, and still SEE the bloody thing up in the corner of the room! I'll be screaming at my misses, saying "CAN'T YOU SEE IT?!?!", and she'll just roll over and say, very calmly "go back to bed, babe..."
 
I love my snooze button way too much! My more vivid dreams tend to be in doze mode, I think it is something to do with sleep cycles.
Wierdest dream last night, that I was in my bed asleep and smoking. I woke up panicing cos I dreamt I had dropped the ciggie. I actually started to look for it. Made stranger as I didn't smoke in bed even when I was a smoker!
 
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