Sweet dreams

Hi Adrian,
HAve you had any emotional problems of late?
I suffer with vivid dreams, everybody does to a certain point! Sometimes we remeber dreams, my worst dream i remember is running down a hospital ward and it was never ending never stopped getting longer! The faster i ran the longer the ward got!
It is a case that vivid dreams can be caused by different things, emotional trauma, physical trauma, abuse, memories that you wish to forget, grief!
Sometimes it is just the case of good old brain playing tricks on us! I found that shreddies or any breakfast ceral shoots my Bg through the roof!
have you tried going for a bath about a hour before bed! I find a bath helps lowers my Bg!
When the brain and body have not rested during the night it is normal to struggle to get up as your body is screaming, no i have not slept enough let me sleep!
As mad as it sounds this could be the reason why you struggle to wake up! When you have a bad nightmare you baody can kick out and you move alot, this means that your body is not getting rested to be able to carry on with the rest of the day!
Hope thsi makes some sort of sense to you!
Sandy

Hi
are you a type 1?
My mum is type 1 she says she has dreams she remembers when her blood sugars are high!
Maybe you are suffering the same as her!

I have always been one for very vivid dreams. I have premonition dreams too.....that tsunami....fires...twin towers.......people dying.....and I also have very 'odd' dreams that even a psychologist probably couldn't fathom out ....don't ask...... :lol: I also have dreams that have me doing odd things in my sleep but then I'll wake up doing them.....for instance I can clearly remember loudly asking one of my sons to stand still whilst I wiped his nose.....only to wake up wiping my startled husband's nose with a tissue! :lol: It could have been worse. My son was potty training at the time! As for dreams being linked to high blood sugars.....hmmm.....I've never really thought about that.My most vivid dreams were pre-diagnosis, so probably not the case with me.
If I was a drinker, I think folks would be more likley to bet on that being the cause of my odd night-time behaviour.It's very entertaining in house!!!

hi all, i too have very vivid dreams which i remember when i awake.i dream every night and my partner :roll: :roll: :roll: who is not diabetic says he doesnt dream.I remember everything in my dreams.Some mornings i wake up and i feel so tired even if ive been in bed since say 9.30pm.I try to check my blood sugars before my supper and no matter if they are low.normal,high before my sleep i still have vivid dreams.They only time i dont dream is if i have a drink of wine before bedtime!!Then my mind started thinking "could this be my lantus?"I would love to know if anyone else has these things like dreams and strange tired feelings when they wake up.This lantus has not been out for that long and none of us know what the side effects are if any.

I dont know how much is related to high bg but I too have vivid dreams. They were very bizarre in the weeks after dx but I suspect it was stress

Howver, a bg of 10 or over will absolutely wipe me out. If i go hyper at work after lunch (often happens, ****** premixed insulin -long story) then I can be found slumped over my desk.
I feel so bad that I dont actually need to test to see cause the symptoms are the same -yawn,runny nose, sore legs. Weird but there you are
When I have tested, its ALWAYS been over.

So, waking to that, having been that during the night will leave you starting your day feeling grotty. So, the moral of the story - chuck the cereal at night. I usuall have toast and peanut butter, or toast and cheese (burgen). Burgen is slow release, peanut butter and cheese are fatty so slow it down.

chocoholic said:

I have premonition dreams too.....

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You too?

Unfortunately mine are usually pretty trivial, I find I dreamed something I subsequently see on TV or similar. They've become so common they don't phase me any more. Now if I could predict something useful . . .

. . . the main influence on my dreams is antidepressants. On SSRIs I usually had technicolour dreams which unfold like a movie in which I was not involved. On Effexor I actually participate.

Had a weird one the other morning. There was a long boring coucil meeting and I went out with someone for a walk in the garden. Then I started to hear a call for votes over the Tannoy

"Fourth call! Fourth call!"

Didn't know what had happened to the previous calls. While trying to get back into the building I woke up and this bloody collared dove was bellowing in through my window "Coo-COOO! Coo-COOO!"

I had been alright and rarely remembered my dreams until 2 weeks ago when I had my first night hypo. I dropped low and everything seems very vivid and frantic until my body wakes me up. One I had the other night gave me a headache all day because I had been so stressed in the dream and I couldn't shake it!

Louise

nothing to do with hypos but i do have extremely vivid dreams every single time i sleep :?

I have the opposite (typical!), weird dreams usually mean I'm hypo. Not aware of dreams at all if I'm high, just a really good uninterrupted night's sleep. If I'm around 5 or lower I only sleep about an hour at a time.

adrian29459 said:

TROUBR - Have you had a severe hypo seizure before? It might be possible that you fitted during your sleep? I've had a fair few now and the nighttime ones happened fairly often when I was on mixed insulin.

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No I don't think so - I think my hubby would have noticed. :?

I have been T1 for a year and only started having night hypos last week - a combination of new diet and evening aerobics class. I was 2.9 the first one and the other ones were in the 3's with which I have just woken up in my natural sleep cycle and not been able to get back to sleep which I have now realised is a sign for me.

I think I just need to review my ratio's and have less insulin on exercise nights!

I try not to go to bed too low but as I often eat after my son is in bed at around 8 ish and my insulin doesn't kick in until about 3 hours later by which time I am in bed asleep as I am up at 5.45 most day. therefore my nighttime reading is sometimes misleading. :?