Insomnia, Nightmares, and Sleepless Nights
 

I don't know about you guys, but I wasn't able to sleep last night, probably due to excitement about the new year (my brain pulled a Princess and the Pea on me, durhurhurr). Anyway, I was wondering if any of you Menewshans have been overlooked or jilted by the Sandman recently?

Now, for your enjoyment, spoonfeeding! It'll leave those hands free to click-clack merrily away on those keyboards of yours.
i. Nightmares: Had any interesting or freaky ones recently? What were they about?
ii. Insomnia, sleeping pills, and sleepwalking: Insomnia cases causing pill-popping which induces sleepwalking, oh my!
iii. Princess and the Pea: You didn't sleep (neither did I), but why? Is it because the moon is dead?
iv. No Rest for the Wicked: References to sleeplessness (the title of this numeral is the name of a wonderful webcomic, I'd suggest checking it out), the Sandman, and other sleep and dream related things in pop culture, books, etc.

My typing skills have degraded and my grammar and punctuation are atrocious because of my lack of sleep, please overlook any glaring errors or general nonsense you may see, I'm seven kinds of stupid today.

hey i think we all are seven kinds of stupid today...
i actually don't have dreams that often, but when i do, god there weird...
i remember this dream from when i was really young(like 8 i think)
it was in strange colours, and it had a t-reax, and the cats from sailor moon(luna& artimus)
and we were driving vans trying to escape the t-rex...
it was probably the single strangest dream i have ever had...
ssssttttrrrraaaaannngggeeeee!
oh and i dream in english, but you don't hear it, there is subtitles....
that is strange....

I. My most recent Nightmare...hmm I don't get the often. The only one I can think of is from 5 weeks ago. My blanket had a strong grip on me, kind of like a cacoon. My mouth wasn't covered, but I screamed as hard as I could. Or rather I tried. Then I saw the shadows at my door get more dark and menacing. They made their way too me and I kept trying to scream louder and louder until - I woke up actually screaming. >.<

II. I don't take sleeping-pills. INstead I always toss and turn for 1-3 hours. Lately I've been laying there for 4 hourse now.

III. Eh what now? *confused*

IV. Once again you lost me. But I do like webcomics =]

I haven't had a fullout nightmare (that I remember) since I was a kid but I have really strange/uncomfortable dreams a lot. :I

As soon as I don't have a strict schedule (i.e. school/work balancing) my sleeping schedule goes to hell. I was up until 9.30 AM yesterday D:

1) I don't get many nightmares...Mostly boring dreams.
Most of the worst dreams involved reality with being pulled out of sleep due to the re-occuring chronic pain in my belly area. I'd dream something violent was happened to me and then I woke in pain. My chronic belly pain would be flaring up.

2) IF only I had known!....I wanted to be sleepwalking so bad that I would be dreaming that it happened. AND I was only bring tricked as it never actually happened. I hate being foolied like that. I've never tried pills for insomnia.

3) Sometimes I've been in bed all night without sleeping. Problem is it means I'll promptly fall asleep during the daytime.

Then there would be the pain issue, this often kept from sleeping for 24-48 hours. Not sure if it counts under insomnia since I was tired and couldn't fall asleep due to the pain. I would be extremely tired by the time I feel asleep either because the pain subsided or because my exhausted became greater then the pain level.

4) I've seen a few references.

I always have insomnia... I've had it since I was a kid...
I got used to it, I suppose. Some nights I don't sleep... others 4 hrs...
I mean, at least I miss less life, right?

Well, since I've gotten older I don't stay up for special events (New Years, Christmas, etc). I haven't had an real "nightmare" in a while, but I keep having this reoccurring dream about zombies taking over my town. It always ends right before the zombies try to get the the roof of my school, where everyone is.

Sleep trouble is really frequent for me. You see, I have sleep apnea, and my CPAP machine gives me nightmares (I'm deathly afraid of hospitals and it makes me feel like I'm in one), so I'm stuck with either putting a tennis ball down the back of my pajama top so I have to sleep on my side (which isn't even 100% effective)...or inevitably having nightmares of some kind.

Worst part about my tennis ball trick? My dog loves tennis balls. XD;;;;

Though I do still have nightmares sometimes without the machine, often even along the same lines as the ones it gives me (though granted, the machine does make them worse; notable case - before I started trying the tennis ball trick, I refused to watch my favorite movie, because every time I did I kept dreaming of dying in the hospital and having to watch someone I care about very very much essentially commit suicide because of it...that...really sucked; now I can watch the movie with minimal nightmares, though I still do have nightmares about it sometimes).

My worst streak of nightmares, though, was actually BEFORE I even knew I had sleep apnea. I'm not going into the details on that one...but I did have a single recurring nightmare for over two years. Eventually I...got used to it to the best extent that one can, and I guess that's what made it go away, because it slowed down and eventually just stopped coming after that. Another thing that helped me was that I went up and talked to someone who was in costume as the main antagonist of said nightmare...and needless to say didn't get killed.

I also suffer from an annoying type of insomnia. I'll feel too tired to do anything, even talk, even hold my keyboard in my bed and type...yet I CANNOT, for the LIFE of me, ACTUALLY GET TO SLEEP. Eventually I pass out from the boredom.

I don't take sleeping pills for it. I can't. Depressants of any kind make my sleep apnea worse. I'm totally fine at this point, but if I make it worse, it could kill me. o__e;

But...ah well. I'm actually kinda used to it. It sucks being a vampire forced into a normal diurnal human's schedule.

My most recent nightmare involved slashing my boyfriend's sister's throat. With a machete. While the Boyfriend was in the same room. o_o; There was blood everywhere, the Boyfriend was mad at me (durr), and then a bunch of partying people burst in and saw the blood, the machete, and the nearly headless corpse.

...And I'll check out the webcomic :)

When I was little, I had a nightmare that my Dad lost a bet in a gambling game, and as a punishment he had to turn into an elephant. o _o Freaked the crap out of me, but when I ran to my parents, tears streaking down my face as I explained the dream to them, they just laughed. xD;
I also had a nightmare about my family turning into Pokemon and trying to turn me into one too when I was little. That freaked me out too > _> Then again, thinking about it now, being a pokemon wouldn't be so bad.

Now I barely have nightmares, let alone dreams. I don't usually have sleepless nights, since I just let music play in my ears from my MP3 player which helps me sleep. :3

I haven't any lately unless you call bashing up your own sister in your sleep a nightmare. Weird, yes but nightmare no.
I haven't had Insomnia in a while, haven't sleptwalked or anything.
I didn't sleep once because I wanted to pull an all nighter. It was fun.
Hmm, go to dreammoods.com for dream intepretations.

my boyfriend suffers from sleep paralysis occasionally and severe anxiety sometimes. he has lots of sleeping problems. I bought him a sodolite stone and so far its actually been helping. since i bought it for him he only had one sleep paralysis problem which is way less the it was before.

i dont know if that helps anyone... but try it. i happen to believe in it, so that may be why stone majik works for me. but it cant hurt trying, their less the a dollar!

Back when I was working, I was an early riser.

Now I go to bed really late - but still have trouble falling asleep. Sometimes I just get up, rather than toss and turn in bed.

I have very vivid dreams. The nightmare-ish ones usually are about me trying to get away from something, but I can't run. I end up pulling myself along on the floor with my hands. Weird, huh?

There are also the usual "oh no... we're having a test and I haven't studied" type of dreams. Never mind the fact that I've been out of school for very many years now.

Due to clinical severe depression I don't normally sleep very much, it's just so hard for me to fall asleep and once I do I'm restless and waking up every hour or so from nightmares. My depression pills are supposed to help with it but I take them in the morning and refuse to take them at night for if I take a sleep inducing pill it's near to impossible to get me up in the morning! And my boyfriend, Josh, has insomnia so he doesn't sleep much either. Usually, I'll be talking with him on the phone (he got his computer taken away for bad grades. lol-you'd think since he doesn't sleep and has all that time on his hands he'd get some work done! but he's just so lazy!) or sometimes he'll even sneak over to my house because my parents work at night we never get caught.

Due to my overly active mind, I can't seem to fall asleep. I'm not entirely sure why this is. I'm one of those people who can't seem to get the full required 8 hours of sleep for my age group. Aside from this, I'm still able to get my priorities done. Don't ask me how I do it, I just do. Honestly, I'd rather not sleep. My fears, bad memories, and nightmares, take over my dreams. Making them..something that brings me to tears when I wake up.
I've never taken sleeping pills, or any of that kind. I find them useless.
I'd rather not take them.

naw i haven't had any recent nightmares, the last nightmare i had was like about 2 weeks ago...and it was someone i care dieing infront of me, and i couldn't stop it. felt useless.
I use to talke sleeping pills, or pop any pills to make me go to sleep, but that was when i really couldn't sleep. i've never sleepwalked (that know of) but i do talk in my sleep.

I never heard of that story...

i've probably never had a sleepless night, i think. if i crawl into bed, then i'll fall asleep for sure.
i've had several nightmares that had me wake up dreading the worst, though. but those (along with good dreams) are usually interrupted by my alarm. T ^T

i do believe i talk in my sleep sometimes. usually with good dreams, i think.