Kristin Schwoebel
Do you experience nightmares as part of your narcolepsy symptoms and do they affect you even after waking?
LambOfUrGod Member
This symptom developed after my N2 progressed into N1. I experienced lucid dreams before I knew what they were. I just knew I wasn't awake, but I was aware. I digressed into a deep depression and soon met what being human meant to me. It was a very interesting journey into my chemical machine.
Vicki1940 Member
I have hallucinations that seem real to me. I can shout out for my daughter only to realize that I was dreaming. My dreams are never good. They usually have me trapped some place on a mountain with no way to get down. Sometimes there is a man coming into my bedroom. I am always in distress. I sometimes get up during these dreams to do something like answer the door only to find out I'm just dreaming and no one is there. I cannot remember having a pleasant dream. I shout out quite often. The dreams seem to be coming more often and are more vivid than in the past. I don't know if I am awake when I get up and walk around. Sometimes I think the dreams are real and don't find out until I'm awake and talk to someone and find out that it didn't happen. It is an interesting phenomenon and can be funny sometimes.
DracoDan Member
I have extremely vivid and complex dreams, sometimes peaceful and other times what most would consider a nightmare... Here's the odd thing, years ago while trying to master lucid dreaming I seem to have made my brain understand that what is going on is only a dream, so even scary stuff in a dream is just like watching a scary movie. I no longer worry about what's going on in the dream, I just go with it (or often times try to control it, Ie. a lucid dream). I would like to know if other people with narcolepsy do the same thing or similar.
If you don't know what lucid dreaming is - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid_dream
Allison Echols Community Admin
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