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To the people wishing they had more nightmares: You don't want that. You really don't. I have them so much now. My theory is that most people have nightmares fairly frequently, they just don't remember them in the morning, like how you can sometimes remember a dream if you wake up in the middle of it but wouldn't have otherwise. But I sleep so lightly that I have vivid dreams and vivid nightmares and I'm constantly aware of them. Sounds cool, right? But it's not the cool kind of vivid dream or anything remotely lucid. It basically feels like instead of sleeping you get strapped to a chair in front of a movie screen and forced to watch some poo poo that is either incredibly tedious or pulls up every miserable insecurity you have, and you cannot stop watching or do anything about it. And when you wake up you feel about as rested as if you really had spent 6 of your 8 hours watching lovely, mind numbing movies that you hate. Like, "vivid dreams all the time" sounds really awesome until it's just, like, someone yelling at you while it's flooding outside and you have to pick up all your belongings from the shed before they get permanently ruined, with all the stress slash banality that entails. That's my average "vivid dream". I wake up crying a lot, either from another nightmare or the frustration of sleeping like poo poo yet again. The sleep doctors shrugged and said "your test results looked super normal though! on paper you sleep great!" hahaha  I really don't know what to do anymore. I have a followup with my sleep doctor in a few weeks, half-expecting to get a big shrug and "we can't help you anymore".
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Thanatosian posted:There are anti-nightmare drugs out there. One of my friends was on them for awhile. If the doctor doesn't mention it in the followup, ask. Thank you. I will do this.
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