From the article: Does Bipolar Disorder Affect Dreams?
Adults with bipolar disorder are more likely to have vivid dreams and nightmares. They are also more likely to experience night terrors, which is more common among children in the general population. Share your experience with bipolar disorder dreaming. Share Your Dreams
vived dream #3 no lights mumbling
- I was living i maryland wit my bro and sumtime i'd stay at a chicks crib for 2 nights .well wile at this chicks hous i had this dream : in the dream i woke up at me and my bro crib in my room it was night the lights was off the t.v. Was on the picture on the t.v. Was messed up u kno snowy so i sat up in the bed n heard mumbling no bull shit so i got up to turn the light on and when i hit the light swich the light blew out so i reached my hand out the room to the kicthen light and that was out too! So now so i walk in the kicthen and walk over to the sink light i turn it on & it went on but real dim barely on i stud there for a few minutes buggin then i heard a voice say "jesus" i diped down the hall to the bathroom and hit the light swich and woke up
- —Guest geo
dream #2 i cant get out
- ..when my dad passed my bro moved with his girlfriend i moved with my other older brother..weeks after we moved i had a dream i woke up in the apt i lived in before my dad passed in my old bed as i woke up i heard my older bro & his kids shuting the front door & looking it ..but they never lived there !right away i noticed i was in the old apt n i jumped out the bed like what am i doing here ..looking around everyting was the same .it was daylight out side i quikly walked to the front door to get out of there (i was about 12yrs old) when i got to the door i unlocked it n open the door i walked out but the crazyest thing was when i walked out i was walking back in the apt this repeats 3x i was type shook i headed to the fireescape to get out and the sky turned night & as i try & figure a way out the phone started ringing & i froze i went to pick it up no answer i hung it up and went for the door again and the phone started to ring again i went out the door and woke u
- —Guest geo
my demented vived dream#1
- i had a dream that i was in a aparment (this was night time) the apartment was a strait lengh apartment and i was at one en of it looking towards a window .when i noticed people outside the window looking in and them also walkin towards the outter other end of the apartment ..lights on in the apartment i started walking towards the other end wicth at the end was the kichten when i get to the kicthen to the left of the kichten at the entrence was a window to the left .. I look towrds the window and there was a womens head on a stick ! The head was rotting black with light hair and the face had movements and said my name there was people outside the window looking in and pointing to this head .the head started to sribble poking at this head with a stick i woke up.
- —Guest geo
Bipolar dreams
- I dream every single night and wake up worn out, like having actually physically participated in my dream. I can stop my dream one night then pick up where I left off the next night, I can go back to dreams and change what I do (helpful with nightmares). I've never met anyone else that can do this...very strange. I sometimes google my dreams and find places usually buildings in my dreams are actually real although I've never seen them for real.
- —Guest Shellstar
Vivid dreams as well!
- I was diagnosed about a year ago. I have had vivid dreams all my life. When I was small I would wake up screaming, because of this feeling I had from a nightmare. I dreamt I was floating upside down and my body parts would slowly start float away from me until I was just left with my torso. It was a horrible feeling, which I had still a while after I woke up. I also had long dreams, which I can still remember. My one dream was almost exactly the story of Eragon (book and movie). I hadn't heard of the story before my dream, I still think it is weird that I dreamt of a story before I knew of it. I thought I was psychic, because I have dreams of things that come true. The one dream I had was of a door, this one wasn't so vivid, but I would wake up saying "a door!" A few days later I was stuck in a bathroom as the door was jammed. Maybe I am psychic, I don't know. I have strange dreams, I thought I just had I wild imagination.
- —Guest Cyclothymia
dream like I'm awake
- I dreamt that I was on a road trip with my mom in the passenger seat and my girlfriend was in the back seat. They both fell asleep because it was so late; I turned on the radio and turned down the heat to stay awake. I fell asleep at the wheel and woke up as the car jumped over the guardrail and hit the rocky hillside. It was actually my mom and gf's screams that woke me up. The car crumpled and I felt the most intese pain in my entire life. I opened my eyes and found myself in the hospital with several broken bones. I was heavily drugged and closed my eyes to make it all go away. I reawoke later and had trouble walking. They told me my mom was dead. The incredibly vivid dream continued over the span of several weeks, with me learning how to walk again. When I really did wake up, and found myself in my own bed, I still had the same intense pain and wondered if my legs might actually be broken. The pain lasted for several hours, but my gf only said I had been mumbling in my sleep again
- —Guest white rain
dreamer 3-5
- I have 3 to 5 dreams a night that I remember as almost a reality. I have several different diagnoses such as Bi-polar disorder, magical thinking syndrome, PTSD, Anxiety, and etc. I never knew that Bi-polar Disorder could be a reason for these relentless dreams. 10 years ago my husband the father of my two daughters committed suicide and I dream all the time that he is really alive and his family has knew it the whole time. That we are getting back together but then I realize no one can see him but me and I am beside myself with grief. Like some of the others on here have stated I wake up crying and disturbed for days. Is there anyway to stop these dreams? I need to move passed this but its hard when I relive these things every night. [Guide's note: PTSD could well be a factor in these dreams. Are you discussing them with your therapist? Also, visit About.com's PTSD site at http://ptsd.about.com]
- —kendradreamz
I can't believe I'm not the only one
- I want to thank you for this article and all the responses that I've read. All my life I've felt trapped by vivid nightmares multiple times a night. Vivid is a bit of a misnomer since I feel everything happening to me or my daughter when I dream. I've felt my teeth kicked in and my body being shot/stabbed. I've even experienced terrifying episodes of paralysis where I've not been able to move or talk/scream though my eyes are opened. The worst, by far, are the dreams that involve my daughter...these dreams have kept me up several days afterward because they are so violent & emotional. For a long time I have thought that these dreams were just a result of my physically & sexually abusive childhood since the dreams center around the torture and rape of myself and/or my daughter by strangers that results in death. After, reading everyone's postings, I now know that I am not the only one in the world tortured by these hauntings. Thank you all so much for sharing.
- —Guest Tortured_Dreamer
Can't take it anymore
- I have night terrors and sleep paralysis. The intensity fluctuates throughout the year but over the past 3 months I haven't had a single night of decent sleep. Every night the vivid dreams and hallucinations haunt me. In the past I have feared sleep so much that I would stay awake for up to 5 days. I'm scared it'll happen again soon. My husband is sick of me talking and screaming at night. I don't know what is real and what isn't, the dreams are more real than real life! I can't hold a job in this ebb and flow. Going to a sleep clinic again but have another month to go before I do. It is comforting to know I'm not alone and that there is a true connection. I feel less of a hypochondriac now!!
- —Guest Ladyhansen
This explains a lot.
- I've had almost nothing but vivid nightmares for dreams ever since I can remember. When I was young, I had several recurring nightmares: one where I hid under my bed while a T-rex devoured my family, one where I was eaten by an alligator, and one where I was eternally trapped in a maze with demons blocking every door I found. Other times it would FEEL like I was awake, but I'd have to cling to my mattress because it felt like my entire bed was rotating rapidly around and I strongly believed that if I let go I would be slung off into the darkness. From about 13-18 I suddenly stopped having dreams almost at all, but after 18 the nightmares returned tenfold. Almost every night I would wake from a dream in which I was violently murdered, torn apart by creatures, held captive and raped, or sliced apart on an operating table while still 'awake'. But now, at 22, I've been on a mood stabilizer and an antidepressant for about a year, and since then my nightmares have almost entirely stopped.
- —Guest J. Morris
vivid dreams
- when things are bad i sleep walk, get up in the morning find the tv on, or the place tidied up scary at times,
- —Guest whitecross
Pam
- I wrote in here before however, I forgot about the dream that have had so many times. I would dream that I would begin to have trouble walking and I could feel the pain in my legs. Then were times when the dream was so real that I couldn't distinquish whether was just or it had in some of my life. After many years and a lot dreams later the pains started coming and I had trouble walking. I had to have back surgery to fix it. I was diagnosed with bi-polar when I was 52 but now that I know what it is I have had it all my life. I was just diagnosed wrong and a hospital stay from a suicide attempt finally found me the right doctor. God works in mysterious ways (it was my 4th attempt and 5th nervous break down). I waited a long time. I have been diagnosed with clinical depression, generalized anxiety disorder, ocd, fuque states, sleep disorder, personality disorder, AND then bi-polar. Anyway I read this newsletter daily and It has helped and is good for my husband also. Thank-you
- —Guest Pamela
Symptom of worsening Mania
- I found my life like dreams were occurring when I am higher. Simple things like dreaming that I got my hair cut, then being confused when I see myself in the mirror and it isn't cut. Or dreaming that I gave a bunch of bananas to a friend who visited to find them still in the fruit bowl then next day. That stuff is the start of blurring reality with non reality, I wonder if it is a bit of psychosis. I guess I recognise the more vivid dreams as just another symptom of the highs
- —Guest Chris
That's Me!
- I wake up every night soaking wet from my dreams. I usually only sleep 4-5 hours a night! One that is recurring is that I am in different places and I can't find something or remember things! I can always remeber everything I dreamt in the morning. My favorite is the one where I'm flying through the air and I see all my loved ones in different stages of their lives.(my sons playing on the beach when they were 4 and 5 years old). I take Trazadone to sleep and I can still avidly dream.
- —Guest Pamela Jean
Vivid dreams turn into reality
- I've had vivid dreams for all my life, including one recurring dream since the age of about 3 that I was moving away from my family by way of a truck delivering bananas in my neighborhood (what the...?). The most disturbing dreams are those that turn from a dream into reality. I dreamt in high school of two girls being murdered by a body of water. A few months later my neighbor and a friend were bludgeoned to death near a pond. They were the same two girls in the dream. I felt sick to my stomach as soon as I heard the news. I've always been one to have elaborate dreams but this one was just too much for me to handle.
- —Guest Erin
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