Nocturnal fainting

[ecogirl]

For over 10 years I have been having occasional to frequent what I have come to call

[Heiferly]

I was wondering if you might help us out by answering a one-question survey?  If you have a moment, go to the front page (hit the back to community button at the top of this page) and locate the poll about sleep topics. I would love to have your feedback. Thanks, H.

[Heiferly]

It may be worthwhile to consult a board certified sleep specialist and perhaps have a polysomnogram (sleep study) to explore these symptoms farther.

[cmhyummymummy]

Hi, I'm probably too late for this forum?
I saw your comments and all the others and couldn't believe it.
I have exactly the same symptoms! I have been not feeling right for about 4 years on and off (I am 40).
I have had episodes of fainting mainly in the evenings.
Last October 2014 I had my first night faint, had spasmodic pain in chest and got out of bed and blacked out and felt like I was dying as I saw all these bright rushing lights. So scary.I had an ambulance to the hospital. Following all the extensive tests on heart and other vitals, they found nothing.
Then last Thursday, I had the same again. This time without getting out of bed. I felt like I was going to die for sure, and felt like I had to scramble to get back. It was awful beyond comprehension. Like a black hole as you say, or worse. I also felt sick this time and I was very sick when the ambulance arrived. Again at hospital 2 days of tests and nothing!!

I am now being referred back to cardiology unit for more heart monitor tests as they don't know what to do with me.
My husband doesn't really understand what I'm talking about. The fear of dying or even feeling that sensation again is terrifying and I am scared to go to bed. I have two young children and I can't live like this.
Would rather have a disease that can be cured than this looming over me.

I hope you are improved by now?
Best wishes,

Cathy

[sgroclkc]

As Germany’s well-known psychologist William Wundt’s view of “ the most common causes of the dream are indigestion, heart pulsation(palpitations or flustered),difficulity in breathing, as well as such symptoms.” For instance, students dreaming the examination before the pre-examination, is caused by the things about examination. The sense of urgent urination would give rise to the dream of looking for the toilet. In a cold night, thin quilt would cause one to dream the clothes are socked by water and thus make him/her feel cold. When palpitations occurs, people will have two most common feelings: one is tachycardia cause a feeling of seeming to be chasing ; the other is bradycardia or premature beat cause the feeling of heart suspension or heart sinking. Therefore, people in sleep accordingly will have the two most common nightmares : one is dream of being chased (occasionally hunting other people) ; the other is dream of flying in the air or dream of falling down. Persons who palpitation is easy to occur are easy to have nightmare, drugs can cause  nightmare because drugs can cause palpitation. Females are easier to have nightmare than males, because palpitation is easier occur to females than to males. Women have a huge amount of nightmares during pregnancy because women experience more palpitations in pregnancy. Physical factors that contribute to bad dreams include fever as also sleep because fever causes an increase in the heart rate. If transient cerebral ischemia or fainting occuring during the day may result in some very terrible dizziness, palpitations, feelings of chest pressure, dim vision, tinnitus and a variety of neurological symptoms. As a result, all the people who are prone to cerebral ischemia or fainting frail corporeity, excessive fear, taking the quinidine which may lead to low blood pressure, as well as a excessive high pillow ors, error in sleeping style which may lead to the aggrieved neck, pressed blood stream. when they sleep in deep night, they will have the extraordinary corresponding horrible dreams, in the dreams, they do some kind of terrible Belial pressuring them or being hunted down, but they can not cry out or escape, which is known as sleep paralysis. .For a long time, due to the ignorance of physiological knowledge of syncope , ischemie cerebrale , slow beat, fast beat and so on, psychological illusion in people’s sleep generated by such physical symptoms i.e. the nightmare really has puzzled the psychologists, therefore they put forward a wide range of wrong even absurd views onthe nightmares, which both have no scientific basis, and could not be confirmed, even more were not self-consistent. For example, a medical expert Debacke drew the correct conclusion that the anxiety-dream resulted from ischemie cerebrale according to the physiological symptoms of the anxiety-dream of a boy of thirteen. Freud called such view was a ” medical mythology” in the book of Dream Psychology. Most important,the experiment confirmed the idea. For example, a place in country , there is a “haunted” bed which makes people have sleep paralysis or syncope every night, and it is this fact that the pillow in the bed is too high will reduce cerebral blood flow. Another example, sleeping pills are the treatment of nightmare of being chased of neurasthenia, due to the nightmare of being chased of such patients is caused by tachycardia, and sleeping pills can lead to slower heartbeat, moreover slower heartbeat sometimes leads to sleep paralysis or fainting for people of low blood pressure. Therefore, treating a nightmare with sleeping pills at times is not only invalid, but also it will instead increase the patient’s state of the disease.

[muthanna]

Hi all
I have the same sleep fainting thing but along with it the feeling of wanting to faint even when Im awake and also heart palpitations that lasts for weeks, please dose any one have that and if he dose, did he check out and what did he find if he did check.wish y all health

[jmarie988]

I'm a bit late for this forum but I have just started to experience this feeling too. The first time I did was a couple of weeks ago, I had fallen asleep and then i awoke to a feeling that I can only describe as "a pull of death" it started to overcome me and I felt that if I didn't shake out of it that I would die, it scared the crap out of me, it took all of my strength to come out of it. I was terrified! I was afraid to go back to sleep. I felt that maybe I was just in a deep sleep and was having a bad dream but when I checked my phone I had sent a text message only 7 minutes prior so there was no way I was on a deep sleep. I also had one just now while waking from a nap I tried to let it go on to see if I would be okay but I was overwhelmed by the feeling of death and didn't want to die, even sitting here wide awake right now I have fear that it will happen while I'm awake.