Vivid Dreams cause of excessive sleepiness

[Ms.April]

For years I have been "suffering" from excessive dreaming. I have dreams that are extremely graphic, detailed and vivid. Most of the time I am aware that I am dreaming and cannot wake up. It does not occur every night, but several nights a week. I wake up feeling EXAUSTED. I nod off during the day, cannot keep my eyes open. Last night (for example) I got 8 hours of sleep and yet today I'm so tired I could cry! I should also mention that I fall asleep almost instantly and I dream as soon as I fall out. There are some days where I "fall asleep" here at work and begin to dream instantly, it's almost as if It's an instant hallucination. My husband says I'm lucky to fall asleep when I hit the pillow but I'm to the point where if sleeping makes me THIS tired I don't want to. The dreams are often traumatic and I'm tired anyway. What's the point of sleeping?!

I'm not suffering from depression and I have a regular schedule in terms of sleep (Usually get at least 6.5 - 8.5 hours a sleep). My diet is pretty good and I get an average amount of excersize. Everything I do is in moderation (no drugs either, btw).

Can someone PLEASE shed some light on this? Why am I dreaming so much and why do I feel exhausted after a "good" nights sleep?

Perplexed,
Ms.April

[monimom]

You just may have known her in a previous life.  Try to acknowledge the feelings you have for her to your self.  Maybe since you are getting married it is bringing up feelings of love from past lives.

Our brains cannot tell time.  What happenes in the past present or future is all the same.  That is why the feelings are still so strong when we remember something from the past.  It can feel like it is occurring right now.

good luck.

[REMjunkie]

I love what you just said. I am new to this world. It's only been a year and I have felt the nature of my dreams shift slightly....wanted to ask you, is there a way to harness it further so that I can draw on what it has to offer rather than be caught up in trying to escape it which I don't want to do.

I know the mornings are rough, and for me waking up with the alarm is the worst. I used to be a 6 hour sleeper, operating like a machine. Now it is the opposite. My dreams will decide when it has had enough and allow me to wake up....I have the morning clumsiness too! :)

Would love to hear more from you.

[Stardreamer]

Do you believe in reincarnation?  If you don't you will just pass of your amazing dreams as nonsense and your over active imagination.  But if you do, you will understand that what you are seeing, where you are going, and the people you meet are not products of your imagination.  They are fragments of memories that are in your soul.  See if any of them have any links to your current life.  A lot of people just don't want to even try and understand what I am talking about, but the fact of the matter is this, the brain can NOT imagine or picture anything that it HAS NOT seen before.  Even when we daydream about things we want, we use things that we already know and see.  The next 10 - 20 years will be interesting for people like us who already know so much, as we see the majority of human beings being awakened to what reality really is.  

[Stardreamer]

Just came across this discussion site as I googled "exhausted and tired after vivid dreaming" because this morning was especially bad and I really want to find some answers.  I know the medical community won't have the answers because they are not "interested in the meaning of dreams" only natural sleep patterns.  So it's been good to read of so many that are like me.  I am psychic, very sensitive, have prophetic dreams that come to pass, am given warnings about my own body in my dreams, help for family members, and virtually live a thousand other lives in my dreams.  One of my most exhausting dreams was building the pyramids!!  Yes I was a slave and carrying bricks upon my back.   The natural healer I see completely understands how I feel because she is also the same.  But the majority of people think you are crazy and most people will say "I don't dream".  Well, when you are aware of who you are and why you are like that, dreams are a help not a hindrance or just something "you do".  They are a mixture of all our past and future lives, our deepest fears and all our personal issues, plus communication from the spiritual realm.  Overtime you get very good at sorting out what is worth paying attention to or not.  While I am very glad that I am me and these "intuitive gifts" are for me and to help others, it comes with a price.  And that is the weariness and exhaustion from being in several dimensions at once in the unconscious state.  Yes, meditation helps very much.  Also to completely accept that you will be tired when you wake up.  Get up slowly, stretch, spend time thinking about what you must remember from your night spent wherever.  Our souls leave our bodies when we sleep, are completely free to, and take us where we need to go.  The biggest criticism of how we are comes from those who have no belief or interest in dreams or psychic ability, bounce out of bed at 5am, can think clearly and function normally after waking up.  Me, if I get out of bed quickly and stand up, I feel like vomiting.  That sick feeling will stay with me for at least an hour.  I am very disorientated, can't think quickly, will stumble and be clumsy.  Thank you for reading, has been wonderful to find so many people like me.  Like others, I dream every night, and every night contains at least 3 to 4 very vivid dreams.  I am constantly waking and shifting, suffer terribly from the 2 am to 4 am sleeplessness, and all I have ever craved all my life is a long, peaceful, restful, dreamless sleep so that when I get up I feel great.  Well, I am now 46 and know this is not my lot.  I've given up trying to please other people by being "alert and a morning person" and have decided they can start learning and being considerate about those who are not so.  My comments here are not about people that have genuine health issues which affect their sleep, like sugar and diabetes.  This is about us who are vivid dreamers, often prophetically, because we are intuitive.  

[REMjunkie]

Hi Johnny

Wow, that is pretty intense waking up with those feelings. I'm a dream junkie too and sometimes, emotions do linger in the waking state for me too. Not the feelings of love as you have described, but other emotions....I started writing my dreams down in a journal 6 months ago, and for me this helps with releasing them from my system. Helps to clear my head and heart space I feel....

[Johnnybag]

Over the last 3 weeks I have had 3 very realistic dreams about Britney Spears none of them sexual or explicit but in them we are in the early stages of forming a relationship and the feelings are so strong that when I wake up I have the feeling of love for her so strong it makes me feel terrible as I know it's not real. I'm 29 and not a crazed Britney fan by any means but the emotions I feel when I wake are so unbelievably strong it takes me pretty much the whole day to get over it. I have had lots of vivid/realistic dreams over the years but none which has ever left me feeling so attached to someone from the dream like this. I have been with my girlfriend for 4 years and we're engaged so it's not as though I'm looking for companionship.

Johnny
UK