To find my dreams exhausting?

[friedaddedchilli]

Anyone else find their vivid dreams shattering? I constantly have "trying to get somewhere and everything against me" dreams. Feels like I'm fighting all night! I wake up still half in the dream and feeling absolutely drained.

I get you. Sometimes my dreams are so vivid and real, I don't feel like I had a sleep, just another day. So I go to sleep Monday and wake up feeling like it must be Wednesday.

Try staying with the thought and writing it down in the morning.

Your brain is trying to process something. Maybe keep a journal for a bit to work out the patterns youre subconsciously struggling with?

Exhausting dreams are very tiring but also they're kind of a symptom too

Yes and I have no idea what to do about it so no help 😞. Have you had the packing to go home from a holiday and everything you've ever owned in your entire life needs to be packed and more and more keeps appearing? It's so stressful!

I got to a point where I became fearful of going to sleep due to my dreams.
I do understand where some of my dreams come from, but some of them really throw me for hours after I get up.
My GP could only offer a mild sedative when I went about them.

@friedaddedchilli YANBU.

Sometimes mine are so real and lifelike that I wake up actually believing that what I'd done in the dream has actually happened. I feel physically exhausted and also mentally quite drained as it's confusing. I have to separate reality vs dream.

It's got so much worse in peri-menopause.

Sometimes they can be a little frightening. I've actually had to get up in the night and walk round as I was so convinced the nightmare was real.

No, but last night I dreamt that I flew over the southern ocean, which was absolutely raging, and then had to throw myself in the hospitality of some women in Greenland and their baby(?!) to find the hiking boots I’d left in a carrier bag in airport security. before I could resume my journey to the furthest parts of the planet. What the AF.

Yes, I’ve had this all my life. It’s really bothering me at the moment. I just feel exhausted every day as if I’ve been busy all through the night like PP’s have said sometimes it’s endless packing or other stressful things, usually nothing related to what’s going on in my real life. I would really love a cure for this. Mentioned it to my GP recently who said nothing can be done just practice better sleep hygiene 🙄.

There’s always something about having to persuade someone that there’s a problem too.

This is me. Even the good dreams and not nightmares are just so eventful and, well, tiring! I need rest, not to be having adventures!

And also to mention, I’m in my 40s now and just assumed that everybody dreamed every night but after discussing this with several people, apparently it’s not normal at all, my Mum is the same as me though.

Yes, exactly! Adventures all night long I’m bloody knackered.

I go through phases of very vivid dreams though they are usually quite brief. But sometimes yeah I gat the 'hangover' into the next day.

I have recently been taking magnesium glycinate at bedtime for restless legs (does seem to help a bit) and now I think about it I haven't had one of "those" nights lately.

But also my life isn't as stressful at the moment as it sometimes is (I expect it's just a temporary lull 😅) so - we'll see....

I keep dreaming about doing my gcses

Like ffs i'm a grown woman

I get those dreams.
But i'm usually naked in tbem as well.

What interests me is that apparently most of the calories we use is done by our brain. How many calories would a vivid dream use?

I have this!! Thought I was the only one! Last day of holiday, checkout looming and so much to pack. It's exhausting and I wake up in such a tizz, but with a huge sense of relief that it was just a dream 🤣

I put my dreams into chat gpt to interpret, and they are usually spot on !!

I get my 150mg sertaline dreams
Sometimes amusing
Others terrifying
But always vivid and memorable

I think that’s what they are meant to do. Like a Brothers Grimm fairytale.

I have heard stressful vivid dreams are hormonal too, but I don’t know much about it.

I keeeep dreaming that i have gone to work for the danish police. I feel like i might as well just stop at work 24 7.

Mine are about getting lost inside buildings. Sometimes it is places that I have lived in the past but there are extra rooms. Sometimes it is hotels, shopping centres or office buildings that just don’t seem to have an exit. I just go around and around all night.

Are you trying to fight something in real life?

OMG exhausting. And I bet they don't even pay you.

I love dreams like that!! I had a raunchy one I really wanted to revisit recently 😵🤣🤣🤣
my DH often dreams about training with his sport when he feels he’s already trained when he wakes after
dreaming about training g 🤪🤣🤣

I have these sorts of dreams all the time. Often I’m back teaching and I realise I haven’t taught a particular class for weeks, or marked books for a year, or I’m wandering round the school unable to find my class and no one has given me a timetable. Or I’m going on stage and haven’t learnt my lines. Or trying to catch a flight and get lost trying to find the departure lounge. Totally exhausting.

Well, yes/no/who knows?