How great it would be to stop dreaming all night. . .

Thanks MJP! It is very nice to know I am not alone. I know what you mean; sometimes I would rather be in that "other life" since I seem to be able to get a lot more done "in there"! I just hate the fact that I don't think I will ever wake up refreshed again. I have given up hope on that, although there was a day in the summer of 2003 when I woke up not remembering any dream, and I woke up feeling great! No idea why, and have not been able to duplicate it.

So for now I will go on living with the fact that most people would never understand when I try to explain to them that sleeping makes me tired, as I am so "busy" dreaming all the time. I will even dream for a minute or two if I fall asleep for a brief time. So times I can even be falling asleep while watching TV and see things on the TV that are not really there. Half asleep, half awake.

I have tried to explain this "excessive dreaming" to doctors, but they just don't seem to believe me. Boy I wish they could dream like me for just one week, and then we would see how well they like it! Since that is not going to happen, back to the internet to find someone out there who finds this fascinating enough to want to help us figure out how to turn it off.

Later!

I FINALLY FOUND AN ANSWER!!!

For anyone else out there who dreams "all night" just like myself, it may have taken writing a few scholers that probably think I am nuts, but I found out what we suffer from! Unfortunatly, there is no way to shut it off yet, but here is an excerpt from the paper Dreaming: a psychiatric view and insightsfrom the study of parasomnias1 n A. S. Eisera, C. H. Schenckb

Beginning in 1986, as our sleep center was becoming
more familiar with the characteristic dream disturbances
of RBD, and as we were also becoming
increasingly aware that adults with sleepwalking
and sleep terrors could have precipitous and sometimes
elaborate dreaming during their recurrent
NREM sleep episodes, we also started seeing
patients who presented with a distinct set of dreamrelated
complaints that we eventually named “epic
dream disorder”. In 1995 we published findings
from our initial series of 20 patients in an abstract
entitled,“A disorder of epic dreaming with daytime
fatigue, usually without polysomnographic abnormalities
that predominantly affects women” [25].
I will now summarize the salient findings from this
series, present two clinical vignettes, and describe
subsequent reports from three other centers in
two additional countries on this intriguing, newly
recognized dream disorder.

Now that we have a name for it, maybe we can start making someone listen to us, and figure it out!!

As long as I can remember, I have had benign positional vertigo, to which some of this problem may correlate. YIPPIE!! I am on to something here, and hope we can start a community to figure this out.

SO COME ON, LEAVE SOME COMMENTS!! LET'S GET THE BALL ROLLING ON MAKING A STAND TO NO LONGER PUT UP WITH SO CALLED "SLEEP DOCTORS" IGNORING OUR COMPLAINTS!!!!

I Wish you All the Best!

still working. . .

Found a different type of site today, and trying to figure out if anyone out there actually understands non-rem dreaming. If I can find it, I will post what I find. Someday we will have this mystery solved!