My CH's are nocturnal. I've noticed over the past year that when I am dreaming my dreams get really "animated or stressful". I figure maybe because my headache is coming on and I don't know it until it wakes me out of a dead sleep. Does anyone else notice that...or am I just going insane from all the suffering?

That's pretty normal.  It's not unusual for me to be fighting for my life in a dream only to wake up with that searing pain in my head.

-Dennis-

hi snickers

i also have very vivid dreams since the cluster headaches started.   Just woke up from one where i was in a paintball game shooting people and they were chasing me :)

Strange!!

Several people have posted similar experiences.....although it's still entirely possible you're just insane!!! ;D
Hang in there. ;)

Joe

I have had dreams of putting the oxygen mask on, and wake up needing to do so.

Also have dreamt of running out of O2 while being hit, and wake up to a hit. More than once..

I have had several times in my dreams felt the left temple of my head go numb(which is my ch target), then tingle and this is rather odd and graphic~ reached up and removed a very ugly oystershell and uncovered a green/black pearl. To wake up in full on drums of the beast.
For quite awhile I thought it was a sign I needed to see a shrink. But at least the brain is trying to tell me somethings up, I am just slow to wake.

I hate the ones that start in your dreams. I dream I fire off the 02, dream I'm huffing away, dream the 02 isn't working!!! By the time I really wake up, I'm getting creamed. Those hits just suck.

Joe

snickers wrote on Jan 10^th, 2009 at 11:54am:

or am I just going insane from all the suffering?

I have always been a crazy dreamer .. very clear with details that I remember and i even control some of my dreams (call me crazy but I can & I love it !) . The problem is when it takes me a couple minutes to wake up and realize it was only a dream…
I didn’t see this post and just posted myself something about dreams…  look up…  ::)

and with this beast … I think we all are going a bit insane! If anyone is questioning my statement or has a problem with it…
they really need a reality check..lol  ;)

my few nocturnal ones are the same as everyone else, i hate when i am in a dream and gettingpounded and wake up to the fact that its not a dream.

I could never tie the two togather. When i get my night hits it totally blows me out of a full sleep, i jump out of the bed rough. My wife says it looked as though i was in a fight in my dreams. All i know is when that bastard wakes me im on my feet and at full alert in less than a half of a second. Good post... Coach Bill

I hate that we all have to go through this mess, but knowing I'M NOT ALONE makes it easier. Thanks!!! ::)

Hi all,
I don't normally dream (or don't remember on waking).
When in cycle I have vivid dreams and they are weird.
Last few nights I dreamt that the Two Ronnie's (UK comedians from the 70's) were involved in an orgy with 2 Giant Rastafarian Spiders!

Why the Two Ronnies and why Rastafarian Spiders? I don't know.
My wife nearly wet herself laughing when I told her!
Vince

We only dream during the REM (Rapid Eye Movement) phase of sleep. This phase occurs about every 90 minutes and lasts for something like 10 minutes. If we don't wake up during the REM phase, we usually have forgotten the dreams.

Now, the beast likes to strike during the REM phase. That's why we often remember a dream when we wake up with a CH attack. For the same reason the first nightly attack usually comes 1.5 hours after falling asleep.


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AlienSpaceGuy hit it right on the head.  You were probably having weird dreams all along.

I've been awaken several time dreaming I was having a headache only to wake up with one.

                                         Pleasant Dreams
                                                  JPC

That makes amazing sense. I'm now concerned about the weird dreams I don't remember! What do they say about me?
Perhaps it's best we never find out.
Vince

vince wrote on Jan 22^nd, 2009 at 3:03pm:

That makes amazing sense. I'm now concerned about the weird dreams I don't remember! What do they say about me? Perhaps it's best we never find out. Vince

same.....
have a huge long dream....all about trying to stop a headache by some surreal means...like catching dogs trailed behind bi-planes in the sky....
wake up....kip 10

Just Plain Carl wrote on Jan 22^nd, 2009 at 12:51pm:

AlienSpaceGuy hit it right on the head.  You were probably having weird dreams all along. I've been awaken several time dreaming I was having a headache only to wake up with one.                                          Pleasant Dreams                                                   JPC

ment to quote this one....lol

I am also a pretty vivid dreamer. i also am a pretty vivid day dreamer. but i have found that meds affect my dreams since CH started. I had to be taken of of melatonin because it gave me absolutley terrible nightmares! also when i am on a prednisone taper i dont sleep much but the few hours i do sleep are fitful and filled with wacky and disturbing dreams.......MKD

Hey AlienSpaceGuy....that was pretty interesting info about the Rem sleep. Never thought about it that way.