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snickers CH.com Junior Offline I Love CH.com! Posts: 29 California Gender:	CH" and dreams Jan 10^th, 2009 at 11:54am 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?
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DennisM1045 CH.com Alumnus Offline One wave at a time! Posts: 3437 Haverhill, Massachusetts, USA Gender:	Re: CH" and dreams Reply #1 - Jan 10^th, 2009 at 1:00pm 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-
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miikkee CH.com Newbie Offline I Love CH.com! Posts: 20 st thomas,ontario,canada Gender:	Re: CH" and dreams Reply #2 - Jan 11^th, 2009 at 7:09pm 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!!
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Guiseppi CH.com Moderator CH.com Alumnus Offline San Diego to Florida 05-16-2011 Posts: 12063 SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA USA Gender:	Re: CH" and dreams Reply #3 - Jan 11^th, 2009 at 9:46pm Several people have posted similar experiences.....although it's still entirely possible you're just insane!!! Hang in there. Joe
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Skyhawk5 CH.com Alumnus Offline I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 1320 Ypsilanti, Mi. USA Gender:	Re: CH" and dreams Reply #4 - Jan 12^th, 2009 at 12:47am 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..
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Reply #5 - Jan 12^th, 2009 at 1:44am

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.

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Guiseppi CH.com Moderator CH.com Alumnus Offline San Diego to Florida 05-16-2011 Posts: 12063 SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA USA Gender:	Re: CH" and dreams Reply #6 - Jan 12^th, 2009 at 10:50am 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
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Reply #7 - Jan 14^th, 2009 at 10:29am

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… Roll Eyes

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 Wink

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on my knees Ex Member	Re: CH" and dreams Reply #8 - Jan 14^th, 2009 at 8:38pm 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.
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coach_bill CH.com Hall of Famer Offline "Dont expect me to lay down for this" Posts: 680 x0\|euclid\|USA\|\|0\|0\|OH,Ohio Gender:	Re: CH" and dreams Reply #9 - Jan 14^th, 2009 at 9:18pm 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
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snickers CH.com Junior Offline I Love CH.com! Posts: 29 California Gender:	Re: CH" and dreams Reply #10 - Jan 19^th, 2009 at 8:21pm I hate that we all have to go through this mess, but knowing I'M NOT ALONE makes it easier. Thanks!!!
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Reply #11 - Jan 21^st, 2009 at 12:56pm

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

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Reply #12 - Jan 22^nd, 2009 at 9:39am

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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Just Plain Carl CH.com Old Timer Offline IT IS WHAT IT IS Posts: 449 Royal Oak, Michigan Gender:	Re: CH" and dreams Reply #13 - 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
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vince CH.com Newbie Offline I Love CH.com! Posts: 7 Hull, UK Gender:	Re: CH" and dreams Reply #14 - 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
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Reply #15 - Jan 24^th, 2009 at 10:24am

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

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cyberone CH.com Junior Offline Posts: 35 melbourne, AUST Gender:	Re: CH" and dreams Reply #16 - Jan 24^th, 2009 at 10:25am 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
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Reply #17 - Jan 31^st, 2009 at 12:39pm

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

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snickers CH.com Junior Offline I Love CH.com! Posts: 29 California Gender:	Re: CH" and dreams Reply #18 - Feb 3^rd, 2009 at 10:40pm Hey AlienSpaceGuy....that was pretty interesting info about the Rem sleep. Never thought about it that way.
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