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Registered User Posts: 5010 03/05/08 12:57 PM	Remove this ad http://www.migraine-aura.org/content/e27891/e27265/e42285/e42290/e55289/e61680/index_en.html Anyone else?
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SopuliSusie		#1	[url]	[-]
Posts: 1496 03/05/08 1:33 PM Administrator	I have had sporadic incidents of it, but never enough to reach the clinically significant level. My grandmother does it too, also in times of high anxiety. We both started it as kids. The sleep neurologist said I was in the range of normal, and of course it never happened during one the sleep studies they did on me. The center where I did my sleep study is actually where they discovered the disorder. There was a recent paper about how the behavior tends to happen more with threatening dreams. Pretty cool stuff, actually. Need to cheer yourself up? Watch the Kitty Cat Dance!
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Regular Visitor Posts: 58 03/05/08 8:18 PM	Interesting. I've often brought up the fact that I feel like I spend excessive time in the REM phase of sleep, although people have generally chalked this up to higher dream recall or awakenings during the night. Unfortunately I haven't been able to have a sleep study done yet, so I can't say anything definitive at this point....
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jruddy		#3	[url]	[-]
Regular Visitor Posts: 413 03/06/08 10:28 AM	Remove this ad I sleep walked as a child and teen and acted out the occasional dream as an adult (my wife can attest to this), though I've not gone to a sleep clinic, I don't think I have a disorder. I also used to (and still occasionally) sleep talk at full volume and will have conversations with people, like my wife, or when I was younger, my brother. I have had dreams where I became aware that I was dreaming, but did not wake up, and I was able to take control of the dream, which was a lot of fun and often involved things like flying around like superman or causing mischief and having a good laugh. I've done this probably 10 or 20 times in my adult life. I often wake after a vivid dream, I usually have the oddest dreams and I swear I dream in super-saturated colour, though occasionally my dreams are monochrome - completely black and white - nor grey or any other colour. Dreams are pretty neat things. Someone should write a book...
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SopuliSusie		#4	[url]	[-]
Posts: 1496 03/06/08 10:32 AM Administrator	I love lucid dreams. I like flying around too- although lately I've been flying around in coastal swamps in post-apocalyptic worlds. I have no idea why. I've been having quite lucid dreams this week. My lucid dreaming self likes to rewind dreams to correct logical fallacies and make outcomes better. Last night, I opened my eyes for a few seconds and the dream continued like it was projected into the darkness, and then I went back to sleep. Dreams are definitely an odd experience. Need to cheer yourself up? Watch the Kitty Cat Dance!
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ksomething		#5	[url]	[-]
Registered User Posts: 5010 03/06/08 10:33 AM	"acted out the occasional dream as an adult" Can you describe the behaviours you acted out in that state?
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jruddy		#6	[url]	[-]
Regular Visitor Posts: 413 03/06/08 4:10 PM	Remove this ad Well, in one recent example I was crouching on the corner of our bed screaming "for the love of God, don't turn the bed on!" In my dream, the bed was "open", the top was up at the ceiling and inside were a bunch of electric circuits, my wife (in the dream) was by the light switch, which would have turned the bed on, thus electrocuting me. For some reason I couldn't get off the bed, maybe because the floor wasn't there or something. It was an odd dream. It woke my wife up and she was able to partially wake me up, which was disturbing in itself, though it did help me to recall the dream the next day. Another time, before marriage, I jumped off my bed - I think I was going swimming. I woke up when I bashed into a wall. As a late teen, maybe 18 years old, I had a tall captains bed, maybe 3 feet off the ground. On one occasion I dreamed I was tied up and struggled to get free only to wake up after falling out of the bed.
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