[Simon]

This may be a complete red herring but I've been dreaming a lot more recently and it occurred to me that it ages since I remember dreaming. Given I was only diagnosed as diabetic last year and put on insulin straight away I wondered if there was some sort of relationship between BG and dreams. I wake up with a BG typically in the range 4 to 5 mmol/l though before starting on insulin I was 8 to 11 and probably had been for some time.

[Del]

There may be a connection, I don't know. My experience is the exact opposite though. I used to dream really, really intensely and I was able to remember quite a lot. Since diagnosis last year I don't dream much at all (or at least I don't remember much after waking up).

[liz32]

I'm the same as before diagnosis. But we are all different.
Liz

[Simon]

Of course it may be that getting up 6 times a night to go to the loo had something to do with the lack of dreaming before. Hmm

[Penny]

I think I always dreamed more in times when I had lots of anxiety. When I am having trouble with my control, I dream more, because I am worried about it??? My dreams are always anxiety based...someone chasing me, not being able to complete a task, etc. I have one recurring anxiety dream that is pleasant....I call it my "out of body experience", I can fly and observe my world from the sky!

[duck]

If I'm real high, I don't dream.

BTW, just wait until you have your first "diabetic dream". I always enjoyed those dreams where my syringe was as big as a drain pipe and I ask myself "Now where am I going to jab this thing?"

[jen_slc]

I think it's more that you remember your dreams less (or more) rather than actually dreaming less (or more). We all dream, it's just a matter of memory. I think I used to remember my dreams more before I was diagnosed, but that could be an age thing. Nowadays, nothing. I'm totally shocked if I wake up in the morning and remember something. And in those rare occurrences, it's usually dreams where I've died.

lol, duck, a diabetic dream would be interesting!

[DeusXM]

You've never had a diabetic dream? I get ones that actually correspond to my blood sugar levels. I've had dreams where I dream I'm looking everywhere for my insulin, and then wake up and find I'm running high. I've also had ones where I'm looking everywhere for chocolate and then wake up and find I'm running low.

[jeggeman31]

Originally Posted by duck

I always enjoyed those dreams where my syringe was as big as a drain pipe and I ask myself

I had one the other night that my pump failed and someone was chasing me with a syringe. I woke up holding my pump in my hand next to me. I think this dream was more of a nightmare.

[Erin]

I have really intense dreams when I'm hypo, or getting close to being hypo. It's really fun, and I hate the fact that I know I have to wake up because I need to do something about the hypo that's causing the fun dream.

I think I sleep like the dead when I'm high.

So maybe there is a correlation... at least for me. It makes sense though, blood sugar has to have some correlation with how deep you sleep, and how deep you sleep would have some correlation with whether or not you have dreams that you remember...

[duck]

Seems to me that when I am real high, I sleep poorly. I haven't been able to figure that one out...

[jen_slc]

Originally Posted by DeusXM

You've never had a diabetic dream? I get ones that actually correspond to my blood sugar levels. I've had dreams where I dream I'm looking everywhere for my insulin, and then wake up and find I'm running high. I've also had ones where I'm looking everywhere for chocolate and then wake up and find I'm running low.

I have honestly never had a diabetic dream. Nothing about syringes, injecting, pumping, testing, nothing. Or maybe I have and just had no idea I did. When I wake up in the morning, my mind is a complete and utter blank. I wish I could remember any dream, let alone a diabetic one! And I would LOVE it if I could have dreams that corresponded to my bg. It would be so nice to have some kind of hypo-dream-radar because I don't get any warning that I'm dropping, I don't even wake up.

The only dream-like experiences that I'm certain I've had are when I'm actually awake - I just think I'm asleep and dreaming but in reality I've just been woken up by someone else in the middle of a hypo and I'm acting out that "dream"/hypo-induced hallucination.

[buzzborne]

In nearly 9yrs of being diabetic, I have never had a diabetic dream (or have just not remembered it!)

For the last year or so I tend not to have dreams, but if do on the rare occasion it is very vivid (though not always in colour) and it is about family or ppl close to me and something bad is happening. Never seem to have a 'nice' dream.

so.. who dreams in colour... and who dreams in black and white?!

[LauRa Lu]

Originally Posted by buzzborne

so.. who dreams in colour... and who dreams in black and white?!

Wow I cant imagine dreaming in black and white.

My dreams are very random and usually abut everyday things... like taking chicken out of the freezer or something, or as short as just saying something to someone. And they always seem so real that I think i've spoken to people who I haven't really even seenand done things I haven't really done.... I get quite confused with it sometimes.

[duck]

Originally Posted by LauRa Lu

My dreams are very random and usually abut everyday things... like taking chicken out of the freezer or something, or as short as just saying something to someone. .

Boooooooring!