I had a bad dream

[Injecto]

In my dream, I had just been shot, and I remember grabbing my wife as I laid down on the bed, telling her I was dying. Then, I realized I was having a bad dream, woke up shaking, tested, I was 4.1, but really shaking. Figured I was going low so I treated myself with some glucose tabs (Ewwww, I HATE eating those things in the middle of the night). Felt better in a few. Weird. I have heard here on the DF of others who have said they have bad dreams when they go low, so, I can only guess that's what this was about. Very odd..

[LancetChick]

Yes, horrible dreams always involving untrustworthy people who are out to get me, and bordering on the bizarre when I'm really low. It hasn't happened in years, fortunately, but I remember well.

[Penny]

I have what I call "Insulin Dreams", because I usually have them when I need insulin. I think it is my body's way of telling me I should get up and take care of things. They almost always involve me running out of insulin and the stores are all closed or not being able to find my insulin. Usually if I am low, I get so sick, I wake up. Don't need to have a dream then.

[caswellhb]

Dreams are the royal road to the sub-conscious.
Jung.

Heather.

[KickStart101]

As most, I've had too many weird dreams
through the yrs. due to low blood sugar.
The one that always stays not far from me
is the one where I'm in this huge, high-ceiling
gray warehouse. It must be night because I
don't see any rays of light(perhaps no windows)
and I'm wearing a long, white, flimsy nightie.

Anyways, I'm walking Very slowly barefoot and
my heart is racing really fast. All across the whole
ceiling(about 4" apart) are long, thin sharp(just like
razor blades)panes of glass. I'd say about 5,000
of them. I of course, am walking Very cautiously
hoping not to disturb the fine lines that are holding
them up. If one fell, then many would and I'd be
quite successfully sliced and diced. :D

Luckily nothing fell, and I woke up with a 2.2 blood
sugar. That dream was about 5 yrs. ago.

Definitely a dream of vulnerability. I really hate feeling
vulnerable at any time. And that's what low blood sugar
makes me feel sometimes. The End! :D

[2high]

Carlie... YIKES

Injecto, yucky.. I hate high / low dreams... they suck.

[Funnygrl]

I definitely have bad dreams when low.

[ant hill]

geez, You don't have to be in bed to have a bad dream like when i'm low, My mind starts to dither (wonder) and this is in broad daylight!! and i seem to be in dreamland!!. :confused:

[spirosway]

Yea....when we have low BG brain dont take the glycoze which it need and start the mechanism to wake up....dont afraid ...its better to see a bad dream and wake up otherwise you never wake up and die slow....

[jerryn]

That dream has a lot of sybolism embedded in it! Sound like a cool scene to add to a movie too.

Me.. My dream, and I remeber is. I worked hard building an ultralight aircraft. It took a while to get the engine running smoothly. Once I got the engine running well I took off for the skies. I soared up into the sky. When I got up above the clouds I had to go to the bathroom. I woke up from the dream and really had to go to the bathroom. I had that dream 20 years ago and still remember it,

[xMenace]

Never have bad dreams. My hypo dreams are rythmic. I usually fight the rythms. I'd love to meet someone with the same sensations.

[xMenace]

Yea....when we have low BG brain dont take the glycoze which it need and start the mechanism to wake up....dont afraid ...its better to see a bad dream and wake up otherwise you never wake up and die slow....

Dying from bottoming out is pretty rare. Mr. Liver does usually pritect us.

[jeggeman31]

I start to drown in my dreams when I go low. Each time as someone is pulling me out of the water, I wake up all wet from sweat and go treat my low. Being low is the only time I have this dream, and I am low each time I have the dream. Each dream I have someone new pull me out of the water.

I wonder what will happen when I run out of people pulling me out of the water, as from what I remember I have not had the same person pull me from the water in my dream more than once.

[GrammyByer]

Hi Injecto,
I also have dreams when I am going low. The dreams are not really bad ones, but they are always really weird.

[KickStart101]

Sound like a cool scene to add to a movie too.

I don't know if you were talking to me but...
I had the same thought about it being a
cool scene in a movie, as well as many of
my dreams when low. Can you imagine if
we collected all the Diabetics weird dreams.
What a lot of Great movies that could be
made.

Probably like most, I also have weird musical
dreams. They are not scary though and
usually not movie-worthy. One I had about
5 mths. ago. I dreamt we were at a Friend's
cottage for a party. The tune "Popcorn",( I
think from the 70's)started playing and a crazy
silver arcade ball(Yes, I like arcade games)started
bouncing around to the music. In the dream,
I was trying to stop the ball from bouncing,
with my mind. Well, that didn't work well. :D Weird.

Well, I hope that you got that plane off the
ground again with no further interruptions.
That sounds like a Great dream. Flying the
plane part that is. ;)


Sorry about your bad dream Injecto. I sure
hope that you don't have any more like that.

[andypoo]

I consistantly have bad dreams or to say the least weird dreams. I still have dreams about every house I've ever lived in,surrounded by members of my family. Upstairs,downstairs,every where around the house. And there's either something lurking outside watching those inside or there's something foreboding inside ,waiting,watching,listening to everyone in the house. It really depends on which house I'm in,weird. I don't know if it's low bg or other meds that I'm on causing this. I tried getting off Paxil,but had to start taking again after 2 weeks. The other night I had a dream that caused me to yell out "NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!" My daughter came into my room and asked,"Mom,you OK?" and I just remember falling back to sleep. I don't remember what the dream was about,though. It's to the point now,though,that it's no big deal anymore,they are so prevalent. And I also have dreams about I have to fly back from somewhere and I think of every excuse why I don't have to fly(Yes,I have a very bad fear of flying) I try to direct my dream so I can get or just be at my destination,another way. And my destination is to get home to my family,of course,where I want to be the most.And God only knows how many times I've woken up crying about something so sad. Weird

[andypoo]

In my dream, I had just been shot, and I remember grabbing my wife as I laid down on the bed, telling her I was dying. Then, I realized I was having a bad dream, woke up shaking, tested, I was 4.1, but really shaking. Figured I was going low so I treated myself with some glucose tabs (Ewwww, I HATE eating those things in the middle of the night). Felt better in a few. Weird. I have heard here on the DF of others who have said they have bad dreams when they go low, so, I can only guess that's what this was about. Very odd..

Injecto,I understand about those dreams,you know they are not real,and yet,they are a part of your life,whether your asleep or not. When we have memories are they not of the things we do and see and experience? Well,so are dreams they are something we experienced,whether it was something we did physically or mentally they are etched in our minds. I hope your dreams get better.

[notme]

I have never noticed that I have bad dreams or even weird dreams when I am low. Generally, I try to avoid getting up. I will have a vague feeling that I need to eat something, but I will try to roll over and go back to sleep so it will go away. Very bad habit.

[Shawny]

I never remember my dreams, and I have only gone low once at night, about 2 years ago. The funny thing is I sleep very deeply, someone can yell at me while I sleep and I won't wake up, I might stir, but not wake up. I remember exactly what caused me to wake up though. It was as if my eyelids where flashing, like if I were taking an EEG, when they flash lights into your eyes, I had on of those when I was about 6 years old.

It took me about half a minute to get up, but I immediately knew something was wrong, it was 4AM and my heart was racing, I was sweating, dizzy and shacking all over. Next thing I remember is that it was 4:30 and I had my parents and sister hovering over me and asking if I was ok. As it turns out, I ran to the dining room, where my tester was, shouting out that I need help (weird) and when I finally got to test I was at 3.1 or something weird, and according to my parents I took 1 step from the table and then collapsed into seizure.

It hasn't happened since, mainly because we radically changed my insulin regimen and then started to test at 3AM each morning, and sometimes we tested twice during the night. I woke up with a reading of 4mmol/l once, corrected it and went back to bed, but no bad dreams.

I did once have a low from a novorapid overdose, I took 20u of NovoRapid instead of Levemir (way back, I am now on split doses of 9u and 6u) and an hour later (about 30 mins into sleep) I got up feeling "weird", nothing made me think of my BSL, but I have gotten into the habit of checking when I feel "weird", plus, my cat starting to make really funny noises in front of my face, she had never made them before, and she was fast asleep when I climbed into bed. Maybe she sensed something was wrong?