weird dreams & diabetes!

[exohstephh]

Last night I had the craziest dream.. it was basically a nightmare. I woke up shaking and feeling low, so I tested, and I was 63. This has happened to me MANY times before.. and it seems to me that whenever I'm low at night, I have a nightmare.

Anyone else experience this or something similar? Or am I just really weird !!:)

[morrisma]

Yeah, always the same. It's like playing a tape loop in my head. The repetition finally annoys me enough to wake up.

[solox316]

Used to happen to me a lot, my endo says it is very common with those with diabetes...

When you are hypo, you starve your brain of oxygen, somehow triggering these crazy dreams... Mine have been at times almost "out of body" like experiences, where I could see myself floating above myself sleeping...

Two times when a teenager, I was under 30, while having these nightmares. My mom woke up to my screaming and busted out the glucagon...

[exohstephh]

Used to happen to me a lot, my endo says it is very common with those with diabetes...

When you are hypo, you starve your brain of oxygen, somehow triggering these crazy dreams... Mine have been at times almost "out of body" like experiences, where I could see myself floating above myself sleeping...

Two times when a teenager, I was under 30, while having these nightmares. My mom woke up to my screaming and busted out the glucagon...

wow thats pretty scary :\

[xMenace]

Yeah, always the same. It's like playing a tape loop in my head. The repetition finally annoys me enough to wake up.


I thought I was the only one with these loopy dreams. It's more than a dream though. It's like the brain is recursively trying to reboot. It lasts to the point of regaining control. I have recognized the sensation a few times and managed to treat myself. It is difficult to describe, probably because the brain is not functioning normally.

[DanG]

It's like the brain is recursively trying to reboot. It lasts to the point of regaining control. I have recognized the sensation a few times and managed to treat myself. It is difficult to describe, probably because the brain is not functioning normally.

I get the white light death type dream.
I don't like it. And, I have always thought it was near death, as one time I did it and tested at 20 - waaaay low.
Of course, there are the times that the paramedic has been here and I never had the dream - just a menacing time trying to fight off the helpers - my wife included - trying to get me to drink some orange juice and me fighting them away, as I KNOT that OJ is not for me. Those are exhausting experiences. But, no more, these days. Not since I switched to lantus in the morning. Now I don't have a basal trying to take me down all night long - and I like that very much.

[kstreeter513]

Wow that stuff sounds scary. I can never sleep with a low. I always wake up cold and clammy. If I did have a nightmare, I don't remember. The nightmare for me is the next morning when I check my BG and found out I over treated and have a high blood sugar. It's hard not to over treat in the middle of the night for me. I just want to get back to sleep.

[DanG]

Wow that stuff sounds scary. I can never sleep with a low. I always wake up cold and clammy.

Speaking of cold and clammy...
Does anyone remember the wrist watch type device used to wake us from a cold and clammy sleep? It would detect moisture and ring an alarm. I purchased one about 8 years ago on ebay, as I was having these problems in the last days of using lente - lente became a relic as the industry could not make dollars - it is all about dollars, we all know.

Anyhoo, the name of the wrist device is SleepSentry made by Teledyne Avionics. Did anyone else use this device? Rather the question may be - does anyone currently use this device? I gotta get the battery replaced in mine, but I don't use it anymore.

[Jan B]

I don't get the cold, sweaty thing anymore. But thankfully I wake up - or more literally get stuck in a thinking loop, OR I'll be trying to solve a problem, down to it's last little detail while juggling all the components to it, then finally get lost and forget what problem I'm trying to solve. That's when I know to get up and check bg -- it's low.

[soso]

I dream I am eating.. over and over..then I wake up ..
One night I sat bolt upright and then ran down the hall to DH telling him I was low..I was in a complete panic.. bg was 5 though so maybe a dream, or perhaps I had been low long enough my liver had kicked in and woken me up..
I was positively sure of it though— and I don't freak out all that easily....

[dodo]

I have weird dreams too and for some reasons they always imply chocolate!:)

[Richard157]

Yep, I've been having those dreams for 62 years when having lows at night. My last one was last summer. I am pumping since June, 2007 and lows during the night are a very rare thing now.

I remember having a dreams while having hypos and not wanting to wake up. I was so involved with my dream and I knew my wife was trying to get me to wake up. I knew it was a hypo and I needed glucose but I had an important thing happening in my dream and I needed to get back to it and finish it, so leave me alone!!! OK??? LOL! I hate to be interrupted when I am enjoying a really great TV show, reading a great post on a diabetes site or having a very interesting dream. So I ate the glucose, recovered and went back to sleep to finish the dream but the dream never returned. RATS! LOL!

Richard

[Chappo]

I remember a classic dream i had once, i was clearly hypo (and knew it in the dream as well).

I was in some urban warfare in what i thought in the dream as being Iraq. We were fighting (guns, ammo, artillery everything) for the rights to hold a base.... That was a JELLYBEAN! I just remember in the middle of this Middle Eastern city with bullets flying around and explosions, there being a bloody big blue jellybean sitting there, about 10 stories tall.

I mean c'mon, i know diabetes stuffs us around a bit, but dreaming of defending Jellybeans is just silly. Anyway, I woke up later and felt immediately low, checked and i was 2.3(mmol).

So i went upstairs to eat what i was dreaming about!

On the other end, high blood sugars really mess my sleep up. I can't sleep for more than 20mins at a time if i'm over 12mmol.

[alicat61]

:) Hi
I have weird dreams all the time. I used to dream Murder mysteries (hardly ever watch them on TV )
My husband thinks I'm strange. I just think it saves me having to buy books or hiring out DVD's LOL:D
I wish I could some how put them onto paper I would be a famous by now LOL:D

[KCP]

I tend to have crazy dreams as well when i am hypo..
ANd if i am hypo and trying to go to sleep I will see ots of black and white images behind my eyelids and they will constantly change from black to white to black... over and over!!

[mwd]

I do all that too...real detailed dream... while having a hypo in my sleep!
there have been a couple of times that even after waking up i still think like i am in the dream and dh telling me to have juice/lucozade is unreal! on my own, awake, too it has taken me a while to get out of the dream mode to..."check ur bgl, u r low" mode!
:)

[xMenace]

I was in some urban warfare in what i thought in the dream as being Iraq. We were fighting (guns, ammo, artillery everything) for the rights to hold a base.... That was a JELLYBEAN! I just remember in the middle of this Middle Eastern city with bullets flying around and explosions, there being a bloody big blue jellybean sitting there, about 10 stories tall.

One of mine was in a castle we were invading. We got chased away by the attack photocopier!

[nicole]

I have had this happen to me many times too, I still do. Happens when I'm low or high.

I asked my doctor about it and she said that lows and highs will cause it.
Mine were definitely nightmares, and everynight they were the same only more detailed and real like.

[Gangrel]

I can't recall having many, if any weird dreams caused from overnight hypos. Then again, even in my "normal" state, I hardly ever dream.......