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Allyoopa
03-27-2006, 07:33 AM
Hi Everyone,

I'm wondering how our dreams effect IC because last night I woke up at 4:30am and felt better than I had all weekend accept for pain in my lower back. I'd slept most the day Sunday because my IC was extremely painful, so I basically knocked myself out. Anyhow, as I said I was feeling a bit better, watched the Longest Yard, took a Bella Donna and then went back to sleep. When I woke up again at 9:30am, the pain was back full force. Heres the thing I had this dream that I phoned my friend to come and sit with my Sister and me while she went through her Chemo. In my dream my Sister had rented an apartment near Toronto airport while she was ill. Anyhow, Tracey came over with my God daughter Lesley and we sat on the balcony watching the planes go back and forth until all of a sudden this white mini van came flying across 2 major highways barely missing all the traffic and then blew up in the woods. I tried calling 911 but the lines were jammed, so I said to Tracey "you'd better stay over night the traffic will be a mess." She declined and said she had to get up early for a meeting. She left and I went into see how my Sister was doing and then 2 hours later the phone rang and it was Tracey's husband saying that Tracey and my God daughter had been in a fatal crash. Their white mini van had been hit, jumped traffic and exploded! I dropped the phone in my dream and then woke up with all the emotions as if it had really happened. My IC was back through the roof and here I lye in bed again with extreme pain. I don't know if its the meds but I don't think so, my dreams are always full color and very real. I'm able to smell, touch and feel in them.
My question is:Do you think that our dreams effect how we feel in the morning regarding IC, both physically and mentally?
Please let me know!

P.S I think I put this in the wrong section. Maybe we should start one on DREAMS!!

Love
Adele :hmm:

Allyoopa
03-27-2006, 08:06 AM
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ICNDonna
03-27-2006, 08:13 AM
Some medications make me have nightmares --- it's possible that's what happened to you. And being upset and stressed in our sleep could definitely effect us just as if we are stressed when awake.

Donna

Sarojini
03-27-2006, 08:58 AM
I've flared from a nightmare before -- I'm sorry it happened to you!! Hope you feel better soon. :grouphug:

quiltz
03-27-2006, 09:27 AM
I think I have nightmares when I flare, as if my brain is responding to what my body is going through ....but it is surely helped along by the meds which have been known to cause nightmares. Even when I dream not so terrible things, they are very, very emotional and seem to wear me out when I finally wake up.

When I was a kid I remember dreaming that I jumped off a cliff and sailed into the ocean ....and I woke to find I'd wet the bed. Now don't tell anyone on me, ...I was only about 10yo. Once I dreamt I was late for school ...my alarm didn't go off etc. I jumped out of bed and did my hair and got into my uniform and .... must have gone back to bed because my alarm went off as set ...at 6AM and I was sound asleep in a very wrinkled outfit!! It was actually very scary ....couldn't seperate reality from dreamland for awhile!! :bonk:
Liz

Katrina
03-27-2006, 10:26 AM
Yes, dreams are often where we deal with things we aren't dealing with in life....and if one stresses you out it can certainly cause a stress flare. The opposite can be true as well...I have had dreams that definatly are a reflection of the pain I was in or symptoms I was having. It may help to meditate!