when i am sick, my dreams are very unusual,why? yours? how?

[jason v]

i remember all my life, whenever i am sick my dreams are messed up. they usually consist of needing do do something important, and never being able to accomplish the goal. then they repeat. and they usually lack any sort of visuals, just concepts and frusterating ideas. during these dreams i seem to be 1/4 awake/ 1/4 discomfort and 1/2 asleep. i feel like my blankets are wrapped up aound my,constricting me.

for example: "i am currently sick and this is the dream i had last night " : i needed to obtain 4 bullet proof vests in order to get somewhere or do something. i knew where the vests were and how to get them. but paradoxically the location had absolutely no value... i mean the location was a concept/an idea, not a dimensional existence... im just not articulate enough to describe...

then some body else got 2 of the vests and i failed, again the person really wasnt there, i just new it... then the dream started over with even less detail then i described befor. the entire time i felt suffocated by my sheets that were wrapped up in my legs...

so, if you are interested, let me know if you have weird dreams when you are sick, or any theories on why this happens?

[Thunal]

I don't really know why it happens exactly, but I don't think it's hard to imagine that your brain doesn't function perfectly when you're ill.
When I'm ill I usually hop between lying in my bed and dreaming a little similarly to how you dream. The reason you dream in concepts in stead of proper images is because you aren't dreaming really well. You're half asleep, like you said, so your brain isn't focussing on making the dreams.
I think it would be possible to get lucid during such periods, although I usually don't have the willpower to care when I'm ill and most likely the dreams will still look like s**t.
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[Ambsi]

I always have horrible hypnagogic dreams when I'm ill. They're usually more like hallucinations. They don't make any sense, but they're just so terrible
For example, I was sick once and I had this hypnagogic dream about roller coasters in my room. They were covered in mud and I was trying to stop them with toothpicks.

Ugh.

However, I know now that these are just hypnagogia, so now I usually just take over control when the dream starts getting uncomfortable.

I can't remember my normal dreams being this bad when sick, though, but I can clearly remember these hypnagogia.
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[joethfc]

I had food poisoning once, and I kept dreaming about food and I really didn't want to it stopped me from sleeping, many were abstract.

I thought it was to do with dodgy food causing hallucinations or did I just get that idea from Scrooge in A Christmas Carol?

[jason v]

ya, im sure i understand what you mean,

sometimes i wake up when i have the flu... i turn the light on and i see these two short lines mounted vertically on a thinner horixzontal line.


and the 2 lines are moving ever closer together. but the y never ever meet.

they just keep moving and moving closer and closr at a stead y pace but illogically never contact....

its hard to describe but it is the worst feeling ever... no matter how i try it doesnt leave my sight.

honestly i contemplate suicide it is so bad lolz!

ya, they ill hypogogs are pretty bad. thanks for the reply

[Freddy885]

[jason v]

ya! kool to hear somebody else knows what i am talking about.

i hate sleeping when i am sick too!

sometimes i wake up and i see things... like two lines that steadily come ever closer together but never ever meet

or gears turning that are constantly turning but never mesh new teeth.

or black blotches that grow and grow but never increase in size!

soo messed up. i sometimes contemplate suicide it is so mind tearing !
lol but seriously it is undescribable.

[antidote]

jason v, you have some strange things happening to you when you're ill. Really...
The only thing that bothers me when I'm ill, especially when I have temperature is that whenever I try to fall asleep I start talking and mumbling stuff, which wake me up. And I can never go to sleep this way, I become even more tired and the cycle goes on and on...

I don't know what talking has to do with having a temperature,,,
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[tibiarts]

Am I the only one who just have unfrequent dreams when Im sick?
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[Th3_Authr]

Yup, almost always when I'm sick, I'll have a really freaky dream or two... but they're the dreams that I never forget! And I love having weird or scary dreams... for some reason. XD

Any type of bodily imbalance can cause strange dreams, or increase in dream activity... for example, women who are menstruating or pregnant have reported really odd dreams. Or, if you're adjusting to a new environment, like you've just moved or you're camping, that can bring on strange dreams too.

I liked to experiment with my dreams when I know they'll be most susceptible to increased activity... that's on of the only good things about being sick. Lol

[Mencius]

[TaeZus]

I usually have weird dreams, when I am sick. They're kind of merged between reality and dreaming, not really vivid, mainly just thoughts and ideas, which doesn't make any sense. Not too long ago I had a food poisoning and really bad fever. All night, even when asleep, I was thinking about some kind of grand scheme, which could document all people on this planet, their jobs, hobbies, stuff like that. When I woke up at night for a moment I realized there is such thing - it's called Facebook.

[Voleuse]

lol, I hate going to sleep when I am sick. Its especially tied to fever I think. Once the fever subsides, the dreams stop being terrible (In dutch we even have a word for it: koortsdromen --> fever-dreams)

Examples of fever-dreams I had include dreaming of a grey brick wall for about half an hour (just that visual, nothing else), and reading a lucky luke comic in which lucky lukes face was all black. Both of these scared me shitless.
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[bcblondie]

Fevers definitely induce crazy dreams. I still remember one from when I was a kid. Not suprisingly, one of few dreams I can remember with such clarity. It was just this stick man running from one side of my feild of vision to another. Then he'd run to the fore front and put his hands to his cheeks like he was terrified, then run away again...
I also remember one where I kept waking and falling asleep and it would continue, where a girl from my class was evil (and had 6 fingers on one hand) and was trying to push me down a flight of spiral stairs. She pushed me and a boy from my class caught me, and then she was moving in for the kill... and I woke up.

These were from YEARS ago.

[Rurushu Vui Buritannia]

the same has happened with me and i can recall this happening as long ago as from when i was 4-5 yrs old. i have the same irritating dream every time. i dream that i have no body and i am just seeing the things happening. there are countless boxes and they are just being lifted in a slow scary way and they are rising infinitely. the background is just nothing. it is hard to describe. suddenly everything just messes up and sort of collapses and i dont see or hear it but i just know that there is some very menacing presence that scares me and i stop the stacking and lifting of boxes (yes, in a way i'm the one lifting them). it all is very irritating and the boxes are like edgy particles.[/quote]