The dreams

For the past week and a half i have been exoerienceing an episode of 'excessive dreaming'. Usually i have a dream maybe once a month, probably a lot less. It is usually really suprising to me when i dream. I'm like "what the heck was that?". But these days i have one every night, i mean EVERY night. Not even the wierd incoherent dreams where you are doing one thing then something else and its just a wierd jumble of images and situations. These are epic dreams like a movie or a novel. I mean, they still dont make sense, but everything happens in sequence.

You wouldnt think this is a problem. Who complains about dreaming? But i wake up in the middle of the night from these dreams and in the morning i dont feel refreshed at all. If i hit the snooze button i just get 10 more minutes of the same dream. its really annoying. Even if i nap during the day. Every time i fall asleep i am dreaming.

I went online and did a bit of research. I thought you dream in REM sleep which is suppose dto be the deepest most restful sleep you can get. The time you spend dreaming is a phase of deep sleep, but it is a less restful stage when you brain is more active than usual. I read all kinds of theories. I read about chinese herbs and accupuncture. I also read about this intense counseling where they think that dreaming comes from not resolving issues when you are awake, so they try to help you calm you rmind and not leav things undone. I read about knock-out drugs and other things that are supposed to give you restfull dreamless sleep. So i decided the chinese herbs were my favorite solution because they were organic and all natural and proven by millennia of ancient wisdom. I picked the most promising drug and read on..

It turns out that this particular herb has a delicate dose scale. Too little or too much can cause you to have more dreams and nightmares. Yea, just what i need. So i scratched that, and since none of the other remidies appealed to me i called my mom.

So my mom says that i should try exercising before bed and try to think of things that may be tressing me out and work on resolving them. I still don't think i am stressed out. So i gave teh exercise a shot. And that didnt work either. I wake up this morning from a dream where i was on a boat with a lot of people i idnt like and noone was notigcing me and i was dressed like i was going to the prom and everyone else was dressed for the gym. I didnt hit snooze.