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October 31, 2008

Has Anyone Heard of This Weird Affliction?
— Ace

I have a lot of problems with my brain.

This is the newest one. It at least is kind of interesting. I've never heard of this before, and a Google search didn't help.

During waking hours, I'm having flashbacks to nightmares. They're not hallucinations, mind you. I don't see things that aren't there. I mean I'm having sudden floods of kinda-intense memories, except the memories are counterfeit. They're memories of nightmares.

For what it's worth, they don't feel like fresh nightmares usually; they feel like ones I had a month ago. I'm not sure when I actually had them, because I usually don't remember them. They feel old usually, though. Except today's, which felt like it was from last night.

Memory is chemical, and the storage tank for bad nighmares keeps tipping over and drenching my active brain with this chemical-bath of nasty little dream-fragments.

This lasts for about five minutes. I get flashes of images and mostly flashes of mood (which is always the usual nightmare stuff of stress, fear of failure, fear of humiliation, etc.). No slavering monsters or cool stuff like that. The typical crap about suddenly being informed that I don't have enough credits to graduate high school. The memories are even more disjointed and insensible than the original nightmares, so they make absolutely no sense, not even the funky kind of stoner half-sense that dream-logic possesses.

I don't even remember enough of them to attempt to impose some kind of semi-coherent narrative on them. Which is doubly annoying, because if this stuff is leeching into my active brain, I'd at least like to clearly remember it.

All I know is that they're unpleasant, and leave me feeling a bit weary after their five minute duration.

Just so you know -- it's not like they so overtake my mind I can't carry on with whatever it is I'm doing. I can multitask. It has the same effect of, say, a bad headache -- an annoyance and a distraction, but nothing that's going to, say, make you turn your car directly into a tree.

I'm not really complaining Woe Is Me. On the scale of afflictions, this one rates a 0.2 out of ten. I'm mentioning it because it's... well, I never heard of this until I started having it myself. Annoying as it is, it's kinda-sorta interesting.

Has anyone ever heard of this?

On the plus side, I think there's a halfway decent premise for a horror movie here. Not sure what that premise is, really. A proto-premise, then.

Posted by: Ace at 09:02 PM | Comments (92)
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1 Erm, you been smoking weed or something?

Posted by: someone at October 31, 2008 09:02 PM (zHoxL)

2 nope, I don't use drugs.

Posted by: ace at October 31, 2008 09:04 PM (8T2pi)

3 I don't know that there is a clinical term for it, but the folk over at The Daily Kos are suffering from the same thing right now. The nightmare they're flashing back to is November of 2004.

Posted by: The Obvious at October 31, 2008 09:05 PM (1g+FW)

4 Low level panic attack, different trigger maybe, it happens.

Delete this post, dude.

Posted by: counter at October 31, 2008 09:06 PM (8/0ME)

5 Did you ever use drugs? (don't answer that). Sounds like LSD flashbacks.

Posted by: angie at October 31, 2008 09:07 PM (BTT0Y)

6 why delete it?

Posted by: ace at October 31, 2008 09:07 PM (8T2pi)

7 Sounds like a variant of PTSD--any recent trauma?

Posted by: the watchmen at October 31, 2008 09:07 PM (EegTB)

8 "make absolutely no sense, not even the funky kind of stoner half-sense that dream-logic possesses."

hey! I resemble that remark!

Posted by: Kaptain Amerika at October 31, 2008 09:07 PM (4Qspj)

9 Jeez, I know all kinds of freaks and weirdos and have never heard of this. It sucks and major hugs to you. My guess is killer stress from all you are doing. But, yeah, counter's idea is a good one. Delete the post, nothing good can come of it.

Posted by: CB at October 31, 2008 09:08 PM (9Wv2j)

10 I chalk up my out-of-the-blue flashbacks to middle-age.

It mostly has to with regrets. The scenes I re-live for a moment usually have something to do with a bad decision in my life, or a turning point in my life where I was at a crossroads.

Posted by: Bart at October 31, 2008 09:08 PM (5DHMR)

11 I'm with counter. Pretty sure you meant to put this behind the wall for the co-morons to comment on. We don't want our image of perfection of you to get sullied.

But, whatever.

Posted by: Editor at October 31, 2008 09:08 PM (p4YSL)

12 no, never touched LSD or any hallucinogen.

I've done pot like ten times, a long time ago.

I barely drink alcohol. I drink a bit too much caffeine (less and less though) and I smoke.

That's it for the drugs.

Posted by: ace at October 31, 2008 09:08 PM (8T2pi)

13 Fellow traveler, this way. Hate to say that you could be getting some low level epilepsy shit here, ties into anxiety disorder, any odd smells?

Like I said, delete the post, go to the doctor. Get a prescription.

Posted by: counter at October 31, 2008 09:09 PM (8/0ME)

14 It's simple. You're nuts.

If it persists, consult a physician.

Posted by: JayC at October 31, 2008 09:09 PM (NKvsK)

15 I've heard of it. It's what happens when you whore yourself out to a destructive and selfish ideology you subconsciously don't believe in and are actually logically opposed to on multiple fronts.

Never experienced it myself, but I hear it makes your testicles shrivel into raisins in the final stages.

Posted by: sisyphus at October 31, 2008 09:10 PM (D/pgX)

16 Well duh, you've got a case of the O!DS. Seriously though, Ive never heard of this infliction that you speak of. Sounds like some creepy shit though.

Posted by: ChangeUCantBelieveIn at October 31, 2008 09:10 PM (rvIvq)

17 Are you getting enough sleep?

Posted by: Ginger at October 31, 2008 09:10 PM (qSqPf)

18 I'm a super vivid dreamer and I even have a journal because i dream up better crap in my dreams than in my waking artist moments. I'm sure you are making a bigger point OR have what is known as narcolepsy sleep/dream, which is your tired body falling asleep faster than your moving, non-stop brain and it's seems/feels crazy.

Posted by: Topsecretk9 at October 31, 2008 09:10 PM (V1E6L)

19 >>> Pretty sure you meant to put this behind the wall for the co-morons to comment on. We don't want our image of perfection of you to get sullied.

I'm not embarrassed by it. It's not like I've gone insane.

I mean -- like I said, they're not hallucinations. At no point am I thinking this actually is happening or ever happened.

It's the same as getting an intense bit of deja vu -- except this is deja vu of a nightmare that never actually happened.

Posted by: ace at October 31, 2008 09:10 PM (8T2pi)

20 Ace, it isn't the same as you, but I'll say that I feel more affected than usual lately, mostly because of the emotion of doing what tiny little bit I can (and it's tiny) to fight against Barack Obama.

I haven't talked to my girlfriend* much and when she calls, I either say I haven't much to say, which she takes the wrong way -- how can I say I'm really concerned about politics more than anything now because I think it will be dreadful for the world and for our future and our children's future if Obama gets in office? -- or I pretend to be really tired.

She told me the last few days all I've done is sleep. Obviously that isn't so.

I levelled with her a bit today and my part of the conversation went like this:

[19:43:30] Christoph says: Because I believe Barack Obama is dangerous as hell and anything and everything within the political sphere should be done to stop him from becoming President of the country that borders mine.
[19:44:05] Christoph says: I could not rouse myself to be interested in Canada's election. It was a contest between a good effective prime minister and an ineffective, but decent opposition leader. Both patriots.
[19:44:59] Christoph says: In the United States, I believe it's a contest between a crotchety old man who is a war hero, a true in his bones patriot, a squishy wishy washy conservative who often supports dumb leftist ideas, but who chose a good running mate...
[19:46:00] Christoph says: ... and the most dangerous man the United States has ever had run for high office with a (good) chance of winning. A man who is a meglomaniac, a thug, someone who is backed by radical leftist domestic terrorists and others, and who has the potential to become a dictator.
[19:46:04] Christoph says: I feel that in my bones.
[19:46:15] Christoph says: I want him defeated now, not on a battle field in 10 years.

While I've been less emotional in the daytime than usual, I noticed my dreams have been troubled. For what it's worth.

* She's in another country and has a two year visa to come to Canada. Will be awesome to see her again.

Posted by: Christoph at October 31, 2008 09:10 PM (hawOV)

21 Why delete it?

People are fucking assholes.

Dude, I have occasional petite mals. I suffer acute stress in new surroundings, get panic attacks. People don't understand. They just don't. Writers do, but they'll just tell you to drink.

Posted by: counter at October 31, 2008 09:11 PM (8/0ME)

22 And that epilepsy thing could be triggered by that whole staring at a computer screen all day.

My dad has epilepsy. We have to stop him from doing repetitive things every once in awhile. One time when I was still living at home he walked in the door and said he didn't remember how he got home. He drove home, mind you.

Posted by: Editor at October 31, 2008 09:11 PM (p4YSL)

23 Perhaps if I stabbed you 220 times it would make you feel better?

Posted by: Carole Anne Burger at October 31, 2008 09:11 PM (5DHMR)

24 sisyphus, are you suggesting ace's been secretly cross posting at kos?

@ace

try to get better sleep and delete the post--if that doesn't work contact a doctor

Posted by: the watchmen at October 31, 2008 09:11 PM (EegTB)

25 >>>Hate to say that you could be getting some low level epilepsy shit here, ties into anxiety disorder, any odd smells?

I am epileptic. But this isn't an "aura," or at least not the sort of aura I've ever heard of or experienced.

I don't think it has anything to do directly with epilepsy.

Posted by: ace at October 31, 2008 09:12 PM (8T2pi)

26 Get laid.
Can't hurt. Might help.

Posted by: RayJ at October 31, 2008 09:12 PM (o2Td/)

27 Sometimes it helps to write a poem about it.

Posted by: Maya Angeloo at October 31, 2008 09:13 PM (5DHMR)

28 I mean, I know what an aura is. At least my version of an aura.

Posted by: ace at October 31, 2008 09:13 PM (8T2pi)

Get laid.
Can't hurt. Might help

It helps me.

Posted by: Ginger at October 31, 2008 09:14 PM (qSqPf)

30 "I don't think it has anything to do directly with epilepsy."

It might anyway. I think you should discuss it with a good doctor. And definitely not take medical advice from us!

But if you've been more troubled lately and this is a reaction to it, I think that's understandable.

Posted by: Christoph at October 31, 2008 09:14 PM (hawOV)

31 Epilepsy is all about the electrical connections in the brain. This could be another manifestation of the misfiring synapses. Hopefully you have a good doctor you could discuss this with.

Posted by: CB at October 31, 2008 09:14 PM (9Wv2j)

32 Are you on anything for the epilepsy?

Posted by: Editor at October 31, 2008 09:15 PM (p4YSL)

33 Are you taking Chantix (the stop smoking pills)? I took those and had the same kind of very vivid, intense dreams -- not scary, which was odd, but extremely intense.

Posted by: Terry at October 31, 2008 09:15 PM (2UK9b)

34 LSD flashbacks are BS...

the body's senses are directly connected to memories... have you quit smoking recently? has something in your perceptive state changed? long hours? changed environment? changed habits? smells can be powerful memory inducers... in reality none of your memories are 100%. we all have perceptions about the events that make up our memories... some real, some assumed, some completely false. one of the reasons eye witnesses are total crap... so that these daydreams would not jive with real memories is not too surprising... my question is... are you active and coherent during these dreams? or do you wander off task?

it sounds a little like narcolepsy... but I'm no doctor I just play one on the internet. if you're not in complete control of your facilities you may want to get a scan or two... but I would wait until Obama wins and get it for free...

Posted by: Kaptain Amerika at October 31, 2008 09:15 PM (4Qspj)

35 Since there is no history of drugs (pot 10 times a long time ago doesn't count) then in my completely unqualified medical opinion, I think counter is right -- low level panic attacks. They are probably situational and will go away after the election is over & you go back to a more normal routine, get better rest, etc. but if they persist you should see a doctor.

Posted by: angie at October 31, 2008 09:16 PM (BTT0Y)

36 It's sleep deprivation - it happens to a lot of people who work nights and swing shifts. When you do sleep your not really getting into the deep REM sleep where most people dream - so your dreams/nightmares are seeping into your consciousness. http://tinyurl.com/6cg2z7 You need a vacation Ace.

Posted by: ethel at October 31, 2008 09:16 PM (nU6Ha)

37 "My dad has epilepsy. We have to stop him from doing repetitive things every once in awhile."

When I was 20, I dated a girl with epilepsy and we were walking and all of a sudden she had a blank look on her face and had to hold her to stop her from walking into traffic... then I brought her to my place to wash her clothes. She was embarrassed, but I saw it nothing to be embarrassed about.

It certainly was a learning experience. It's amazing how many great minds throughout history have had epilepsy.

Posted by: Christoph at October 31, 2008 09:16 PM (hawOV)

38 yeah, it's obviously some synapses with these old nightmare memories for some reason getting plugged into and downloading into the active brain.

Just not sure why.

Posted by: ace at October 31, 2008 09:17 PM (8T2pi)

39 How long ago did it start happening? Maybe you started doing something different around that time that you didn't notice... a change in your diet, or some other seemingly innocuous change to your daily routine? Or maybe the stress of seeing some worthless cocksucking piece of shit socialist trying to steal the election is just doing something weird to your brain chemistry?

Posted by: Watcher at October 31, 2008 09:17 PM (ms7Cf)

40 Ace I know what you are talking about, and like I said "I'm sure you are making a bigger point OR have what is known as narcolepsy sleep/dream, which is your tired body falling asleep faster than your moving, non-stop brain and it's seems/feels crazy." and it's a form narcolepsy lite (technically, bit not the clinical version in which you would fall asleep having sex severity), It's that your body is more exhausted than your brain, your brain stages don't meet your body and it creates some major crazy feeling dreams.

Posted by: Topsecretk9 at October 31, 2008 09:18 PM (V1E6L)

41 I'm guessing you're tired, stressed and worried you're not doing enough to help secure a win on Tues which is a critical election. And a leader of countless Morons. If this is the worst of it, be glad. Book a trip to the beach and take next week off. Leave the laptop at home.

Posted by: Swegin at October 31, 2008 09:18 PM (q0Z3p)

42 Yeah - I think the sleep deprivation combined with the epilepsy and staring at a computer screen all day long is definitely an avenue to pursue.

Posted by: Editor at October 31, 2008 09:18 PM (p4YSL)

43 Ehhh, shit, I'm not really a valued commenter anyways.

Yeah, there's an epilepsy tie-in. Waking dream state, you come out, you're stressed.

This happened in my early 30's. It didn't progress to anything worse. But, yeah, a couple times I woke up tingly on my back in a public place.

Posted by: counter at October 31, 2008 09:18 PM (8/0ME)

44 >>> I think counter is right -- low level panic attacks.

Hah, well, see, I have panic disorder.

You may be right, but this is unlike panic attacks I've had before. Previous panic was just panic, physical reactions. These are memories.

It could be some variant of panic I haven't had before.

But it's not actually panicking. The memories don't scare me. Again, they're just unpleasant fear of failure type stuff.

Posted by: ace at October 31, 2008 09:19 PM (8T2pi)

45 ethel's theory makes as much sense as anything, Ace. Lots of people who've taken tough military courses (and I'm sure combat veterans) will tell you that during exercises where they're seriously sleep deprived for several days in a row, they start to basically hallucinate. A bit. They experience something called "microsleep" which invades their consciousness.

This is absolutely unavoidable. Even prisoners kept awake during interrogation experience it.

I'm not saying for sure that's the case, but more sleep could help.

Posted by: Christoph at October 31, 2008 09:20 PM (hawOV)

46 This sounds like what you're describing, and it does apparently have to do with epilepsy.

Posted by: koopy at October 31, 2008 09:20 PM (bL4cA)

47 yeah, I definitely need to sleep more.

Posted by: ace at October 31, 2008 09:20 PM (8T2pi)

48 Ace, my bad I guess, maybe you're tougher than me.

I've always felt pretty secretive about this shit. Considered it a trade-off for creativity but just Not Cool. My hang-up.

Posted by: counter at October 31, 2008 09:21 PM (8/0ME)

49 Ace, anybody here can see your level of commitment and emotional involvement in our national crisis here. It's very possible, as Ethel commented, that even if you are getting a decent amount of sleep, the quality is not good. Your brain is running overtime. Actually, if you have some kind of sleeping pill or valium type of thing you could take, you might want to just knock yourself out for a good 12 hours and see if that takes care of the problem.

Posted by: CB at October 31, 2008 09:21 PM (9Wv2j)

50 narcolepsy

Posted by: Topsecretk9 at October 31, 2008 09:21 PM (V1E6L)

51 Maybe the economic meltdown has you down, Ace. Hank Paulson should be fired!

/end anti-Democrats in the Bush administration rant

Posted by: Christoph at October 31, 2008 09:22 PM (hawOV)

52 Ace,

Try to cut back on the caffeine and smoking...not good for the heart and the caffeine can affect your sleeping...not enough sleep can mess with you. The flashbacks during the day can be the result of some trauma or feelings of inadequacy during your life...it may help to talk to a counselor or a mental health specialist to see why your having them.

BTW - I was a health care professional in the Navy for 26 years...

Posted by: Eeyore's Swinging Sack at October 31, 2008 09:22 PM (VYEVW)

53 yeah I guess that's it, I guess it's just another epilepsy bug.

You know what? I am going to delete this post.

The thing is, my mom reads this blog. Whenever she sees anything like this, she flips out.

So I'm going to duck it into draft to avoid that.

Thanks, you've been helpful.

Posted by: ace at October 31, 2008 09:22 PM (8T2pi)

54 Ace, do you smoke? Before you kill this post, please do yourself a favour and buy a copy of Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking. Best book ever. Really fantastic.

Posted by: Christoph at October 31, 2008 09:23 PM (hawOV)

55 I would guess that it's the cumulative stress of the election cycle. I'm immersed in libs here in NorCal, and I'm amazed that they joke about a second Great Depression, with work projects and massive unemployment, and they never connect that their Marxist, free-market-hating candidate could be the cause of the economic disaster that would happen if the One is elected*.

Let's just see ourselves though the next week. I'd bet your emotions either get better (Palin / ?), or settle in to a long, determined fight (He Who is Perfect, you ******** racist !eleventy!!)

* by dead people, Palestinians, and deep-pocketed Euroweenies taking advantage of O-shama's rigged, illegal-donation-welcoming reverse-ATM's.

Posted by: anopensecret at October 31, 2008 09:24 PM (NQfOv)

I was gonna tell a long story about my own dream memories, but the short version is that you're going completely insane and will embark on a long series of grusome murders and craft projects very soon.

Welcome to the club!

(The murders will be grusome, the craft projects...not so much)

Posted by: gebrauchshund at October 31, 2008 09:24 PM (pY77a)

57 Chronic Kronikitis. Put the energy drinks down, post up a "Be back in 3 days" sign, and get some fucking rest. We'll be okay. Of course, if you want to come back early, that's okay, too.

Posted by: I'm into Stitches at October 31, 2008 09:24 PM (KyqYb)

58 okay I'm going to leave this up for ten minutes just so everyone can see why I'm deleting it.

Can't let mom hear about every single weird thing that happens. Mom gets anxious.

Posted by: ace at October 31, 2008 09:25 PM (8T2pi)

59 @33, re: chantix.

Troll mode off for a moment. I quit smoking using chantix and I can completely back up the vivid intense dream thing. It was my favorite part of quitting.

Posted by: sisyphus at October 31, 2008 09:26 PM (D/pgX)

60 It might be a toomuh.

Posted by: Arnold Schwarzeneggar at October 31, 2008 09:26 PM (Rn2+D)

Sounds like something from the Twilight Zone

Do you see Rod Serling talking to your side to someone?

I'm trying to remember which episode it was, but it sounds like the one where Dennis Weaver kept dreaming he was in a prison cell on death row...

Or A Stop at Willoughby where James Daly was dreaming but thought the train stopped at a bucolic old town from the turn of the century...

Or....

Posted by: KBDaBear at October 31, 2008 09:27 PM (4gHqM)

62 You nut.

Posted by: Topsecretk9 at October 31, 2008 09:27 PM (V1E6L)

63 Allen Carr's approach is the bestselling book ever on the subject and has helped a gazillion people to quit, easily, without drugs.

It did that for me after years of failure including various drugs.

I've known several people to quit after reading it. What they commented on is how easily it was. The book exposes the fear-based mindset that is the smoker's worst dilemna and it replaces it with the mindset of a non-smoker.

Then quitting is as easy as pie.

$20 Ace, tops. You owe it to your family to get a copy and read it. It's a short read too. The best chapter is 1 page long.

Posted by: Christoph at October 31, 2008 09:29 PM (hawOV)

64 keep on keepin' on, ace. and thanks.

Posted by: on behalf of all morons at October 31, 2008 09:29 PM (fDO1N)

65 Combination of smoking (try a different type (cigar maybe)) and depression. Some quit smoking drugs do the same thing. Unfortunately it is something guys don't talk about and should.

Posted by: GW at October 31, 2008 09:30 PM (oXZBG)

66 Install more RAM or get more REM.

Posted by: LD at October 31, 2008 09:30 PM (WnCfx)

67 He edited the post: I have a lot of problems with my brain. This is the newest one. It at least is kind of interesting. I've never heard of this before, and a Google search didn't help. During waking hours, I'm having flashbacks to nightmares.

Posted by: Topsecretk9 at October 31, 2008 09:31 PM (V1E6L)

68 We love you, man!

Posted by: CB at October 31, 2008 09:31 PM (9Wv2j)

69 Yeah I'm really, really planning to quit after the election.

Posted by: ace at October 31, 2008 09:31 PM (8T2pi)

70 Ace, read the book. I guarantee it will make it 10 times easier.

Posted by: Christoph at October 31, 2008 09:31 PM (hawOV)

71 Quit the smoke. Quit the coffee. Join a gym and get more exercise. Go get yourself some sleep.

Posted by: pirate of the perineum at October 31, 2008 09:31 PM (rKSJ1)

As I told you a few months ago when you mentioned a strange headache experience that you had, you really should see someone about this.

I had a brain hemorrhage several years ago and it had some really weird effects. I didn't have any behavioral or memory issues, but that's because of where the hemorrhage occurred. These effects, which have to do with my vision and continue to this day, are really hard to describe without sounding a little crazy.

Go and see a doctor.

Posted by: Infidoll at October 31, 2008 09:32 PM (ojIgY)

73
Don't fuck around. Go see your doctor/neurologist.

Posted by: medstudent at October 31, 2008 09:32 PM (qrzXj)

74 If it makes you feel better, he insists you smoke while reading it (not necessarily literally), but that you make no effort to quit until you've finished it. And it's short too.

Posted by: Christoph at October 31, 2008 09:32 PM (hawOV)

75 I had some of what you described when I tried to quit smoking a few years back, was after hypnosis. Didn't take. Smoked again and vivid crap went away. If it's any consolation, the stock market and this election have totally whacked my sleep schedule.

Posted by: CInAz at October 31, 2008 09:32 PM (BhJB2)

76 If you haven't ever seen the Allen Carr book, it's totally amazing. And I say that as a smoker.

Posted by: CB at October 31, 2008 09:32 PM (9Wv2j)

77 or I miss read it in the first place and in which makes me a moron, which fits.

Posted by: Topsecretk9 at October 31, 2008 09:32 PM (V1E6L)

I think Watcher nails it:

"Or maybe the stress of seeing some worthless cocksucking piece of shit socialist trying to steal the election is just doing something weird to your brain chemistry?"

I'm an ol' man and have seen and done most things I could, but I have never...ever...seen anything like this attempted rape of our Republic by this commie/socialist arab-african-american bastard. And to see him almost ready to have his big O come election day (or week or month, depending on how many recounts and lawsuits have to be settled) is almost more than I can handle. I have had terrible nightmares, had a partial personality change, and am as nervous as a dog shitting tacks. I'm seriously considering staying drunk till it is all over.

Hope you feel better soon and figure it out.

Papa Ray

Posted by: Papa Ray at October 31, 2008 09:32 PM (s8MZ1)

79 @63: Christoph is probably right... but Chantix did the job for me and pretty damn easily, with the benefit of the awesome dreams.

It's been a year now and I don't even have the urge to smoke anymore.

Background: I smoked about a pack and a half a day for 25 years.

Posted by: sisyphus at October 31, 2008 09:34 PM (D/pgX)

80 Aw'right Morons. The Boss is a good man and He has earned a lot of our respect these last couple of Months. Not that it hasn't been a great pleasure and a free education for Moi to read these annals of history; Foul election year of our Lord 2008. Three Cheers for the Blogger who has put up with all of our shit and come back day after day. November 15th or so, Ace, you should book yourself a six day to Zihuatanejo. We need a Moron to set it up so that We can pitch in some Moolah. Put you money where your posts are Morons. This is a great site and you are a good bunch. On and On.

Posted by: Mr. Chumpo at October 31, 2008 09:36 PM (i73Rf)

81 Check your Meds, the little Do Not Drink Alcohol sticker doesn't have a Valu-Rite exception.

Posted by: SomeLurker at October 31, 2008 09:37 PM (idvha)

82 ((((ace))))) Many panic attacks...and lack of good deep sleep....and stress all repond better to certain vitamins...especially B Complex along with minerals. It does sound likely combination of stress factors getting to you.

Posted by: ItalianMama at October 31, 2008 09:37 PM (sCDCd)

83 Dittos on the Chantix and the wild dreams. Pretty cool the first few days, hadn't had vivid, technicolor dreams since I was a kid. The dreams went away by the second week.

Posted by: Gromulin at October 31, 2008 09:39 PM (/US9f)

Ace, I have something similar that happens. Although not nightmares, I have the same sense of dream memory from the past. Heres how it works with me.

I dream a lot (never nightmares though). And in full color, surround sound, tactile, emotional - everything - even smell. Sometimes when I wake up Im tired from dreaming. And when I am in that just waking up time I can kinda, sorta remember what I was dreaming but it is a brief moment and then it is gone. By the time I am more awake, I can not remember the dream stuff at all. No matter how hard I focus and try to grab at a thread, it just isnt there. It is a little frustrating because I know I have been dreaming and dreaming hard but have no memory of what. Now heres the weird part and it happens most of time, say, 7 out of 10 dream/wakes; as I push to remember what actually pops into my head is the memory of a entirely different dream that always seems to be from a year or two previously and it is one that I remember being just like the one I just had but only in the sense that I remember trying to hold on to that one back then, without success. Weird. I cant remember the one I just had but all of a sudden I can remember the one I couldnt remember a year ago. And I remember trying to remember it without being able to - until right now! Its like dream memory has some kind of piggyback mechanism. Like a FIFO memory circuit (First In First Out). I always have fun with it and always thought it was a bit strange. I have never heard of anyone else every mentioning something like it.

Posted by: Philip at October 31, 2008 09:54 PM (hWTgf)

85 oops...

Posted by: Kaptain Amerika at October 31, 2008 10:05 PM (4Qspj)

86 I actually have my annual physical scheduled for next Tuesday. "Aside from having 35% of your portfolio evaporate and having a "share the wealth" candidate within inches of the presidency, is there anything else that could be elevating your blood pressure?

Posted by: cthulhu at October 31, 2008 10:35 PM (yp/p1)

87 missing thread affliction?

Posted by: FloofyParisParamus at November 01, 2008 01:47 AM (Ihk12)

88 Google fu told me to comment 1. Side effect from SSRI (Prozac and friends) 2. Symptom of sleep apnea - your sleeping, but not getting the REM 3. See a doctor. Could be physical in the brain, and the sooner you find out the better. I think Doc Daneeka suffered from something similar

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