Registered: 08-2006 Location: Standing in the wreckage Posts: 2212 Karma: 10 (+10/-0)
Upset- what is this... I wasn't really sure where to put this but it has me VERY freaked out....
I'll try to explain it the best I can. It happend Wed night. I didn't even get in bed till very late cause all the neighbors were being noisy/playing loud video games/TV and so on and I wasn't feeling well and couldn't relax so didn't even try to get in bed till about 1:30 cause I knew I wouldn't sleep. Was also afraid I wouldn't sleep even if I took a sleeping pill as that has happend a few times in the past couple weeks and so I'v had some nights I didn't bother with them cause it makes me feel worse if I take one and then still can't sleep....so....
After a while I did fall into a not very deep dosey kind of sleep where I kept waking up a bit and falling that properly asleep. about 4:15 I came more awake partly thinking I heard a knock on the door (which mt drunk neighbor is want to do at times) or if it was just other sounds/noise elsewhere as they travel a lot in this building). After a bit I got out of bed and went to the bathroom...
Then as I remembered it the next AM, I decide I should look to see if my neighbor had been there and left a note (a procedure his gf and I are encouraging - for him to just knock once and if I don't answer leave a note pushed under the door). I went over and not turning the lights on saw a note on the kind of paper he uses and picked it up. I didn't want to turn on the light and I though I didn't have me glasses on and the note seemed very short but odd and I'd put it aside and read it properly in the AM.
I woke up again around 7:30 and wondered about the note and went looking for it. I didn't see it in the places it would make the most sence for me to have put it. Then seemed to recall maybe tucking it under somenting so it would stay put Wondered - a book- the dish by the door? looked and looked couldn't find it.
Peaked behind the table shelf and chair. No luck. Started to get very confused and concerend as I did this. It seemed to real to have been a dream and I for sure WAS up for a bit - I had only turned on the light in the art room from the door and even looked in there on the sewing table for the note wondering if I'd put it down there when I turned off the light. If it was a dream my appartent had looked EXACTLY like it Really does which is unusual even in a vivid dream for me and usually part of what helps clue me in the next day if something seemed too vivid and I'm not sure it's real.
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I ended up going back to bed for a couple hours the looked everyplace again. Started to get more confuesed and upset cause I couldn't figure it out. Dodn't like my neighbor comming over late like that but also wanted to see the note so if it was a specific question I could res[pond and prevent him coming again. And also on the though that not finding the note didn't reasure me it WASN't a dream- maybe I just Did put the note in a very odd place or it Doid fall behind something. Wondered if I should go to my neighbors or put a note under his door to ask but wasn't sure how to word it. It was on my mind and disturbing me a lot all yesterday and today. By chance this evening as I was coming home he was letting a friend out and all I asked was had he tried to leave me a note the other night.
He siad not and the last one was the other week and told me the outcome of that and I went in as his friend was still there.
So I know it was a dream (or a halutionation?) now not something real but it doesn't calm me. I know there have been a lot of incedents with sleeping pills the past few years but I never had any....and I haden't taken a pill that night.
Anyone have a clue what could cause this? Now I'm afraid it might happen again. I have had a one or 2 extreme memory incidents/blanks the past year and one very disorenting walk one night (which the doc didn't seem to think a thing of)
anyway sorry for this long ramble and typos...any thoughts?
Registered: 12-2005 Location: UK Posts: 5806 Karma: 27 (+27/-0)
Re: Upset- what is this... i've had seriously real dreams like that i wouldn't worry too much about it at the moment unless they start to get disturbing real.
For example i had a dream that both the guy i'd been seeing and the guy's best friend messaged me on bebo...but i was so sure i'd woken up checked my phone and my bebo and saw those messages but it was all in my imagination. Sometimes it happens to me when i've had a lot on my mind or just really overtired, it's possible that's what it was with you?
To be fair though it was like a premonition because the next day they both sent the messages i had dreamed they had sent; sometimes that can happen too.
Unless it happens regularly or starts to get disturbing i wouldn't pay too much heed to it at the moment, i'd probably take note of each time it happens in a diary or something for the time being?
hope that helps take care xx
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queen of darkness the princess of the house of pain
Re: Upset- what is this... sometimes when i'm on sleeping pills i do things i don't remember later. hopefully if there was a note it wasn't anything too important.
Registered: 12-2005 Location: Cambridgeshire, UK Posts: 17975 Karma: 128 (+129/-1)
… I think its quite possible it was just a very vivid dream. I have dreams where I dream that I wake up and do my normal things when I get up, and then I really do wake up and I get very confused because it seemed so real. I have a lot of vivid dreams and a fair number are completely plausible. It could be that you heard a knocking in your sleep and so you dreamt all the note bit because your mind was trying to make sense of the knocking? Or it could be that you were half asleep and really did wander about the flat but that the note was just in your dream? When you're not sleeping or sleeping very lightly or having disturbed nights your mind can often play tricks on you. I dont think this is something you need to worry about. I think you probably just need some good nights sleep. Xxxxxxxx
… Wow, that is very different. Interesting as well. Hmmm, i'm not sure. I've had dreams that have felt sooooo real and I do wake up a lot during the night and sometimes i have no idea if it's real or a dream. One thing I do a lot is google. lol. Try that to see similar stories and results maybe.
Registered: 08-2006 Location: Standing in the wreckage Posts: 2212 Karma: 10 (+10/-0)
Re: Upset- what is this... thanks for the replys- this is definitely the worst incident of this I've had. I definitely find the ones most disconcerting where in the dream I've woken up at night (or in the dram it's first thing in the
AM). I'm pretty sure I was really up a bit. Sometimes it's gooffy like I remember a couple times last summer in the am thinking stuff like - oh I think I got up and played my guitar last night- but with that it was nothing that mattered.
I do get very edgy here at night -with the lunatic land lady, part of it it it's an older building and not well sound proof so there are creaky floors and banging pipes and sound travels. Also the was on incedent about 4 months after I moved in when some one (and I'd only met my neighbor once at that time) some one pounded on my door 3 times hard around 3 am> But this night edgyness has increased since about 4 months ago my neighbor came to my door really drunk at 3 am. He has since done this twice more at about 4 am..and once at 11:30 which wasn't as bad but had been a night I'd gone to sleep early cause I wasn't feeling well. Now I get more stressed at night when I hear something like knocking worried it is him with something weird as his late night visits like that are alswasy disconcerting.
I DID run into him briefly a day later and he said NO he haden't left a note- which still left me feeling odd.
thats all for no- so exausted as last night I barely slept at all and I am in on of those phases the last week or so of haveing VERY odd dreams.
Registered: 12-2005 Location: Cambridgeshire, UK Posts: 17975 Karma: 128 (+129/-1)
… I think dreams are very related to stress. So maybe you're having more lately because of that? Maybe try some relaxation techniques and things before going to bed to try and wind down a little? xxxxxxxxxx
Registered: 08-2006 Location: Standing in the wreckage Posts: 2212 Karma: 10 (+10/-0)
Re: Upset- what is this... Ther are some night time relaxation routine things I have sometimes been doing and finding helpfull and THAT is part of why I was so upset that night - my neighbors where being to noisy for them to work and me too relax.
Like I have been turning off the computer and putting on some new age music and lighting a candle or 2 and putting out the lamps and them just sitting in my recliner to unwind. But it doesn't help to have the music too loud and if the neighbors are playing the noisy video games etc. it just wouldn't - I often even find it aggravating and distracting when I am trying to watch a TV show of my own it's so loud and it's not even like they turn it down after 11, this will be going on at 1 or 2 or 3 am still (and no I can't go talk to them about it).
Registered: 12-2005 Location: Cambridgeshire, UK Posts: 17975 Karma: 128 (+129/-1)
… It not fair of your neighbours to be so inconsiderate about noise late at night. Here in the UK there is law about noise going on through the night. Is there something similar where you are? If they do it again you could report them anonymously to the local police and ask them to call on your neighbours to make it clear a complaint has been made? Or maybe if you all have the same landlady? I really think you should think about reporting them to the local authorities...xxxxxxxxxxx
