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reply posted on 2-8-2005 @ 03:45 PM by syrinx high priest
supraliminal, if it happens again, go see a doc.

you may have just whacked yourself in the nose, but most people while dreaming have a paralysis to prevent us from doing just that every night.

forget the alien stuff, this could be signs of a real disorder

www.mayoclinic.org...
ROCHESTER, Minn. -- A Mayo Clinic study shows that melatonin successfully alleviates many patients’ symptoms of REM-sleep behavior disorder (RBD), a violent sleep condition that manifests during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, a stage of deep sleep in which most dreaming occurs.

"Melatonin can be considered as one possible option for RBD," says Brad Boeve, M.D., Mayo Clinic neurologist and sleep specialist, and the study’s principal investigator.

People who experience RBD appear to act out their dreams, in which screaming, yelling, hitting, kicking and jumping out of bed tend to occur. These behaviors can cause injury to these people or their bed partners.

"Normally in REM sleep, almost every muscle in your body is paralyzed and you don’t move," explains Dr. Boeve. "Therefore, when you have a dream, there’s no excessive activity and no potential for injury. In this disorder, for reasons we don’t fully understand yet, that normal paralysis is lost, and people will appear to act out their dreams. Sometimes, they’re pleasant dreams. Usually, they’re nightmarish, violent dreams with the person being chased or attacked by something or someone. So, they try to defend themselves or fight against it, leading to punching and kicking. They can injure themselves by jumping out of bed, striking the bedposts or diving out of bed. As for their bed partners — they often get injured."


reply posted on 6-8-2005 @ 03:14 AM by nikelbee
Hi -

My brother suffered from nosebleeds through most of his childhood and early adulthood. He was also a sleepwalker. We had to double lock the front and back doors and put a child gate on the stairs, as he would often wander outside in his sleep. Thank God we never had a fire!

One day after a particularly bad nosebleed, he called me over to tell me about a dream he had where he ran through a dusty field. In his hand he clutched a handful of dirt, although how he got outside and back in again still remains a mystery (he was 14).

It could be that his (hyper) activity in his sleep caused his blood pressure to shoot up, causing him to bleed; said the doctors. They also told my mother that we had to watch him carefully as sometimes he bled so much he would start coughing and sound like he was choking to death. He had to learn to sleep on his stomach. Twice we had to take him to the emergency room to have his nose cauterized and his stomach pumped because he swallowed so much blood. The hospital came to know him as 'the bleeder'.

Diagnosis? Doctors baffled. The only advice they could give my parents was that he would eventually outgrow the nosebleeds. This is why they didn't 'fix' him in case you are wondering. Also, they couldn't figure out what was wrong with him. He was perfectly healthy.

As an adult it has to an extent stopped, but whenever anything is too extreme – he seems to be highly susceptible to everything around him, weather, stress, physical endurance, noise - he still gets them. Sometime he wakes up in the morning and there is blood on his pillow, particularly if bad dreams are involved. Maybe there is some correlation between nightmares and nosebleeds?

I would also agree that you get checked up - just to be on the safe side.
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