I always wondered why all summer long I had these horrible nightmares.
So vivid and freaky! Very ghoulish and disturbing!
I became afraid to go to bed at night.
And I wondered why and what was happening to me.
I thought of things I couldn't even type here.
Now I know why.
Lyme Disease.
Lyme is the answer to alot of my problems but this one was extremely disturbing!
Anyone else had/have this problem?
Posted by 17hens (Member # 23747) on :
yes, absolutely.
Posted by tick battler (Member # 21113) on :
YES. Nightmares are a symptom in my opinion. I have seen it with my children and myself. I used to hallucinate...I would "awaken" and open my eyes and see things in the room...my usual dream would be seeing a man standing over me when I was sleeping...I would jump out of bed and run down the hall until I fully woke up and realized it was a dream.
This does not happen anymore since I have been treated.
tickbattler
Posted by anthropisces (Member # 15672) on :
Vivid dreams are so horrifying. I am generally free of them, but often seem just on the edge of having this and other sleep distrubances.
Sometimes it would only be colors and shapes and other times actual dreams. But all of it was so out of the ordinary and different from the norm.
Yes, I think you can count on the fact that your dreams are from Lyme or coinfs.
Posted by deerose (Member # 27484) on :
Could well be.
I typically dream but am aware of their types and quality.
At the second bite/infection they took a bizarre freakish intensity and quality that was definitely not the types I knew.
As treatment progressed they resolved fairly quickly to normal dream quality.
I did not have this symptom in the first infection but it was immediate in the second.
Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
Oh yes.
Posted by ladyjenie (Member # 21098) on :
I have had these dreams, too, until I was diagnosed with sleep apnea. After using a CPAP for a few months the dreams subsided and I haven't had one since.
I agree with others that lyme causes horrific dreams and restlessness at night.
Posted by kadee (Member # 21199) on :
During 20 years of Lyme I didn't have them, but after being infected with Bartonella and being untreated, they started and became unbearable.
Posted by Starfall (Member # 26795) on :
I've had bizarre, vivid dreams all my life. I hope that doesn't mean I've had lyme all my life, but then who knows?
Posted by INEBG (Member # 27690) on :
My understanding from the LLMD is that bartonella may be the cause of my vivid and disturbing dreams. Now with treatment, they are diminished. And the culprit for the dreams about strangling and suffocating turned out to be severe sleep apnea, resolved now by the use of a cpap machine. But I still get stuck between awake and asleep, much like a sleep walker, but I don't get up. I say things, things that are awful and not what I would ever say were I aware. There is also a certain amount of physical violence if someone tries to awaken me from that state. Scary and totally out of character.