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This is probably in line with the when you wake up post. . .
Lately, I've been dreaming like mad, really crazy stuff. This morning, it was a small herd of labrador retriever pups running along the side of the street, which was the intersection of Peterson and Lincoln on the north side of Chicago where I grew up but haven't lived since 1985, and I was simply hysterical because of all the traffic. Them getting flattened and me screaming woke me and the hubby.
The body sensations were extremely intense, body rushes, tingling, numbness, heart rate and respiration terribly high and awful sweats. And, I had been screaming, not just dreaming it. Really scary.
But on top of that, I was having really weird visual stuff going on. Glowing numbers, moving, piling up on each other, round and round and round, with lots of blobs of color and light. With my eyes open. When I closed them, they got much brighter and even more colorful.
Scared the bejeezus out of me. . .
I'm sure this stuff is in here somewhere, but I'm in the middle of doing the lights and sound for a junior high play that's running for the next four days and don't have a ton of time to read right now.
Hanging out with these youngin's might be why I'm having nutso dreams.
Also, as I've shared before, I am not diagnosed with Lyme, but am certain it, or some other tick borne illness is what kicks my arse now and then. Grew up going to Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota in the summer, and lived in Kansas for 17 years, pulling ticks off of myself bazillions of times. Had the bullseye in 1989, but the doc said it was a spider bite even though I told him I'd removed a tick from the site.
Incidently, this is the same Dr. T. in Topeka, Kansas who got in big trouble for using bismuth. . .
Anyway, I've had some weird dreams on and off before, but this with the major light and color show was more like back in the 70's, if you catch my drift.
Any information or feedback would be great. This kinds shook me up.
Back to the show now. "Once on This Island." It's really cure and been pretty fun, but I'm glad we'll be done on Saturday.
Thanks all. God bless, Moosie
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I've been having the same thing going on. Really strange dreams. Mine make no sense at all, but they're very vivid and also wake up with my heart racing.
I rarely ever remembered any of my dreams before, and now it is every night.
Just wondering, are you on any antibiotics now? It seems like mine started as soon as I started IV Rocephin.
I don't think I've done any screaming, or at least my family hasn't said anything. Who knows?
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Vermont_Lymie
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Moosie, My dreams are an incredibly amazing thing too, when I can remember them!
Are you getting treatment for Lyme? Your post said you've had the tick bites and bulls-eye rash but no treatment. I hope you have seen an llmd.
I was once also told that my bulls-eye rash was an infected spider bite...and after suffering for several years am happy to be recovering from lyme now.
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More then one tick bite, an a circular rash.... I got lyme and co-infections from one bite. I sure hope you are getting treatment.
Your symptoms are strange like may lyme (or any TBI) are. Do you have any other symptoms?
You might want to read thread "weird head-games?" And "ringing/rhyming in my head". I think perhaps they are related to what you are describing.
Awake, asleep or inbetween, lyme seams to disturb thought process of many, cause intrusive thoughts, weird patterns, colors, sensations, dreams..... von
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Oh, I hear you! I've had most of that -- the nightsweats and nightmare/nightterror stuff seemed to be babesia, in my case -- but I have lyme too, so who knows?
I've had, (ahem,) 70s-like visual hallucinations once or twice, and the *are* scary!!!!
Seems the visual and audial processing systems get quite wonky with CNS-lyme -- I know I have a great deal of audial processing strangeness....
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Leonard Cohen, from the song "Closing Time" Posts: 822 | From California | Registered: Jan 2006
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A year and a bit ago, I was ill with all manner of problems (chronic fatigue, hyperacusis, swollen glands) but nothing that felt too life-threatening.
Then I was put on doxycycline for some ridiculous reason, and it all just went haywire.
Vivid nightmares were my first really dramatic symptom. Weirdly, it would also be accompanied by hearing loss! Every time I had one of my full-on nightmares, I'd wake up in the middle of the night and I would have lost half the hearing in my right ear!
Of course, whenever I told a doc about the bizarre nightmares, they'd say it was stress and try to give me antidepressants. If only I'd known that this was a lyme symptom...
I haven't had a proper night's sleep in over a year now. It has got to the point now where I have continual vivid nightmares every time I go to sleep. Even if I nod off for an hour.
However, I've just started treatment for Lyme, and you know, the first thing to improve? Sleep quality! I guessed I was on to something a week ago when, as an experiment, I took 1500mg of Amoxicillin during the day, and slept solidly for about nine hours! Which was amazing as previously I'd only been managing 2 or 3 hours of sleep per night.
Who'd have thought that antibiotics could help you sleep better.
I only hope that antibiotics are going to help me hear better.
P
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No, I am not being treated for lyme. I should be, in my humble opinion, but cannot find a doc who will treat me without CDC approved confirmation.
The dreams are making me not only feeling nutso, but when I have the very vivid ones involving real physical activity on my part I get TIRED as if I were really running, swimming, whatever I'm doing in my dream to exert myself. Too weird.
I know I need to have treatment of some kind. I've been on large amounts of antibiotics several times over the years for huge infections - kidneys, sinuses, lungs and most recently colon (lost over a foot of my colon last year), and each time I get "well" for awhile afterwards.
Then it all starts again, like right now.
I'm just waiting to see what internal organ decides to get all infected this time.
I'm so half tempted here - I have about a month's supply of Cipro and Flagyl here left over from when I was taking this stuff for three months before my partial colectomy. . .
Would anyone here do that? I think I'll make that a separate post.
Thanks again, Moosie
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Moosie,
After starting to take antibiotics (ceftin) for Lyme, I began having these vivid dreams and nightmares.
I went to my weekly acupuncture session and listed the dreams in my catalogue of things...She gave me some Chinese tea, and that was the end of those dreams. I still dreamed, but I haven't had nightmares since.
It was the weirdest thing for me...
Andie
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Ever since getting lyme and babesia I get a nice case of the night terrors and I even started to sleep walk. I don't know whether it is the disease itself doing this, or if it is post traumatic disorder from being sick and undiagnosed for so long. Just warn family members so they don't think you are being murdered in the middle of the night like my family did. lol Posts: 1603 | From ny | Registered: Aug 2006
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