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Deep sleep and weird dreams

TheCatWoman

Now it's cooler at night I'm sleeping really deeply and having some bizarre dreams, even by my standards! The other night my cat Boris and I wandered all over Istanbul!

However I'm still waking up feeling tired and I'm wondering if it's because I'm catching up with proper sleep after being deprived of it since about May, or if I'm exhausted because of the intense dreaming?

Parents

  • The feeling tired could be due to the longer hours of darkness, as our brains are wired to feel sleepy when it's dark. I'm going to start setting my Lumie clock to do a sunrise simulation to help me wake up more gently, as I hate suddenly waking up and realising I've slept late - it makes me feel discombobulated.

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  • The feeling tired could be due to the longer hours of darkness, as our brains are wired to feel sleepy when it's dark. I'm going to start setting my Lumie clock to do a sunrise simulation to help me wake up more gently, as I hate suddenly waking up and realising I've slept late - it makes me feel discombobulated.

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  • in reply to Lotus

    I don't think it was the real Istanbul, and it was probably because I'd been reading a book based there.

    I need it to be dark and cool if not cold for me to sleep well, summer nights aren't really long enough for me as I seem to need the right amount of evening so as i can sleep properly. I grew up with unheated bedrooms and can't stand sleeping in warm rooms, if I could sleep in the fridge I would.

    I go through phases of intense dreaming, some of it processing the day's events, sometimes something much deeper, sometimes I dream of future events and feel like I'm living backwards, in a constant state of de-ja-vu as what I dreamt happens. Most of it is so boring! Why did I need to have a precognitive dream about buying a tin of beans or something equally mundane?