I Swear In My Sleep Every Single Night. Posted: 12-10-07 12:56pm
I work fulltime and am a normal 40 yr old
woman (well I had my child at 16, so I
have no kids at home to feed, bathe, etc,
thank God).
This has been going on for years and years
and I have never heard of anyone else
doing this. I swear some when awake, but
according to my exroommate, my husband, my
exhusband, my best friend and my son, they
all say that I have a sailor's mouth at
night and that it is pretty amusing... but
it's not funny anymore to me.
When it happens, I am having a VIVID dream
with some type of confrontation or
running/being chased or chasing or saving
someone or saving myself... every single
night. It's usually in the wee hours of
the morning. Sometimes my husband can
wake me up out of it but there's a good
chance I go right back into the dream...
and there are times he is too busy talking
in his sleep to help me out! LOL
Anyone heard of swearing in your sleep? I
also dream so much that no matter if I
sleep for 7 hrs or 13 hrs, I am ALWAYS
exhausted when I wake up and about 2:30
every day I am wiped out.
Anyone have any ideas? I think I'm going
to a nutritionist and sleep dr in
January...
I'd just like to know if someone else is a
sleep swearer!!
Thanks, Angie n Dallas
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MandMs
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Posted: 12-12-07 06:43am
Are you taking some medicines like
sleeping pills or you have just stopped
taking some?
Do you usually have intense, vivid,
violent dreams?
Can you think of sudden awakenings to
restart breathing?
Do you usually wake up in a sweat during
the night?
Has your husband noticed that you are
choking or gasping during sleep to get
air?
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conaby
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Night swearing Posted: 01-25-08 16:59pm
Never fear it's not uncommon I do it a lot
as well, or so my husband says. With me
I'm acting out my pent up feelings. All
day I have to keep calm, collected and
refrain from strangling many a stroppy
teenager. I put up with abuse from kids
that I have not sanctions over and parents
who let their children rule the roost. So
at night in my dreams I tell them what I
think of them and give them the treatment
they deserve. It a release that if I
didn't have I think I go mad, better the
night swearing then losing my cool at
school and ranting on at the NEDs. After a
few days holiday I sleep with hardly a F
word passing my lips. May be you are
acting out in your dreams what you would
like to say and do in real life.
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AngTexas
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M&Ms Posted: 02-13-08 13:09pm
I do take Prozac and .5 mg xanax a day to
help with depression/anxiety - have for
like 10 yrs, so no changes in that. I
have sworn in my sleep as long as I can
remember as an adult.
I don't have the gasping for air or the
sweats.
Just vivid bad dreams my whole life?
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MandMs
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Posted: 02-14-08 05:39am
Do the swearing and vivid dreams tend to
occur during the last half of the night?
Have you been told that you are also
talking, shouting and laughing while
sleeping?
Are you awaken quickly, becoming rapidly
alert if someone tries to wake you up?
Do you usually have clear recall of a
dream the next morning?
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AngTexas
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Posted: 02-14-08 15:14pm
The swearing seems to be in wee hrs of the
morning a few hours after going to sleep?
But I'm not sure. I'll ask my husband.
I do talk and cry as well... but when I
talk/cry because I normally have
bad/sad/scary dreams. I have alot of
vivid chasing/running dreams, falling down
and almost getting caught/killed/shot,
being chased by something but sometimes
don't even see who/what is chasing me, I
just know it's there. Sometimes I have to
pick up random pets/people to drag with me
as I run and protect them. Sometimes its
that weird thing where in my dream I need
to lift my arm and I can't make it move or
I'm in slow motion.
I NEVER awaken quickly. Ever. My alarm
goes off 1 hr before I will notice it and
get up. At times when my husband will try
to wake me if he needs me for something in
the middle of the night, he says I wake up
and talk to him or look at him, but flip
over and he says I "go back to sleep" - -
but I never wake up, I am doing it in my
sleep. Sometimes I can vaguely recall him
trying to wake me up, but I can't make
myself wake up all the way.
I RARELY clearly recall my dreams.
Sometimes I'll start to see glimpses in my
head when I am waking up or when I am
falling asleep the next night.
Ugh... it's wearing me out.
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MandMs
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Posted: 02-18-08 03:17am
Do you find your anxiety/depression well
controlled?
Can you relate the beginning of nightmares
with the beginning of your anxiety?
One of the main symptom of anxiety is
sleep disturbance. The suffer will either
sleep too much or more likely, will only
sleep for a couple of hours a night. Very
often, sleep is disrupted because of vivid
nightmares, which some sufferers may not
even remember. Other sufferers may have
recurring nightmares.
There are also, many clinical studies
about relation between antidepressants and
nightmares.
While dreams can occur in other levels of
sleep, nightmares usually only occur
during REM sleep. Prozac and related drugs
cause a drastic reduction in REM sleep and
many individuals on Prozac start
experiencing vivid nightmares.
Over time this is depriving a person of
enough REM sleep and the person's reaction
is going into an REM sleep state while
awake.
Also, when a person is asleep, the muscles
are weak and more or less paralyzed due to
a built-in mechanism that causes a
person's muscles to remain weak and still
during sleep. This mechanism can
apparently be bypassed by a person on
drugs like Prozac and he can appear to be
alert and awake but actually be in a deep
sleep state.
Nightmares are less common symptom of
Xanax, too.
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wavyhaired
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Posted: 03-03-08 14:11pm
Is this a version of Turrets ?
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AngTexas
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Posted: 03-03-08 14:37pm
My depression/anxiety are lovely traits in
my father, brother and son as well. I got
treated for depression with Prozac
starting about 24... and my anxiety I just
started on Xanax for last year.
My vivid nightmare/dreams and
talking/swearing started somewhere mid 20s
and haven't stopped. No matter what meds
combo I tried (last year tried Cymbalta
and then another antidepressant I can't
recall the name of right now...) the
dreams stay the same.
This Sat AM I awoke to my husband waking
me gently... I was yelling the F word
repeatedly - and I actually recalled the
dream... which I usually can't do.
I call this my sleep tourettes... but I'm
not sure if there is such a thing!!
I am thinking I have an REM disturbance
sleep disorder... I got an order for a
sleep study and I'm going!!!! See excerpt
below...
