taniaaust1
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This morning I got woken up by the maintence guy showed up. I've been waiting FOR agES for them to come and fix the collapsing, dangerous backstairs of my house. I was ffeeling so so tired that I tried to hide I was at home (couldnt handle the thought of all the hammering that would happen), but to my embarrassment he noticed me home and hiding from him just as he was driving off. He thou still left and I went back to bed.
I woke up again... tried to fix something in the spare room but the orthostatic intollerance got to me so I left it hanging from the wall for my carer to attach properly later. Then I blanked out.
Then I found myself outside, confused and exhausted.. confused to the point that I didnt know know if I was at the right house. A carer showed up as meant to happen today. It was a new one like I thought may happen (as the other one last week isnt completely suitable due to how far she's coming and I had to dismiss her early, the org is trying to find a carer for me locally).
The new carer was lovely thou I had to explain quite a bit to her in my very tired state eg she put the house lights on when I was half asleep and so the light bothered me. I ended up falling back asleep...
I woke up again.. only to realise that ALL those other things were FALSE AWAKENINGS. I truely believed I was awake at the time and it was so like real. All the explaining to the carer while tired and just wanting to be in bed that Ive spent this morning doing... happened in my sleep .
I hope I dont have to go throu that all again in about one hour when a carer is coming. Its like experiencing "ground hog day".. cause I have to go and redo all the things Ive already just done.
This is the third time the past few months Ive had a night like that with false awakenings. It may be happening to me even more then that but I may be accepting the false awakenings as reality as they are so real. The only way I can tell is what is real and not with all this is the time when I awake..dont make sense and hence I know I wasnt awake before and that those things actually didnt happen.
(Im having to use a clock to distinguish at times between dreams and reality).
I dont know if my sleep meds are causing this (as its only been going on since I started taking the anti-histamine..but I think its related to the combo of that with the melatonin).
I cant change those sleep meds which may be doing this as the only other med with works to get me to sleep is my Tempazepam. That seems to be the only med which isnt giving me any issues.
I need to probably go and see a bowel specialist due to what the other sleep med trial (amitriptyline) Ive now stopped, has done to me (paralysed lower bowel).. going to go to try to go to doctor to try to get a referal next week.
Anyway else having issues with false awakenings? Is it possibly blending in with your reality to the point where it at times becames hard to tell what times you did wake up and do things and which were just a dream?
Its a bit of concern that I may have or get false reality beliefs from this issue, to stop the meds thou would mean I would either then not be sleeping at all again (sometimes going up to days without sleep) or instead increase the amount of days I take, the only med I know Im currently okay on, the Temtabs (which I dont want to do either and would be going against doctors wishes).
By having so much reality in the dreams.. and them so intense.. its very confusing at times.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_awakening
I woke up again... tried to fix something in the spare room but the orthostatic intollerance got to me so I left it hanging from the wall for my carer to attach properly later. Then I blanked out.
Then I found myself outside, confused and exhausted.. confused to the point that I didnt know know if I was at the right house. A carer showed up as meant to happen today. It was a new one like I thought may happen (as the other one last week isnt completely suitable due to how far she's coming and I had to dismiss her early, the org is trying to find a carer for me locally).
The new carer was lovely thou I had to explain quite a bit to her in my very tired state eg she put the house lights on when I was half asleep and so the light bothered me. I ended up falling back asleep...
I woke up again.. only to realise that ALL those other things were FALSE AWAKENINGS. I truely believed I was awake at the time and it was so like real. All the explaining to the carer while tired and just wanting to be in bed that Ive spent this morning doing... happened in my sleep .
I hope I dont have to go throu that all again in about one hour when a carer is coming. Its like experiencing "ground hog day".. cause I have to go and redo all the things Ive already just done.
This is the third time the past few months Ive had a night like that with false awakenings. It may be happening to me even more then that but I may be accepting the false awakenings as reality as they are so real. The only way I can tell is what is real and not with all this is the time when I awake..dont make sense and hence I know I wasnt awake before and that those things actually didnt happen.
(Im having to use a clock to distinguish at times between dreams and reality).
I dont know if my sleep meds are causing this (as its only been going on since I started taking the anti-histamine..but I think its related to the combo of that with the melatonin).
I cant change those sleep meds which may be doing this as the only other med with works to get me to sleep is my Tempazepam. That seems to be the only med which isnt giving me any issues.
I need to probably go and see a bowel specialist due to what the other sleep med trial (amitriptyline) Ive now stopped, has done to me (paralysed lower bowel).. going to go to try to go to doctor to try to get a referal next week.
Anyway else having issues with false awakenings? Is it possibly blending in with your reality to the point where it at times becames hard to tell what times you did wake up and do things and which were just a dream?
Its a bit of concern that I may have or get false reality beliefs from this issue, to stop the meds thou would mean I would either then not be sleeping at all again (sometimes going up to days without sleep) or instead increase the amount of days I take, the only med I know Im currently okay on, the Temtabs (which I dont want to do either and would be going against doctors wishes).
By having so much reality in the dreams.. and them so intense.. its very confusing at times.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_awakening