This is my first post out of The Foyer as I am new here. Although I have not been officially diagnosed with Epilepsy I have a friend who has and I was telling her about a few strange things that happened to me at night and she said it might be seizures.
Back in September 2010 I had a very strange, vivid dream. My dream was that I was at the doctors office talking, and suddenly I went into a seizure. I was sitting on the table and I folded over so that my whole upper body was resting on my legs. In my dream the doctor said it was a absence seizure, but it seemed more like a complex partial. Even though I was conscious and fully aware, I could not move nor talk. When my doctor injected me with something I awoke. The strange thing was what happened after I woke up.
When I first woke up I felt like I was hit by a truck. My body felt heavy and I couldn't move for a few seconds. Mentally I was dizzy, tired, and slightly confused. After what felt like an hour but was probably less than 20 seconds, I was finally able to open my eyes. At first, even though my eyes were open, everything was totally black. After a few more seconds I could see clearly and finally stood up. For the rest of the day I was fine, but since that day I have had two more seizure dreams (one tonic-clonic, one complex partial), and, although I never experienced the same "side effects" they spook me each time because I fear that instead of mere dreams they may be warning me of future events.
However, I have had similar, though lesser experiences upon awakening, though not accompanied by vivid dreams. It seems that more and more often I wake feeling very tired and heavy, like it's hard for me to even open my eyes. Sometimes I just shut off my alarm and sleep for several hours because I feel so exhausted. Currently I have three different alarms set at different times. Just a few weeks ago I slept though two of my alarms. Not just for a few minutes but for 5 HOURS! One my my alarms had even been going off right next to my ear, BUT I NEVER EVEN HEARD IT! Somedays I wake and am fine, but most days I wake up feeling very tired. Usually it goes away within 5-10 minutes, but there are days where I will feel foggy and dizzy for hours! Sometimes for days on end I will be in a constant dizzy/confused/forgetful/mentally-and-physically-exhausted state, but that is for another time.
Lastly, this may or may not be anything serious, but for all my life I have had strange, vivid, nonsensical dreams. Within 2-5minutes of awakening I usually forget them, so I can't describe any in detail, but even after they go away I am left with a sense of "oh, I had one of those dreams again". Actually, my dreams almost never make sense, so when they do I become very scared, hence part of the reason my seizure dreams scared me. They actually made sense. More often than not I don't dream, but there are times where I will dream every night for several days and then may not dream for weeks on end. In my dream everything makes sense, but not in real life. For example, one moment I may be taking to someone who I knew from high school, and the next minute they metamorphose into, say, my doctor, but it all makes sense. Or one minute I may be in a castle, and the next I will be underwater, but it all makes sense in my dream. The only dream I can remember is a dream in which I was walking through a lumber yard with a girl from middle school whom I hated and have not seen or talked to for years. In addition, the sky was this weird neon dark purple color, which happens in my dreams. There are a lot of bright colors, especially skies, even if it is at night. It could be night in my dream, but the sky could be lime green. Or, adversely, it could be day time in my dream and the sky may be deep dark blue.
This all may be nothing, but the seizure dreams and waking up exhausted/dizzy/confused/foggy all seemed worth looking into. Yes, I do believe that dreams are your minds way of "mulling things over" so to speak, but I didn't start researching this until a few weeks ago, so there is no way my mind could have been thinking about seizures way back in September. What say you?
Back in September 2010 I had a very strange, vivid dream. My dream was that I was at the doctors office talking, and suddenly I went into a seizure. I was sitting on the table and I folded over so that my whole upper body was resting on my legs. In my dream the doctor said it was a absence seizure, but it seemed more like a complex partial. Even though I was conscious and fully aware, I could not move nor talk. When my doctor injected me with something I awoke. The strange thing was what happened after I woke up.
When I first woke up I felt like I was hit by a truck. My body felt heavy and I couldn't move for a few seconds. Mentally I was dizzy, tired, and slightly confused. After what felt like an hour but was probably less than 20 seconds, I was finally able to open my eyes. At first, even though my eyes were open, everything was totally black. After a few more seconds I could see clearly and finally stood up. For the rest of the day I was fine, but since that day I have had two more seizure dreams (one tonic-clonic, one complex partial), and, although I never experienced the same "side effects" they spook me each time because I fear that instead of mere dreams they may be warning me of future events.
However, I have had similar, though lesser experiences upon awakening, though not accompanied by vivid dreams. It seems that more and more often I wake feeling very tired and heavy, like it's hard for me to even open my eyes. Sometimes I just shut off my alarm and sleep for several hours because I feel so exhausted. Currently I have three different alarms set at different times. Just a few weeks ago I slept though two of my alarms. Not just for a few minutes but for 5 HOURS! One my my alarms had even been going off right next to my ear, BUT I NEVER EVEN HEARD IT! Somedays I wake and am fine, but most days I wake up feeling very tired. Usually it goes away within 5-10 minutes, but there are days where I will feel foggy and dizzy for hours! Sometimes for days on end I will be in a constant dizzy/confused/forgetful/mentally-and-physically-exhausted state, but that is for another time.
Lastly, this may or may not be anything serious, but for all my life I have had strange, vivid, nonsensical dreams. Within 2-5minutes of awakening I usually forget them, so I can't describe any in detail, but even after they go away I am left with a sense of "oh, I had one of those dreams again". Actually, my dreams almost never make sense, so when they do I become very scared, hence part of the reason my seizure dreams scared me. They actually made sense. More often than not I don't dream, but there are times where I will dream every night for several days and then may not dream for weeks on end. In my dream everything makes sense, but not in real life. For example, one moment I may be taking to someone who I knew from high school, and the next minute they metamorphose into, say, my doctor, but it all makes sense. Or one minute I may be in a castle, and the next I will be underwater, but it all makes sense in my dream. The only dream I can remember is a dream in which I was walking through a lumber yard with a girl from middle school whom I hated and have not seen or talked to for years. In addition, the sky was this weird neon dark purple color, which happens in my dreams. There are a lot of bright colors, especially skies, even if it is at night. It could be night in my dream, but the sky could be lime green. Or, adversely, it could be day time in my dream and the sky may be deep dark blue.
This all may be nothing, but the seizure dreams and waking up exhausted/dizzy/confused/foggy all seemed worth looking into. Yes, I do believe that dreams are your minds way of "mulling things over" so to speak, but I didn't start researching this until a few weeks ago, so there is no way my mind could have been thinking about seizures way back in September. What say you?
