I am up and going bright and early this morning! I know today is supposed to be another dreary one here in the south! yesterday was just.. omg..lightening, flooding (not here but there was a good amount of water running through the parking lot most of the day) heavy rains and all that kind of thing. I think today is supposed to be the same.. So you would think I would be in the bed lol. I decided to try to see what I can get into and if I need to go back to bed/nap I will do it later on 🙂 Coffee and I are about to become good friends!
Wouldn’t you just know I finally get the majority of my whacked out sleeping issues “fixed” and to where I can pretty much sleep through the night (well.. i mean.. not perfect but as close to it as I am probably going to get).. and now David is having some issues??
I don’t know if I wrote this or not but back during our move, one night we had all went to bed and were sleeping .. well.. next thing I know david is sitting straight up in the bed SCREAMING .. more like SHRILL SHRIEKING and I was like OMG WHAT? because I was trying to surface I guess and process out of being asleep.. he was running around and as we say in my family “cutting a shine”. I could NOT get him to totally wake up and he didn’t even act like he knew who I was! It was pretty scary and I finally just jumped across the bed and started shaking him (gently) and got him to wake up and realize what had happened! I was so scared because we had steps at the old place on top of everything else! He said he had been having a dead dream and since he sleeps so deeply it was pretty realistic. Well.. After all that he ended up having a panic attack so I was up about 3 hours trying to help him calm down and then trying to keep him calm why he slept.
I can not tell you how “ooky” this whole thing was. The screaming. .lord knows I thought the house was on fire or something it was so piercing.. and of course when you are asleep and get woke up like that. .phew! then to not be able to get him to answer me and just look straight through me and run around like that ..It is still so haunting to this day. I seriously chalked it up to the stress of moving and the fact that I thought him and my mom were going to have “words” at any moment during the move lol but that is a total other story. I actually made the comment that he was being so mean in the day it was catching up at night (well not right then.. later on.. ).
Anyways.. David is one of these people who can fall asleep like .. INSTANTLY. The only other person I know that can go to sleep this fast is my mom. .. .and he has her beat! He also sleeps REALLy deep. Over the years he has had times where he will whimper or cry in his sleep or let out a small scream.. I always just cuddle close and gently wake him up and he rolls over and goes right back to sleep with no worries.
I personally have NEVER been able to scream in a bad dream. I can make the motions with my mouth but noise doesn’t come out.. I have been able to most of the time realize I am dreaming and talk myself down.. kind of like a lucid dream kind of thing…. I can also generally try to KICK or move my arms enough to wake David up so he can wake me up! So I am not “trapped” in a bad dream!
So.. ever since then things have been relatively normal. I think there was maybe one night not long after we moved in he had a mini episode but it was so mini it wasn’t really anything. I think after that night even with a nightmare that he has I would be concerned
Fast Forward to Saturday night..We had been watching Little house in bed (of course). We had just turned it off and I swear I literally had just put my phone down after checking a few things and was nearly asleep myself when …he started to scream. it wasn’t as chilling as last time but marley jumped out of bed and sam sat up.. I rolled over and got on top of him and was like WAKE UP WAKE UP. Like I say NOT as scary as last time but I was hopeful we wouldn’t have to deal with that anymore. He was o.k. and knew what was going on pretty fast.
I really do think he is having some night terror issues from what I can read .. I know they have to be scary to him of course but for me .. I am so sensitive and what not.. I just feel awful for him and lay awake trying to wait for signs so he doesn’t have another bad one. I know that last night every time he moved i was rubbing his back and trying to cuddle with him! If he has another one i think we are def. going to have to have it checked out because something is going on and it could get serious if I couldn’t get him awake and what not..