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My wife is having really bad sleep problems which she attributes to dreaming too much too intensely. She just doesn't seem to get rested doing this. This artic
by Roritharr 6y ago
My wife is having really bad sleep problems which she attributes to dreaming too much too intensely. She just doesn't seem to get rested doing this.
This article sadly does not give a clue what could be her problem.
- Kathula 6y agoWhat do you mean by "too intensely"? Is she having nightmares? Does she often wake up, only to later fall asleep and having nightmares again?
- jbotz 6y agoShe's probably putting the cart before the horse... light or troubled sleep leads to more dreaming because REM sleep phase comes just before a waking or almost waking phase. Also, you most vividly remember those dreams that happen just as you are waking up, so the more often you wake the more intense your dreaming seems.
- nerdponx 6y agoConsider that maybe the intense dreams are a reflection of physical processes in the body that cause sleep to not be restful. That is, both intense dreams and not feeling rested are maybe caused by the same underlying thing.
- raducu 6y agoMy wife is exactly like this. She says she feels tired because she feels she lives paralel lifes in her sleep. But objectively she has NONE of the symptoms of bad sleep I get when I can't actually sleep. So she maybe just feels emotionally tired for the first 5 minutes after she wakes up. I once gave her my fitbit and checked her sleep -- she had almost no restless sleep like I do, she had a lot of REM and a lot of deep sleep, I'd love to have her sleep pattern.
- FailMore 6y agoYou/she might enjoy: https://psyarxiv.com/k6trz https://psyarxiv.com/k6trz, discussed on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19143590 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19143590 [written by me]