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Wanting dreams to stop
by: orangesunset on Wed, Mar 19 2008
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I’m a 33 year old single mother of 3 boys ages 8, 5, and 20 months. I work in the kitchen of a restaurant where there is normally a radio on most of the time playing rock music. I might work 7-10 hours a day with no break from the noise. I have a 25 minute drive home and usually in silence but with many thought going through my head. Sometimes before I begin my drive home through very little traffic, I sit in the parking lot just trying to give my mind a break. I then come home to my kids and the noise begins all over again.

My problem is when I sleep I dream. I dream, dream, and dream some more. I NEVER get a break from the noise. My mind never gets to rest. I’ve read about REM sleep and dreaming, but I don’t even need to be there to start dreaming. I’ve had too many occasions where I’ve begun to doze while driving and immediately start dreaming. The dreams I have where I see, hear, smell, and feel things I call “loud” dreams because everything is so real and I normally wake with almost a ringing sensation in my ears.
My dreams are also getting strange to the point to where I’m talking to myself in my dream, I know I’m dreaming in the dream and I can choose what to do sometimes. I’ll know I’m dreaming because I won’t know how I got where I am if it’s someplace unknown. I’ve also had quite a few where exactly what I dreamed has happened- those are the scary ones when I feel myself falling into the dream in reality.
Anyway, I want to know if there’s something anybody knows I can do to not dream for maybe 2 nights at least. I don’t want to stop dreaming forever, just for a little while. Please help me get a good night’s sleep for once.


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    I’m a 33 year old single mother of 3 boys ages 8, 5, and 20 months. I work in the kitchen of a restaurant where there is normally a radio on most of the time playing rock music. I might work 7-10 hours a day with no break from the noise. [more..]

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