I am very scared .it use to be funny for me untill I read it is the prerequisite for future Parkinson or dementia . I don’t know if it started after I had an incident and they beat me up outside 7 eleven . The doctor says is Post traumatic disorder . But today I read this article making a correlation of this sleep disorder .
Man .!! I would like to hear some more stories about people having this .
All my episodes have been trying to defend myself from someone . and usually my wife wakes me up punching or kicking .
Has your doctor suggested treatment for the issue?
I had a dream that I was playing football (soccer) I was going to whack the ball really hard up the pitch and woke up when I kicked the wall as hard as I could
Don’t think I broke anything but foot swelled up like a balloon and I couldn’t walk on it for a few days
Good job I slept facing away from wife
The update is since my mom died and Pop sleeps alone, he has thrown himself out of bed more than once while combatting someone and woken up as his head hit the wall/floor/bureau. He rigged up a system to keep himself loosely strapped in bed.
Not really .She’s a General Doctor and she says it might be post traumatic disorder . Im kind of concerned cause I read 80 to 90 percent of this disorder related to REM develop some kind of brain decease like Parkinson or Altsheimer.
But at the same time I see there’s lots of people experimenting the same problem.
Sometimes I have night terrors. They are associated with the worst sensation of morbid dread that you can imagine, and according to unfortunate witnesses, the loudest, most bestial shrieking you’ve ever heard. Usually I just scream my fool head off, but sometimes my terrors involve me punching and kicking and falling out of bed.
The last punchy-kicky night terror I had happened a few months ago, when I had a Trader Joe’s puff dog right before going to bed. They need to put a warning label on those things.
I have all kinds of (diagnosed) sleep disorders - central sleep apnea, night terrors, sleep paralysis, sleepwalking, sleep talking and sometimes even sleep eating. None of them are fun and they are something I am ashamed of even though I can’t help it but the worst is sleep apnea combined with sleep paralysis.
That means that I become conscious but I can’t move and also can’t breath. It takes a whole lot of effort to figure out which muscle I can move a little (usually a pinky finger) and move from there. If I can get one hand and arm responding, I can use it to move other body parts until they start to respond as well but it feels like I am racing against the clock and sometimes don’t make it.
If it lasts long enough, my body kicks in some survival response that nearly instantly causes me to start gasping for breath and a violent bodily reaction at the same time. I have launched myself off the bed during those episodes more times than I can count. I even cracked a rib when it happened this week.
I have a very good CPAP machine that keeps me from suffocating while I am wearing it but I sometimes take it off unconsciously in my sleep. That is almost always a bad idea. I have already had all the surgery I can have to fix the problem and it didn’t fully work so it looks like I am stuck with these problems for life even if it kills me.
I did last week. I was dreaming I was in a fight, and when I woke up I was kicking my poor cat. (What’s funny though is that Luci didn’t move or even react – she just laid there like nothing was happening)
Kicking sometimes but rarely do I involve my arms and never to the point of falling out of bed or making my wife uncomfortable.
Since this sleeping dragon has awoken, yes, I do it frequently. But only if I fall asleep on my back. I punch kick and yell in my sleep. So I make sure to fall asleep facing away from loved ones.
My mom has had 3 surgeries in the last year. Each time I stayed with her at her home after. Every time she had angry sleep. And when I checked on her she was kicking and punching in her sleep. She was also yelling a stream of obscenities. Drug induced I believe. She couldn’t remember anything the next morning except that she was having nightmares.
My ex was a sleep talker and sleep walker. We went to a wedding and I went back to the hotel room at midnight to sleep. He stayed out and came back around 2. Which is why I was surprised when there was a pounding at the door accompanied by him yelling for me to open it at 4. I opened the door to find him there, stark naked. There was a security guard standing behind him. I just let him in and went back to sleep. About an hour later, I was awoken again by a hard punch right between my shoulder blades. I pushed him off the bed.
Turns out he had woken up having to urinate and walked out into the hall instead of into the bathroom. Someone called security after noticing him peeing in a corner, naked. Then he had a nightmare about being arrested for being naked.
I’m almost certain that all of this was whiskey induced.
My dogs sleep fights…I sure wish she could tell me her dreams, they seem so violent. I am a sleep walker myself usually during busy stressful times. I wish I was a sleep-house cleaner!
I’ve been known to swing at people if they bother me in my sleep. No known sleep problems. I suppose it may just be a leftover survival instinct or something. It really sucked when I had panel walls. Bruised hands. Now that I have gypsum/drywall. It stopped for the most part (i don’t hit the walls) . I guess I instinctively don’t want to break my walls or something.
My old dog used to sleep-run laying on his side sometimes which ------ well, he slept on a carpet and sometimes his feet would gain purchase sending him off at speed. And into a door. Asleep. Until he hit.
I don’t think he ever understood my laughter.
Lately I have been re-living some stressful times and incidents in my sleep. I’ve come awake several times punching and yelling at some specific person. Lucky that I live alone, I guess.
I kneed a gf in the middle of the back one time in the middle of a deep sleep. It never happened again. It scared me more than her, just as she was fixin’ to go off the bed, her calling out woke me up. Was dreaming something, of exactly what, I forgot. Just glad I was able to wake up.
There are some who don’t, and it doesn’t always end well.