Dreams can make you tired, did you know?

@Jessicalynnt (50523)

• Centralia, Missouri

25 Jan 16

I remember some, and not others.

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theSids

@thesids (22180)

• Bhubaneswar, India

24 Jan 16

Dont get me wrong, but somehow, that doesnt work out right for me. The URL you shared mentions - Depressed people dream more because they have more emotional arousal to ‘dream out.’ And in my case, when I have been depressed, I barely get any sleep. But yes, there have been many times when I have woken up scared, and even tired with a lot of perspiration. On many of them (the tiring ones), I was either running or even falling from somewhere that I have never been able to figure out.

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theSids

@thesids (22180)

• Bhubaneswar, India

25 Jan 16

@Jessicalynnt I wished someone helped me with this kind of a response on the earlier mylot as there was an argument once wherein the commentor did not accept this - that is just a study, and studys can be made to get the results they want based on who they decide to study, so it may apply to some but not all.. Yes, depression worsens in case the body doesnt get sufficient rest and probably this is the reason most of the people who claim to heal depression, prescribe some dulling medications - with a belief that making the brain lazy may get the patient some sleep.

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@Jessicalynnt (50523)

• Centralia, Missouri

25 Jan 16

oh that is just a study, and studys can be made to get the results they want based on who they decide to study, so it may apply to some but not all. I wasn't sure on the depressed parts, although if you are getting less restful sleep for any reason, I can imagine the tired making the depressy worse, lack of sleep isnt good for a person.

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@Jessicalynnt (50523)

• Centralia, Missouri

25 Jan 16

@thesids Ive studied masters level stastics, I had no idea studies and such could be manipulated as much as they can be

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patgalca

@patgalca (18390)

• Orangeville, Ontario

25 Jan 16

I have heard it said that dreaming occurs during deep sleep, which makes no sense to me. I know that as a person with fibromyalgia who can't get into the deep restorative sleep stage, that dreaming occurs during the lighter sleep stage. Think of the times when you are drifting off to sleep and you dream you are falling off a cliff which awakens you. I dream all the time. Sometimes I remember, sometimes I don't. Sometimes they come back to me half way through the day. As a person with fibromyalgia who can't get into the deep sleep stage, I wake up feeling tired all the time. It's the nature of the illness. It never occurred to me that dreaming might be related to it in any way. I think it is actually reversed in that if you don't get into deep sleep you dream more, rather than you don't get into deep sleep because you dream. Did that make any sense?

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@Jessicalynnt (50523)

• Centralia, Missouri

25 Jan 16

I think perhaps we need the sleep cycle to actually get some good rest, even if parts of that sleep are not restful.

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Anna

@LadyDuck (471969)

• Switzerland

24 Jan 16

Some of my dreams make me tired. They are so colorful and vivid that they make my brain and body tired.

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Anna

@LadyDuck (471969)

• Switzerland

25 Jan 16

@Jessicalynnt But it happens many time. Today I feel tired, but I waked up from a weird dream and I was exhausted.

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@Jessicalynnt (50523)

• Centralia, Missouri

25 Jan 16

@LadyDuck I got extra sleep so my wild and crazy dream didnt bother me as much as it might have had

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@Jessicalynnt (50523)

• Centralia, Missouri

25 Jan 16

exactly! So odd that dreams can do that

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DianneN

@DianneN (247186)

• United States

24 Jan 16

Very interesting! The best dream I ever had gave me an idea for a bulletin board I was told to do in a hallway in a school. I was so worried about it, because I couldn't think of what to do. An idea came to me in a dream, which I made it a dream to remember!

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@Jessicalynnt (50523)

• Centralia, Missouri

25 Jan 16

I have written a children's play and several stories on dreams myself! plus some poems

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Nick R Thomas

@asfarasiknow (3340)

• Bournemouth, England

24 Jan 16

I suppose it depends upon how much energy I expended in flying - which I have often done in my dreams!

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@Jessicalynnt (50523)

• Centralia, Missouri

25 Jan 16

if only that counted as exercise!

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AnjaP

@Rollo1 (16679)

• Boston, Massachusetts

24 Jan 16

My dreams confuse me, but I have many fewer where I am being chased and my feet won't move. Although, it's better that they don't move, since I don't want to go running in my sleep.

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@Jessicalynnt (50523)

• Centralia, Missouri

25 Jan 16

some people have that one, or flying ones

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Kevin

@kevin1877uk (36988)

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25 Jan 16

I know sometimes when I wake I'm really tired like if I've not been to sleep. Maybe it can be tireding sleeping, not really sure.

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Arthur Chappell

@arthurchappell (44998)

• Preston, England

24 Jan 16

interesting that we can exhaust ourselves sleeping - shame I can't dream I jogged five miles and actually lose weight from the dream

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@Jessicalynnt (50523)

• Centralia, Missouri

25 Jan 16

that would be amazing!

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Teep11

@Teep11 (7673)

• United States

25 Jan 16

Having too much on your mind could result in fatigue. Some dreams create more issues than others. It's best that we obtain the best rest possible. We can accomplish that by not overthinking.

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Morgan

@OneOfMany (12150)

• United States

24 Jan 16

I actually get rested the longer I dream. If I go to sleep and then wake up after having no dreams I'm exhausted. But if I'm exhausted, only have an hour to sleep, and have 8 hours of dreams (what feels like 8 hours), then I wake up completely refreshed. I had a ton this morning as well and woke up well rested. The dreams this morning were all inspired by a show I've been watching lately. And of course content I've been writing. There were a lot of them with different themes. I have to say I really enjoyed when the ships were stranded, and the crew threw these balls towards other ships, and they expanded out with a parachute and beacon to alert the other ships of danger.

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@Jessicalynnt (50523)

• Centralia, Missouri

25 Jan 16

I have a feeling in part it's processing cycles, need to go through the cycle to really get rest

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RasmaSandra

@RasmaSandra (80635)

• Daytona Beach, Florida

24 Jan 16

@Jessicalynnt that explains it. I had some really bad dreams last night and I am dragging through my day today.

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@Jessicalynnt (50523)

• Centralia, Missouri

25 Jan 16

crazy right? and I hadn't noticed that completely. just that the running dreams made me tired.

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Inlemay

@Inlemay (17713)

• South Africa

24 Jan 16

I think its because you sometimes live in your dreams that they make you tired

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@Jessicalynnt (50523)

• Centralia, Missouri

25 Jan 16

lol, could be

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Valerie J. Routhieaux

@just4him (317250)

• Green Bay, Wisconsin

25 Jan 16

I've had a lot of vivid dreams lately and I really don't know why. I've been dreaming about my mother and my X, both gone from this world. It's not like I had a good relationship with either that I'm missing them either. They've been strange dreams.

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Valerie J. Routhieaux

@just4him (317250)

• Green Bay, Wisconsin

30 Jan 16

@BethieAnnie Interesting idea. My dreams lately are centered on a book I'm reading. I've never had that happen before. I've had dreams about books I'm writing, but not ones I'm reading. At the moment I'm reading Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

Bethie Annie

@BethieAnnie (818)

• Dayton, Ohio

25 Jan 16

I have been dreaming more lately, too. I think the reason that I am so tired in the morning is because I dream too much.

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alchemistrx

@alchemistrx (2547)

• Philippines

25 Jan 16

I have dreams but i cannot remember getting tired.im on depression medication.I still dream even im on meds but i dont remember getting tired.

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Heather Echola

@GardenGerty (160879)

• United States

25 Jan 16

I often know that I am dreaming and I find myself fighting to get awake. I do feel a lot of fatigue when I do wake up.

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@Jessicalynnt (50523)

• Centralia, Missouri

25 Jan 16

Sleeping should make one feel rested, not more tired!

dpk262006

@dpk262006 (58678)

• Delhi, India

25 Jan 16

May be the study is right. Sometimes, I also feel that my mind is tired, when I get up. May be dreams make an affect on my brain.

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jaishankar

@else34 (13515)

• New Delhi, India

25 Jan 16

@Jessicalynnt,I see dreams,but can't recall what I dreamed of.Dreams I have at night are blurred.

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jaishankar

@else34 (13515)

• New Delhi, India

26 Jan 16

@Jessicalynnt And I remember not a single.

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@Jessicalynnt (50523)

• Centralia, Missouri

26 Jan 16

@else34 not everyone does

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@Jessicalynnt (50523)

• Centralia, Missouri

25 Jan 16

some I totally remember, many I do not, or what I do are broken odd connections

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rakski

@rakski (125763)

• Philippines

26 Jan 16

yes, there are times that after dreaming you are exhausted.

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WendySpickerman

@WendySpickerman (983)

• United States

25 Jan 16

My dreams can be very vivid as well.. like detailed as if I were awake.. and other dreams can even be in a language I don't know but what I'm saying in the dream with others I know the meaning of what is being said. Then there are just dreams without any meaning at all and dreams of something going to happen and it does.. Like this past weekend I had a dream family came to visit.. that same day family came to visit.. my girls get a kick out of that! It was a nice surprise.. but was it really a surprise if I had that dream?

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