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[dreamer_easy]

Fell asleep this morning without my CPAP mask on, lying on my back, and had a ghastly nightmare of suffocation. Proof that it works, I say.

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[whochick.livejournal.com]

Holy hell!

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

In the dream I thought I was having some sort of asthma attack, and was struggling to reach the university's medical clinic, with the usual nonsense about Surrealist lifts etc. It went on and on.

[whochick.livejournal.com]

I've had dreams where I've been drowning and have woken up knowing that I'd been holding my breath for goodness knows how long, so I really sympathise ... frea-ky, oh hell yes :/

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

omg, I did exactly that once - held my breath in my sleep - and woke up with sleep paralysis! Thank goodness I'd read about it, or it would have been absolutely terrifying. Once I reassured myself that I was, in fact, able to breathe, I just waited for it to pass.

[whochick.livejournal.com]

How do you just ... randomly ... read about sleep paralysis?!??! I'm borderline employed in medicine and I've never even heard the term before!

*is freaked*

[fizzixrat.livejournal.com]

Nah, sleep paralysis is pretty easy to learn about it accidentally. It is discussed a lot bt alien abduction debunkers.

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

I was trying to think where I would've come across it - and that's certainly the place!

[fizzixrat.livejournal.com]

"Fell asleep this morning without my CPAP mask on, lying on my back, and had a ghastly nightmare of suffocation. Proof that it works, I say."

Hell, yeah! *high-fives Kate*

Once I found out what sleep apnea was (about nine years ago) and started getting treatment, I realized I could remember such suffocation episodes back to at least age five. The symptoms had been there for a LONG time, in other words.

But, yes, I certainly notice more when I sleep without the mask now (which is rare). Used to be I went to work every day, feeling like hell, because I wasn't treating a condition I didn't know was affecting me so much. Nowadays, an overnight power outage that keeps me from using my mask means I don't go to work the next day, because I know how much it's affecting me (and don't trust myself behind the wheel of a car, let alone at work).

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

My episodes of Excessive Daytime Sleepiness are one of several reasons we don't own a car. Although these days they're caused by insomnia rather than sleep spiflocation!