I have three recurring dreams, (1) the dream is the same every time, with just a few more details added each time; (2) a different dream each time but set in the same buildings, I have no idea where these buildings are, or even if they exist, I do not recognise them and (3) the dream is different every time, as is the location, but the same man appears in all of them, again I have no idea who he is or if he is real.
Dream No. 1 - This dream is initially set in offices, the initial office is a long rectangle with dark blue carpet. There are metal shelving units along one wide, all containing electric equipment. I notice water running down the wall behind the units and dripping onto the electrical equipment. The end unit is empty apart from a roll of dark blue quilted material which I drape over the equipment and head upstairs to find the cause of the leak. It is a huge fish tank in the office above. Then I wake up.
Since the initial dream, the room has changed to more of an hotel room, still long and rectangular with the dark blue carpets, the metal shelving and the electrical equipment, but now with a bathroom added. Later still, the bath is running and overflowing.
In the dream I am either the person whose room it is and I am trying to deal with the leak and sometimes I seem to be an invisible bystander. Occasionally a big dog runs into the bathroom and starts drinking out of the bath.
Dream No. 2 - This dream changes every time, but is set in the same location. It is a large mall type building with a garage attached, a car repair garage rather than a parking garage. It is set in a large grassed area which looks like an abandoned industrial estate. There is a single lane in from the nearest road and you exit via a single lane to the opposite direction. There is a row of houses by the entry to the inwards lane, and their cars are parked opposite to them. The dreams are too many to mention here, but no two have been the same.
Dream No. 3 - Again, this dream is different every time, it is also set in different locations every time too. The only constant is a man that appears each time. He is tall, with long hair tied back in a ponytail, and wears black jeans, boots, a long leather coat and a leather hat, not a cowboy hat, more flat crowned than that, something I would consider an Australian Outback hat. I always got the impression that he was younger than me.
In the last dream we actually spoke, and it turns out he is a couple of years older than me and originally from New Zealand. We talked and we hugged. Then I woke up.
Do any of these dreams mean anything? I've never had a recurring dream before.
I feel like I am in a vicious circle. I fall asleep by 8pm at the latest either on the settee or in bed.
I wake up around 2am with a bursting bladder and feeling so hungry I feel sick. I deal with one issue in the usual manner and the other by drinking a glass of water (I refuse to start eating in the middle of the night). I don't know why this is happening, I never go to bed hungry and the bathroom is the last place I visit before I hit the sack.
I am awake for a couple of hours usually falling asleep just as my bladder starts shouting at me again.
When I eventually do get back to sleep I go deep, really deep. At 5am my alarm goes off and I wake up fast feeling like I have had no sleep at all. All I want to do is go back to sleep but I can't and I feel drained all day. I am then so tired by the time I get home and have eaten that I am falling asleep again. If I do force myself to stay awake later than my body tells me (and by later I mean till 9 or 10pm) it just means that I struggle to get to sleep, sometimes still being awake at midnight. I will still wake up in the early hours with a full bladder and hungry sick feeling so all I have done is deprive myself of even more sleep.
Yesterday I almost fell asleep in class and I am enjoying Tax, Heaven help me at the weekend when I have two days of Audit & Assurance zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.........
I know the doctor said that the tiredness would be the hardest thing to correct, but it seems to be getting worse not better, I can't seem to see an end to it.
I am becoming more forgetful too, I can remember words to 80s songs that I have not heard for 30 years, ask me who borrowed £150 off me twenty-something years ago and never paid me back and I can tell you, ask me to recite all the lies someone has told me and you will beg me to stop. But ask me why I have walked into the kitchen from the living room and I would not be able to tell you. I am finding it harder to remember to take my tablets and surely that should be getting easier as it becomes a routine.
There was dementia and Parkinsons in the family and I am worried that this is the start of it. It probably isn't but worrying does not help the sleeplessness.
