Insomnia

A

ArmySon

Staff Alumnus
Lately, I've been waking up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat. This has been happening for about two weeks. A couple of nights ago, I dreamed that I was in a gun fight. I forgot to bring spare magazines and ran out of ammo. I got shot and that's when I woke up.

These dreams never occurred until I got out of the army. Does this happen to anybody else.
 
I had a dream about being in a gunfight about a week ago. With all the fancy stuff I have, I was armed with only a 5-shot 38spl. I was at a Mall and 4 people wanted me dead real bad. I did have a pocket full of loose ammo though. Needless to say, I won. :)
 
Son, I can't say I've ever had that dream.. but if you recall me confessing to the dream I had where I was involved in a shooting in an officer showed up ASAP and told me to drop my firearm and kick it toward him.. and I'm thinking (in your terms): "You want my to drop my customized Kimber Gold Match and kick it toward you??!! :D But you know what I'm sayin' -- at any rate.

------------------
Be sure to come and check out FUD's Fan Club!
 
Son...lot's of dreams like that. Usually no matter how much I shoot it aint affecting the enemy. Like they are bullet proof...or I can't get the gun to fire. [[shudder]]
Only been shot in a couple of dreams...but I don't wake up.

Once heard that if you die in a dream you die in reality...that's proven false for me on several occaisions. Usually I just switch channels and dream something else.

[[been writing my dreams down for almost 20 years now so I know the patterns and see 'links' between dreams..as if they are a continuing movie.]]
 
I don't any more but when I was working I had them quite a bit. The one common denominator with mine and many police officers from what I have read and been told is the lack of affect my shots had. I have always believed that this was due to officers believing they were ill armed with department issued or allowed weapons. In your case that should not be a problem...I've seen your weapons. ;)
I don't have any answers but hope they go away for you.

------------------
Gunslinger

I was promised a Shortycicle and I want a Shortycicle!
 
ArmySon, I'm not a doctor. (Repeat 5 times.)

When I saw the title you chose for this thread. I immediately thought of the new health concern in my family--hypoglycemia (low blood sugar). Awakening after a few hours' sleep and bad dreams are 2 of the many symptoms of this condition.

There's a diagnostic checklist at Hypoglycemia Support Foundation http://www.hypoglycemia.org/ -- click on "Do I have it" on the left sidebar.

There's also lots of books in the library about it. I'm just beginning my research, but we've already modified my daughter's diet and seen great improvement. Little girls shouldn't be having headaches every day. Two weeks ago she was. Now she's not.

Just a thought.

--Denise

[This message has been edited by sbryce (edited October 19, 2000).]
 
It happened again. I woke up about 15 minutes ago :(

This time, I was pulling my chute and it wouldn't open.

Thanks Denise for the link. I'm gonna check it out now.
 
Insomnia? hell i don't know it's 5:10 am and i'm sitting here in front of my P.C.

Son, dreams represent; through symbols what goes on in our lifes on a daily basis. Things like guns, falling, running out of ammo are representations of your subconsious mind, role playing thru your dreams. These symbols have a general meaning, yet are have a special meaning that relates directly to you and what happens in your daily life.

Also the subconsious mind has total recall while your sleeping, and can use images thar in your waking hours are oblivious to you. That means ANYTHING you're senses have taken in whether you realized it or not can be used to form strange or bizzare images our dreams seem to portray sometimes.

After you wake from one of these episodes, writing it down for future reference might help you to figure things out. Try and look back and see if any of the images in your dreams can be related back to something you've seen in the last few days or some event that triggered thoughts that might have set these types of thoughts in motion.

Never ignore your dreams, they are a path that speaks in abstact symbols; yet have a powerful message to tell you if.. you can find thier sometimes hidden meaning.

Yours speak of some form of an anxiety in your life, maybe work related or from past experiances related to your service in the army. Take care and relax bro... life is good.. :)


I started with nothing - and still have most of it left. 12-34hom

[This message has been edited by 12-34hom (edited October 19, 2000).]
 
I think all of us have "occupational" dreams at one time or another. Dreams about things we expect to work, and suddenly don't work. I certainly wouldn't be surprised if many (most?) police officers and soldiers had dreams about being in a gunfight and running out of ammo, or gun malfunctioning, or bullets having no effect.

I spent a LONG time at university (9.5 years total). It's been almost 10 years since I was at university, but I still occasionally have the same dream: it's study week, too late to drop a class, and I realize that I signed up for a class at the beginning of the semester, but forgot to ever go to class, and the exam is tomorrow. Certainly not as frightening as your dream, but pretty similar in concept.

M1911
 
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by MTAA:
Time to see a psychiatrist man. Don't delay on something like that, insomnia is a bitch.[/quote]

BS!
 
Son, you've got our phone number. If you have one of these and need to please feel free. It is very common for me to be up late into the night and if I'm not up....well I'd be happy to get up to talk. :)
Phone rates are at their lowest in the wee hours. ;)

------------------
Gunslinger

I was promised a Shortycicle and I want a Shortycicle!
 
Son,

A Freudian interpretation would say that your dreams are caused by your waking concerns that you're either not in control of a situation, either at home or work, or that you have a "fear of failure" that is for some reason being magnified.

This dream doesn't sound much different than the old schoolboy dream of standing in front of class, not having done your report, and being buck naked, to boot.

Are you under some sort of stress at work where you are feeling really overwhelmed by the situation? That can do it.

When my marriage was breaking up, I was having a regular cycle of dreams, including:

1. A very pleasant dream in which I was somewhere, having one hell of a great time wtih my wife, and she disappeared, causing severe panic on my part, to the point where it would wake me up. I don't think a waking heartbeat of 160 or more is healthy.

2. The kind you're describing, in that I'm in a gunfight and my gun is broken, or the trigger pull is about 2,000 pounds.

3. The worst were the ones reliving the battles leading up to the breakup of my marriage, but in the dream they would turn very, very violent.

The LCSW I was seeing at the time said that these types of dreams are very common. I never really told her the full story about dream 3, though. That one even frightened me.

I struggled with those dreams for several years.

The fact that yours are waking you up on a regular basis could, as others have suggested, also mean that you have a cocomittant medical problem that is causing them.

Get a complete physical with blood tests to see if there's a medical reason why this is happening.

------------------
Smith & Wesson is dead to me.

If you want a Smith & Wesson, buy USED!
 
M1911 said: I spent a LONG time at university (9.5 years total). It's been almost 10 years since I was at university, but I still occasionally have the same dream: it's study week, too late to drop a class, and I realize that I signed up for a class at the beginning of the semester, but forgot to ever go to class, and the exam is tomorrow. Certainly not as frightening as your dream, but pretty similar in concept."
-----------------------------------

Your dream is relatively common. I had it for years after graduating from engineering. Mine was the last semister of my final year and I needed the class to graduate! I would wake up in a cold sweat everytime. Haven't had it too often after 30+ years, but it still lurks out there.

ArmySon, take the advise, bet medical help. We are too short on this earth to ignore health warnings. Keep us posted.
 
Insomnia or nightmares? I think the latter. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder?

Heck, I still dream that the exam is tomorrow and I haven't opened a book since midterms.
 
The last few days have included being in a gunfight with a bunch of bad guys and running out of ammo.

Then there was one of me in Bosnia stepping on a landmine and blowing myself to pieces. This morning I was parachuting except, my chute wouldn't open.

Being snatched by dead Serbs. They stuff my mouth with mud so I can't scream. Throw me in the bushes as my patrol walks on by.

Another one included me in Somalia again. I was looking through my SWS and firing a shot. Then seeing through the recticle I sniped my mother :(

These are just a couple of the bad ones. Each time, I woke up shaking.

I called and made an appointment with my doctor.
 
Son...get thee simultaniously to the VA and a Vet Center. I have had that problem for over thirty years and the folks at the Vet Center have helped me learn to deal with it.

Sometimes it seems that survivors have to deal with more and definately for longer.

Sam
 
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Ragin Cajun:
Your dream is realtively common[/quote]

Oh yeah. I suspect most folks who've been to college have had a very similar nightmare.

M1911
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top