Deadly Dreams

alcohol mixed with caffeine used to mess me up pretty good...in a bad way. The buzz was good while on it, but the aftermath made me horribly sketchy. Terrible dreams and then hangovers where I would get really irrational and start yelling at everybody and everything (yeah, I'm a lightweight). Same thing with weed mixed with caffeine...I just can't handle it.

Anyway, I had a nightmare just last night where I opened my fathers bedroom door and he didn't have a face...it was just plain skin. That one woke me up.

Of course, I have tons of surfing dream, too. Oddly enough, I never actually surf a wave in them. I paddle out and sometimes try, but always miss the wave. Usually, I show up at the beach in late afternoon, but as soon as I get in the water, it's getting too dark to see. The weirdest one, I was walking along the shoreline and came across a barrel/whirlpool that was vertical to the water's surface and pointing perpendicular from the shoreline, out to sea. I could've walked right into it, but the depths of it was pitch black...so I guess that was a nightmare, too.

 

I keep dreaming of waves in the Intracoastal side of the Palm Beach Island, seeing guys getting barreled from the West Palm Beach side - Flagler Drive, then I get out of my car and I wade across the mudflats into the mangroves, board in hand, going thru a maze of backwater tributaries, seeing flitts of perfect waves around the bend, then ....I wake up and it's still fucccckkkking flat!

 

Yea sleep apnea is actually more than just a nuisance - the times you stop breathing put a big strain on your heart. There was a study sometime ago that linked untreated sleep apnea with heart damage/disease.

I have a really bad case of it - I eventually went and got tested, I now use a CPAP (Bane Mask) took a while to get used to it but I sleep incredibly well now. I have used it for almost 10 years, and pretty much can't sleep without it now. Only bad part is I have to be able to breathe through my nose, so if I have a cold it is very difficult.

Flew into Nica 1 year and realized I didn't bring my mask (oh **** moment for sure) - good times finding a CPAP mask in Managua on a Friday afternoon before heading to the Coast

JTS

 

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Based on this thread, I conclude you morons with your dreams are a bunch of sick puppies!!

STOP doing drugs and alcohol and you just might get your shiny fur back. And, you might then start dreaming about flsurfdogs girls again instead of the sh1tty topics you morons come up with.
Dr. Barry, MD, DO, PhD, MS, RPh, etc etc etc.......

 

Not to get on too much of a tangent, but the mixing of booze (often vodka) with energy drinks such as Redbull is popular with some young folks. I'm an old fart, so I have a hard time understanding what is accomplished by doing that. The hangovers must be hell.

 

Good to hear from you again, JTS!

 

Redbull vodkas got me through nam

 

No one cared who I was untill I put on the mask

 

Redbull was founded in 1987... Sucks you spent so much time as a P.O.W.... Glad yer out and surfing!

 

it doesnt matter who we are...what matters is our plan

 

Thanks Man, hope you and the family are doing well. Did you get any of that Mothers Day swell?
JTS

 

Got a little of it that afternoon off Dam Neck, but it had fizzled out a bit.

*****

DP:
A tracheotomy might reduce the apnea if it's structural (as opposed to central nervous system induced), but you'd have to find a way to seal it while in the water. I'm kidding of course. Our youngest, special needs daughter, now 20, has had a trache since she was 3 weeks old - so long that it's now difficult to close, even surgically. Severe sleep apnea due to upper airway constriction had been a concern.

 

Yeah it's the one where it just sits under the nostrils. I wouldn't say I've ever really gotten used to it, but I can at least sleep with it on now. The difference in how much better I feel in the morning is worth putting up with it. No way could I have put up with the full mask.

 

Sorry man, you seem like a really good family guy though. If I recall correctly, don't you also care for your mother? I know I couldn't do all that, I can barely take care of myself some days!

I've had all kinds of weird dreams and I can't figure them out. I've had some dreams that are so embarrassing , I'm afraid to tell people about them, but what can I do? I can't control what I dream.

Every once in a while, I'll have a dream about my best friend growing up. He died when he was 24, which was 24 years ago now. We're coming up the anniversary in a few days. I'll dream about him and he'll talk to me in the dreams. He looks like he did when he was last alive, during these dreams. It's the closest I've come to paranormal events or communicating with the dead. I'm still best friends with his brother (he's staying with me right now ) and his entire family is like my family. I was living with them for years in the my late teens and early 20's. None of them have these dreams where he's present though. They all have dreams where he's still alive, which we've all had those dreams about deceased love ones. But none where he's supposed to be dead and we know it.

Every once in a while I'll have a nightmare that I think is real and I'll do what I call ''Hitting the kill switch'' and get myself out of the dream. I used to have dreams where someone would be trying to harm me and I'd quickly wake myself up from them. Once I got a little older and had these dreams, I thought to myself, ''These are just dreams, so when this is happening in them, ****ing go after the guy! Kill him if he's trying to hurt you! It's only a dream, you're not really hurting anybody in real life! Stand up for yourself!''. Once I would take control in my dreams, I started to let people walk all over me less frequently in real life events.

 

I rarely have dreams anymore - at least any I remember. If I do have a dream, it's usually about something I had thought about, even only briefly,during the day. I can't recall any about surfing. My Dad passed away a year ago, but I haven't had any dreams about him.

My problem is getting a full night's uninterrupted sleep. I think some of this is age related and perhaps a too soft mattress...

 

Thanks man.

These are definitely dreams that I don't mind having. Now last night, on the other hand, I had an awful dream about my ex-fiance. Nothing bad happened in the dream, but just having a dream about her pissed me off when I woke up. She's a great person and did nothing wrong in our relationship, I'll never say a bad word about her. I just have a lot of regrets over not being able to keep her and I've accepted it (it's been just about 3.5 years now) but when I have dreams about her, which aren't very frequent anymore, I wake up feeling really ****ty. Whereas when I have a regular nightmare, I usually don't feel bad for more than a minute after waking up.

Luckily I had a great day and felt great within an hour!