I don't dream anymore--you?

[MAlegant]

I haven't had a dream since surgery.  I find this very weird (the least of my problems but the most intriguing).  I have always had vivid dreams but now have none, or at least none that I'm aware of.  Anyone else??
Marci (an ex-dreamer)

[Denisex2boys]

Hmmmm this is interesting .... I cannot recall dreaming either!  I know I had some very vivid, weird dreams while in the hospital and soon after being released home - but they were due to the drugs - and no, I cannot remember having any dreams since coming off the meds.  I also find though that I am sleeping straight through these past couple of weeks ..... 

[mrgarlic]

Greetings Marcy, Darn ! !   Does this mean that I will quit dreaming about you when my pills are gone??? Ha ha ha ha,,,,,,,,,So sorry, but it funny !  Blame this on my pills, I am dreaming big time.
Have a good turkey day,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Larry

[wendysig]

Hi Marci -
Actually, my dreams have become more vivid since surgery, maybe because I sleep better.  I know I've mentioned more than once that being SSD gives me the added benefit of not hearing my husband's snoring!     It's nice that there is an up side to being deaf in one hear!!! 

Best wishes,
Wendy

[hruss]

this is an interesting observation, Marci, but i cannot help you here! neither before the surgery, not after it have i dreamed - so nothing changed for me. soorry i can;t help!

Happy Thanksgiving!
Hrissy

[MAlegant]

I miss my dreams, they were very entertaining.

[Jim Scott]

Marci:

I still dream - but rarely can recall more than a fragment of the dream, although those are usually quite vivid.  Go figure. 

I have no substantial evidence to support this theory but I suspect that acoustic neuroma removal surgery is not the culprit for your loss of those once-entertaining dreams.   Of course, I could be wrong. 

Jim

[Sue]

About dreaming.  You do dream.  It's vital to the operation of your brain.  People who are deprived of dreaming in labs will deteriorate over a short period of time.  If everything else is copacetic with your behavior, then fear not, you are dreaming but you aren't remembering it.  My husband rarely remembers his dreams, but he does dream, because like some old dog, he can twitch and moan and groan, but no barking that I have noticed!  I have always had interesting, long epic dreams and usually in "living color".  I don't have as much recall over the dreams as I used to, but you can re-train yourself to remember them better if you want to.  After my hysterectomy, when I was on the pain medication, I had the mother of all dreams.  Bright colors, very psychedelic, crazy dreams.  I would dream, think I was waking up, but I was still dreaming.  I had dreams inside dreams.   I was glad when THAT was over with. 

My anxiety dreams have changed over the years.  I rarely, if ever, dream anymore the dreaded "school" dream.  You know.  You've had them.  Can't find the locker, can't get the locker combination, can't find the right room, or you are in the wrong room, or you are late for the test, or you are not registered and school is starting and you don't know where to go.  You know.  THAT dream.  That has changed to anxiety over my purse.  Can't find my purse, or left the purse somewhere and I have to back track to try to get it before it's gone.  Looking all over the place for the missing purse.  That's more common to me now that the school days have been left behind long ago.  My mother died when I was 15 and we lived in Ventura, California.  I can't tell you how many dreams have centered around Ventura and Anacapa Junior High.  I've trekked all over that town in my dreams and that school was usually where I was frantically trying to get to class or find my locker.  A psychiatrist would have fun with that, although it seems pretty obvious to me and I don't need one to tell me that the obvious anxiety dream centers around a place that gave me a lot of anxiety at one point in my young life.

Happy dreaming, if you can!  (loved the flying dreams when I had them on occasion, hated the tooth dreams.  Ever had dreams about your teeth? Yuck)  I've also had dreams, now, about my AN. 

Sue in Vancouver USA

[mrgarlic]

Greetings to all. Since surgery my dreams are way out there. Yesterday I dreamed that some people had to move out of my neighborhood because the angle of their necks didn't match the angle of their roofs I don't recall any flat roofs   I highly suspect my daily dose of pills are to blame.  Take care and thanks for looking after me,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Larry

[Crazycat]

You would not believe the stuff that I experience. I've written some of it down and could post it if you're interested. Lots of heavy clairvoyant/precognitive stuff as well.

[yardtick]

Me Too Crazycat, sometimes it scares the poop out of me!  Must be my Hungarian Gypsy blood!

[Dog Lover]

Oh, I've had AN dreams since my surgery, too. Once I dreamed that it came back. eerily enough, one of my daughters had a similar dream about me the same night. How freaky was that? I actually think remember my dreams more since the surgery.

Cathy

[Crazycat]

I've had a number of very vivid and exciting dreams that my hearing was coming back in my AN ear.

However, I do know what you're talking about Marci. It takes a while to shake-off the anesthesia and get back to normal after surgery.

[Sue]

Sounds like we are in a Twilight Zone episode now! HA

Sue in Vancouver, USA

[MAlegant]

Thanks all.  So, in fact, it is my ability to recall my dreams that I am lacking, since as Sue pointed out, I am dreaming.  I'll chalk it up to the mysteries of brain surgery.  And I'll let you know when I can remember a dream....
Marci