Talking in My Sleep

 A couple of months ago I was prescribed a sleeping medication. My doctor figured that I’d need the strongest dose so we just jumped to that. This medication is well know for people who are using it to perform actions in their sleep like, driving, cooking, binge eating, online shopping etc...

I took it twice. First, it never made me sleepy. I have a brain like a steel trap! Second, I started talking every dream out loud and acting them out, while lying down, and.... sleeping on my back with my arms straight out in front of me in the air. I taught a cooking class. I “drove” a car, I played the piano and I called out for my dad, as loud as I could, BOTH  nights.

I decided that it certainly wasn’t helping me to even get restful sleep and ditched them.

My brain? Not so much. I’m still doing these things. It’s like the medication broke part of what paralyzes you in your sleep.

The weirdest thing... ok, a couple of weird things....

1) If you’d have asked me if I ever dream of my mom I would have said ; No. 

surprise!!! I do! AND, it’s very often. I have entire conversations with her in my sleep. Sometimes they aren’t all that nice.

2) my mom and my dad come to me as I knew them in 1974. Dressed like our pictures from The World’s Fair/Expo, in my hometown. I think it’s because it’s the only timeline in which I have only good and positive memories. My dad worked at the fair and we went all the time. It’s really nice. And, I wake up with my arms straight out like a zombie..?

3) I call out for my dad almost every night. 

4) Last night I yelled... Hold onto your hat....”Mommy, please help me!”

Wtf!!!! Scared the shit out of both my husband and son!!! 

Sleep good!

Tracy