Fibro Geeking
Sep. 12th, 2007 03:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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fibromyalgia community, and I know that my friends list and readership has a bevy of science-minded folks, so here's a research question.
I've been trying to research how REM sleep and dreams are affected by fibro. I thought I'd ask here as well. It has to do with the percentage of people affected with fibromyalgia have dreams and can remember dreams (because we know what happens when we stop being able to dream).
I've been told that most people with fibro have wonderfully rich vivid dreams and lots of them each night; it's the delta stage of NREM sleep that's the problem (alpha-delta sleep disorder). I'm trying to figure out the points at which our brains are jolted out of that critical restorative phase of sleep and back into alpha waves. I'm also trying to figure out the depths to which our REM sleep and ability to dream is affected.
I can tell you pretty much all about one dream I had last night -- but I don't know if I had any more dreams at all. Or I don't remember. It's gotten to the point where I'll be able to vividly recall most if not all of just one dream per night, but it's like that's the only dream I had all night: I still wake up feeling unrefreshed, not at all rested, like a truck ran me over. But I remember that one dream, whatever it was (it was awesome, too).
Does anyone know of any studies done with a fibromyalgic that shows REM sleep and dreaming while also showing the effects of the alpha-delta disruption?
fibromyalgia community, and I know that my friends list and readership has a bevy of science-minded folks, so here's a research question.I've been trying to research how REM sleep and dreams are affected by fibro. I thought I'd ask here as well. It has to do with the percentage of people affected with fibromyalgia have dreams and can remember dreams (because we know what happens when we stop being able to dream).
I've been told that most people with fibro have wonderfully rich vivid dreams and lots of them each night; it's the delta stage of NREM sleep that's the problem (alpha-delta sleep disorder). I'm trying to figure out the points at which our brains are jolted out of that critical restorative phase of sleep and back into alpha waves. I'm also trying to figure out the depths to which our REM sleep and ability to dream is affected.
I can tell you pretty much all about one dream I had last night -- but I don't know if I had any more dreams at all. Or I don't remember. It's gotten to the point where I'll be able to vividly recall most if not all of just one dream per night, but it's like that's the only dream I had all night: I still wake up feeling unrefreshed, not at all rested, like a truck ran me over. But I remember that one dream, whatever it was (it was awesome, too).
Does anyone know of any studies done with a fibromyalgic that shows REM sleep and dreaming while also showing the effects of the alpha-delta disruption?
