My question was inspired by this question:https://www.fluther.com/211363/how-much-extra-sleep-do-you-get-or-staying-in-bed/

I don’t think I have had a good night’s sleep since I was in my late 30’s. Back then, I slept well enough, but it was at the wrong time. It would have been better if I could have gone to bed later, and gotten up later, but school and work did not permit that. You would have thought that I would have gotten used to that pattern, but I never did. But when I slept, it was good.

When I got into my late 30’s, I started to have horrific nightmares pretty much every night, up until peri menopause hit around 48.

I’m now 55 and I don’t exactly have mightmares, like I did before, but I have wild, crazy, nonsensical dreams that leave me exhausted in the morning, and scratching my head. This has been going on since about age 48.

I sleep poorly and wake up many times during the night, yet I am plagued by vivid, crazy dreams (but mostly not nightmares like the ones I had for years). Insomnia is a constant companion.

I chalk it all up to hormonal changes throughout my life. I don’t believe that dreams have “meaning.”

When was your last decent night’s sleep?

Topics: sleep, dreams, nightmares, insomnia, sleep problems, menopause, hormonal changes