Today, after being single for a year, I finally have a boyfriend. Today, my chronic nightmares also started up again after being gone for a year. Apparently I'm allowed to have either a love life, or sleep. Not both. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I got to sleep in the same bed as the love of my life...and her new boyfriend. FML
Today, my girlfriend of one year broke up with me because I started having PTSD induced night terrors. On my birthday as well. FML
Today, my fiancé had a nightmare and sat bolt upright in bed, claimed he had a nightmare where we were married, then his head hit the pillow and he was asleep again. That was his nightmare. Us being married. FML
Today, I had a very nice, long, and pleasant dream about having a girlfriend for the first time since 2010, and then I woke up. I'm right about myself, I'm going to be single for the rest of my life, and there's no point in trying to change that. FML
Today, I had to accept that my anxiety affects me 24/7, even when while I'm sleeping. I genuinely can't remember the last time I had a pleasant dream after falling asleep. FML
Today, after a two week holiday, I'm returning to work exhausted. I had nightmares about work every single night. FML
Today, I was so lonely, I tried to get into bed noiselessly while pretending I had a boyfriend asleep in it. FML
Today, after my boyfriend left me a few months ago, I'd accepted him back because I wanted to work things out. However, now the pain I had to go through is making me lose sleep, interest, and my self-respect. Ugh! FML
Today, after not being able to sleep for two hours because my boyfriend wouldn't stop talking, he fell asleep and I was left wide awake. I listened to him snore for another three hours and only got a couple of hours sleep. He's not working today, but I am. FML
Today, I discovered that I sometimes talk in my sleep. After spending an amazing, perfectly romantic night with my boyfriend, I woke up to him telling me to leave. I have no idea what I could have said. He still won't talk to me. FML
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raganerus 17
i suffer from insomnia and nightmares, try having a series you have watched so much you know it by heart on in the background as you sleep. i find that it helps with nightmares
RichardPencil 32
Go for the sleep and invest in a high-end vibrator.
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raganerus 17
i suffer from insomnia and nightmares, try having a series you have watched so much you know it by heart on in the background as you sleep. i find that it helps with nightmares
GhostFox 34
Could the nightmares be related to anxiety about your relationship? Or have you suddenly changed any habits just before they came back? If you haven't had one down, it may be worth having a sleep study done to see if it has a treatable cause.
RichardPencil 32
Go for the sleep and invest in a high-end vibrator.
CheekyRaccoon 27
Did you just tell her to go screw herself?
RichardPencil 32
Haha, no, I’d have recommended a ***** for that!
ArbiterOfFML 24
Mind vs Body. The body never wins
CBL88 25
IF your nighmares are related to some kind of trauma from the past, they might be triggered by sleeping next to someone. Going to sleep with another person by one's side is very intimate and vulnerable, and the body holds on to trauma, so it can be triggered by the movement or touch of another person.
Regulate 21
I don't know what it's like to get a boyfriend, as a straight male....but I'm with you on everything else. I have not managed to find a job that works with insomnia/nightmares so I just have to live with it and suffer a normal job. Hope things change for you soon, OP. You deserve a good break.
Regulate 21
I don't know what it's like to get a boyfriend, as a straight male....but I'm with you on everything else. I have not managed to find a job that works with insomnia/nightmares so I just have to live with it and suffer a normal job. Hope things change for you soon, OP. You deserve a good break.
Lobby_Bee 18
Why would you be sleeping anyways? New bf in over a year means sexy time any time all the time. No time to sleep.
Ciara Koch 22
Why has no one commented that maybe she should try to explain the situation to her boyfriend so she can work something out of he cares about her at all he should be a bit understanding or maybe I'm crazy and society is worse than I thought but I know with anxiety ptsd and depression I have managed to find a boyfriend and I just explained my problems it is possible maybe just very rare