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Comments on How are you sleeping? by CharlesWT

The most recurring dream is of me looking for a toilet but only finding ones that for one reason or other can’t be used (clogged, full of water, built in a way one cannot sit upon them, extremly dirty etc.).

I've had similar dreams, intermingled with the military stuff. Such as trying to find restrooms and functional toilets in a barrack.

I don't remember ever having a nightmare. But I've had anxiety dreams. First, about school, then the military, and work. In recent years, I've had very few of any of them.

None of the acting-out behavior, the normal REM “paralysis” seems to be working just fine.

A couple of times, I've woken and been completely paralyzed. But recovered in less than a minute.

I had a friend who, even as a young adult, would sometimes act out his dreams. Once, he tried to stuff his wife behind the headboard of the bed. A few years ago, in the late stages of Parkinson’s, he died after a fall.