ok something happened last night that freaked me a little last night. Let me give u a background first. I have tourette's syndrome and had deep brain stimulation surgery so I have electrodes which pass a small current through my brain to block the signals that cause the uncontrollable movements. just google DBS and read the wikipedia article if u want to know more. I am also on SSRI fluvoxamine (Luvox) for OCD.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_Water
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I drank the above stuff called dream water last night, after having a few days of extreme stress and sleeplessness. It is part of the new "relaxation drink craze" (all over the news) which is an industry that came out to compete with the energy drink companies. There are now over a dozen brands of these drinks, and they are all supposed to "calm" you. The one I drank had a 150mg "proprietary blend" of GABA, 5-HTP & Melatonin. I took it and went to sleep pretty quick which is always the hardest part for me.
My dog is 14 and she has cancer. I love her to pieces and I searched for days relentlessly in the paper calling shelters looking for her when I was just 10 years old. That was 14 years ago. So last night she had a seizure at 1am (about an hour after I had gone to bed), my parents took her to the 24hr emergency vet. Knowing that she may not ever return from the vet, my mom aroused me and asked me if I wanted to get up go, in case I needed to say goodbye. Apparantly, I said no, she tried again, I said no. She thought it was very odd for me that I would refuse going, but her concern was the dog at that point.
So fast forward 7 hours to 8am, I wake up go downstairs, see my dog (surprisingly relaxed from the meds, thought she was dead for a second) then I saw an invoice and 2 doggie prescription bottles on the counter for tramadol and neurotnin. The invoice was timestamped 2:23am. So I went to my dad and said "would anyone like to inform me what the **** happened last night?" (not knowing that I was already told). He explained the whole thing, and then told me mom had tried to wake me and asked me if I wanted to go...I didn't believe him, so I asked my mom and she confirmed. She said I sounded awake and coherent so she thought I really didn't want to go. When I told her I didn't remember ANY of it, she said she was sorry, she really thought I was awake.
Sorry for the long story, but is there even a medical term for what happened? It has never happened before and all I can think of is that stupid drink. How can I have said "no I want to say home" in a full formed sentence so clear that my mom thought I was awake, and not remember any of it....it's like I got totally sloshed or something...but I don't drink. Plus I would NEVER in a million years say "no" to that when my dog could've died at the vet. (Thank god she came home or I never would forgive myself).
I have heard of people muttering in their sleep talking nonsense, but never heard of carrying on a coherent conversation with someone with no recollection of it. Scary....I have vowed to never drink one of those again because what if that had been a family member and not my dog? Scary! please help me rationalize this or anyone tell me if this has ever happened to them!
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Take it easy, CDuval,
This happens all the time.
There are some people who will respond as if they are awake, forming complete sentences, answering questions, and hold whole conversations at night, but then don't recall it in the morning.
My neighbor was a prime example, and his son in the 1960s took full advantage of it. He snuck in his father's bedroom one night and asked, "Dad, will you buy me a real .22 riffle for my birthday?" The father, deeply asleep, said "Yes, tom". The next morning, the father had no knowledge of the promise, but Tom held him to it. A family row occured. The next night, Tom brought his mom into witness it, as he asked again, in plain language to his father "Will you buy me a .22 riffle for my birthday next week?" "Yes, tom" was the answer again. This time Tom had his witness, who confirmed the father had promised.
Tom got his .22 riffle over the father's objections. They hunted together happily for years...
So, the fact that you might respond opposite of what you feel you would want to do is not unusual. It was probably born of your feeling of contentment that you should be in bed, and that you would not want to confront such an unpleasant situation... and felt it was all a dream. Don't beat yourself up on this. Let your family off the hook, but make sure they are aware you aren't to be held to decisions made while deeply asleep, or awoken from a deep sleep.
Hope your dog is alright and that you can prepare for the eventual end that must come to all pets.
Take care.
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