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Sleep/dreams

Anyone on night shift who occasionally have night terrors and/or sleep walking? This usually subsides in childhood, but not for some. If I've had a pretty stressful shift or little sleep (after about 2 hours sleeping), I wake up unbeknownst to me and usually think I see or hear things until I realize I'm sleep walking. I've made phone calls or have conversations and wake up in the middle. It's bizarre.

I have very vivid dreams and love that aspect. Anyone else in the same boat? I also am able to Lucid dream, have been since a kid. That's a perk.

Wondering if fellow night shifters deal more often with this too - I would imagine it's not a sleep-related deal, but more my brain processing the day. (No meds on board.)

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    Occasionally. My kids tell me all the time when I've been "sleep-nursing" again. It usually comes after a particularly bad night.

    I don't usually go to the point of sleepwalking, but I do a lot of talking in my sleep, is what I'm told.

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    I have occasionally had lucid dreams, but I have never "sleepwalked" to my knowledge. Sometimes I have stress dreams, where I can't get to work on time, or there is a patient in a room that I didn't know about, or I hear bells/alarms/dings all night, etc.

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    oh the phantom alarms and bells! Drives me nuts!

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    I have occasionally had lucid dreams, but I have never "sleepwalked" to my knowledge. Sometimes I have stress dreams, where I can't get to work on time, or there is a patient in a room that I didn't know about, or I hear bells/alarms/dings all night, etc.

    This! I dream that it's the end of my shift and I am going to give report only to realize that I have not even seen my patients, nothing is done, etc. Ugh.

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    Me too Pixie!!! Sometimes waking up is terrifying...

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