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Posted 11/10/2015 2:02 PM (GMT -5)
Does anyone else get these REALLY intense dream cycles that almost seem to be doing brain damage? It feels like you took a combination of ecstasy and LSD while you're dreaming. And it also feels like you're developing schizophrenia, and you forget who you are, and where you are.

When you wake up, it feels like you're coming down from a mushroom high.

I'm just concerned that these dream cycles, whatever they are, may be doing brain damage. I'm also wondering if it's related to specific co-infection like babesia, or something.
Posted 11/10/2015 2:06 PM (GMT -5)
Certain medications give me extremely vivid and violent nightmares. The meds that have done this to me have been babesia meds like quinine, malarone, and plaquenil.
Posted 11/10/2015 2:11 PM (GMT -5)
Are you prescribed quinine from a doctor? Or do you make a tea out of it? It sounds like it can be dangerous if you overdose or have heart problems.

Have those meds helped to clear up the babesia infection for you?
Posted 11/10/2015 2:18 PM (GMT -5)
I was on quinine for babesia from my LLMD. It helped me pretty well but I couldn't tolerate the side effects so I had to stop. It made my ears ring very loudly and that was very scary. I wish I could've stayed on it. However I am now on cryptolepis and it is definitely working for my babesia.
Posted 11/10/2015 2:22 PM (GMT -5)
I noticed that Traveler posted something about sleep clearing out the spinal fluid. Maybe I get these intense dream cycles because my immune system is working on clearing out toxins?
https://www.healingwell.com/community/default.aspx?f=30&m=3531721
Posted 11/10/2015 2:26 PM (GMT -5)
While I'm not sure what those things actually feel like (LOL!) I do know that these infections produced some very bizarre and unusual issues with my mind and my sleep.

Here are two links that have many, many articles on the psychological effect Lyme can have on us:

www.lymeinfo.net/neuropsych.html


whatislyme.com/the-psychiatric-manifestations-of-lyme-disease-and-other-tbi/
Posted 11/10/2015 11:32 PM (GMT -5)
I definitely have musical hallucinations:
https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-105965425.html

These occur when I wake up in the middle of the night, or early in the morning.

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This dream phenomenon that I'm trying to describe, although it is hard to put into words, is much more than just a simple "nightmare" or "strange dream". It seems to happen regularly, and is consistent in its presentation. I would have to describe it as some sort of cleansing process that my brain is undergoing. It definitely seems like my brain is trying to perform some sort of function, such as removing toxins or fighting off infection, and the extremely intense LSD/ecstasy-like experience is a side effect of the process it's undergoing. I have been experiencing this dream phenomenon regularly since I got sick which was a year ago. Every time I experience it, it seems to do a little more brain damage than the last.

It's concerning, because I wonder if it's an onset of schizophrenia. Forgetting who I am during this dream cycle seems schizophrenic-like in nature. I think it may be a mental degeneration. In any case, it's very concerning, and I'm really not sure what to do about it.

I haven't seen any real improvement with oral antibiotics.

Post Edited (gfields) : 11/10/2015 9:40:59 PM (GMT-7)

Posted 11/11/2015 1:31 PM (GMT -5)
I dream about every other night and I wake up exhausted. I am so busy. Last night I was newly hired by a company and I walked into my new office and 3 women were there decorating and arranging my office. BUT they were putting pictures of their kids on my desk and decorations that they liked. I have been retired with a pension since 2007 but I now work for fun and a little money for the fire department a block away. So why dream I got a job??? Oh and I put my purse down and someone stole my wallet out of it. They found the wallet, gave it to me and it was completely empty. Then I could not get a "line out" to call the bank to cancel my cards. The dream was full of anger, fear, and frustration. I can hardly wait to really sleep tonight.

Only new addition to my protocol is Japanese Knotweed and I am only taking 8 drops, which I have now found out is too little. But hey, I'm a cautious person.... except in my dream and hanging onto my wallet. LOL
Posted 11/11/2015 1:40 PM (GMT -5)
LOL - Peteza - that sounds like a dream I would have.

I dream every night. Often - they are bad dreams.

Lately I have been dreaming about lyme - and my treatment not working...and symptoms getting worse.
It seems like the lyme is brainwashing me.

I wake up...feeling emotional...and having to analyse what is true, and what was actually part of the dream. And then tell myself that it's not that bad.
Posted 11/11/2015 1:45 PM (GMT -5)
Girlie I have to laugh at what is happening to me or else I would be crying incessantly.

I am thinking about singing as I do everything and just making my life a musical. The world will be my stage. So, if you see a woman in the store signing to the vegetables, say hi to me.
Posted 11/11/2015 2:51 PM (GMT -5)
NEED HELP WITH LAB TESTING. MY FIRST LABCORP TEST HAD AN IGM TITER OF 2.27 WITH BAND IGM P23 PRSENT AND IGG 41 PRESENT. GOT TREATED FOR 21 DAYS. A YR PAST AND SYMPTOMS HAVE WORSEN. LOTS OF NERUOLOGICAL PAIN TO FEET AND ARMS, FLUSHING, TWITCHING, TENDONITIS OF FEET,ANLKE KNEE, HIP AND HAND. KNEE AND HAND PAIN. BONE PAIN. RED PALMS WHEN HEAT SENSATIONS START. UNABLE TO TOLERATE HEAT. HAVE HEAT AND FLUSHING DURING THE DAY AND DURING SLEEP. IGENEX TESST RESULTS POSITIVE IGM 41++ IGM 23-25, 31 AND 39 INDETERMINATE, IGG 41++ AND 58++, IGG 31 AND 39 INDETERMINATE. ALL TEST FOR AUTOIMMUNE, CANCER NEGATIVE. MRIS ALL NORMAL. HELP IS THIS LIME OR SOMETHING ELSE.
Posted 11/11/2015 4:22 PM (GMT -5)
I know, Peteza, I know (about the crying) - I do a lot of that. But, it actually makes me feel better to let the tears come.

I turn up the music very loud in my house - and it lifts my mood, and distracts me, too.

Just when I thought I was getting 'on top' of this nasty disease...it's thrown me for a loop...sigh...once again.

I will not give up...I can't give up.
Posted 11/11/2015 7:33 PM (GMT -5)
Girlie NEVER GIVE UP!

I promise I won't. So hang with me sister!

~Annette
Posted 11/12/2015 5:33 AM (GMT -5)
gfields, I know EXACTLY what you mean!!

I am still getting them, though less often now. I have been on Buhners protocol for a while and I don't know which if any of the herbs are specifically making a difference. I certainly didn't have any let up in them while I was on oral abx alone - if anything they were worse.

I like to think it's the amount of toxins hanging out in my brain - but yeah, it feels schizophrenic, lol.

All that without the need for illegal drugs, who'd have thought?!?
Posted 11/13/2015 6:33 AM (GMT -5)
If only I could tell my high school self to not bother trying to score those mushrooms, you'll feel like you're on LSD for a year straight when you're 34. And it will get old. Seriously man, you'll get bored of it. I know you don't believe me, but you will.

Anyway, I woke up at 3AM and thought I was in Russia.
Posted 11/16/2015 4:34 AM (GMT -5)
My 'best' one yet has been spending an entire night dreaming in french, holding conversations with people I know like my family and friends....waking up thinking I was actually french and getting in a panic because I couldn't speak french anymore. I should point out that I have never spoken french. I am english and I live in Greece, so french is not a language that would have ever been my mother tounge. I don't even know anyone french, lol. But it wasn't till my husband got back from work and said 'good morning' that I 'snapped out of it' and 'remembered' I was English. Odd.

Next best was dreaming of a friend, someone I 'knew' that I knew really well, not just a passing aquaintance. I woke up remembering I needed to tell him something, but then I couldn't really get a grasp on who he was or how I knew him, I just 'knew' that I did. This bugged me for DAYS!! I just couldn't place him in my life and yet I 'knew' I knew him really well. Went through all the people I know, have known, partners of friends, past employments.....days later while watching the TV I saw him. Yep, a minor character in some sitcom or other. I didn't 'know' him at all. He wasn't even 'real'. That one still weirds me out, lol.

Here's to free 'acid trips', ahem ;)
Posted 11/16/2015 11:28 AM (GMT -5)
lol free acid trips lol

*giggling*
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