Day #3 prompt: Tell us about a recurrent dream and what it might say about, or mean to your diagnosis.
This is a pretty easy blog for me to write....
I do not have a recurrent dream because I do not sleep on a regular basis. Cluster Headaches bring daily attacks. For me my night time attack is at 3:30am. Even if I am lucky enough to skip my nightly attack, my body still wakes itself up at 3:29am daily. I am not sure if this has become my body's defense mechanism or what. I get in patterns where I have a tendency not to try to fall asleep before my nightly attack. I keep convincing myself that if I can just prepare myself it will get easier; it hasn't. I did take sleeping pills for years to just calm down enough to fall asleep, but even those did not keep me from being ripped awake by my 3:30am monster. Eventually my body became used to the pills and no longer worked. I currently use meditation, biofeedback and yoga to try to help me relax. Needless to say I spend most nights out on the couch so I don't keep my very loving husband awake!
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