Hey All,

Thanks for the warm welcome on my first post (new guy here just banded Tuesday) You have all been very warm and supportive. I have been having some very intense in color dreams the last few nights. Is this normal for just having surgery or am I just lucky right now? Maybe it is the drugs from the surgery still - just don't know.

Just curious.

Will

Angels fly because they take themselves lightly.

i thought i was the only one going through this. in my opinion is probably the meds. I was having real bad nightmares for the first few nights,but once i started getting off the meds i was able to sleep better each night.

probably the drugs - I too had vivid dreams the first 2-3 weeks - part of it I attribute to being knocked out and part to losing a few pounds and being able to get a deeper sleep

if i am guessing correctly you have been forced to kind of stay on your back.

to be honest, i never like to sleep on my back because that guarantees the picture show, in my case, after i fall a sleep; meds or not.

i sleep on my stomach preferably because it really does make a difference and you dream much less.

i personally don't like to dream; good or bad so for me; sleeping the way i have this whole week after surgery has been tough! but you have to sleep on your back after this operation and there are no ifs or buts about it; i don't like the way it feels when i go off to the side. it makes me nervous and it stops me from sleeping without thinking so much.

it really may have something to do with the fact that you are on your back.

Sidney Potier wrote in his biography about this. his daughter used to have bad dreams; and he told her she should sleep on her stomach; and she never had dreams like that again; so i know i'm on the right track.

:ranger:

Yes, I have had some vivid and epic dreams since surgery -- BUT, anytime I'm going through 'something big' in my life I get them. The bigger the 'something big', the more OUT THERE the dreams!!

Do you ever wake up thinking, if "I could remember all of that and write a screenplay it would be a blockbuster!!!"?!

Hi Will,

It's the drugs. I only took the pain meds for 4 days because of the dreams. I stopped taking them when I dreamed someone was stealing my chair. I woke up grabbing for it and screaming chair.

Ok you might laugh but I also had vivid dreams, of food! I remember dreaming of chocolate cake really well,lol. Now I can't even eat chocolate cake it is much too sweet. It is funny how our minds work.

Will:

I was banded on 8/16 & have had at least 1 very intense dream every night. My husband says I even will talk things like "no!" & verbalize some of the emotions I am experiencing in the dreams. Glad to know it isn't just me. Thanks so much for sharing your experience!!:notagree

Thanks for the help. the dreams are starting to go away so I think it may have been the drugs to.

It has been 14 days now and I am starting to get hungry again. I see the doc tomorrow and I hope I can have my first fill soon. I really loved the full felling I had the first week and a half after surgery.

WIll

I am still having very strange dreams and it has been almost a month. I like the dreams though. Donna