Sleep Patterns
Craing and I were talking the other day about the strangeness of sleep patterns. It all started when I told him that I needed 4 alarms to go off in the morning to wake me up. Even then, I still need Kiara to come kick me sometimes to get me out of bed. He told me about a patient that he had back when he worked on the psych unit that could not be woken up for anything, but he managed to find a way.
I told him that when I was a child I had a sleep study done to see when I slept the lightest. This was done so that I could setup an alarm clock to go off at that hour of the night to go to the bathroom. This way I could train myself to wake up at night and go to the bathroom rather than wet my bed. The sleep study that I went through for a week showed that I took a while to get to sleep, but once I was sleep, I went into a deep sleep and stayed there for pretty much the entire night. I would even go into REM sleep for almost a full hour several times a night.
Craing seems to think that the vividness and details in my dreams can be attributed to the fact that I sleep so deeply during the entire night. That very much could be the case. I don’t remember every dream that I have, but those that I do remember have tons of detail and color in them. Most mornings when I wake up, I remember the sensations of my dreams. There are times when I wished I could remember all of my dreams because I’m pretty sure that most of them are interesting.
