Every night I whine, cry, whimper, moan, thrash (or am unable to move), yell, pant and so on while suffering torturous dreams. Thankfully I don't attach any significance to my dreams, preferring to think of them as neurological back-wash, or else I'd have to worry about what it all meant.
Unless I take my prescribed medication, Clonazepam*. It's primarily used to treat epilepsy and people with panic attacks. Of which I suffer from neither. There is a real danger though to habituation and abuse with benzodiazapenes so I don't take it every night. Last night reminded me why I probably should....
Sleep, night time and my bed should be my friends. But they're not.
* From the wiki: Like many other benzodiazepines, when taken as a sleep-aid, clonazepam disrupts or interferes with the brain's delta waves. Delta waves signify the brain's slowest waves (~4 Hz) and occur during Stage 4 sleep, which represents humans' deepest sleep state (our muscles are the most relaxed; breathing slows and becomes shallow), and the stage right before R.E.M. sleep and dreaming (Stage 5). Therefore, upon waking, this disruption of Stage 4 delta wave sleep causes a failure for an adequate brain/body rest or "recharge".[citation needed]
[39][40] While benzodiazepines induce sleep, they tend to produce a poorer quality sleep than natural sleep. Benzodiazepines such as clonazepam suppress REM sleep.[41] After regular use rebound insomnia can occur when discontinuing clonazepam.[42]
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