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Nightmares

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bennyg70

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If stress effects your BG, then can a nightmare, or stressful dream - say a dream about work or something along those lines have a serious effct on your morning BG??
 
For me, yes, I've had this happen to me :( Stress/nightmares = adrenaline, which prompts the liver to release extra glucose (usually! 😉)
 
very much so, bad dreams and nightmares are very stressfull things...
 
It also works the other way. Vivid dreams can actually be caused by blood sugar issues. I particularly have vivid dreams shortly before waking up with a hypo. High BGs also seem to cause vivid dreams, in me at least.
 
DeusXM said:
It also works the other way. Vivid dreams can actually be caused by blood sugar issues. I particularly have vivid dreams shortly before waking up with a hypo. High BGs also seem to cause vivid dreams, in me at least.
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Just to complicate things! 🙂
 
DeusXM said:
It also works the other way. Vivid dreams can actually be caused by blood sugar issues. I particularly have vivid dreams shortly before waking up with a hypo. High BGs also seem to cause vivid dreams, in me at least.
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cider does it for me, but that is self i nflicted...
 
I seldom remember my dreams so have no idea 🙂
 
DeusXM said:
It also works the other way. Vivid dreams can actually be caused by blood sugar issues. I particularly have vivid dreams shortly before waking up with a hypo. High BGs also seem to cause vivid dreams, in me at least.
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Snap.

Usually some sort of ridiculous circular scenario where I keep landing up at the same place again despite battling to eg get away from the nameless, shapeless thing I'm trying to get away from! LOL - until I seem to pull myself together and always THINK that I've decided, 'Well this is just silly, isn't it? - so I'm gonna wake meself up' And still don't realise I'm hypo till I try to work out what's just happened? and think Oooer, best test yerself Jen ....
 
When this happens to me, I often get dreams about eating sugary foods!

Thankfully my pillow has always been intact on waking....
 
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