Hi, this is my first post in this forum.
I have had HPPD for about 8 or 9 years now.
My urge to talk about sleeping issues has led me to this thread.
I actually don´t have any hard time falling asleep, but since I got HPPD I have some disturbing symptons that are pretty hard to explain to people in general.
In my first years of the disease, I used to have dreams that were so vivid that I woke up and stayed lying in the bed still dreaming the same dream for about 1 or 2 hours.
While that occurred, I had no body feelings, and no sense of self at all. Just terror.
After a few years, after been on olanzapine, risperidone, antidepressants and clonazepan, those symptons started to mild.
By now I still get vivid dreams, but one other thing has becoming the center of my worries.
I´ve noticed that for a long time now I wake up every mourning feeling that the time has not passed - the next day is merely a continuation of the day before. I noticed I can´t tell diference in time. Everything that happens taste like past, I think I kind of lost my time perception.
I didn´t use to associate this with sleeping patterns, but as I got to study a little closer these symptoms, I started to remember what felt like to have a good night sleep - and I just recalled that it feels like being refreshed, as born again to a new day - a feeling that I haven´t had since HPPD.
I don´t know if any of you guys ever felt like this.
Rgds,
John
