Potty dreams

[mrs. vr]

Am I the only one who has issues with potty nightmares? I am constantly dreaming about bathrooms. Last night, for instance, I was staying somewhere, and ALL the bathrooms were filthy and disgusting, and I was soooo upset, because I didn't want to have to use any of them! I also have dreams where I'm frantically SEARCHING for a bathroom.

Oy! How unfair is it to not even get a break in my sleep? :ymad:

Anyone else as craz...er, I mean, as CREATIVE as me?

 

[mrs. vr]

I dont but maybe it is the drugs you are on?? What medications are you taking presently?

I *DO* take sleeping pills, so it's definitely a possibility. I also take Lexapro, in addition to the pain meds for my joints(which i think is making things worse) and bentyl (which, I'm positive, does NOTHING) and immodium.

edited to add: I have always had a very active dream life. I have been known to walk, talk, even make phone calls, in my sleep!

 

[katiesue1506]

Ohh Bentyl... I hated that stuff... it made me constantly thirsty and I couldn't sweat properly.

Lexapro? I think my dad took that for Parkinson's at one point... and it did cause vivid dreams.

 

[Agent X20]

I've always had weird crazy dreams... often about bathrooms... and often searching for one... and then they turn out to be disgusting and filthy. I thought it was more to do with the classic anxiety thing than crohns... although bathrooms are often on my mind for obvious reasons!
Another good one to find myself sitting on a toilet in a public place and I'm trying to get off without anyone noticing. Just how anxious do you have to be? heh! heh!

 

[mrs. vr]

I've had those crazy dreams about my teeth falling out for YEARS. I figured THAT was my anxiety dream, but it's possible these bathroom dreams are even worse!

 

[Wiles]

I don't think I dream about the bathroom a lot. It's funny though, I also frequently dream about my teeth falling out, or being very loose. I'll wake up and feel my teeth with my tongue and be so relieved that they are still firmly in place!

 

[merrywidow]

when i was on nicotine patches i had wierd dreams, there was one where a freinds guide dog was eaten by a snake and then the snake pooed out a poodle with a pink bow in its hair, and my freind had to have her as a guide dog!!!! rgards sharon x

 

[teeny5]

I've had those crazy dreams about my teeth falling out for YEARS. I figured THAT was my anxiety dream, but it's possible these bathroom dreams are even worse!

I have totally had the teeth dreams too!

Maybe your anxiety has just found something else to focus on.

 

[Agent X20]

The falling out teeth dream is apparently very common... supposed to mirror anxieties about your health and physical state.
Sorry to state the obvious!

 

[Kev]

Had some great dreams from my LDN... and some weird dreams from my nicotine patches (resolved by removing it about 3 - 4 hours before bedtime).. Life could be a dream (where have I heard that before?) whereas life with crohns a nightmare..

 

[katiesue1506]

Oh I still get vivid dreams from the LDN... I kinda like it

 

[Kev]

Yeah,,, those dreams are worth taking LDN if for no other reason. They really have to be experienced to be believed... tho wouldn't that make us delusional? Oh, I hate complex philosophical thoughts arising out of sheer mundane nonsense

 

[Kev]

Well, there are dreams, and then there are dreams.. When I was just under two years of age... after just finished my last round of teething.. all my baby teeth had worked their way thru... I was accidentally poisoned by my several month older cousin.. he didn't mean to.. He'd just been playing with a cap gun (anyone too young to know what I mean?) AND his two year old cousin apparently spotted the shiny cap gun and wanted it.. so he obliged.. not knowing that the residue from the gun powder used in the caps could poison a child if said child plopped the business end in his mouth (which apparently many two year olds will do).. Long story short, this not quite 2 year old got a hi dose of poison residue.. in his not quite fully healed gums.. and the only way to save his miserable little life (or so it was thought at the time by a rural doctor) was to lance the gums, and remove all of the baby teeth surgically.. with little or no anestestic because docs were fearful baby go to sleep, baby not wakeup AND besides... children CAN'T recall/retain memories from before the age of 2..

Well, this baby recalls.. vividly at times.. in infinite detail.. ugly green hospital OR, big ugly man in white suit taking crying baby from his mother.. and PAIN!!!
Other VIVID memory of that is close up image of a syringe.. coming at me.. and to this day, a syringe can often make me pass-out at the mere sight of it. I've no problem with pain (not into mind you, but I can handle a fair amount) nor the sight of blood (mine or others)... but if a syringe sneaks up on me, lights out

 

[Agent X20]

That story on its own is enough to give me nightmares!
Obviously if the experience/pain is vivid enough, a two year old will remember it. What you call vivid memories are what I would probably call "flashbacks"

 

[mrs. vr]

oh my gosh! Kev, that's horrible!!!!

 

[AgB621]

In my bathroom dreams, I always need to pee. Not sure if that's what the OP meant when he said "bathroom dreams"...Typically, in mine, I either can't find one, or the door won't close, or it's really short so anyone can see in and I'm embarrassed. And then I wake up needing to pee.

I've had the teeth dreams too. I also have frightening recurring dreams about tornadoes and tidal waves. And of course, the typical 'I have a test I haven't studied for' or 'I just realized class started last week and I forgot' dreams. I think they're all influenced by anxiety.

 

[mrs. vr]

I have both kinds, the peeing and the pooping The one I had the night before I posted this was the second kind.

I read once that the teeth thing is a fear of aging.

eta: I just remembered another recurring dream I had all the time when I was younger. I would be in the backseat of the car, and trying to drive from there. Heh, that one isn't too hard to figure out, not being in control of where I was going, etc.

 

[mommy1st]

I read somewhere that traditionally if you dream that you have no teeth it represents malnutrition (how appropriate) and if you dream that your teeth are falling out it could represent anxiety about your appearance.

 

[AgB621]

I am wary of any blanket (no pun intended!) interpretation of dreams. I think the interpretation is highly variable and individual. Classic anxiety dreams, like forgetting to study for a huge final exam, don't have to be caused by anxiety, and of course the cause of the anxiety differs from person to person. I imagine some of the teeth dreams are caused by malnutrition, though I know for me it's an anxiety dream. Your body knows what's wrong with it a lot of the time, even if you don't. My psychiatrist told me about a friend of hers who was "told" in a dream that she had a very particular kind of cancer. She went to a doctor the next day and informed him of her diagnosis, and she was right.