Stroke dream
Dec. 21st, 2004 12:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vaneramosI just remembered an alarming dream I had this morning.
But first, the background: about a week ago I had this strange experience. I was sitting at my computer in the evening when I heard a sound like a pop inside my head. My initial thought was that it was a precursor for a stroke. My fear was so intense that I got queasy, which only exacerbated my fear. I quickly looked up stroke warning signs on the Net, but none of them really fit. There was no headache, pain or actual dizziness or numbness. it didn't say anything about popping sounds. As soon as I calmed down I felt better. I realized the sound had probably come from one of my sinuses clearing. I'm certainly not at risk for stroke.
Anyway, this morning after Danny kissed me and left for work I fell back asleep in his bed for several hours. I dreamt that I had had a stroke and was paralyzed on the left side. My whole arm was tingling. I don't remember anything else about the dream except despair and a terrible sense of loss.
I finally woke up, lying on my right side with my left fist wedged against the mattress and the arm braced in a rigid upward angle. My arm had in fact gone to sleep.
But first, the background: about a week ago I had this strange experience. I was sitting at my computer in the evening when I heard a sound like a pop inside my head. My initial thought was that it was a precursor for a stroke. My fear was so intense that I got queasy, which only exacerbated my fear. I quickly looked up stroke warning signs on the Net, but none of them really fit. There was no headache, pain or actual dizziness or numbness. it didn't say anything about popping sounds. As soon as I calmed down I felt better. I realized the sound had probably come from one of my sinuses clearing. I'm certainly not at risk for stroke.
Anyway, this morning after Danny kissed me and left for work I fell back asleep in his bed for several hours. I dreamt that I had had a stroke and was paralyzed on the left side. My whole arm was tingling. I don't remember anything else about the dream except despair and a terrible sense of loss.
I finally woke up, lying on my right side with my left fist wedged against the mattress and the arm braced in a rigid upward angle. My arm had in fact gone to sleep.
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Date: 2004-12-21 05:36 am (UTC)that's really scary.
hugs
i hope you did good things today
xoxo
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Date: 2004-12-21 06:17 am (UTC)Be well.
xoxo
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Date: 2004-12-21 06:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-21 04:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-21 06:46 am (UTC)Yow - not the way I would have you wake up!
Date: 2004-12-21 03:45 pm (UTC)Danny
Re: Yow - not the way I would have you wake up!
Date: 2004-12-21 04:35 pm (UTC)xoxo