Floating dreams

Does anybody experience dreams on CPAP like they are floating (kind of like flying, but more gently)? Or is it just me?

I can float through walls even, in the dreams. It's actually kind of fun!
I remember as a kid, having flying dreams once or twice, but haven't had anything like this, until I started CPAP.

I'm thinking it's from subconsciously feeling the CPAP air, it's making me feel kind of drifty.

Please tell me I'm not the only one.

My floating dreams were not warm and fuzzy ones.

Mine were when first starting cpap and they and were so unsettling I quit treatment for a while. They totally fit descriptions of an OBE - eerily realistic with me high in the room looking down on myself lying still on my bed. The room is profoundly silent, almost hollow sounding as a voice beside me in the room says, "It's been a while since you took a breath." Then I am no longer looking down but lying there very aware of the passing of time and not breathing, and reply, "Yes, it has been." Then the voice in the room says, "You should breathe now." I do and the dream ends. I am convinced my episodes were directly caused by having a ramp and pressure that was so inadequate my apnea was made worse.

Now, a floating dream prompted by the feel of the cpap air sounds pleasant. I wonder if having a heated hose would make one's floating scene be over a summer beach in the faint warm spray of the ocean. Oh wait, that might be rainout.

Kathy

If they are, you had better hope the hose stays attached or you will be bouncing around like a ballon that has been let go!

Are you taking Melatonin or Bendadryl??

Kathy,

No, that does not sound warm and fuzzy at all. However, thank goodness for the voice!!

No to the Benadryl or Melatonin, Oceanpearl.

Msheda, you made me laugh.
I have often had that image of being so puffed up with air, I was going to awaken to finding myself on the ceiling!!

NeedinZs wrote:Please tell me I'm not the only one.

The term for this is "lucid dreaming." You wake up during rem sleep enough to control where your dreams are going. It's fun. I've done that on and off since childhood. As a child my mom told me that when I was having a bad dream just touch my nose to change the channel. That's when I realized I could dream about anything I wanted to. It's usually about flying though. I haven't done that in a while.

You can also make it happen on purpose.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vysfoePdiik
http://cre.ations.net/creation/face-mou ... aming-mask

I am otherwise having weird dreams though.

I dreamt my wife and I were like Jonathan and Jennifer Hart on 'Hart to Hart' solving crimes and mysteries in our own little multi-season show. (Stephanie Powers and Robert Wagner. Wow, those shows were corny.)

We figured it was the football player who was after the sorority gal. We thought we saved the day. The sorority gal went back to classes, but the football player murdered a writer for the school paper because he was jealous that the gal preferred the writer. Freaked me out to see a typewriter dent in the guys skull. Needless to say, I don't think I'd make a good Jonathan Hart. I woke up - again at 3:30 on that one.

I also have these other dreams that are even weirder, but quite entertaining and awe-inspiringly beautiful. They're mostly fractal patterns, certainly in color but more about perceived space - patterns within patterns crossing my entire field of vision just before I wake up. If I think about it, I can change the variations in the patterns - swirls within swirls, dips and bends, all mirrored infinitely within one another. They are not entopic images because they don't sweep across the field broadly or separately in each eye. It's a perception of space warping in predictable patterns the same in both eyes. It's really breathtaking. Then I wake up. It seems to be happening more and more. I've never heard of anything like it, but it looks cool.

Lucid dreaming is just fun. Enjoy it.

Since the topic is "floating dreams" I guess I'll share an experience from last week. I was still waiting on my machine and got an idea...I've watched a lot of McGyver, Red Green, and I am an engineer after all. I decided that if they couldn't get my machine to me any faster I'd build my own. I used one of my old scuba mouthpieces and hooked it to my air compressor, at bed time a few wraps of duct tape and I was ready for a nice nights sleep. I even had a primitive "ramp" feature by connecting the compressor to an old lawn spinkler timer I had laying around, set it to turn on after 30 minutes. Well I fell asleep right off, thinking to myself that those doctors and medical equipment manufacturers didn't have nuthin on me, then the dreams hit...I found myself floating near the ceiling in the middle of a tornado looking back down on my body still there on the bed connected to the compressor.

It only took an hour or so to get my eyeballs stuck back in the sockets(who knew the optic nerve could stretch far enough for the eyeball to hit the ceiling?) and the docs say there isn't any permanent damage.