[Jestgar]

I have had horrible dreams when glutened. I think it's because my heart is pounding and my brain makes up a story to justify it. very unpleasant. I also have totally crazy dreams when glutened.

[jerseyangel]

I fall asleep quickly--I'm so exhausted when glutened, but I also have trouble staying asleep. I wake up several times during the night--my anxiety kicks up and I end up laying there worrying about everything and thinking things to death.

[alamaz]

before going gluten-free i used to have night terrors that would leave my husband in a panic because he thought i was going to kill myself one night. he even made me sleep on the side of the bed against the wall because i would try to get up and run (downstairs and outside) while half asleep and screaming. once i was awake my heart would be practically pounding out of my chest. very scary stuff! now when i'm glutened i'll get a nightmare or two the first night but nowhere near as horrible as before.

[num1habsfan]

I sure have gotten a lot more nightmares since having Celiac. And i can afree with everyone here that if I get glutened they get worse. But unfortunately I tend to get them in a regular basis even when NOT glutened...some of them are so "real" i wake up by sitting up and nearly having a panic attack.

~ Lisa ~

[Ann1231]

add me to the count! I get horrible nightmares, wake up with heart pounding so hard and it hurts! I also get anxiety something terribly, I worry about everything and I'm so tensed up it's ridiculous. I get horrific muscle pain just cuz I'm so tight!

[~alex~]

keegans_mommy, on Nov 20 2007, 06:29 PM, said:

I'm sorry to see I am not the only one I use to get night terrors a lot as a child and when I am PG I get them too but now? It's so strange and horrible! I cannot shake what I saw in my dreams last night! So freaky.

Do you take any meds after being glutened that you don't usually take? I only ask because I know anti-nausea meds give me nightmares and restless sleep and even some wakeful delirium.

If not, I would certainly blame the nightmares on gluten. I get insomnia despite being exhausted after a gluten incident. And it looks like many others have gluten-induced sleep issues.

[monkeypuss]

OMG! this totally explains my awful dreams that woke me up all the time when i was on gluten last week for my biopsy....i was dreaming of vivisection and a horses head tied up in a curtain with a hole cut out and one eye in the middle of its head with 2 freaky eyeballs in looking at me and it was bleeding for where the head had been cut off, but alive...and one about being sexually abused with pieces of paper...lol sounds funny when i say it but i woke up in such a sweat, heart beating and unable to move....used to get terrible nightmares every night until i was off gluten too, i cant believe i didnt realise gluten was what made them come back!

[Ursa Major]

I used to get horrible, terrifying nightmares as well. I remember a time a few years back when I'd get ten nightmares a night and was afraid to go to sleep. In a lot of them I got attacked by demons, or somebody killing me and waking just as I was going to die. It was awful.

Now I only get nightmares when I have been glutened.

My youngest daughter (who is also gluten intolerant) used to get awful night terrors and nightmares as well.

[MELINE]

definately happens to me ONLY when I get glutened. And it is that kind of deams, with evil things in my house and dead people looking at me.

[monkeypuss]

i know this sounds abit nuts, but what about thinking you see/hear/feel dead people when you're glutened? i've had some weird as hell experiences in my mums house since i was like 3 that cant be explained, and i did the other day when i was on my gluten diet..heard like all these noises like someone was in the kitchen that went on for hours and the room went SO cold!! dunno if thats related but its a thought int it

[MELINE]

monkeypuss, on May 22 2008, 06:34 AM, said:

i know this sounds abit nuts, but what about thinking you see/hear/feel dead people when you're glutened? i've had some weird as hell experiences in my mums house since i was like 3 that cant be explained, and i did the other day when i was on my gluten diet..heard like all these noises like someone was in the kitchen that went on for hours and the room went SO cold!! dunno if thats related but its a thought int it

it's called panic attack and it is a symptom of celiac.

[fedora]

Me too.
When I was terribly sick from 10 to 13 I had horrible nightmares. I got afraid to sleep at one point, BUT that was not all. I would Leave my body while awake if I was terribly upset and float through black space. I also thought the world was going to end. I was convinced that doom was coming. I dreamed that armagedeon was coming. This past winter when I got really sick again I was having nightmares every night. That was one way I knew something was really wrong.

Having said that I am a very vivid dreamer and have had dreams that have come true my whole life. So I was real scared about the armagedeon dreams., but luckily 20 years later we are all still here.