Sickness causes nightmares?

Whenever i’m not well, even if its just a bad cold or something, it always seems to give me bad dreams, Its really disturbing, because whenever I close my eyes as im trying to sleep, I see bad things, I dont really know how to describe it but its quite scary, and the things I see, are like, evil… probably sounds stupid but I cant think of any other way to describe it…
basically, if Im not well, I get haunting “evil” dreams…
I was wondering, does this happen to anyone else if they’re sick or is it just me?
Also, this is a way of me being able to tell that im not well before the illness (whatever it is) actually affects me, like one night, I was having bad dreams like Ive described above, and I think, the night after that I got a flu/cold or something.

“Also, this is a way of me being able to tell that im not well before the illness (whatever it is) actually affects me, like one night, I was having bad dreams like Ive described above, and I think, the night after that I got a flu/cold or something.”

     Thats what i was going to point out.Nigtmares ,according to many cultures and science are the way our soul/mind/subcounciousness passes the message of something being wrong.Either its psychical or phisical.They tell us which parts of our life need special care atm.Its good to have it,only problem seems deciphering them.

Once u have this skill id try to categorize your nightmares somehow and see if same reoccurances(ppl,objects,demons) match same kind of sickness.It could be interesting experiment.

Whenever I have temperature, I seem to have no dreams in full sense at all. I am just lying in bed thinking about something and don’t understand that what I am thinking is nonsense. I somehow know I must do something boring, as arranging books on the shelves, and much depends of it, something more important that just books rearranged. But later I never can remember what I had to do and what it meant. And when I fall asleep, I continue the same things, so I cannot say definitely if I have slept at all or not… But no nightmares or something like that.

I don’t want to describe the dreams I get from being nauseous while asleep. :eek: Maybe the high body temperature does something to the brain to make the dreams weird? Small children can hallucinate if they get a high fever.

Ilana, I have got that too. The last time I had a fever, i was lying half-asleep in bed. I worried about all the loose thoughts i wouldn’t remember. Then I somehow believed everything I thought was to be burned onto a CD and saved. :cool:

When I have a high fever I usually get scary and vivid nightmares. They where really scary when I was young. I haven’t been that sick for a few years now, so it’s been a long time since I had those.

I used to have this kind of dreams earlier. Those dreams, they’ve got nothing clear in them, no people or places, it’s just something BAD. I think it is either a warning, or, when I am already sick, it shows that my body’s fighting against the disease. :smile:

I have noticed this too,Most my dreams have some small scare in it but nothing big but when I’m sick they scare me out of sleep.
It would make sense that your body is saying something is wrong,I never really thought of it before but your right,I like you,Get nightmares right before I’m sick.