Waking up, unable to comprehend anything, number counting

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I hope you soon find some answers for your daughter.

Thank you very much! I shall reply to your last posting as well. We had no internet for 6 months on the farm and only returned to the "real world" some days ago. I shall contact ry27528 as she seems as desperate as I am when my daughter has these "dreams". Thank you for your kind concern. As I said - I have taped my daughter during these "Dreams of counting numbers" and the fear and dispair in her eyes are just too much to bear. She ist not my daughter then but a strange being that emanates pure fear in her eyes. Thank you all for your concern.

 

I have been suffering with exactly what you have described. I couldn’t put it into words but so relieved to see I’m

Not alone. Are you still around to discuss this further?

I am most eager to find a solution for my daughters problem and would love to hear from anybody with similar experiences. Hope that nobody is ashamed to post these experiences. I have a video of my daughter which I took one night and the few people who saw it were totally shocked.

YES YES YES. I am still also trying to find a solution for my daughter!!!! She still has these dreams - sometimes once a week. sometimes every night!

Yeah, when I was on my initial studies, counting alphabets and a teacher commanding me to mutiple numbers during sleep and I woke up frustrated.

At these nights, I ran through my house just like I'm going crazy and fatiguely knocked on my parents' door. But these dreams faded as years passed by and a month ago, counting pages of books distracted me whenever my head touched my pillow.

I'm very sorry for the late reply but it seems notifications from this side were buried in my emails inbox. Is your daughter still having these issues? Feel free to PM me.

Thanks for sharing, and sorry for the late reply. Your experience sounds potentially similar to mine. The weird thing is it's been so long since I've had it I can't even remember experience correctly

Hey Jill, thanks so much for the heart warming reply and advice. I haven't had this dream for a while, but maybe this message will shine through the skies of my wicked dreams and help me.

Sorry for the late reply - I haven't had this dream in atleast over a year and I have no respiratory issues that I know of.

I'm very sorry for the late reply but it seems notifications from this site were buried in my emails inbox. Thanks for your reply! I do suffer from anxiety at times. I've talked to Gps about this but none of them have much knowledge on it. Your chocolate story made me smile. Thanks

Sorry for the late reply, and thanks for your advice! Your dream stories made me giggle and a little less fearful about my own.

I wonder how much is collectively shared but going unsaid amongst us weird creatures.

I was actually curious so I typed - waking up and counting numbers, since this is something that happened to me on several occasions in my late teens (Iam 34 now). When I read your story I immediately made a profile to tell you that the way you described it is almost identical to my case.

I would wake in the night in a state of distress or more like severe anxiety, start prancing back and forth between the kitchen and bathroom, as if I had to do something but I didn't know what. Meanwhile my mind seemed like it was counting numbers, what seemed like infinities. It was so much more pronounced than regular counting in your head, so much so that I felt overwhelmed. I guess I finally burned out, because I dont remember when I went back to sleep.

Prior to this the only experience similar to this was when I was even younger, whenever I would run a high fever I would wake up in the night screaming. My body would feel like its in a million pieces, proprioception gone and I wouldn't know where, what was, my arms, head etc.

I've had other experiences such as lucid dreaming or what seemed like an out of body experience while hearing screams but nothing as drastic as above mentioned.

What I am curious about whether or not we share other things in common, from a psychological to physiological stand point. If you care to share then I'll tell you a little about myself. Feel free to do the same, it might paint a better picture as to why our experiences were almost identical.

I had anxiety (still do) and tics when I was a little kid, I eat and write with my left hand but did everything else with my right. I say did because its very easy for me to switch hands and learn to use tools or eat with the other.

I am artistically gifted, could draw from memory and could recall events with very vivid details, even of things when I was an infant. My grades in school were always very good but my behaviour wasn't, most likely due to child abuse on behalf of my mother.

Not only was my memory vivid but also my perception, it seemed crystal clear like I always had a light bulb on above my head, sort of speak.

I've since diminished considerably to the point of vaguely remembering what that felt like. Mainly by drug abuse, depression, and a host of other stressors.

Another thing worth mentioning is that I was never good at making friends. I know I left out a lot more peculiar things about myself but this should be enough to tell you I am a bit different then most people you'll meet

Last but not least, sorry for a very late reply. I hope all is well with you.

THIS HAPPENS TO ME, IT HAPPENED LAST NIGHT!!!!!!!! SAME EXACT THING. NUMBERS LIKE 8 MILLION, I CANT REMEMBER THE EXACT SITUATION OR WHY I WAS THINKING ABOUT 8 MILLION BUT I GOT UP WITH ANXIETY THINKING ABOUT INSANE NUMBERS!!! this hasn't happened since i was around 16 years old, im 22 now. Its some form of anxiety for sure. it doesn't happen often.

im so happy i found your post because it is the same exact thing i was experiencing and have experienced  i was trying to explain it to my bf without sounding insane.

This happened to me last night. I have had this happen to me my whole life.  Growing up it used to happen all the time. I felt like I was still asleep but I was up.  I would be counting numbers, feeling like I couldn’t get to the number I needed to. Once I am out of this state I can sort of remember what happen but I could NEVER put it into words.  I would wake up crying screaming for help because I couldn’t stop and I was trying to get myself to stop but I couldn’t.  I would cry for my mom when I was younger kissing her hand over and over, yet stil counting. It happen to me at least once a week as a kid from 10-17. Out of nowhere it stopped happening. I am now 23 years old and it just happen to me last night. My friend was around and told me everything that happened. I finally found the words to describe it because someone was able to tell me what happen. Then I searched it on google and this is the ONLY thing I found. Everyone here has helped me understand what was going on. But still... I feel like no one here know what it MEANS..

This happened to me last night. I have had this happen to me my whole life.  Growing up it used to happen all the time. I felt like I was still asleep but I was up.  I would be counting numbers, feeling like I couldn’t get to the number I needed to. Once I am out of this state I can sort of remember what happen but I could NEVER put it into words.  I would wake up crying screaming for help because I couldn’t stop and I was trying to get myself to stop but I couldn’t.  I would cry for my mom when I was younger kissing her hand over and over, yet stil counting. It happen to me at least once a week as a kid from 10-17. Out of nowhere it stopped happening. I am now 23 years old and it just happen to me last night. My friend was around and told me everything that happened. I finally found the words to describe it because someone was able to tell me what happen. Then I searched it on google and this is the ONLY thing I found. Everyone here has helped me understand what was going on. But still... I feel like no one here know what it MEANS..

Finally someone else that this has happened to, this has only happened to me like 4 times but i've always wondered if it happens to anyone else!!

This happens to me too. Mine happens like once every 2 years because it's not as frequent. It happened about 5 days ago. I woke up in the middle of the night thinking of really big numbers . It stresses me out to the point of where I'm forced to walk around my house to get my mind off of it.