The Dream State of a Bipolars Mind!

Ever since I can remember, I have had the most incredibly vivid and realistic dreams. From a teenager onwards they have varied in frequency in occurring until the last few years, as my bipolar disorder became more and more pronounced. They do seem to get more horrifying when I am in a manic state, but yet I still have them in great detail when I am feeling normalish....or even depressed.

Sometimes I will wake up in the middle of a dream and still be in it....but yet im awake now.....almost to a point where I feel like I am hallucinating ... But yet I can snap myself out of it, by getting up and going to the bathroom or a getting a drink of water or something.

These dreams feel like they are completely real. The ussually portain to mylife....and they are NEVER farfectched stories. I am NEVER flying in the sky, or falling or anything like that. It is Always something that I would accually be doing, or have done.

On friday I was pretty much in a hypermanic state. Life was good! But when I went to bed it was all lost! I had one dream after another, after another after another. They were not happy dreams in anyway...but yet they were so vivid...I woke up many times completely out of breathe or almost screaming out of being so terrified. I would basically describe them as comeplete night terrors.

I ended up sleeping almost 14 hours.....Which I really never do...I do like to sleep alot....most of all on a weekend...but I dont ussually get much more then 10-11 hours on my weekends. But I slept almost 14hours....and yet when I dragged myself out of bed I felt exhausted. It was like I hadent slept at all....I was completely drained. Like I hadent slept at all.

As a result of the dreams/night terrors, I was basically in a comeplete depressed FUNK! My poor Hubby. He woke up and I am just OUT OF IT! He didnt know what happend....and I didnt want to talk about it. But my loving husband did everything in his ability to just make everything else around me easier and he gave me space....but yet showed me that he was there for me when I was ready. Last night John wanted to watch "The Happening" by M. Night Shyamalan.....and I was a bit nervouse because I was sure that watching a scary movie was not going to help my night terrors. But last night I was blessed. Yes I had super vivid dreams....and the were very constant....but not a one of them were scary or frightening.

So I did some research yesterday....and well I guess this is normal for people with bipolar...Most of all those with Rapid Cycling (Which I am). There are article's after article's on the subject. But yet I have not found anything that gives any advice of what to do about them. So does anybody have any advice? Have any of you had similar experiances?