[ExI] we die alone while ogling the divers

[David C. Harris]

spike wrote:
> ...
> If you have drowning dreams very often it might indicate sleep apnea, so you
> need to see the medics about that.  
>
>   
For over a decade I was acting out dream material, like hitting the 
bedside telephone, kicking, or making distressed sounds.  The worst was 
grabbing my girlfriend's neck as she slept -- a serious faux pas in 
dating etiquette!  She was also bothered by my serious snoring and 
eventually noticed that I stopped breathing frequently.  I got a medical 
referral to a sleep clinic where they diagnosed severe obstructive sleep 
apnea, going as low as 75% oxygen saturation.  Apparently I wasn't 
taking enough time to establish deep sleep with the normal paralysis of 
the voluntary muscles during dreams.  Now I have a CPAP (constant 
pressure airway passage) machine that blows my throat open when I relax 
and I am catching up on long dreams.  Life is better with adequate deep 
sleep.   :-)