Thankfully my girlfriend doesn't move but she talks rather clearly during her sleep almost every night. It's funny at first and quite scary sometimes. Sad thing is she's a workaholic even in her dream
my brother talks AND walks! he actually hurt himself at least twice, and scared the beejesus out of his wife. he also prevented me from sleeping when I was a child.
I do it myself! My mom says I do it quite a bit and it's more like shouting, though I don't remember it because I'm asleep. Most of the time it's hard to make out what I'm saying, but this one time she came because it sounded like I was playing video games at night, like 2 in the morning or something, but when she came into my room, I was fast asleep.
lydia baker same. I talk in my sleep every night, and many times I’ve caught myself getting out of bed, or walking towards the bedroom door, or waking up at the top of the stairs. I also kick, thrash, and hit, and wake up while performing actions I was dreaming about, like picking up the remote off of a table over and over until I wake up and realize I was grasping at the air. Sounds like we should both have this checked out!
@@jooleebilly Sorry for you bro. My father has just developed the symptoms. Will the condition aggravate with time? Can it trans-mutate into Parkinsons, Alzeimers or dementia? I am very worried.
@@saksham379 I'm sorry, I have no idea. So far no dementia or any other neurological disorder here, and it's been happening to me for about 50 years, so there's that. Best of luck to you and your dad, I hope he is fine. Sometimes it happens when people are under extreme stress like severe anxiety, PTSD, things like that. I hope your dad isn't troubled in that way, but if he is it would explain a lot. And it could very well stop in time.
@@jooleebilly Yeah lately he did take a lot of stress. He usually doesn't go for a walk if I don't insist. So I have also started doing exercises along with him to cheer him up. I really appreciate that. Thanks for the kind words and I hope you are also doing okay now
@@saksham379 Please keep walking with him. It will remind him he is loved and also improve circulation and release stress. You are a good son to your dad.
I wasn't paying attention when he mentioned what RBD stood for at the beginning. But instead of rewinding I just assumed it stood for Really Bad Dreaming until he said it again at the end
I don’t know about "acting out" my dreams, but I was definitely a sleepwalker who would do things in my sleep. I’d wake up to find myself with a bowl of cereal in front of me, or I’d wake up on the downstairs sofa when I’d gone to bed upstairs. After I was found by a family member asleep in the back seat of the car - the whole family was searching for me - my parents installed locks that required a key to open from the inside so I couldn’t easily get outside while sleepwalking. Even now, decades later, I still occasionally wake up in a different room from the one in which I went to sleep. It still freaks me out every time, too.
Hank, when are you going to have an episode on why some people can remember their dreams and some don't. It's funny, because I not only remember my dreams a little bit after waking, I remember them in color. My daughter doesn't remember hers, and swears I'm nuts because the few she remembers are all black and white.
Jack Linde everyone dreams differently and has different memories. I know my dreams are in color but I don’t remember what colors, so maybe when we look back at dreams some people see them in black and white from a lack of memory. Even those who remember dreams don’t come close to remembering all dreams and the ones we do remember fade quickly and then we substitute the parts we forgot with false memories. I sleep really bad and feel like I don’t often hit REM sleep bc any noise or movement or my back pain wakes me up and the dreams I do remember are often me trying to run and fall and struggle to get up or I’m trying to fight/defend myself and my punches have no power or my wrist collapses.
I had issues with this before I started sleeping with a CPAP. I once dreamed that a Hell Hound was lunging at me and reached out to hold it off... and grabbed my then girlfriend (now wife) by the neck, surprising me and scaring her. Another time I dreamt I was in a fight and punched the pillow next to me multiple times. I was not a good sleep partner for that stretch, but once I started sleeping with a CPAP (treating sleep Apnea) it cleared up.
Wow, I have RBD, am 26 now and have had RBD since as early as 14, but didn't know that fact about developing neurodegenerative diseases, now I'm going to live perpetually in wait for my brain to get even more out of order.
I've been on antidepressants, clonazepam and melatonin at the same time. Those were some of the wildest, weirdest and craziest vivid dreams of my life. It's almost lifelike at times.
Scishow: *teaches me interesting and potentially useful info about RBD* My brain: "I wonder, if someone with RBD has a dog, what their dog thinks when they start acting out their dreams in the middle of the night."
My cat's probable thoughts, if I had this and still had the cat: "Well, if you're that energetic and won't let me sleep, GET TF UP AND LET'S GO !! I'm a nocturnal hunter, I LOVE walks at 2 am !!" (We taught some of our cats to walk on a leash - and we used to take them out around 11 at night before bed. That way they'd let US sleep... til the 6 am breakfast paw to the face 🙂)
My dog no longer sleeps with me after I kicked her during a nightmare (I thought she was trying to kill me). It's no joke and it is heartbreaking. I keep her kennel by the front door so if she hears me or I get up she will start barking to wake me.
Oh, so this is what they consider it now? It seems to run in the family, but no one who had it developed neurological conditions. Growing up, this was a big thing with me. We found out, at least in my case, it dealt with my energy levels before bed. I was a very active teen.... and if I couldn’t completely exhaust myself before bed, there was a lot of movement. Punching and kicking was most common, but I slept walked a lot in high school. When I stopped dancing competitively (at least 12 hours a week of intensive activity) and running track concurrently, the incidences dropped.
I’m at this point now. Waiting for my lab test results. I’m guessing I have this, and central sleep apnea. Since my oxygen drops down in the low 80s,and my husband wakes me up as I am swinging punches and crying out loud. I dream the down the pipeline genetics in my family line of dementia and possible Parkinson’s disease. I am making videos of my testing and journals of my health declines on TH-cam. When I finally make my test results video, I will gladly share your channel and this video link as you nailed it graphically and on point. Great video.
My dad has this disorder!! It's terrifying, sometimes. He and my mom haven't slept in the same room since the 90's because she would get hit or kicked as he acted out his dreams of fighting badguys. Fun Fact: turns out he also has early stage dementia, now. Diagnosed over 15 years after his sleep disorder kicked in.
he's broken lamps, and woke up on their bedroom BALCONY in a dove cage, one time. I'm so scared he'll go through the sliding glass door and over the balcony. It's super scary!
I wrote this comment less than two minutes into the episode. I didn't realize this is a COMMON path the disorder takes! Wow! I'm sending this video to my mom so she knows they aren't alone in this!
@@ShipCreek He's already eating healthier than anyone I've ever known. He always has been super conscious about what he puts into his body. My grandma was the same way. He's always avoided sugar except special occasions. He's not into breads or pastas. He and my mom always cook from scratch. He's also very active and has always had an active lifestyle. Literally his only health issue in my entire life has been the sleep thing, and now early dementia. It's heartbreaking, honestly.
@@TheDevler23 my father was very much the same. I think the only carbs he ate was bread and mums applepie😁 Then on the day he retired he was diagnosed T2D. Go figure?....... I wish you all the very best. 👍
I've experienced both extremes. I've been known to do nearly everything in my sleep, but I've also been known to sleep with my eyes open, sleep through people picking me up & putting ice down my pants, & tornadoes & their warnings. ??
I wonder if I grew out of it... my grandmother and grandfather used to let me share a bed with them when I was young - pre-kindergarten - they used to tell me in the morning how I would kick and punch in my sleep...
my partner has punched me (once in the face) multiple times in his sleep and he feels so bad about it. i hope sending this to him will make him feel better. thanks for the informative video! love u scishow
I have RBD and my mother has parkinson's. Thank you for covering this, so few people know about it, yet it can be such an important red flag. I was told by my neurologist that clonazepam works because it basically destroys your sleep structure -- you can't have RBD if you don't have REM. But you can only go so long without REM, so it is a short term treatment for most people. Hence Birbiglia invented a set of restraining sheets... I had no REM after about 3 yrs on clonazepam. So I had to go off of it, cue rebound nightmares! In all honesty, luckily I live in MT and MMJ is an option because of another disorder I have, which may or may not be related to RBD. I think you should try benzo's if you have this disorder, but you should also be aware that the side effects can be deadly and it is ok to have an ongoing discussion with your health care provider to change things as necessary.
Sorry for you bro. My father has just developed the symptoms. Will the condition aggravate with time? Can it trans-mutate into Parkinsons, Alzeimers or dementia? I am very worried.
I'm pretty sure I have RBD, yet I have no recollection of my dreams. I've been known by my sister and Mom to talk, scream, fight (verbally), kick, punch, and move around a lot, to the point of throwing things off the bed. There's been instances where I would wake up to find my stuffed animals all on the floor when I had them on the bed before I slept, or even times where my blankets and bed cover would be scrunched up in one corner of my bed or on the floor. I used to think that I would move around a lot because I would get frequent nightmares as a child or because I'm a side sleeper, but now that I'm older, I think there's some underlying thing going on.
My oldest son and I share a a dream disorder (only calling it a disorder for lack of a better description). Both of us fall into REM sleep quickly. We both can fall asleep, experience vivid dreams and awake to find only 15 to 20 minutes have elapsed. Googled this and found that narcoleptic people experience this. However, neither of us has any other symptoms of narcolepsy. I do enjoy my dreams as they're often not just vivid but cinematic. Like watching a movie with a complete plot. I know neither of us is narcoleptic but wonder what is going on. Is it possible for you to address this issue?
I make very strong physical movements/reactions sometimes when i imagine running or being injured. But they're not "big" movements, just strong. Edit: oof. Says people react in dreams when they're defending people. Yeah. When i have dreams of my family getting murdered and i get enraged and fight the attacker, i move. Or if i feel extreme dread from an attacker coming at me, where I'm alone and it's just enemies. More often than not my dreams are very unrealistic, almost fantasy, and vague, dark in color... Almost abstract in a way.
Why do me and my great grandmother both sleep with our eyes open? Also why is my family extremely active (talking, walking, etc.) in light sleep and don’t get much deep sleep?
I have this and it is terrible. The past two nights, I have been climbing down a hill in my dream and have fallen to the floor. In the past, I have broken toes, had massive bruises and God knows what else I do because I live alone - but I do have pets and I worry about hurting them. The dreams hare awful too. I was a sleepwalker in my teens and early adult hood - now in my 60's I worry about Parkinsons - but I have a neurologist and have regular MRI's and check ups.
When I’m dreaming and I try to fight someone my hand always stops before I hit them and then I just get beat up. I also experience the sensation of my stomach dropping like on a roller coaster when I dream.
I want to know what causes reoccurring dreams and nightmares. Particularly during very very early childhood. If dreams are the brains way of processing information while you're unconscious, why would it need to repeatedly process the same information? I've had the same reoccurring nightmare since I was about 3 or 4. I've theorised its meaning and came to a satisfying conclusion, yet, it still rears its ugly head from time to time....WHYYYYY...?
Anyone else experience waking up and feeling yourself being a certain age and being somewhere else? A few times now ive awaken and was frightened and thinking I was 17 in my old room and I needed to go to bed so I can wake up for school. I kept crying each time. Im 23 and live in a new place. I can move so I'm not paralyzed but just curious to see if anyone else experience something similar?
Yes, especially if I've recently moved to a new place, moved my bed, slept the other way around on it, etc. My brain usually jumps back to my childhood home for dream scenarios as well so it makes sense that the impression lingers. It's quite disorienting, almost dizzying, as my blurry vision of the room around me slowly connects to more recent memories. It's taken several minutes to actually recognize the room a few times, and that uneasy feeling of being unconvinced lingers even longer.
I don't have this, I actually have much less REM sleep than normal, but I have disrupted sleep cycles, just switching back and forth a lot. I wonder if that's why I apparently move a lot in my sleep. I don't act out anything or sleep walk, there's very little force in my movement, but I'm sure that sharing a bed with a restless and obnoxious sleeper is no fun. I was diagnosed with sleep apnea at 18 months but by 9 it was apparently mild enough not to quite meet diagnostic criteria anymore, even if my sleep cycles were really messed up.
Wow. So my most recent sleep study showed evidence of this. Along with periodic limb movement disorder. I have OSA and have for all of my adult life, the OSA is actually better than it was before. But the previous two sleep studies I had didn't catch the other two things, and this last one also caught a likely arrhythmia! I also recently discovered that I have a compressed spinal cord in my neck from bulging discs. I see a neurosurgeon this week. So I have always done this thing where I dream that it's time to get up, and then sleep sitting up for HOURS at a time. I just thought it was funny. However this morning I was supposed to work at 8 am. I had many alarms set, which I have zero recollection of turning off. I don't think I even woke up, I think I turned them off in my sleep. I woke up at 10. Utterly confused and apologetic of course. And I absolutely have kicked and hit the wall in my sleep, pretty hard too. I thought that was just the twitchiness I get. Man I'm a hot mess right now.
Damn, I have RBD, and I was never told any of the associated risks mentioned here. I just thought it was some funny quirk that made for entertaining morning stories after a good night's sleep. Thanks for the insight!
@@GeorgeNoiseless no! You can sleepwalk without RBD or you can have RBD without sleepwalking. Those 2 are totally different. Of course there are people who have both, but they are exeptional.
I myself used to sleepwalk and talk while sleeping but suddenly with time I stopped sleepwalking and talking while sleeping. I think it has to do something with stress as I am sleeping normally after I finished my 11th, 12th standards and I am done with all the competitive exams... Indians will understand this better.
So I have this thing that happens occasionally, maybe it's no big deal but I dunno. Every so often those devices that make you not move so much in your sleep will kick in before I've actually fallen asleep. And then someone will try to ask me a question and all I can do is open my eyes. I can't reply or move. Then after what feels like forever but is really just a few seconds I'm able to sit up, respond, whatever but I feel extremely sluggish for a minute.
@@AdollaSedai No. But when I was younger I had a couple different EEG's and whatnot because my parents thought I might be developmentally challenged in some way (In reality, I just didn't care. Later diagnosed as Negative Schizophrenia) and nothing weird shows up on those, nor have I had any other kinds of issues like blacking out, lapses in memory and whatnot. The instances where the pre-sleep paralysis happens are very rare though. I recall them happening more when I was younger, but then the older I got there were also less cases of people trying to rattle my ear off while I was trying to get to sleep. So whether it's occurring less now or not is a bit uncertain.
Checked this video out, because I recently tried to move my hands during the REM phase and actually ended up moving them. Happened twice, within a week, including a few hours ago. My eyes were kinda open today and the dreams have been rather vivid. Been waking up looking tired.
So does the relaxed muscles and suppression of motor movements explain why when someone wakes me out of a dream I feel like a zombie and can barely move etc?
I have the opposite problem almost every night (sleep paralysis) but as bad as that is, I guess it's less problematic than this. I feel for anyone going through it.
hey hum... I suffer from sleep paralysis from time to time, and I find that a trick that helps me is falling asleep again. I usually realize what's happening when I can't keep my eyes open, so I try to loose myself in the dream I'm making rather than jerk myself awake, and some ten minutes later I wake up normally.
@@Hypernova87 do you have some sort of moment when you go "oh bother, it's happening again"? For me it's usually when I realize that I can't keep my eyes open and I sort of understand that what I am seeing is not real, because it sort of superimposes in my perception of my room. It's weird, but it's the moment I know that nothing is wrong and that if I just relax, everything will be all right.
@@eugenio5774 yep, exactly. I'm like "geez... again??" I can feel my body starting to paralyze again before my eyes close back and it cause me to fight it instinctively I guess.
I apparently am a violent kicker in my sleep... My husband and I sleep in separate beds because of this. I miss sleeping with him though :c I always thought it was normal... I guess it couldn't hurt to ask a doctor about it
@Scishow Psych What about those if us that immediately fall into rem while sleeping (as I usually fall asleep and then just wake up but remember nothing of my dreams....rarely dose it change)
My brother's eyelids tend to fall open if he rolls over in his sleep, doesn't even wake up when you shine a flashlight in his bis eyes (yeah I know shining a flashlight in someone's eyes probably isn't good, I was 10 years old or something)
When I was 17 I went to sleep with a blue t-shirt only to wake up wearing a brown slibless put the other way around... never figured out where the heck the blue one is...
That would not be good if I acted out one of my nightmare tropes: I'm being chased and I need to climb to the top of the tallest thing in my environment, or fly away.
I would not say melatonin has no side effects. I know very personally what happens when a person with depression takes it...BAD suicidal ideation. I suppose the "fortunate" thing about my little melatonin incident was that it pushed me far enough that I realized I DID have an actual problem with my brain chemistry and not just a personality weakness, and I went to get help. Worst decision ever turned into best decision ever. But I DO NOT recommend using melatonin as a diagnostic, because of how severe the risk is.
I'm a chronic sleep puncher and my neurologist said that it had nothing to do with my brain tumor (not cancerous, just bad in other ways) and that I should stop being so aggressive. Maybe I need a second opinion.
So wait. you described this disease like it was sleep walking but you never mentioned it so is it some inherently different thing? @ScirShow Psych could you clarify that because thats really confusing
It's not sleepwalking. Sleepwalking occurs during deep sleep, while this condition causes patients to move during REM sleep. They also rarely actually walk, usually people with RBD move but don't leave the bed, much less their room.
First Last , my brother went to bed and sometime later got up walked downstairs and urinated n our kitchen garbage can. How he was able to maneuver the stairs and find the garbage can is beyond me. However, our bathroom was a few feet from his bedroom. Why he went downstairs makes no sense to me. He never said a word either.
So my doctor thinks I might have narcolepsy. The other day I had JUST laid down with my boyfriend and closed my eyes. All of a sudden I saw this huge spider and heard him say "get away from that" and shot up with my eyes closed throwing my arms up. He was like "woa are you okay??" And I opened my eyes for a sec, looked around, closed them, laid down and said "oh I thought there was a spider" and passed right back out. He did say that, but it was to our cat who was messing around in the closet. So I go straight into REM sleep the moment I fall asleep and sometimes do that kind of stuff. Sometimes I sleep walk/eat but not as often as when I was younger. Now it's usually just sitting up or suddenly just throwing my body around. Makes people jump if they are next to me lol
Past dream I had that I remember ended in my dream me freeing several alien test subjects that allowed for an absolute slaughter of my fellow.people. it was lightly traumatic tbh
Thankfully my girlfriend doesn't move but she talks rather clearly during her sleep almost every night. It's funny at first and quite scary sometimes.
Sad thing is she's a workaholic even in her dream
my brother talks AND walks! he actually hurt himself at least twice, and scared the beejesus out of his wife. he also prevented me from sleeping when I was a child.
@@eugenio5774 your fraternal sleep debt must be quite large
I do it myself! My mom says I do it quite a bit and it's more like shouting, though I don't remember it because I'm asleep. Most of the time it's hard to make out what I'm saying, but this one time she came because it sounded like I was playing video games at night, like 2 in the morning or something, but when she came into my room, I was fast asleep.
"Throwing punches at Voldemort" - those were real, man.
Haha that made me laugh 👍🏻 lol...
Wow I've dealt with that on and off my whole life that's kind of scary definitely going to talk to my doctor
lydia baker same. I talk in my sleep every night, and many times I’ve caught myself getting out of bed, or walking towards the bedroom door, or waking up at the top of the stairs. I also kick, thrash, and hit, and wake up while performing actions I was dreaming about, like picking up the remote off of a table over and over until I wake up and realize I was grasping at the air. Sounds like we should both have this checked out!
@@jooleebilly Sorry for you bro. My father has just developed the symptoms. Will the condition aggravate with time? Can it trans-mutate into Parkinsons, Alzeimers or dementia? I am very worried.
@@saksham379 I'm sorry, I have no idea. So far no dementia or any other neurological disorder here, and it's been happening to me for about 50 years, so there's that. Best of luck to you and your dad, I hope he is fine. Sometimes it happens when people are under extreme stress like severe anxiety, PTSD, things like that. I hope your dad isn't troubled in that way, but if he is it would explain a lot. And it could very well stop in time.
@@jooleebilly Yeah lately he did take a lot of stress. He usually doesn't go for a walk if I don't insist. So I have also started doing exercises along with him to cheer him up. I really appreciate that. Thanks for the kind words and I hope you are also doing okay now
@@saksham379 Please keep walking with him. It will remind him he is loved and also improve circulation and release stress. You are a good son to your dad.
Having this while you're on that wet dreams stage of your life must be a sight to behold.
Its said that most dreams occur during REM sleep, so thats actually possible lol
Especially when you doze off on the livingroom couch in front of your family after Thanksgiving dinner.
I wasn't paying attention when he mentioned what RBD stood for at the beginning. But instead of rewinding I just assumed it stood for Really Bad Dreaming until he said it again at the end
I mean you're not wrong.
Many or most with rbd have very violent dreams to include myself.
I was reading this when he mentioned it and was confused what it stood for
@@nickjuliette5003 I'm sorry. I hope you get better at dreaming eventually.
Watch the video again when you wake up, lol.
The opposite of sleep paralysis.
Literally
You are the demon.
I don’t know about "acting out" my dreams, but I was definitely a sleepwalker who would do things in my sleep. I’d wake up to find myself with a bowl of cereal in front of me, or I’d wake up on the downstairs sofa when I’d gone to bed upstairs. After I was found by a family member asleep in the back seat of the car - the whole family was searching for me - my parents installed locks that required a key to open from the inside so I couldn’t easily get outside while sleepwalking. Even now, decades later, I still occasionally wake up in a different room from the one in which I went to sleep. It still freaks me out every time, too.
Hank, when are you going to have an episode on why some people can remember their dreams and some don't. It's funny, because I not only remember my dreams a little bit after waking, I remember them in color. My daughter doesn't remember hers, and swears I'm nuts because the few she remembers are all black and white.
I hardly ever remember my dreams, but the ones I do remember are indistinguishable from reality.
@@kristhebrownie I had one where it was a musical. I don't remember what I sang, but I was singing in it. Everyone was.
Jack Linde everyone dreams differently and has different memories. I know my dreams are in color but I don’t remember what colors, so maybe when we look back at dreams some people see them in black and white from a lack of memory. Even those who remember dreams don’t come close to remembering all dreams and the ones we do remember fade quickly and then we substitute the parts we forgot with false memories. I sleep really bad and feel like I don’t often hit REM sleep bc any noise or movement or my back pain wakes me up and the dreams I do remember are often me trying to run and fall and struggle to get up or I’m trying to fight/defend myself and my punches have no power or my wrist collapses.
I had issues with this before I started sleeping with a CPAP. I once dreamed that a Hell Hound was lunging at me and reached out to hold it off... and grabbed my then girlfriend (now wife) by the neck, surprising me and scaring her. Another time I dreamt I was in a fight and punched the pillow next to me multiple times. I was not a good sleep partner for that stretch, but once I started sleeping with a CPAP (treating sleep Apnea) it cleared up.
Wow, I have RBD, am 26 now and have had RBD since as early as 14, but didn't know that fact about developing neurodegenerative diseases, now I'm going to live perpetually in wait for my brain to get even more out of order.
I've been on antidepressants, clonazepam and melatonin at the same time.
Those were some of the wildest, weirdest and craziest vivid dreams of my life. It's almost lifelike at times.
Scishow: *teaches me interesting and potentially useful info about RBD*
My brain: "I wonder, if someone with RBD has a dog, what their dog thinks when they start acting out their dreams in the middle of the night."
Dog: Time for walk? It's pretty dark, but okay!
@@lyndsaybrown8471 My dog would be game. 😄
You're asking the real questions here.
My cat's probable thoughts, if I had this and still had the cat: "Well, if you're that energetic and won't let me sleep, GET TF UP AND LET'S GO !! I'm a nocturnal hunter, I LOVE walks at 2 am !!"
(We taught some of our cats to walk on a leash - and we used to take them out around 11 at night before bed. That way they'd let US sleep... til the 6 am breakfast paw to the face 🙂)
My dog no longer sleeps with me after I kicked her during a nightmare (I thought she was trying to kill me). It's no joke and it is heartbreaking. I keep her kennel by the front door so if she hears me or I get up she will start barking to wake me.
What if "being awake" is just a combination of sleepwalking and lucid dreaming?
Ssstop that right now
What are you trying to do to me?
Did I just dream that you made a post without a pun?
Master Therion: *The Matrix **-would like to-** already knows your location.*
Listen. It is too early in the morning for this.
My fitbit numbers would be EPIC.
Oh, so this is what they consider it now? It seems to run in the family, but no one who had it developed neurological conditions. Growing up, this was a big thing with me. We found out, at least in my case, it dealt with my energy levels before bed. I was a very active teen.... and if I couldn’t completely exhaust myself before bed, there was a lot of movement. Punching and kicking was most common, but I slept walked a lot in high school.
When I stopped dancing competitively (at least 12 hours a week of intensive activity) and running track concurrently, the incidences dropped.
0:32: "..Or throwing punches at Voldemort,..."
🤣🤣🤣
I'm a Harry Potter fan, too, Sir.
these videos are fascinating 🥰 thanks for sharing. he looks a bit like hank green from crash course biology videos
I’m at this point now. Waiting for my lab test results. I’m guessing I have this, and central sleep apnea. Since my oxygen drops down in the low 80s,and my husband wakes me up as I am swinging punches and crying out loud. I dream the down the pipeline genetics in my family line of dementia and possible Parkinson’s disease. I am making videos of my testing and journals of my health declines on TH-cam. When I finally make my test results video, I will gladly share your channel and this video link as you nailed it graphically and on point. Great video.
I just made this video get it's 1000th view lol. Feels nice.
My dad has this disorder!! It's terrifying, sometimes. He and my mom haven't slept in the same room since the 90's because she would get hit or kicked as he acted out his dreams of fighting badguys. Fun Fact: turns out he also has early stage dementia, now. Diagnosed over 15 years after his sleep disorder kicked in.
he's broken lamps, and woke up on their bedroom BALCONY in a dove cage, one time. I'm so scared he'll go through the sliding glass door and over the balcony. It's super scary!
I wrote this comment less than two minutes into the episode. I didn't realize this is a COMMON path the disorder takes! Wow! I'm sending this video to my mom so she knows they aren't alone in this!
I suggest you research a low carbohydrate diet for his early stage dementia.
@@ShipCreek He's already eating healthier than anyone I've ever known. He always has been super conscious about what he puts into his body. My grandma was the same way. He's always avoided sugar except special occasions. He's not into breads or pastas. He and my mom always cook from scratch. He's also very active and has always had an active lifestyle. Literally his only health issue in my entire life has been the sleep thing, and now early dementia. It's heartbreaking, honestly.
@@TheDevler23 my father was very much the same. I think the only carbs he ate was bread and mums applepie😁 Then on the day he retired he was diagnosed T2D. Go figure?.......
I wish you all the very best. 👍
Pons/Medulla is your night firewall...
Thanks for the discussion. 👍
Yep me and my sister would beat the hell out of each other when we were kids in our sleep when we had to share a bed.
hank is serving some technology connections looks
He really is
Hank you are awesome. Keep up the fantastic work 💪🏻💥🏆
Love Sci-Show
Yay night terrors and physically abusing my bed mate acting out my fears.
I've experienced both extremes. I've been known to do nearly everything in my sleep, but I've also been known to sleep with my eyes open, sleep through people picking me up & putting ice down my pants, & tornadoes & their warnings. ??
You must have creeped the poo out of those around you!
@@toonedin yes relationships are not easy...
What is the difference between RBD and sleepwalking?
I wonder if I grew out of it... my grandmother and grandfather used to let me share a bed with them when I was young - pre-kindergarten - they used to tell me in the morning how I would kick and punch in my sleep...
my partner has punched me (once in the face) multiple times in his sleep and he feels so bad about it. i hope sending this to him will make him feel better. thanks for the informative video! love u scishow
I have RBD and my mother has parkinson's. Thank you for covering this, so few people know about it, yet it can be such an important red flag. I was told by my neurologist that clonazepam works because it basically destroys your sleep structure -- you can't have RBD if you don't have REM. But you can only go so long without REM, so it is a short term treatment for most people. Hence Birbiglia invented a set of restraining sheets... I had no REM after about 3 yrs on clonazepam. So I had to go off of it, cue rebound nightmares! In all honesty, luckily I live in MT and MMJ is an option because of another disorder I have, which may or may not be related to RBD. I think you should try benzo's if you have this disorder, but you should also be aware that the side effects can be deadly and it is ok to have an ongoing discussion with your health care provider to change things as necessary.
Sorry for you bro. My father has just developed the symptoms. Will the condition aggravate with time? Can it trans-mutate into Parkinsons, Alzeimers or dementia? I am very worried.
@@saksham379 it turns into Parkinson's and/or Lewy Body Dementia. Maybe multiple system atrophy, I'm not sure.
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Do you have RBD if you sleepwalk only when under significant stress?
I'm pretty sure I have RBD, yet I have no recollection of my dreams. I've been known by my sister and Mom to talk, scream, fight (verbally), kick, punch, and move around a lot, to the point of throwing things off the bed. There's been instances where I would wake up to find my stuffed animals all on the floor when I had them on the bed before I slept, or even times where my blankets and bed cover would be scrunched up in one corner of my bed or on the floor. I used to think that I would move around a lot because I would get frequent nightmares as a child or because I'm a side sleeper, but now that I'm older, I think there's some underlying thing going on.
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My oldest son and I share a a dream disorder (only calling it a disorder for lack of a better description). Both of us fall into REM sleep quickly. We both can fall asleep, experience vivid dreams and awake to find only 15 to 20 minutes have elapsed. Googled this and found that narcoleptic people experience this. However, neither of us has any other symptoms of narcolepsy. I do enjoy my dreams as they're often not just vivid but cinematic. Like watching a movie with a complete plot. I know neither of us is narcoleptic but wonder what is going on. Is it possible for you to address this issue?
You should probably talk to a doctor about this, just to be sure.
@@koals6783 thank you. might ask my pcp next time I have to go.
I make very strong physical movements/reactions sometimes when i imagine running or being injured. But they're not "big" movements, just strong.
Edit: oof. Says people react in dreams when they're defending people. Yeah. When i have dreams of my family getting murdered and i get enraged and fight the attacker, i move. Or if i feel extreme dread from an attacker coming at me, where I'm alone and it's just enemies.
More often than not my dreams are very unrealistic, almost fantasy, and vague, dark in color... Almost abstract in a way.
Why do me and my great grandmother both sleep with our eyes open? Also why is my family extremely active (talking, walking, etc.) in light sleep and don’t get much deep sleep?
I have this and it is terrible. The past two nights, I have been climbing down a hill in my dream and have fallen to the floor. In the past, I have broken toes, had massive bruises and God knows what else I do because I live alone - but I do have pets and I worry about hurting them. The dreams hare awful too. I was a sleepwalker in my teens and early adult hood - now in my 60's I worry about Parkinsons - but I have a neurologist and have regular MRI's and check ups.
I hope you don’t get seriously injured 🤕 or worse in your sleep and wake up on the other side of eternity. That will be really horrible
When I’m dreaming and I try to fight someone my hand always stops before I hit them and then I just get beat up.
I also experience the sensation of my stomach dropping like on a roller coaster when I dream.
please do a video on sleep bruxism pleeeaseee
I want to know what causes reoccurring dreams and nightmares. Particularly during very very early childhood. If dreams are the brains way of processing information while you're unconscious, why would it need to repeatedly process the same information? I've had the same reoccurring nightmare since I was about 3 or 4. I've theorised its meaning and came to a satisfying conclusion, yet, it still rears its ugly head from time to time....WHYYYYY...?
0:34 you want to know what else you dont want to act out? anything classified as adult. Dont want to let people know whats going on in your head then.
Anyone else experience waking up and feeling yourself being a certain age and being somewhere else? A few times now ive awaken and was frightened and thinking I was 17 in my old room and I needed to go to bed so I can wake up for school. I kept crying each time. Im 23 and live in a new place. I can move so I'm not paralyzed but just curious to see if anyone else experience something similar?
Yes, especially if I've recently moved to a new place, moved my bed, slept the other way around on it, etc. My brain usually jumps back to my childhood home for dream scenarios as well so it makes sense that the impression lingers.
It's quite disorienting, almost dizzying, as my blurry vision of the room around me slowly connects to more recent memories. It's taken several minutes to actually recognize the room a few times, and that uneasy feeling of being unconvinced lingers even longer.
In my last dream, I performed CPR on a cow
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I used to sleep walk when I was a teen. Now I'm lazy, so I put the fridge next to my bed
I don't have this, I actually have much less REM sleep than normal, but I have disrupted sleep cycles, just switching back and forth a lot. I wonder if that's why I apparently move a lot in my sleep. I don't act out anything or sleep walk, there's very little force in my movement, but I'm sure that sharing a bed with a restless and obnoxious sleeper is no fun.
I was diagnosed with sleep apnea at 18 months but by 9 it was apparently mild enough not to quite meet diagnostic criteria anymore, even if my sleep cycles were really messed up.
I had similar problems. I ate banannas & it got better.
Wow. So my most recent sleep study showed evidence of this. Along with periodic limb movement disorder. I have OSA and have for all of my adult life, the OSA is actually better than it was before. But the previous two sleep studies I had didn't catch the other two things, and this last one also caught a likely arrhythmia!
I also recently discovered that I have a compressed spinal cord in my neck from bulging discs. I see a neurosurgeon this week.
So I have always done this thing where I dream that it's time to get up, and then sleep sitting up for HOURS at a time. I just thought it was funny.
However this morning I was supposed to work at 8 am. I had many alarms set, which I have zero recollection of turning off. I don't think I even woke up, I think I turned them off in my sleep. I woke up at 10. Utterly confused and apologetic of course. And I absolutely have kicked and hit the wall in my sleep, pretty hard too. I thought that was just the twitchiness I get.
Man I'm a hot mess right now.
how are you doing now?
Damn, I have RBD, and I was never told any of the associated risks mentioned here. I just thought it was some funny quirk that made for entertaining morning stories after a good night's sleep. Thanks for the insight!
Is it how sleepwalking happens?
-Yes.-
@@GeorgeNoiseless no!
@@j.boomstra-schoonderbeek4908 No?
@@GeorgeNoiseless no! You can sleepwalk without RBD or you can have RBD without sleepwalking. Those 2 are totally different. Of course there are people who have both, but they are exeptional.
@@j.boomstra-schoonderbeek4908 Mhm. Thank you for the clarification.
I myself used to sleepwalk and talk while sleeping but suddenly with time I stopped sleepwalking and talking while sleeping. I think it has to do something with stress as I am sleeping normally after I finished my 11th, 12th standards and I am done with all the competitive exams... Indians will understand this better.
So I have this thing that happens occasionally, maybe it's no big deal but I dunno. Every so often those devices that make you not move so much in your sleep will kick in before I've actually fallen asleep. And then someone will try to ask me a question and all I can do is open my eyes. I can't reply or move. Then after what feels like forever but is really just a few seconds I'm able to sit up, respond, whatever but I feel extremely sluggish for a minute.
This almost sounds like a tonic seizure, have you ever talked to a doctor about it?
@@AdollaSedai No. But when I was younger I had a couple different EEG's and whatnot because my parents thought I might be developmentally challenged in some way (In reality, I just didn't care. Later diagnosed as Negative Schizophrenia) and nothing weird shows up on those, nor have I had any other kinds of issues like blacking out, lapses in memory and whatnot. The instances where the pre-sleep paralysis happens are very rare though. I recall them happening more when I was younger, but then the older I got there were also less cases of people trying to rattle my ear off while I was trying to get to sleep. So whether it's occurring less now or not is a bit uncertain.
I use to move a lot in sleep when I was younger, walking around my room and shouting in my sleep, I once woke up to my room being trashed it was weird
My Chilean father-in-law takes clonazepam before sleep because he kicks his wife in his sleep.
How does RBD differ from sleep walking?
My bed is against a wall and I have woke up punching that wall before.
Checked this video out, because I recently tried to move my hands during the REM phase and actually ended up moving them. Happened twice, within a week, including a few hours ago. My eyes were kinda open today and the dreams have been rather vivid. Been waking up looking tired.
how are you now? did symptoms go away? did you start an antidepressant? that's one of the causes.
It's hypnic jerk. Rem disorder people don't know about their activities while dreaming.
Has anyone else watched "Stepbrothers" lololol
So does the relaxed muscles and suppression of motor movements explain why when someone wakes me out of a dream I feel like a zombie and can barely move etc?
Do you mean sleep paralysis?
@@sophiaantropova5874 I started writing and forgot the exact words so I am assuming so
this is interesting. If I had RBD it means I would be acting out battles against Orochimaru and Madara Uchiha.
Waking up with black eyes from running in to a wall is just a everyday thing lol
I have the opposite problem almost every night (sleep paralysis) but as bad as that is, I guess it's less problematic than this. I feel for anyone going through it.
hey hum... I suffer from sleep paralysis from time to time, and I find that a trick that helps me is falling asleep again. I usually realize what's happening when I can't keep my eyes open, so I try to loose myself in the dream I'm making rather than jerk myself awake, and some ten minutes later I wake up normally.
@@eugenio5774 I appreciate that homie! I usually try fighting it but I'll try this out and see how it goes. Doesn't hurt to give it a go.
@@Hypernova87 do you have some sort of moment when you go "oh bother, it's happening again"? For me it's usually when I realize that I can't keep my eyes open and I sort of understand that what I am seeing is not real, because it sort of superimposes in my perception of my room. It's weird, but it's the moment I know that nothing is wrong and that if I just relax, everything will be all right.
@@eugenio5774 yep, exactly. I'm like "geez... again??" I can feel my body starting to paralyze again before my eyes close back and it cause me to fight it instinctively I guess.
I wonder if Robin Williams suffered from RBD.
My dad acts out his dreams and has seriously injured himself before. It's scary condition
I hope he is doing okay and well today
I apparently am a violent kicker in my sleep... My husband and I sleep in separate beds because of this. I miss sleeping with him though :c I always thought it was normal... I guess it couldn't hurt to ask a doctor about it
I move a lot in my sleep and have been known to sleep walk. I was once at a sleepover as a kid and punched my friend in the face while sleeping
@Scishow Psych
What about those if us that immediately fall into rem while sleeping (as I usually fall asleep and then just wake up but remember nothing of my dreams....rarely dose it change)
My brother's eyelids tend to fall open if he rolls over in his sleep, doesn't even wake up when you shine a flashlight in his bis eyes (yeah I know shining a flashlight in someone's eyes probably isn't good, I was 10 years old or something)
My sister had a gymnastics coach that did a backflip in her dream and in real life she kicked a wall and broke her foot
When I was 17 I went to sleep with a blue t-shirt only to wake up wearing a brown slibless put the other way around... never figured out where the heck the blue one is...
Paranormal Activity much?
@@toonedin idk
That would not be good if I acted out one of my nightmare tropes: I'm being chased and I need to climb to the top of the tallest thing in my environment, or fly away.
Sleepwalking .. hmmm something we should keep a close eye on.
I would not say melatonin has no side effects. I know very personally what happens when a person with depression takes it...BAD suicidal ideation. I suppose the "fortunate" thing about my little melatonin incident was that it pushed me far enough that I realized I DID have an actual problem with my brain chemistry and not just a personality weakness, and I went to get help. Worst decision ever turned into best decision ever. But I DO NOT recommend using melatonin as a diagnostic, because of how severe the risk is.
I get some very weird dreams about my failures in life and being bullied 27 years ago in grade school 🏫
I used to sleepwalk. Must’ve been strange. Unfortunately, I cannot recall them
SciShow Psych: what if your body didn’t paralyse yourself when you sleep?
My body: •3•
Lol I thought this guy said, RVD, I was thinking nah thats Rob Van Dam.
I'm a chronic sleep puncher and my neurologist said that it had nothing to do with my brain tumor (not cancerous, just bad in other ways) and that I should stop being so aggressive. Maybe I need a second opinion.
Wow, how uninformed your doctor is. I hope you got a better doctor by now.
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So wait. you described this disease like it was sleep walking but you never mentioned it so is it some inherently different thing? @ScirShow Psych could you clarify that because thats really confusing
It's not sleepwalking. Sleepwalking occurs during deep sleep, while this condition causes patients to move during REM sleep. They also rarely actually walk, usually people with RBD move but don't leave the bed, much less their room.
My brother peed in my closet😭
Asleep or on purpose?
Good question....
Both of my children did that same exact thing in the middle of the night. And Parkinson's (possibly lewy body dementia) runs in our family.
I peed on my friend's mirror once... it's hers, but also my territory.
First Last , my brother went to bed and sometime later got up walked downstairs and urinated n our kitchen garbage can. How he was able to maneuver the stairs and find the garbage can is beyond me. However, our bathroom was a few feet from his bedroom. Why he went downstairs makes no sense to me. He never said a word either.
I wounded if weed would do anything. I don’t dream when I smoke
I think I have this people say I'll hop up and yell or fight even tho I don't remember doing those things
I regularly sleep talk and I've woken up from punching the wall before 😰 I'm only 20, are these signs that I'll develop dementia in my older age?
whats the difference between sleepwalking and RBD?
I used to kick a lot in my sleep when I was a kid. Fortunately, I grew out of it
What about tizanidine? A mild muscle relaxer
I would imagine everybody hurts if our bodies did not paralyze themselves during REM sleep. ;)
Exactly what happened to me and my ex. Dreamt i got her attacker in a headlock only to wake up with my ex choking from my grip.
I that why she is your ex?
@@darrenswails um, no. She slept with a coworker.
Is that what you told the cops?
@@Samantha2209 my lawyer just advised me to stop commenting.
@@darrenswails no, she slept with a coworker
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I never have dreams but I flail in my sleep… am I just not remembering dreams instantly or something?
Is it safe to wake someone while they are experiencing this?
So my doctor thinks I might have narcolepsy. The other day I had JUST laid down with my boyfriend and closed my eyes. All of a sudden I saw this huge spider and heard him say "get away from that" and shot up with my eyes closed throwing my arms up. He was like "woa are you okay??" And I opened my eyes for a sec, looked around, closed them, laid down and said "oh I thought there was a spider" and passed right back out. He did say that, but it was to our cat who was messing around in the closet. So I go straight into REM sleep the moment I fall asleep and sometimes do that kind of stuff. Sometimes I sleep walk/eat but not as often as when I was younger. Now it's usually just sitting up or suddenly just throwing my body around. Makes people jump if they are next to me lol
I'm on Klonopin but for insomnia and not RBD. I would hate to have RBD and my partner would, too.
So, If I dreamed I was playing basketball and woke in the morning to find the pillow on the other side of the room?
I did a video on this last month!
We should collaborate.
I have this diagnosis.
Past dream I had that I remember ended in my dream me freeing several alien test subjects that allowed for an absolute slaughter of my fellow.people. it was lightly traumatic tbh