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Originally Posted by pwd72s
Ever thought of being checked out at a sleep clinic?
Reason I ask is because a person with sleep apnea once told me one symptom was a lack of dreams.
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Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) disrupts or prevents deep and REM sleep by making people struggle for breaths when they relax (falling deeper into sleep). Effectively, they cannot get well rested or dream because they're in and out of twighlight for most of the night. For some sleeping on a side or their abdomen can help as it can prevent relaxed soft tissue from collapsing the airway.
Some think OSA folks die in their sleep when blood CO2 rises enough to cause changes which prevent them from waking to clear their airway...game over with no obvious cause for death.