Is it common to cry in your sleep as an adult?

Question

I'm 25, female, good health

Every once in a while I will wake up from a sad dream crying and shaking. It's different than my normal crying. It's very hard to control and very hard to calm myself down. I can't find much research on the topic..
There are a few others in my family that do this also, but I haven't found anyone else who has this happen to them.

So my question for you all is: what do you know about this? Is it common? Does it happen to you? Any web resources you guys can find that have eluded me would be great! Thanks.

"I'm curious to know what the dreams are about"....

well, sometimes they are sad (someone dies/i have a fight with a loved one/i'm unhappy with someone etc.) but other times they are not sad or personal (once a woman had a miscarriage in a dream and I woke up balling even though I've never known anyone who's miscarried and certainly wasn't worried about it myself!) More often they are personal, but not things I re-create- Just everyday stuff... it seems like the emotions are just very heightened because I can't rationalize them...they just are there in the dream!

thanks for all your answers... good to know there are lots of others that do this too :)

Answer 1

It's not so common,but there's nothing to be worried about..Personally to me that happens from time to time..It is not a medical condition,I adviced with a friend of mine,who is a good shrink and he told me that it's normal..and happens often to more sensitive people..Good luck!!

Answer 2

Screaming In Sleep Adults

Answer 3

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They do it for both reasons. Sometimes it's because they would like their child to sleep longer at night; sometimes because the child has previously went longer at night and is now waking frequently (often these are parents of toddlers). I personally have a 6 month old who is waking 2+ times per night. He is waking around the same times every night and I truly believe that he is hungry still at this point. We are beginning solids and will see where that takes us and I have decided that when I feel we are both ready (could be a month, could be longer) that I will 'night wean' as opposed to sleep train (by slowly cutting down the amount of time he is nursing). Although some would disagree with night weaning AND sleep training, firmly believing that babies need to be nursed frequently around the clock (as I believe as well), I will give you my reasons for night weaning: My baby has already QUADRUPLED his birth weight (he was full term). He currently nurses 7 or 8 times per 24 hours and the pediatrician has said that he DOES NOT need that many feedings because he is growing so quickly. Sleep is important for babies as well as children and adults. I know I will be better functioning as a mother if I could get more than 5 or 6 hours per sleep a day spread out in 2 maybe 3 hour stretches. I am not yet ready to night wean but am considering it for those reasons. Babies do eventually get to a point where they are looking for 'comfort' as opposed to food. I know mothers who would just go in and cuddle their babies instead of nursing/feeding right away and found that at 9 - 12 months or so they weren't really hungry but they wanted mommy and still needed that special bonding time. Also - pediatricians generally recommend that babies may/will need to wake once or twice per night until they are 9 months old, even though 'sleep trainers' say that babies don't need to eat for 12 hours at 6 months old. Regardless of which way you go - always feed baby on demand (more often) during growth spurts and illness (including after vaccinations).

Answer 4

Don't ever take the sleeping pills route!!

1. They will damage your liver big time and you can get into serious health problems.

2. You will get hooked up on them and you won't be able to have a normal life any more if you don't take your pills everyday.

The sleeping pills industry is damaging our health by capitalizing on our ignorance, and by distracting people from effective and natural ways to deal with this problem. I had been taking prescription sleep medications [Ambien] for over 5 years. It stopped working and I simply took more. Still did not work. Nights were very difficult - medication put me to sleep but I would wake up after 2–3 hours with a strong sympathetic response (fast pulse, pounding heartbeat, wide awake alert). It was a very difficult cycle to break. I was really in bad shape due to lack of sleep.

After years of struggling I was able to cure my insomnia naturally and pretty fast. I followed the Sleep Tracks sleep optimization program, here is their official web -site if you want to take a look: http://www.insomniacure.net

Ohhh..and Good Luck!

Answer 5

Hmm, I've never researched this before on the Internet. However, a few years ago, the night after I attended the funeral of a family member's spouse, I woke up (either after a dream or not) in the middle of the night sobbing uncontrollably as if in grief, which mystified me at first because I had not known the deceased person well at all. When I prayed about it, it came to me that I was feeling the feelings of my still-living family member, that she was going through the same emotions at the time I was. Over the next two months or so, I found myself praying on my knees more strongly than I had ever prayed in my life, sometimes feeling as if I were literally pulled down to the ground to pray. When the other family member wrote back, I found out she had also been praying more than she had ever prayed before, too. I believe there is a spiritual connection that binds certain family members more closely than others, and deep or extreme emotions might be picked up on by other family members who are similar as far as emotional or physiological levels go (say a mother knows what her children are going through from a distance, or twins as well will feel each others' pain sometimes). This has happened to me off and on with my sisters as well. It may mean that your family is particularly sensitive to the emotions of other family members. As a Mormon, I believe that all families were very well acquainted with each other in a place called the pre-mortal life, and those connections continue not only in this life, but after we die as well. Now I have also awakened up crying in the morning a couple of yeras ago but found out later I had a health problem that was more hormonal in nature, and there was no one in the family going through grief at that time (that I could tell). So it may pay to look into who in your family is going through depression, as well, to help support them. Anyway, that is just my opinion.

Answer 6

OMG.Well I'm 25 too and I have woke up screaming before.Which was really wierd.But yes I have cryed in my sleep before but I can't remember when but it was only about 2 years ago.

Answer 7

It's happened to me a few times but not lately. I believe it may come from being stressed out about something and we aren't able to pin it down.
If it continues to happen to you or a family member I suggest seeking out the advice of your doctor just to make sure that you're alright and if there's a medication that would help to control this from happening to often. This isn't very common but yes it does happen and not many people are willing to talk about it since they may feel foolish and think others will tell them they are a bit batty.
Best of luck to all who have this happen to them.

Answer 8

Yes, that happens to me too. I think some people are naturally more perceptive of their dreams than other people. We as a people have spent thousands of years trying to figure out what dreams mean, but the truth is we may never know. Also, much of the research on dreams is inconclusive. Hope this helps!

Answer 9

I'm 43 and I still wake up with tears in my eyes if I'm dreaming that I'm crying.

Answer 10

I believe your'e suffering from some form of deep rooted emotional stress that may have been triggered by a trauma of some kind in your earlier years. Or your'e holding a pain so deep in your sub-conscious that the onlly way lyour'e able to express the way it affects you is through crying in your sleep.

Answer 11

It could be common.I scream when I have a bad dream and I am 29.If any thing I would ask a sleeping disorder doctor.It could run in your family.