can anyone help me i am a 30 year old irish male when i try and go to sleep i keep hitting out and kicking out

Question

i dont hit anyone its just the best way to describe this i am really starting to get worried it happens mostly when i am haveing a small nap of an hour or so please help thanks

Answer 1

Okay....I found a web site on it....check it out. Hope it helps....Good luck.
http://www.scienceinafrica.co.za/2003/october/sleep.htm

Another site...
Motor Activity and REM Sleep

In RBD, neurotransmitters are not blocked, and the voluntary muscles become tonic, or tensely contracted, allowing a sleeping person to move his or her muscles during REM. Rapid eye movement behavior disorder is characterized by significant submental (under the chin) and limb muscle tone. The combination of heightened cerebral activity and muscular tonicity results in physically acting out dreams that involve excited and sometimes violent movement.

The body can be rigid and extremely tense during episodes of RBD. For example, a person might straighten his or her leg, flexing it intensely for several seconds or a minute. Often, sleepers curl up slightly, while flexing their limbs and chin.

People with RBD typically remember little nothing of this activity, unless they fall out of bed, bump into the furniture, or injure themselves and wake up. But they can usually remember and tell the dreams they were having during an episode.

Dreams that involve physical or violent activity—such as fighting, dancing, running, chasing, attacking, being attacked, running from an assailant—are more likely to trigger RBD activity. Sleepers with RBD sometimes injure their bed partners. Some people have been known to leave the bed, run into a wall, run through a window, or run down the stairs. But RBD activity is usually confined to the bed and the surrounding area.

http://www.sleepdisorderchannel.com/rem/

Answer 2

It is really not a great comparison, but my 3 year old grandson has the same problem. I believe he is allowing his aggressions out. No one can sleep with him but me. When he starts his sessions, I just rub his back and or feet and he settles right down into a restful sleep. It is almost like he is fighting to not sleep and this helps him relax. I sometimes do the same thing. A heating pad or other relaxing thing (I sometimes use NyQuil) will also help me relax enough to not fight the sleep.
Good luck,
shary

Answer 3

If you mean that you suddenly jump in your sleep because of a bad dream or something, then i get them too. I usually feel as though i have tripped or i am falling very fast which jerks me awake and absolutely gets my blood boiling. The best thing to do is to lay on your side, instead of your back. Try it for a couple of nights and see if it works.

Answer 4

either stop napping or see the doctor if it happens alot.
are you sleeping well at night? if you need to nap during the day, id see the doctor for something to help you sleep better at night.

Answer 5

If you were any nationality other than being Irish, do you think that the same thing could occur to you?.
By the way: Do you 'take a little wee drink at all' ?.
See your doctor.

Answer 6

you must be fighting someone or something away? have you ever been abducted? or attacked in some way as a child?

Answer 7

See your doctor

Answer 8

dont really understand, you hit and kick in your sleep? probaly sleep apnea, you are in a dream you think is real... ask your doc.

Answer 9

like a siezure? i would go to the doctor.

Answer 10

you are away with the fairies buddy