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CupcakeAssassin t1_j7h49fe wrote

Reply to comment by SimilarLee in TIL that physically acting out your dreams (loss of REM sleep paralysis) is >80% accurate at predicting future brain maladies including Parkinson's, Lewy Body Dementia, and ALS by SimilarLee

Oh like sleep walking or kicking around a bunch while in bed/moving arms? If that is the case I am in the clear for now.

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SimilarLee OP t1_j7h4ri5 wrote

Correct. This risk factor relates to physically acting out your dreams.

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pf30146788e t1_j7hqg1l wrote

Oh I thought they meant like after you woke up, if you had like a play you put on to act out what happened in your dreams

I’m an idiot

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the-magnificunt t1_j7hvj5w wrote

What if you do but only once in a blue moon? I punched my partner in the back in the middle of the night once while Dream Me was fighting a giant bee, but I don't generally do things like that.

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Oddity_Odyssey t1_j7iyo3t wrote

I peed in a trash can when I was 6

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the-magnificunt t1_j7jaaob wrote

I don't think I needed this information but...thanks for sharing?

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trevor11004 t1_j7jucuc wrote

I imagine acting out dreams is much more common in childhood than the rest of a persons life, typically. From my understanding dreams are typically much more vivid in general as a child.

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CupcakeAssassin t1_j7ickho wrote

Replying to the edit! That is super interesting. Is that why sleep walkers get violent when someone attempts to wake them up? I don’t know if it is a myth, but I have always seen in a bunch of places that you are not supposed to wake someone up who is sleep walking. In this instance too, someone acting out their dreams while still in bed.

Side note, I have always heard stories of elderly people or people near death talking and or moving in their sleep a lot. This seems interestingly related. I guess since a small factor of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s exists in my family tree, I know an early symptom I should look out for.

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