SimilarLee OP t1_j7h4ri5 wrote on February 6, 2023 at 7:33 PM

Reply to comment by CupcakeAssassin 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

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

pf30146788e t1_j7hqg1l wrote on February 6, 2023 at 9:49 PM

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

the-magnificunt t1_j7hvj5w wrote on February 6, 2023 at 10:22 PM

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.

Oddity_Odyssey t1_j7iyo3t wrote on February 7, 2023 at 3:09 AM

I peed in a trash can when I was 6

the-magnificunt t1_j7jaaob wrote on February 7, 2023 at 4:47 AM

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

trevor11004 t1_j7jucuc wrote on February 7, 2023 at 8:47 AM

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.

More_Powerful_Wizard t1_j7itpj1 wrote on February 7, 2023 at 2:31 AM

But did you defeat the bee?

the-magnificunt t1_j7jae5q wrote on February 7, 2023 at 4:48 AM

I'm happy to say I stabbed it with a huge Bowie knife while hanging from a brick wall. Bee (and partner) defeated.

CupcakeAssassin t1_j7ickho wrote on February 7, 2023 at 12:20 AM

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.