Thread: "fever Dreams" Or Diabetic Dreams?

I've had weird fever dreams when I was younger. They're hard to explain though, here's a thread about it. http://www.dreamviews.com/forum/inde...howtopic=40078

I was never lucid in these dreams, but I don't know that I'd even call them dreams - more like hallucinations. Just weird, random hallucinations resulting from the processes of the brain during illness.

My brother has type I diabetes so I'll have to ask him about sugar-related dreams.

As for fever dreams, he told me that the had hallucinations like Burns described when he had chicken pox as a kid. He "saw" monsters coming out of the ceiling and walls.

I had one like this when sick with the flu once. I was balancing on a tight rope and wrapped in a hundred blankets. If I moved at all in bed, I'd feel like I was falling off the rope. I kept seeing a smooth surface alternating with an impossibly wrinkled surface. Very unpleasant, but no sense of being lucid.

I think the fact that these fever dreams are so intense, and are also nearly hallucinations, makes it almost impossible to become lucid.
I had the flu recently and I hallucinated/dreamt that my blanket had fallen apart into wooden pieces and it was INCREDIBLY important that I repair it as quickly as possible. In the morning I wondered 1) what I could possibly have been thinking, and 2) Whether I was dreaming or actually grabbing at my blanket frantically.
There's no way to become lucid from something like that. If you realized it wasn't real, you would probably wake up, or be awake already and just become aware of yourself.

Well being a person who has experienced most of these things. Including drug induced hallucinations, and very insane dreams when sick with pneumonia and other various flu's, this post has made me realize that under certain circumstances hallucinations and "fever dreams" are very similar in a sense. I've also had night terrors as a child where I would basically sleep walk but panic HARD, such as waking up and freaking out about something but I couldn't open my door, and I specifically remember to this day trying to open that doorknob to my door, and when I couldn't I'd tuck in a corner of my room curled up in a ball. And I definitely hallucinated at that point, where depth perception was being thrown off and things were moving, but for some reason I was terrified, I think because it was so real. And I believe this might have happened when I was sick, I can't quite remember if I was sick though. Interesting, but fever dreams definitely are for real and crazy weird, if that's even what I had. Dunno, I've heard something about night terrors as well.