Hi everyone! Thanks for helping to answer my question. Now, of course, being a Newbie, and knowing only enough about sleep to be dangerous, and having a research background, I have more questions! Is it possible to be asleep, have a lucid dream, false awakening, exhibit the alpha and delta states you are speaking of even though you can not relax because you are so uncomfortable you can not stand it? (I am not very familiar with those terms, so that may be part of why I am asking the question) In my medical history, I have a problem with my temperature being 97.8 instead of the normal of 98.6 so, I am extremely sensitive to cold temperatures and usually can not sleep at night (even in the summer) without a comforter on. I wear gloves and a sweater in my parent's house and the temperature is set at 70 degrees. I also have severe back and neck problems, so sleeping in one position on my back without a pillow under my knees, without my chiropractic pillow and on a hard table seems impossible to me. I also have had a sleep test that said that I spent the vast majority of my night in stages one and two and only 25% of what is normal for stage 3 and only 7% of what is normal for stage 4. I will say though that since that test, I have had nose surgery to correct the turbinate hypertrophy and deviated septum that were found and am on medication for the severe Hyper Leg condition that I was diagnosed with. So, my stats may be better now. I still have problems with waking during sleep, due to my many medical conditions, but not as bad as it used to be. Since I have been having the seizure-like episodes, anytime my eyes are closed they move rapidly and it is like I am blinking with my eyes closed. Could this be mistaken for REM sleep? So, I guess I am back to my original questions, could I have been asleep and was the test valid?
To answer Lewis's question, an EEG consists of having electrodes hooked up to your head, they ask you to keep your eyes closed and hyperventilate for 3 minutes, they shine a strobe light in different patterns in your eyes while they are closed and then you are supposed to go to sleep and stay as still as possible and they measure your brain waves. There are several different EEG tests. The first one a doctor usually does lasts about an hour and a half to 2 hours and is done at a doctors office or hospital. This is what I just had done. My doctor said she had to order that one first because the insurance company requires her to do it. :wink: However, she said she did not expect to find anything on it and the real EEG she wanted to do is a 3 day test done in my home. She said that some types of seizures can only be detected if the machine is on you when you are having the seizure. So, I guess the insurance company has shot themselves in the foot because now they are paying for two tests instead of one.
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