Do you dream about boating?

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My sleep patterns are changing with age but when I do sleep I find that I have very vivid dreams (since I was put on statins I think even though I take supplements K2 and coenzyme Q10 to go with it).

But I dream about boating in one form or another very vividly (to the point of horror at times) almost nightly; waking up and still thinking I have a situation to deal with. The dreams feel like reality; very un-nerving. Even after waking for 30 minutes I can be in a state at times. I have always been a skipper or solo sailor so all responsibility was mine. No terrible situations occurred in real life, so pretty weird.

I have sailed for half my life but I really don’t want to dream about it. It is becoming nightmarish in every sense of the word.

An I alone in this dreaming phenomenon?
 
After being away sailing single handed for a while I sometimes wake up back home and think that the anchor has failed and that the boat has lodged in trees on the bank of some creek ( that would have to be in Essex or Suffolk rather than North Kent then) .After a few minutes I recognise that the trees are understandable as those close to the house and that I am in my own bed and the boat is hopefully in its mud berth.
Happily rocks or strong wind don't come into the dream ,presumably just a gentle deposition into mud and branches.
So you are not alone.
 
No statins involved but there are some sailing scenes that recur in my dreams. One regular one involves bringing my boat to a certain harbour, which doesn’t exist outside my dreams, and finding myself too early on the tide I have to get out and push the boat which is balanced on its fin up the gutway in the mud.
 
johnalison said:
No statins involved but there are some sailing scenes that recur in my dreams. One regular one involves bringing my boat to a certain harbour, which doesn’t exist outside my dreams, and finding myself too early on the tide I have to get out and push the boat which is balanced on its fin up the gutway in the mud.
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That is a good example of how dreams can be weird.
 
A good friend of mine was for years a very good bowman before he aged out and graduated to the comfy seats at the back.

One night he woke his girlfriend up because he was sleep walking and was "gybing the curtains".
 
Cerebus said:
My sleep patterns are changing with age but when I do sleep I find that I have very vivid dreams (since I was put on statins I think even though I take supplements K2 and coenzyme Q10 to go with it).

But I dream about boating in one form or another very vividly (to the point of horror at times) almost nightly; waking up and still thinking I have a situation to deal with. The dreams feel like reality; very un-nerving. Even after waking for 30 minutes I can be in a state at times. I have always been a skipper or solo sailor so all responsibility was mine. No terrible situations occurred in real life, so pretty weird.

I have sailed for half my life but I really don’t want to dream about it. It is becoming nightmarish in every sense of the word.

An I alone in this dreaming phenomenon?
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Some sleep medications (natural not allopathic) like melatonin can give you very disturbing dreams....in my case as a life long insomniac...they caused very vivid dreams, often disturbing....but the overwhelming feature was repetitiveness. A dream could last only a couple of seconds...but it would repeat non stop, like on a loop.
Still, I enjoyed the sleep...and after a year, I was able to stop them but still retain a good sleep pattern.....after a while I had to repeat them...but I sleep well (for me) and haven’t taken them for a couple of years.
Other medications like anti-malarial mefloquine can also give you bad dreams
 
I've found that lots of people, including me, have quite vivid dreams whilst off watch on longer trips. Perhaps it's a very shallow sleep when it's a bit bumpy and noisy.

Also lots of people claim they didn't actually sleep off watch. I suppose they don't hear themselves snoring.

My least favourite dream is that the boat is heeled over and bouncing around. I have to put on wet wellies and already wet foulies and go on watch in the rain and cold. The worst bit of this dream is when you wake up and find it's real.
 
I often have dreams about my boat, sometimes nightmares. I run a commercial trip boats and trying to keep everyone happy is a nightmare especially in bad weather.
I was put on statins but took myself off them after 6 months and some research.
 
I went to the funeral of a club-mate yesterday, and last night I dreamt that I was on his boat. I was stuck with being in the cabin because there wasn’t room in the cockpit full of people as we sailed the 19’ boat. It was very uncomfortable and the angle of heel became quite alarming as we we hit by a gale. Presumably I survived.
 
johnalison said:
I went to the funeral of a club-mate yesterday, and last night I dreamt that I was on his boat. I was stuck with being in the cabin because there wasn’t room in the cockpit full of people as we sailed the 19’ boat. It was very uncomfortable and the angle of heel became quite alarming as we we hit by a gale. Presumably I survived.
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Ooh, do nightmares ever end in death of the dreamer?
 
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