Waking up crying?

Is it possible to cry in your sleep and then wake up crying?

This morning, about 10 minutes ago in fact, I remember having a dream, I was upset in that then all of a sudden I woke up crying. Seems strange, it hasn't happened before. Was I actually crying or just was so emotional when I woke up I just let it out?

Reply 1

Mustard-man

18

Yeah it is possible, I've done it a few times :redface:

Reply 2

pritnep

Anonymous

Is it possible to cry in your sleep and then wake up crying?

This morning, about 10 minutes ago in fact, I remember having a dream, I was upset in that then all of a sudden I woke up crying. Seems strange, it hasn't happened before. Was I actually crying or just was so emotional when I woke up I just let it out?

Not sure if you can actually cry in your sleep or not but I am not a med student so I have nothing to base that one.

I would probably say just upon waking up the emotions of dream were quite strong and almost forced your reaction of crying.

Reply 3

Schroedinger's Pandora

13

Don't know if it's relevent but I had a dream the other night I was being strangled, and when I woke up I'd pulled off my necklace :rolleyes:

. Was not happy :frown:

Reply 4

ßlαcksωαn

17

I agree with mustard-man. I believe it can happen. It's only happened to me once, and it was weird...

Reply 5

Mustard-man

18

blackswan

I agree with mustard-man. I believe it can happen. It's only happened to me once, and it was weird...

Well from what I can remember, someone was somehow trying to kill me, and I was begging for my life :p:

Reply 6

rmyl

13

i've had it before, a few times in fact, its not strange and you're not alone so don't fret. it happened to me when i was stressed out about something rather big. anything like that going on for you?

Reply 7

munchkin18

i've had it before too. i get quite bad nightmares and i've even woken up and had a panic attack before which is quite scary.

Reply 8

Vampyrcorn

14

rmyl

i've had it before, a few times in fact, its not strange and you're not alone so don't fret. it happened to me when i was stressed out about something rather big. anything like that going on for you?

I've woken up crying in my sleep heaps of times, but only when there's been pretty major stuff on my mind. Alcohol makes me very depressed sometimes too and I used to find that if I went to bed a bit drunk I would wake up a bit later crying. :redface:

I thought this was quite common.

Reply 9

Anonymous #2

i do that all the time. i have really bad nightmares and wake up teriffed. Never woke up crying thou. Lot of ppl have emotional dreams not always bad emotions :smile:

lol

Reply 10

scribble_girl

14

Happens to me all the time.
Assume/hope it's normal... :P:

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