Hi, I'm new to this site so please bare with me. I was just looking for information or perhaps others personal experiance with having really strange dreams when blood sugar levels drop. By strange I mean repetative occerances like falling but I never land nor do I stop falling. Another example of "strange" by my defanition anyway would be falling into a black hole but "GOD" just explained what a black hole was and I understude. Now that was a trip. Well I've got to get to bed now so I'll check for comments in the morning. Mike

Welcome to NeuroTalk:

Yes, low blood sugar during the night can create nightmares.

I'd suggest you wake up when dreaming this way, and test your blood...I am assuming you have a glucometer?

This should be reported to the doctor, if you test low then.
A snack at bedtime with protein in it, will help. It may be that you need your insulin type or dose or both adjusted for the night.

There is a food supplement called Glucerna, that was developed to help people who experience lows during sleep. It comes in liquid and bar form and is metabolized slowly to help keep sugars level.

Thanks for the info. I beleave I understand the issue of blood suger drop during sleep (might not do a very good job controling it however). My real concern or intrest is in the question of brain activity or lack of it. If you have never personaly experianced an "Insulin reaction" as us old timers call it, you might not fully grasp what I mean, or feel. Let me give you an example.
I was dreaming that I was floating with ballons attached to my wrists. At the same time I felt I was floating. I gradualy realized I was having a dream and my sugar must be low. I was aware enough to raise my arms in bed to check to see if ballons were attached. I knew they were not but I was still floating, or falling. There were two levels of awereness. I even stood up and leaned against the wall because I thought that touching something I knew was solid would help me stop "falling". It did not. Still two levels of activity happening in my brain. This lasted for at least 10 minutes untill I was able to bring my blood sugar up with a glass of O.J. So this is part of my question, is the brain simply so starved of go juice that it can't tell the differance and allows both realms to exsist or what is going on in my bran? Thanks Mike.

Yes, consciousness changes. I know a fellow (I worked with his wife in the past)..who would get up and take everything out the frig and couldn't open it and would eat anything he could get his hands on! Boxes of cereal...anything. Sometimes she would find him on the floor! His doctor never asked how his nights were...and I find that appalling.

Once the brain gets that low...and consciousness changes, you are way TOO low. There is evidence now, that lows this low,
damage the brain and lead to Alzheimer's.

So you really need to discuss your insulin with your doctor. Sometimes they reduce it at night if that is when you take your basal dose.

If your fasting sugar is high next morning after a nightmare...that is a sign of the somogyi effect and a signal to reduce bedtime insulin doses.

I think you should set your alarm for various times at night.
1am, 2am, 3am...etc. Some people depending on dinner and whether a snack at bedtime is taken, will show the fall at one of those times.
Set your alarm for each time until you find your dip and low it really is.

Some drugs cause vivid dreaming, and some B vitamins as well.