It’s three years post-injury and I’ve just started to dream again. My neuro says this is a sign that there is some recovery in my parietal lobe.

These dreams, however, are the more literal pre-Rem dreams. Like many brain injured folks, I wake several times a night because, even with drugs, my brain won’t let me go into the deeper, more restorative REM sleep.

While I’m excited that my brain seems to be working more, my dreams are unpleasant. I’m in considerable pain from my other injuries and that’s all I dream about. Of well, I guess you can’t have your cake and eat it too.

How about the rest of you, do you dream? Have you always dreamed since your injury? Can you enter REM sleep?

Cheers