MS Fears in the darkness of night

Dear Mandy,

I am so sorry to hear that you have been going through an exacerbation and hope that you are feeling better.  You captured the essence of the roller-coaster ride on which MS keeps us captive. I was never a big fan of roller-coasters as a child, and am even less a fan now that I live on one.

It's fascinating that your dreams were so predictive and it furthers my belief that the mind/body connection is real and plays a major role in our health. Now if only we could figure out how to get our mind to connect to our body in a way that it could by-pass the destroyed myelin and get those brain messages delivered correctly and in a timely fashion.  Wouldn't that be wonderful?

Until then we just have to keep on keeping on, and live the best possible life we can. Thanks and my best to you and your family. I hope you are feeling much better.

It's kinda funny.  The only time I am aware of dreaming is when my mind is working something out. 

Often, this comes from an emotion I'm not able to express or a situation in which I feel is completely out of my control.  During important times of my life, dreams have alowed me to be angry, furious, and destructive, to acknowledge things I was afraid of in waking hours, and to find solutions to perplexing problems.

Other times, I have encountered someone in my dreams who I vaguely recognize.  Sometimes that person (who has been seen in almost every stage of life at one time or another) is just someone who needs comforting and care, and to be told that everything will be okay.

Dreams truly can be a "window into the soul" and help us travel through life.  There are things we don't want to face in life, and you're dreams here are fears that those of us with MS often do not wish to face.  Thank you for discussing an aspect of this disease which is too often dismissed or shoved in a corner.

I have relapsing/remitting ms and in my dreams I am hindered by my ms. Like last night I dreamed I lost my eyesight(yet again) and I couldn't talk or walk.  This dreams have been more consistent within the last couple weeks. Has anyone else dreamed of their ms symptoms?  Last nights dream scared the crap out of me. 1st I thought it was real and then I thought I woke up and tried to talk to my husband but I couldn't. I couldn't speak.  I know there has to be someone out there with ms with the same dreams? Right?!?