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Hello Rick, I identify with you on both counts. Some things I am not invited to just because I can't be a part of it, like a work day at church. Still, we are treated 'differently' because we are not the same. We have entered into what one writer referred to as the land of the unwell, a separate and distinct place. And the vivid dreams leave me exhausted in the morning. I too have grabbed my wife and woke her up - scaring her and me too. One of the worst things about the dreams is my body cannot distinguish between them and reality. And you know what stress does to a pwp. Walter Rick Hermann wrote: > > Rick calling from Bellingham, Washington. > > Anybody out there having trouble keeping close to some of your old friends, > now that you feature a progressive brain disease? I am noticing subtle > effects, a kind of distancing, that I can't quite put my finger on. Part of > it is that I'm just tired, and don't do as much as I did two years ago. I'm > not feeling shunned, just a little ignored because I'm not out there > socializing much. When I get done working for the day, I'm beat-o, big time. > > Old friends with good intentions send me articles about Parkinson's > disease, but don't invite me out for coffee or to a movie. Weird. > > I told my neurologist I've been having more active dreams lately, probably > due to Sinemet, he says. In fact, I had one last week where I dreamed I was > playing basketball and went up for a monster rebound. Man, did I jump. > Grabbed the ball, woke up, as did my wife--because I'd grabbed her head! > She said, "What the heck are you doing!?" and I said that I was grabbing a > rebound. Has anyone had similar dreams (just kidding :-) I'm just glad I > didn't try to start dribbling down court. > > Enjoy the weekend. > > Rick, 48, kinda bummed right now.