My 93 year old father is having vivid dreams and swears the events actually happened.
What does this mean? He does not have Alzheimer's, on the contrary, his mind is still fairly sharp. He lives in an assisted care facility. He is a diabetic, insulin dependent, uses a walker but has a very bad left leg which impairs his walking. Could this be a sign of dementia? Or something to do with his diabetes?
I just Googled diabetic hallucinations and one of the links was to a diabetes forums board. Lots of folks on there said they had hallucinations or very vivid dreams at night. I'd talk to your dad's doctor about it. Sounds like it could be blood sugar/insulin levels.
It sounds to me like your father is having adventures beyond the four walls of the facility he lives in. Be glad he is. They enrich him.
..if he has them they are his.
I've always thought that my dreams were bits and pieces of real people, glimpses into other worlds and lives, somewhere... but real as can be... Even when I see myself in dreams I think of it as seeing myself in an altered reality... I've always thought I had a pretty good imagination..
I liked your comment about the person having adventures outside of this realm, and to be glad of it...I was thinking the same thing. Sometimes I wish my dreams WERE my reality. lol
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