Panic attack in Nightmares

[Raw Matt18]

I just woke up having bad nightmares. Note been straight raw paleo only 35-40 days.
But theses nightmares were different, I was having panic attacks in them which I've never have had happen. The only things i did dfferent to day was way more fat then usual and extra coconut oil I'm thinking it was the VCO, but does anyone know why this might ive happened? If they were just normal nightmares i wouldn't care too much but the panic attacks in them were bizarre to me.

[goodsamaritan]

Depends... some nightmares are caused by current fears.  After I graduated from college, I still had sweating nightmares dreaming about exams where I get 10% to 30% scores.

A few years later when that trauma had passed I stopped dreaming about those.

And I was on a SAD diet.

[Iguana]

Normally we don't have nightmares anymore with a proper raw paleo diet. If we have a nightmare, it's usually because we have eaten something badly polluted (meat from an animal fed processed, cooked, heated food, etc. for example) or something processed having allowed us to eat too much of it (coconut oil, for example). Maybe you also forced yourself to eat too much fat, more than you can digest.   

[jessica]

Take some potassium and magnesium.  Should promote restful sleep and rid you of night terrors.

[van]

you may have too much food in your stomach before going to bed.

[eveheart]

you may have too much food in your stomach before going to bed.

I'd consider this first, too. It's best to go to bed with an "empty" stomach, otherwise your digestion can impinge on your heart and make it race. That's why people feel indigestion as "heartburn" or back pain. If you eat right during the day, an empty stomach at bedtime does not feel like hunger.