Post Traumatizing Nightmares

The apprehension the individuals with post-traumatic stress disorder show include "longer sleep latencies, longer time awake after sleep onset, and shorter total sleep time than healthy controls," it should also be noted that "Sleep disturbances may further complicate the clinical presentation of PTSD" (Straus 8). Therefore, The traumatizing nightmares do not take place because of random issues, the "National Center for PTSD of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs" stated that the nightmares those with PTSD have are often associated with the trauma they experienced ("Nightmares"). Knowing that my grandma also fought in the Vietnam War, and remembering all the times I have heard him talk about his difficulties falling asleep and staying …show more content…
Thankfully, he did, and he was in a coma for about a week. There was a multitudinous of operations that took place as they removed shrapnel from his head, stomach, and abdomen. They even had to remove half of his large intestine. To this day, he still has metal shavings in his head that were too deep for the doctors to remove. Because of that traumatic incident, he can not do activities and watch certain shows or movies than those who do not suffer from PTSD. At night, my grandpa likes to fall asleep to the T.V.; however, anytime there just so happens to be a gunshot or any violent scene, he says that he is "almost up all night" and he just lays there and recalls the events that have occurred on the traumatizing November night, and sometimes it seems so real, that he "[feels] like he is reliving the traumatic experience". My grandpa's story, and people living with the disorder connects with the lyrics "it seems that dreams has sent the biggest chill through me," by talking about how the dreams occurs and reoccurs and it will continue to be triggering to the individual and send a "chill" that cause he/she to lose sleep at night because of the experience (The Wombats