Bad Dreams and Headaches

I've been having a lot of bad dreams lately - not quite nightmares, but enough to keep me up and make me feel bad for the day. Most of them center, oddly, around high school - particularly my high school choir. I'll have missed the entire semester, or I'll have a solo and my voice will crack, or I'll forget the words - or the entire song (or a combination of all of the above). I'm often made fun of in such dreams. Sometimes one of my high school crushes is in them - pretty evenly split between my main tormentor and my biggest support. Oddly, Tene is always lacking in these dreams. I'll end up feeling humiliated, confused, lost, and just plain depressed - a feeling which continues into my waking hours.

I don't know where these dreams are coming from, but I'm having them at least three nights every week. One of my friends suggests that they are little more than stress dreams, which certainly could be accurate. I just don't understand why I'm having them so much, and why they tend to focus around my old choir class.

I've also been having near-constant headaches. They've improved over the last week, but they're still there. I think I clench my teeth (perhaps grind them?) in my sleep, which would account for the pain. My doctor has given me some migraine medication to try to help take care of them - so far I've only needed it once.

Speaking of doctors I finally went in to try to understand why I've been so fatigued and tired. I underwent a sleep study (a take-home version, my breathing was monitored but my brainwaves weren't), and it looks like, while I don't have sleep apnea, I might have "Upper Airway Resistance Syndrome" - which basically means that while I don't stop breathing in the night (which is apnea) I get really close. I apparently don't enter the deep, very relaxing sleep (because when I do, I almost stop breathing, so I wake up - just a little - to avoid that), which is why I'm frequently tired. I'm trying to sleep with a C-Pap machine to see if I get better/more restful sleep with it. So far I've been having a hard time adjusting to sleeping with this HUGE THING on my nose, and it's been overly warm in our apartment - which means lots of uncomfortable sweating around the mask. I've gotten a few hours of good sleep from it, though, and I seem to be adjusting - just very very slowly. I think I might end up buying one for myself.

If I do have UARS, it could also explain my depression (or at least, part of my depression), my headaches, maybe even my bad dreams! I go in again on either Wednesday or Thursday, so we'll find out some more then.

Life has been mostly uneventful for us, honestly. It's nice here - I'm really liking Mountain View - and we're enjoying ourselves. So not so much to report right now.