Sleeping disrupted due to carbon monoxide?!?

Over the past few months I鈥檝e been waking up at night fearing carbon monoxide poisoning. Sounds weird I know but this is what happens.

I鈥檒l be in dreamland and wake up because I feel my body is pulsating and getting hot. Once I鈥檓 awake, I still feel the pulsating tingling sensation all over my body and it鈥檚 hard for me to breath. When I am able to open my eyes, I see vivid rainbow coloring over a gray background of my room and breathing is even harder to do which causes me to feel light headed. And sometimes, I cannot move even if I wanted too.

It鈥檚 a weird feeling and goes away after ten or fifteen minutes, but scares me to death because I feel like I am breathing something that鈥檚 causing the reactions above.

A friend of mine worked at a Heating & AC company and said carbon monoxide gases wouldn鈥檛 wake someone out of a sleep rather than silently suffocate one to death.

Has any one else experienced this? Or, know of instances where others have felt the same thing?

I do plan to get a carbon monoxide detector to night [just to ease my mind about that fear]

My problem is NOT my dreams, it is the sensations waking me up from my sleep... the tingles the sweats ect.

I do not consume a lot of caffeine either.

Go and buy a Carbon Monoxide tester. Your friend is right, carbon monoxide would not wake you up, you would go unconscious and die. A classic effect of caffeine can be tingling sensations all over your body. Do you drink coffee, tea, chocolate etc. Check your caffeine intake. Try not eating anything after 8pm for a few nights, drink plenty of water.

Why don't you buy a CO2 detector and sleep a little easier. You are probably having vivid dreams.

Some things you should do now:

1. Buy a carbon monoxide detector (at Home Depot, Lowe, Target, Walmart,...)

2. See your doctor.

3. Ask yourself what you ate or drank before going to bed. (So you can make any changes to see if you can feel better.)

4. Open window(s) to let some fresh air come in at night (but if you afraid of the thieves, should be careful...)

Good luck!

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