Hello all. My name is Bellamy, I’m a male kitchen witch from outside St. Louis.
So I’ve been practicing for several years used to dream and my visualizations were strong when I would dream but as the years went on they became less vivid and less often and I thought that I may be getting cut off from this for one reason or another but I kept practicing as my tarot and pendulum work stayed strong.
I was just recently diagnosed with severe sleep apnea and learning about the effects of it on the brain and I was wondering if anyone else has had this experience and if they noticed any improvement after they started working with a CPAP.
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Super Saturday Bellamy,
I do not know about sleep apnea and the brain/dream connection; but, I was in a severe car crash in 2015 and was in a coma (they closed the main street [6 lanes] in both directions, they thought I was dead)…since then I barely dream anymore. Which in my case, is okay, because about 99% of my dreams were nightmares, so I do not miss them.
Since the TBI (traumatic brain injury) effected my brain/dream sequence, maybe the apnea is having a similar effect.
Lady Gene 
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Hi there Bellamy,
I am actually a registered sleep technologist, so I’ve got some really great insight on this topic. First off, it’s super commendable that you got a sleep study, but even more so that you are actually on CPAP and doing what you’re supposed to do, so many people after they are diagnosed, treat it like it’s not important or won’t even attempt CPAP, which like you mentioned has so many implications, on your brain, heart, kidneys, lungs, I mean sleep effects EVERY part of your system and body, you need good quality sleep for your system to function properly. CPAP is the gold standard treatment, yes, it’s an adjustment, and let’s be real it is a lifestyle change. But it is 1000% going to change your life if you keep it up and use it like you’re supposed to, especially if you have severe sleep apnea. It literally means that you stop breathing during sleep, sometimes it can be from like 10- 50 or more times an hour!
Once you get adjusted you will get your dreams and visions back, like before, maybe even more so. When you have untreated sleep apnea, you aren’t going into the deeper stages of sleep because you keep getting woken up (which you usually don’t remember) which means you haven’t been going into stage 3 or REM sleep which is where you dream and have vivid dream like experiences.
My suggestion (if you want it) is to make sure you get a mask that is tolerable, there’s sooo many different ones out there, and that’s gonna help immensely, it may take some time to adjust but your gonna wake up one day and be like "holy shit I feel so rested, I got the best sleep of my life, I had some badass dreams and visions!) Lol It will get better and easier, I promise.
(sorry this is so long lol)
But if you ever need anything or have any questions I’m around 
–Eliza Free 
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Thank you for the advice. I got my CPAP on Thursday night. Everyone was saying that it is so hard to wear. I haven’t had that problem yet. After my second night I noticed I was not having my afternoon loss of energy. I’m looking forward to getting my dreams back.
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Magickal Monday Eliza,
Wonderful that you are so knowledgeable. Just proves you never know who you can run into on this site!!
Lady Gene 
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Wow, that’s great! I had a sleep study done. My father had bad sleep apnea and I was getting
that way too. I had two main causes: Acid Reflux and well I’ll be honest fat in the neck. It made
breathing hard. During Covid, I got rather overweight (like my dad) and that fat constricted my
breathing. So, I went hard on a low-carb intermittent fasting diet. Lost the weight, could breath
again. For the Acid Reflux ( causing Barret’s Disease ) I take Omeprozol and got a foam wedge
pillow that props up my head. It’s large, takes up 1/4 of the bed, my pillow sits on that, elevates.