overtraining and nightmares?

Former Member
Former Member
I wanted to ask, just of curiosity, if there can be any link between overtraining and nightmares. For the past four months I have had a too big training load - I increased it too rapidly and my body could not cope. I suffered from permanent exhaustion and realised at a certain point that it is likely I am a bit overtrained. So I took some rest and made my workouts milder and the chronic fatigue disappeared (though, unfortunatelly, my times are at the moment still quite poor :( - it will take probably some more time to get back to some better results) A couple of weeks ago, while still quite exhausted, I experienced several nightmares within very short span of time. I was probably on good way to develop a neurotic fear of Freddie Kruger :D Now, is it possible that this episode of nightmares had something to do with the overtraining?