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Not that I want everyone to reveal that they're on these medications, but if anyone out there is comfortable enough to share if they have experienced these sort of dreams while on medication before, then please do
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Antidepressant dreams?
Started by Foofums, Nov 15 2011 03:10 AM
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Posted 15 November 2011 - 03:10 AM
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Yello. I've been on some antidepressants for anxiety for about the last four months. When I first started them on the lowest dosage, I started having these dreams where absolutely nothing seemed out of the ordinary. Actually, they were so "normal" that I would wake up the next day wondering if it actually happened. One day I came downstairs and asked my dad if we had had a conversation about our favorite french fries the day before, and he looked at me like I was crazy, haha. I'm now on the second-to-highest dosage, and those sort of dreams have returned.
Not that I want everyone to reveal that they're on these medications, but if anyone out there is comfortable enough to share if they have experienced these sort of dreams while on medication before, then please do
Not that I want everyone to reveal that they're on these medications, but if anyone out there is comfortable enough to share if they have experienced these sort of dreams while on medication before, then please do
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Posted 15 November 2011 - 07:58 PM
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I have some social anxiety, and I was just put on medication for it at the beginning of October. I noticed a change in my dreams right away.
But mine were not realistic like yours. Mine were unusually bizarre (I mean, yes, dreams tend to be weird anyways, but these dreams were just ridiculous). They were so completely unrealistic that during several of them I was actually able to realize that I was dreaming partway through. I also started having nightmares pretty often, most of which were just as strange as the dreams, except for one very realistic one:
It was about my computer getting infected with a really bad virus, which I attempted to fix, but instead I accidentally made the problem worse and the virus spread to my parents' computers, too. I kept trying to fix it, but it kept getting worse and worse until none of the computers would even turn on anymore. So we lost everything on all of our computers and my parents were really mad at me. It took a few hours after I woke up for me to finally realize that it had been a dream-- and I was SO relieved.
But anyway, I did not stay on that medication very long because it didn't actually do anything for my anxiety. I switched to something else, and now my dreams seem to be back to normal again. Which is too bad, because when they weren't nightmares, those crazy dreams were actually pretty entertaining.
But mine were not realistic like yours. Mine were unusually bizarre (I mean, yes, dreams tend to be weird anyways, but these dreams were just ridiculous). They were so completely unrealistic that during several of them I was actually able to realize that I was dreaming partway through. I also started having nightmares pretty often, most of which were just as strange as the dreams, except for one very realistic one:
It was about my computer getting infected with a really bad virus, which I attempted to fix, but instead I accidentally made the problem worse and the virus spread to my parents' computers, too. I kept trying to fix it, but it kept getting worse and worse until none of the computers would even turn on anymore. So we lost everything on all of our computers and my parents were really mad at me. It took a few hours after I woke up for me to finally realize that it had been a dream-- and I was SO relieved.
But anyway, I did not stay on that medication very long because it didn't actually do anything for my anxiety. I switched to something else, and now my dreams seem to be back to normal again. Which is too bad, because when they weren't nightmares, those crazy dreams were actually pretty entertaining.
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Posted 16 November 2011 - 04:24 AM
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That's actually the same reason I've been put on them, haha. It's so crazy to wake up from such realistic dreams just to realize they never happened.
Thank you for sharing!
Thank you for sharing!
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