I have been on Ritalin for a while. I went from terrible student to strait As and i have been on the president's list 3 strait semesters. Ritalin was a miracle drug for me but lately I have been waking up in the middle of the night and can't get back to sleep. I take 2 20 mg Ritalin Sr one at 6 in morning and one at 1.

My problem is that my dreams wake me up. I will be dreaming about a word problem in trig or about a paper I am doing for Am. Lit. The problem is that in the math problem i will try and work the problem out and I will not be able to get it or I don't have all the info I need to get an answer. In the English paper I will be trying to proof read it or rewrite it. Now remember this is a dream and for some reason I can't get the work done. I will be concentrating so hard that I wake up and The thought of the problem haunts me after I wake. My mind will not let it go kind of like an obsession. I will have to get up and do some homework or watch tv to get the thoughts out of my head so I can go to sleep again.

This has happened 3 or 4 times a week for the last month. I am taking 21 hours this semester and spend countless hours on homework. I really don't have a life except for school. I have become obsessed with it I think but I don't want to drop any courses because i have come this far. I dont know why these dreams are occurring and why i can't go back to sleep after I wake up.

When using Chntix to try and quit smoking a cpl years ago I had a nightmare where I was being chased my magic cannibals. No matter how hard I ran, how fast I drove, or how many I killed, they kept popping up in front of me. This went on for a while until I was so freaked out that I started yelling at the top of my lungs at them. When I did that , I woke up and the dream went over and over in my mind. These dreams are doing the same thing almost. I quit taking Chantix and the dreams stopped but I can't stop taking the Ritalin or I will fail school. That is why I don't want to tell the doctor about my dreams and my appointment is next week. I am afraid he mught take me off. Oh well....