I have vivid dreams when increasing or decreasing my anti depressant. Mine are not usually violent just bizarre.

I also have other dreams that I don't remember. I wake having a full blown panic attack. Maybe these are night terrors, not really sure but I have had them for as long as I can remember. Not all the time, just when I am very stressed for a time. It happens a couple of times a year, if I had to guess they last for two to four days, recently however it lasted ten. My doctor prescribed Buspar, but truthfully after the tenth night I broke out the bottle of Nyquil. (cold medicine) It has never failed to knock me out and thankfully it worked this time too.

When I was young I had a hard time distinguishing my dreams from reality, I would have whole conversations with people while dreaming then not remember if it were a dream or true.

There probably is a correlation between my dreams and this disorder. What is kind of strange is that during mania or depression I don't dream.