research shows that *all* benzos can cause short-term memory loss and i'm not one to shout stop using cause my brain for 16 long years needs it to keep myself from losing my sanity, my safety in reducing my panic disorder, and preventing seizures of which I've had two major ones in my life when i ran out early.

if you want better sleep and be dreaming you should ask your p-doc about trying some low dose Seroquel. I can sleep 8 hours fine with maybe one time waking up. i dream a lot but have problems with ptsd related nightmares so my p-doc gave me some prazosin to start on to help stop my nightmares (see my post on the board about stopping prazosin)... but anyway went back on it last night and had mostly (embarrassingly) highly sexual dreams with one upsetting nightmare but the new med may take several days to weeks like starting an antidepressant.

hope this helps ?