I was prescribed hydroxyzine(Atarax) for a chronic itching problem. Along with the intense drowsiness it caused, it also caused me to have vivid, memorable dreams, or at least more memorable than my typical dreams which I rarely remember.

I had a dream a year ago that the people around me were being murdered by homicidal police officers. Like most of my dreams, few people are easily identified with real people, and I am not really myself. I remember the basic theme of the dream, and I remember one scene in the dream in which one of the surviving friends suggested we go call the police, to which my character said something about the police being the ones doing the killing.

More recently, I had a dream which was in a lot of ways like a cross between Half Life and Silent Hill(dark interiors, not foggy exterior.)

I had a dream in which I had lunch with an ex-crush from four years ago.

I have had a few sexual dreams. In two I was female, opposite from my real gender; in one I was a vampire, and in the other I was performing oral sex.

I had a dream in which I was back in high school on a field trip to a Costa Rican rainforest.

I ran out of the prescription and my itching has not come back, but I wish I had more.