Most of the time, I honestly don't remember them. I have the usual taking a test without studying dream or knocking out or breaking my front teeth. I've dreamt I was pregnant. After my daughter was born, I remember I had a very disturbing dream about harming her (won't go into the details here). Sometimes my dreams are sexual in nature, not always with my husband, sometimes even with another woman though I have never really had lesbian leanings or experimented with it. And it was a long time ago, but twice I've had dreams where I could fly.
There have been occasions when my dreams have been downright freaky. I remember having an extremely vivid and clear dream of my grandmother who was extremely ill with Parkinson's disease, still had her mind but couldn't talk, was trapped in her body. In the dream, we were getting our hair done, she was talking and happy. I woke up and remembered looking at the clock and seeing it was around 4:15 AM. The next morning, my mother called me and told me my grandmother had passed away overnight, they thought right around 4:15 AM. I've never had another experience like that. At the time, I wasn't on many psych meds, maybe a little Zoloft. I was pregnant and had a couple weeks to go until my due date. Sleep was on/off then, lots of waking because of needing the bathroom or just being uncomfortable and trying to find a good position with a big belly (also when I was still and sleeping, my daughter seemed to think that meant it was time for her to kick, move, and party; she is still a night owl).
Nowadays, most of my dreams, I just don't remember. It seems like I remember fewer of them now on this high dose of Seroquel. I don't know if my dreams are just so mundane and boring that I don't remember them or that I tend to wake less during the night with the cocktail of medication I'm on and therefore remember fewer dreams.
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Bipolar 1, PTSD, anorexia, panic disorder, ADHD
Seroquel, Cymbalta, propanolol, buspirone, Trazodone, gabapentin, lamotrigine, hydroxyzine,
There's a crack in everything. That is how the light gets in.
--Leonard Cohen
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