Have your dreams been affected by meds? Maybe they're more vivid, or maybe they're often nightmares. Or maybe you rarely get dreams now.

My dreams are extremely bizarre. They make absolutely zero sense, but I can remember them well. Fortunately, I don't get angry dreams anymore where I stab or shoot people... or somehow otherwise kill them. I used to get those before I started taking meds.

I’m curious about other people because my dreams never used to be vivid or bizarre.

I think I have had long periods when I didn't remember any dreams at all, but I've had the same types of periods before medications. I've also had some short periods when I did remember dreams. Some were bizarre, some disconcerting, and some nice. Ditto before medications. I'm not really sure, though, if it was medications doing that or my moods themselves. I guess a combination of both. I know that some medications certainly knocked me out more.

I much prefer when I don't remember dreams. I'd sacrifice all positive night dreams for not remembering dreams. When I don't remember them, I'm usually much more refreshed feeling in the mornings.

At times I can have a very active daydreaming life. I find daydreams much more satisfying. I'll admit that I've had a period of maladaptive daydreaming. That was a coping mechanism. I'm glad, none-the-less, that I got past the maladaptive daydreaming. I still daydream, but it's a healthy kind, usually, unless I'm experiencing agitation and/or irritability.

[Blue_Bird]

oh man, mine are extremely vivid and bizarre as hell, I really don't like them because they seem so real, and they're generally not good and at the other end of the spectrum they're horrific. I got to a point where I hated going to sleep every night because of them

[lightly toasted]

Yes, I've always had vivid, and very detailed, and dreams, and plenty of nightmares. Seroquel has just turned up the dial on the sort of dreams I was already having. I think there's even more detail, and I think I have more pleasant elements to the dreams now...? There's still the nightmares, but interspersed there's pleasant moments. The nightmares seem to be less traumatising the next day - so that's good.

[tyrados]

I've found that I usually don't have/don't remember my dreams when I'm depressed or manic, so kind of since I'm more stable. On meds, I seem to remember more of my dreams, i.e. they are less disjointed, but they aren't that different from before I went on meds.

[Scooter9]

My dreams used to be really vivid when I was on Lamictal. They were both good and bad dreams.

When I switched to Latuda, I no longer recalled my dreams at all so I have no idea what they might have been. That lasted 4 years.

Now that I'm adding Wellbutrin, I'm starting to remember them and they're vivid again but only on a few nights of the week. I don't remember them the other nights.

So, yeah, for sure the meds make a difference.

[fern46]

I tend to go through cycles of dreams. I'm new to meds, so I don't know if it is a correlation or not. When I do remember them they are very real feeling and very vivid. I sometimes realize I am dreaming and force myself to wake up because I want it to stop. My dreams are tricky. They usually start out ok and then something will scare me and everything goes haywire. Its like my emotions drive my dreams 100%.

I go through long periods of time when I do not remember my dreams. I much prefer those times.