[Miss_A]

Ever since I've been on the medication fluxetine (prozac) for a couple of days in a row. I keep gettiing so many scary dreams in the night which I wake up remember in the morning. Before I just had no dreams pitch black empty space. So far it is three dreams all with murder related.

WARNING THESE DREAMS COULD TRIGGER YOU!!!

1. Got a phone call which was a voice mail saying "Your too late we've already gone!" Then I look outside of the door and there are too young girls proberly one 8 and 6 who is hanging from a tree.

2. There are two teenengers boys and one dared for money to kill a baby for fun. Then he cut the baby all blood every where and then police came and they got on the motobike and drove away.

3. A women about 31 as really depressed maybe after getting dumped and I try my hardest to talk her out of killing herself but it was too late right in front of me. She got a gun to her head and bang lying on the stairs. Then I phone the police.

Do you think these dreams mean something?

sounds really terrifying!! ((((((((((miss a)))))))) i was on prozac once and had really vivid scary dreams also. my dr. said that it was a side effect of the drug. i think if you look it up it says something about vivid dreams. i have really vivid dreams anyway and the prozac just made them more real and worse. i was usually the subject of the dream being chased and stuff done to.
i don't remember if it got better or not, i've been on different meds since then. hope this helps some.
white iris

[complic8d]

I also have horrible, vivid nightmares on prozac, and others. Since these meds make me unable to fall asleep I also take a sleeping pill. The sleep med seems to help with the vivid dreams. I still have some nightmares, I think everyone does, especially when I am working on some tough stuff in therapy, but they aren't as frequent and as vivid now. I'm certainly not advocating adding a sleep med, just letting you know that prozac can definitely do that. Take care and HUGS!

[cat_eye]

eek, that must be so scary for you! Yeah, I concur with comlic8ed...a sleeping pill (Trazodone, Ambien, etc.) might help. Talk to your doc about that one.

((((((((((((((((((((((miss_a)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))

[Miss_A]

I'm ok just a bit of a shock. But my question that is on my mind is Does these dreams mean anything?
I'll talk with my therpist about those nightmares but I thought that medication is meant to make you have happy thoughts in your head? I'm kind of confused now...
Thank you, Miss_A.

[Miss_A]

It's now 10:44 PM here and I have to wake up eailer in the morning ready for school then after a wedding. The thing is I want to have the enery in the morning but I really don't want to go to sleep as my nightmares keep on getting worse! Anyone got any ideas what I should do...? Maybe coffee?

[jmo531]

Miss A,

I think that the vivid dreams are a common side effect of the AD's. I had them when first taking my Effexor. I had a very hard time with the dreams to the point where it hindered my sleep. I was prescribed Ambien and that helped a great deal.

As far as your dreams having meaning. I personally dont beleive that they do. I think that dreams are basically just a roll of film playing out. Bits and peices of thinks in our thoughts and fears that manifest through our dreams. Please try to relax a bit about that. I know that these dreams must be very disturbing for you and I totally understand given the content of your dreams. Talking with your T is a great idea. Please keep usposted.

Much love and peace,


Jen

[Perzephone]

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I take 10mg of Elavil (amitriptyline) to help me stay asleep once I fall asleep, and it, too, gives me vivid dreams. (I recently dreamt that I was walking down a seedy section of Hollywood Blvd. carrying a full-grown live alligator.) Dreams only have meaning if you put meaning into them. There are probably thousands of websites out there that have some basic dream symbology, and you can always check out C. G. Jung - he was big on the 'collective unconscious' & dream symbology. Another author, not really a psychologist, that wrote a lot about dreams is Joseph Campbell.

I personally think that drug-induced dreams are more like 'brain farts' - your mind regurgitates imagery & thoughts in a way to keep itself busy while your body restores itself.

[ickydog2006]

I basically agree with Perzephone. Sure some dreams do have meaning, but I really think dreams don't have meaning if they are drug induced. A lot of people get paranoid about things when they're on drugs. Does that mean what they are paranoid of is more likely to happen? I think not. I really don't have any suggestions on what to do. I've been in therapy a couple of times because of nightmares(actually flashbacks so I'm not sure if it counts), and it is getting better, but it is probably due to time. Also I was on prozac for only about 2 days. It makes me really sick, and I decided it wasn't worth it. Good Luck

[Miss_A]

4. Past abuse being hit for no reason
Now I'm awake at half past two.

Also it didn't help by me seeing a picture of kurt cobain dead on the floor.

[amdx64]

that picture isnt real, if you read about that youll find out its a fake. The real pictures of him were not released.