[Zimbulu]

Since childhood I have found that if I run a high fever that I will have the same dream over and over which even when about a neutral subject will become nightmarish upon repetition.

Just about two years ago I woke up with such a dream going though my head in the final hour or so that I was attempting to sleep. I would wake up just to return to the same dream when asleep again. I went into a depression starting that same week. This has now plagued me every day since that time. The topic of the dream varies from day to day, but repeats every morning. It leaves me feeling tired and more depressed. The start of the day is by far the hardest time for me. It seems as if breaking the dream cycle might help me break the depression as well.

I am seeing a psychologist regarding the depression. He says that although I do not have OCD, that this dream cycle is "obsessive" and started wondering if anybody had been prescribed a drug that helped with stopping such dreams. He thinks no psychologists in my city are likely to know if this is the case, so I am hoping somebody here might have heard of something about this.

[Altered Moment]

I am not sure about meds. I know for me when I get depressed and I have commitments it causes anxiety and at night and in my sleep I will dream about, fret, and worry about whether I can handle them and it just makes things worse. I can look at things rationally and explore options during the day in regards to this but I don't seem to have much control when it happens at night. In this case it is depression that causes anxiety because my confidence goes out the window. But I think it is true that anxiety can cause depression too.

Are there things in your life that may be causing anxiety and stress and may be related to the dream thing?

[TheOriginalMe]

I don't know if Valdoxan (Agomelatine) is licenced where you are, it is an antidepressant that works on melatonin and restores the body's natural circadian rhythmns. Since I've been taking it my sleep has been very natural, 8 hours, no significant episodes of wakening, and far fewer dreams than I was getting on SNRI / SSRI meds. Sadly as far as my mood is concerned it isn't doing much, but I'm reluctant to change meds again and the benefit to my sleep pattern is a definite advantage. The best part is that there is no residual drowsiness in the daytime.