[Browneyes2011]

Well I haven't been able to dream sens I was a baby I never want into rim sleep in tell about a few months ago I started taking less medication for my schizoaffictive disorder the doctor said I don't need it as much as I us to. After a week of taking the new dosses I began to have what I thought was hallucinations when I would go to sleep but I found they where dreams.

I have had one dream over and over again and it disturbs me a bet because I have certain believes I now that it could never happen. I am wondering what this dream means.

The dream starts I am waking up to a door to a house I don't recognize and a butler opens the door I go in and I see my friends and family standing around they were drinking what looked like red wine I want in and sat near the back wall of the room and everyone started to come over to me and try handing me some wine when I took the first class that was offered to me I want to drink it and it was blood I looked up to find everyone had turned into vampires and they were staring at me like they were waiting for me to do something but I end up waking up to screaming and crying.

[yellowted]

could it possibly be to do with you unconciously feeling vulnerable about reducing your meds, scared that you may relapse, scared that those you trust with your health have made a wrong decision to reduce your meds?

The dream starts I am waking up to a door transition from one place to another/ change to a house I don't recognize just started dreaming shows your unconcious is at a different level/ new/ unfamiliar place than before and a butler person in position of trust opens the door I go in and I see my friends and family standing around they were drinking what looked like red wine I want in and sat near the back wall trying to protect yourself of the room and everyone started to come over to me and try handing me some wine memories of happy times when you were well possibly or to symbolise you were in a stable place when I took the first class that was offered to me I want to drink it and it was blood tricked/deceived I looked up to find everyone had turned into vampires reality changed, you feel your stable place has changed dramatically and they were staring at me like they were waiting for me to do something unsure about what to / you will do but I end up waking up to screaming and crying. you want to be safe and well so waking up is your brains way of bringing you back to the safety of reality and you bed this is only my perception, not medical or trained in dream interpretation.

if it is then it should pass as you learn to believe that you are ok on the lower dose and get used to the new place you mind is at. before going to sleep try telling yourself that your doc knows what he is doing, the dose is right for you and that you are ok on the dose you take. other stratagy to try is think of youself taking a walk along the coast, picture the beach, hear the sea crashing on the shore....make a story from this in your mind as you drift off.

[Missingno]

I have no idea about the dream meaning, but the change in your medication is probably the trigger.

Medications all effect the body's chemistry. Seeing that your medication is for a serious thing (not simply attention like for me) the change in the dose should create some chaos in the body, likely showing its ugly head in your dreams.

Also, you might want to hold a cross, a bottle of holy water, a wooden stake, or a clove of garlic when you go to sleep, so you take it with you into the dream. If you want, taking a whip would be good too, if you play Castlevainia that is!

All in all, remember that dreams aren't real. I recommend talking with your parents about it and squeezing some soft object if you feel really scared. Hope this helps you out.

[Browneyes2011]

Thank you to both of you,
I think Yellowted that you are right it could be my meds.

and Missingno I think I may try to dream that I have a cross holy water and wooden stake and for garlic I don't like garlic so out of the question lols . and I live on my own so telling my parents would be out as will. and I wasn't really scared in tell I woke from the dream.

[yellowted]

hows it going browneyes2011? are you sleeping better?

[Browneyes2011]

Not really I never sleep well I have always had problems with it but I get enough sleep that can function. Thank you for asking I hope you are doing well.

[emptyalways]

I don't dream at all since I started taking meds, it is the strangest feeling ever. If I forget to take the tablet at night I have the worst negative dreams ever, like everything in my life is going to fail at the one time. I wake up in shock, scared and distressed. To stop dreaming then return is the scariest thing ever.

[Browneyes2011]

I never dreamed in my hole life in tell resonantly I started on new meds and for some reason I dream now, very vividly I seam to dream about vampires though I don't now why. I don't even read or watch any thing with vampires in it so I'm not sure why it comes up in my dreams. I couldn't go into rime that's the kind of sleep we need to gite a restful sleep. I had no raped eye movement in my sleep I had a doctor tell me my brain doesn't shot down for sleep I have constant brain activity so I have a high heart rate and high mood all of the time, and racing thoughts. I thought for many years it was my schizophrenia but doctor says it's not, the meds would take it away if it was and plus they did tests. It's always one thing after another with me iee something odd always comes up with my medical conditions. I even have a weird eye problem my iris goes from dark brown to a tent of red and very lite pink it's really odd I go to the eye doctor for it soon hopefully they can give me answers to whey they change. Hopefully!