[ginaaa22]

I never used to have nightmares or really dream...if i did i dont remember. I dont think I went into REM very much. I always sleep alot but never feel rested. Ive been taking trazadone for sleep and now I'm having nightmares and I have them even when I dont take it. The nightmares are about different things...not always the same dream. Last night I had a nighmares an hour after falling asleep which is a night terror and then another nightmare about 6 hours after falling asleep which is a nightmare...according to webmd. There is a list of meds that can cause nightmares and trazadone is on there... But like I said I have them even when I dont take it.

[Thunder Bow]

Dreams are all about feelings. Feel free to share them here.

[ginaaa22]

well lets see im bipolar and have BPD so I feel everything. Depressed, anxious, stressed, worthless, impulsive, aggressive, empty, loving, giving, tired, busy...my emotions are all over the place. my nightmares are always different but I always wake up really hot and my fiance tells me that I move alot when I sleep and sometimes I scream or talk.

[shabur]

ginaaa22, I know how you feel. I used to have nightmares as a kid, but was fine for many years. Then when my depression hit the nightmares came back so hard it felt like I ran into a wall. Sometimes they build on the last one, sometimes they are totally different. I did learn a way to analyze my dreams from my group therapist that does help.

For purposes of explaining this process I'll tell you one of my dreams. In this dream I find myself naked, again, and I think to myself "when will I learn". I am outside in a park with a lot of people who are looking at me. I am trying everything to cover myself when I see a bright white gazebo. I run to the gazebo and try to hide, but realize the lattice work is very open - its the best I can do. People continue to stare and I continue to try to cover myself.

So, you start by writing down the major pieces of the dream. In this case they are:
I'm naked (again)
People
Park
Bright white gazebo
Lattice

Then you write words for each of these that describe how these words "feel".
I'm naked (again) - ugly, exposed, futile, fragile, ...
People - disgusted, horrified, laughing at me, ...
Park - open for all to see, ...
Bright white gazebo - pure, on view, ...
Lattice - open, unable to hide, ...

The 3rd step is to write down what these components are telling you.
I'm naked (again) - you are so ugly, there is nothing here to protect you, everyone sees everything, ...
People - look at her, how can she walk around without anything covering herself, ...
Park - you are here for all to see, there is no place to hide, ...
Bright white gazebo - I am clean and you are dirty, you are here for all to see, ...
Lattice - you can't hide here, everyone can still see you

And finally, you look over all this and you should be able to come to a conclusion. In my case, I was working on the sexual abuse I experienced as a child. No one ever knew this happened until I told my Tdoc. I felt it was all my fault. My abuser made me feel like I wanted it and liked it. Now my secret was out there in the open, there was no hiding it anymore. I always thought that if people knew they would take the "Ew, you're disgusting" approach. I felt like my purity was taken away.

There was more to this, but I hope you get the idea. I still do this when I have a particularly bad nightmare and it helps me understand which takes away the fears my nightmares give me.

I have nightmares constantly. On medications or not. I have to agree that dreams are feelings. But I have noticed that I have nightmares more so when I am overly stressed or angry. But with also being pregnant for the third time, my dreams are really really weird to. But when I have dreams that will "bug" at me until I write it down. I will look at everything I have written and will figure out what the dreams meaning really is. Like the other night I had a dream that I was in car with my sister and she was driving and the car in front of us had her boyfriend and my husband in it. The car that my husband was in did a role over and my husband was stuck in the car and my sisters boyfriend walked away with nothing.

There are a few things about this dream...
1. The whole role over and my husband being stuck but the driver walking away free, is actually a manifestation of a few things. (I had an ex die like that back in 04, the driver walked away and he died in the car trapped)
My dreaming that my husband would be in the same thing is my great fear that I will lose my husband the same way that I lost my ex. Another being that I am deathly terrified of cars and to me cars will always end up either hurting me or someone I love and there is nothing I can do.
2. That I will have to watch him die and I will be raising the kids without a father. Knowing that the driver walked away free and he died would only make me really angry.

[Stronger]

((((Gianaaa))))
I know how you feel. Nightmares are awful! I get them every night too. Except mine are usually about a PTSD event that happened years ago. My pdoc prescribed me prazosin and gabapentin to take at night before bed to help with the nightmares. So far it hasn't done much, but I haven't been on it for too long. Maybe try talking to your pdoc about the nightmares? He/she might be able to help some. Also your t should be pretty helpful. A lot of the Ts I've had are really into dream interpretation.

And we all want you to know that even though you may feel worthless, you are NOT worthless, mija!
You are worth so much more than you could ever realize!!

Hang in there, my friend. You are not alone.

[ginaaa22]

ive mentioned it to my pdoc several times and my t says that i have ptsd from when i was a child and thats what my nightmares are from. he didnt say how to get rid of them. im going to mention it to my pdoc again and basically demand something to help it instead of trazadone for sleep.

[rhcpfan713]

i have stressful dreams. i wouldn't call them nightmares, because they aren't "scary" per se. They also are pretty easy to interpret i think..
I'll be walking to class and i realize i'm late. (i really really hate being late, it makes me stress) i walk into the room and all eyes are on me. Then i realize that it's an exam! so i'm freaking out in the back of the classroom, when i realize i forgot to bring my laptop to class, leaving me unable to complete the exam..
these are things that i stress out about in real life!
Another example.. i go to take my birth control and all of the pills popped out so i don't know when to take which pill! then i get that horrible feeling in the pit of my stomach.
These are all issues that i have been working on in therapy FOR YEARS. but only in the past few months have i been having these stressful dreams.. i wake up in the morning already feeling anxious!
why is this happening??

dx: GAD, social phobia, major depressive disorder, intrusive&obsessive thoughts
meds: 60 mg cymbalta, 450 mg wellbutrin, 50 mg seroquel

There is now a drug specifically for night terrors and PTSD dreams. It's called cyproheptadine, and it really works. I'm a Vet and they prescribe it for me through the VA. But I swear by it. So nice not to wake up sobbing or screaming or feeling like you're choking to death.

[ginaaa22]

Does it help u sleep?

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Yes, most of the time. And I don't wake up feeling groggy or as if I have to brush all the cobwebs away or the risidual darkness my PTSD dreams leave me with.
Honestly, nothing has ever worked as well for me.

[Total]

I have frequent nightmares and have been told it's due to my PTSD. The topic is consistently snakes which is also what I see when I'm psychotic. Any interpretations or analysis?

Sorry-posted the same answer twice.

[in-balance]

This is weird, but I've been having these vivid (sometimes lucid) nightmares where I'm losing all my teeth. I have sensations of this, go through feelings of deep regret, fear, and loss; at least once during these dreams I wonder if I'll ever smile again.

Some people think that losing your teeth in a dream is a premonition of death. A close family member has cancer, so the superstitious part of me is worried.

Does anyone have any other interpretations?

[ginaaa22]

Started taking seroquel n no nightmares

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