severe dreams

I've always loved dreaming. What I found strange and interesting was that when I was badly depressed, I never felt down when I was dreaming. How do I know that? BecAuse I remember my dreams. Did it indicate that It ywas my life circumstances making me depressed and that I wasn't intrinsically depressed? Always questioning everyfink.
Nicotine patches give one vivid dreams.

I suffered vivid dreams which I acted out, climbing on to dressing table and running downstairs, this was before I started on meds that cause weird dreams. After certain drugs I had horrible nightmares too.

In my dreams last night the words "add comment" kept cropping up.

My mother had Lewy Body Disease which is a dementia illness closely related to Parkinsons. One of her first symptoms was violent dreams re-enacted - she would throw herself about the bed.

My OH has PD and he enacts his dreams - he tried to screw my arm off once when fighting off some demon in his dream! - but he is on some medication for it now and I get a night's sleep!

So yes, this can be a symptom of PD or dementia.

Sorry Cath9 but not sure what you mean when you say This can lead to Parkinsons or demenia ? Do you mean Anxiety or going to Uni leads to P or D ? It sounds a bit worrying if the person is hurting themselves or someone else regardless of bad dreams . How are you trying to help ? and would an appointment with the GP be a better option . Sorry if I have got the wrong end of the stick x

Is it something to do with medication? Some meds can cause such dreams