Vivid weird dreams every night which I find unsettling

My weird dreams and occasional night terrors are caused by medication.

Most people dream vividly every night but don’t wake up enough to remember them.

Your sleep sends to be disturbed and I’d address that rather than Psycho analysing.

There may be a switch in your boiler or external noise which wakes you?

You may be eating too late, or you may have inflammation. Are you pre diabetic? Have just had Covid?

Dreams are interesting and it might be fun to write them down when you wake up? As I say most people don’t wake up in the middle of their dreams, so forget them entirely. You’re lucky in a way as you can recall yours.

I don't dream much anymore but sometimes cheese and spicy food will make me dream!

If I have an unusual dream I usually think back to what I was eating around bedtime!

I have phases of having weird dreams but it passes. I've never been able to work out what causes them. I know it can be linked to anxiety or some foods but for me they arrive out of nowhere.

I have some challenging dreams every night.

That Kylie Minogue, I tell you, if she ever asks you to plan her wedding, just say no!!

Don’t go to sleep on a full tum, the emptier the better.

MissAdventure

I have some challenging dreams every night.

That Kylie Minogue, I tell you, if she ever asks you to plan her wedding, just say no!!

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MissAdventure

I have some challenging dreams every night.

That Kylie Minogue, I tell you, if she ever asks you to plan her wedding, just say no!!

I will remember this sage advice

I too started getting vivid dreams that woke me up. I happened to mention it to my Cardiologist who said it was probably the Beta Blockers.
Check out if you are on any Meds as it could be a side effect?

Thanks, all for the advice and suggestions. I am on medication but none of them specify effects on dreaming in their information, and they seem to list everything under the sun as sfx! I know I sometimes eat too late and that can disrupt sleep but what's puzzling is that these episodes come in clusters - on consecutive nights for several weeks, then disappear altogether for a while. Same with disrupted sleep: I can sleep undisturbed for a considerable while then the broken sleep starts again. Maybe I'm just getting old! At least there hasn't been a flood of replies telling me to seek psychiatric help!

I suffer from nightmares .
My mother had them .My son had night terrors .
I wonder if they are caused by genetics .
I get them when I'm worried about something or feel pressurised in some way .
I take magnesium tablets .
I also find taking a little walk or doing some yoga late at night a help .
A warm milky drink sweetened with honey is another good idea .
Good luck .

Esmay

I suffer from nightmares .
My mother had them .My son had night terrors .
I wonder if they are caused by genetics .
I get them when I'm worried about something or feel pressurised in some way .
I take magnesium tablets .
I also find taking a little walk or doing some yoga late at night a help .
A warm milky drink sweetened with honey is another good idea .
Good luck .

Interesting Esmay. I do take magnesium, nominally for leg cramps - haven't noticed any benefit to sleep though. My son had night terrors from about age 3 but none of my 3 daughters suffered. We are very complex creatures...

Are you on statins? They can trigger vivid dreams.

Calendargirl

Are you on statins? They can trigger vivid dreams.

Hi. No. I've refused statins several times so they're not the culprit!

My friend has dreadful nightmares due to heart medication. Her cardiologist said it is quite common. She says it is exhausting.

It biologics for RA, which cause mine.
DH gets such a fright, when I start screaming /thinking I am being murdered!
It is so real, it leaves me upset fro the rest of the day.

I always remember my dreams and they are mostly about my late husband, but he is always young in them and I can remember every detail of them. I also have some weird dreams and think I have woken up screaming as I was screaming in my dreams but I would not know as I have no-one to tell me if I was really screaming. I have dreamed that there were spiders in my bed and jumped out of bed and stripped it before I realised it was a dream. I think I have a very active mind and watch far too many movies.

I used to get very vivid and startling dreams during both my pregnancies
When I was stopping smoking years ago the nicotine patches gave me very frightening dreams.I changed to the ones you took of t night and that stopped them

Marydoll

It biologics for RA, which cause mine.
DH gets such a fright, when I start screaming /thinking I am being murdered!
It is so real, it leaves me upset fro the rest of the day.

Hi Mary doll, I am also on a biological for RA but have been for several years so I didn't think they were causing my excessive dreaming. But thinking about it maybe they are responsible. Thankfully, I don't have a partner to disturb but I'm sorry yours are so bad that you wake up screaming

Oldbat1 - I'm not on heart medication as such, just hypertension meds.

Pinkprincess - I do recall some vivid dreams when pregnant but they didn't bother me then. When I went back on hrt last year, my sleep vastly improved.

Bigbopper - I think we would all respond the same way to a dream about spiders in the bed!! Yikes!

Outcast, I have been on three different biologics and have to keep changing every so often, when I can no longer tolerate them.

It was another Gransnetter, who warned me about them, when I first started them.

I have patches of horrible dreams and can wake up sweating with my heart going full pelt. One time I woke convinced there was someone in the house and it took me all my time to put the light on and not phone the police but go round and check that there was no one there. When my husband was alive he was the greatest help, firstly by just being there, which helped me to realise what had gone before was a dream and also if I was screaming or crying or whatever he would put his arms round me and help me to wake up to real life. Wish he was still here . After various efforts to work out why and what to do etc I finally came to the conclusion that I could not do anything to stop them, and the less I thought about them the better and just dealt with them as they occurred. I think that thinking about them a lot tends to encourage them to repeat. So I usually put the light on, just try and breathe more slowly and accept that it was just a dream. Then I often read for a little to calm down and put my mind on something else. Depending on the time I then try to go back to sleep but more often accept that I have an early start and get up and make a drink and start the day.

My partner began to have really vivid and sometimes slightly disturbing dreams after he started taking statins.

Hello. Sorry to hear your having this problem . I have dreams that mostly i can t remember but leave me feeling disturbed when i wake up . I look on google at dream interptritations and often what they say would apply to me and is nt as worrying as i thought .