Vivid weird dreams every night which I find unsettling

Funny how since this thread appeared I've started getting lots of dreams- haven't had any for ages and now several a night. What's going on??

You must be like everything else, and dealing with a backlog.
Hope they're nice ones.

I’ve had vivid and disturbing dreams most of my life, I remember many of them.

I think it’s because my brain never seems to completely switch off.

I wonder sometimes if my dreams are challenging because I don't get enough stimulation.

It probably is meds, though, I guess.

keepingquiet

Funny how since this thread appeared I've started getting lots of dreams- haven't had any for ages and now several a night. What's going on??

Oops! Sorry!

Do you take Montelukast? I was started on this for my asthma about 10 years ago (it's very good) and it causes very vivid dreams.
It's a medication that can also, in rare cases, cause depression and suicidal thoughts, so you should always be warned about this possibility. I just get the vivid dreams - usually when I've gone to the loo in the early morning and then dropped off again - but because I know what causes them, I don't worry about them.

Yes! I've taken it for years, but it doesn't explain why I go for a long time without dreaming, even if I get up around dawn to visit the loo almost every night.

I've put last night's bumper crop down to the curry I had last night, cheese and red wine sometimes do it too!

Madmeg

I've had various periods of dreaming but nowadays, despite being on a raft of medications, including betablockers and statins, it is very rare that one disturbs me or I even remember it. When my mum had dementia and a neighbour saw her admitting a stranger to her house late at night I dreamt several times that someone had attacked her. I was relieved when I found her a care home and that dream ceased. When I was a child I used to dream I was in a friend's house and heard a noise on the stairs. I went to the staircase and there was a brown bear coming down. I stood there frozen but when it reached me I floated up to the ceiling and it couldn't reach me. Then I woke up. I dreamt it so often that I use to think to myself "just stand here and you'll float up to the ceiling" - and it worked!!!

Did the bear represent someone or something in the friend's house that scared you?

Are you over 65?it could be any medication you are on,but sorry to say that sometimes it’s associated with increasingly bad memory loss.Maybe speak to your dr.

Check the temperature in your bedroom before you go to bed. Is it well ventilated and can you leave the windows open and the curtains slightly open to get a flow of air in? I only get vivid dreams when I am hot in bed (not that sort of hot!) and wake at 4 a.m. and can't get back to sleep. I make a cuppa, sit and read, Gnet and go back to bed after half an hour. Also, the night before I try to be in bed by 10 p.m. lights out at 10.30 p.m. as I am a poor creature of habit. No drinks or lap top after 9 p.m. Sweet dreams!

Suedoko - I’m on them as well - last night I dreamt of a large python-type snake . I can cope with that but I hope I don’t get depressed or have suicidal thoughts 😫