Dreams/Nightmares

I'm curious if any others have frequent bad dreams and/or nightmares? I have them a lot. And any type of pain that is inflicted on me in the dreams I feel. I always thought that you weren't supposed to feel anything in your dreams. I'm think all of this happens because of some or all of the medication I take. Especially the neurontin??? Do any of you have painful nightmares?

Stephanie- Usually those nightmares and dreams can be caused by meds. I sometimes will have a bad one and it does shake you up. My husband never gets them.

Hi,

I know what you are talking about! I have had those dreams with and without meds. I normally have more dreams than most people but they have increased with fibro. I wouldn't call them nightmares- I don't wake up sweating and freaking out- but they are unsettling and can be traumatic- I am often being chased, having to rescue someone, essentially play the heroine in any science fiction, action, or horror movie. This happens most nights. Some dreams stick with me throughout the day.

Even normalish dreams can be very stressful. For example I had this humorous dream in which I was the hollywood personal assistant for an actor. The actor was a hamster but the hamster had a temper and kept getting in fights with people and I was always terrified he was about to be squished. So I would have to constantly rescue him and untangle him from fights. Not your average scary dream but very stressful!

I did read once that people who are more likely to remember their dreams and have scary dreams are people that have inconsistent sleep schedules.

It is so nice to hear other people say this! I have never met anyone else who remembers 5-10 dreams a night! I regale my husband with dream stories every morning and I tell him- you have no idea what it is like to live a entire lifetime during one night of sleep! It is exhausting. I fight creatures and battles, rescue children, and mourn thousands of my comrades- and I remember it all while you wake blissfully from sleep with no memories. He just shrugs at me! I find my dream life exhilarating but exhausting. I sometimes wish it would go away and the few times that it has- it makes me sad because they are such beautiful stories.

I often have alot of dreams and I currently am not on any meds. I have the same sense of feeling what you experience in the dream when you wake up, most of the time its more of a sensation, good or bad whichever i dream is what I feel when I wake up. If i broke my knee in the dream, i wake up with alot of knee pain. If i had a dream about getting a back rub, my back feels warm and nice when I wake up. strange

I don't remember many of my dreams. Sometimes just snippets of them.

Yevette, my first dreams I remember was in the sleep lab when I was first fitted for my cpap. It was so good! I didn't want to wake up.