Zoloft dreams

Hello,

I have been on zoloft for 4 weeks now at 25 mgs. I have been steadily improving, but have been increasingly having crazy dreams. I seem to wake up each morning around 4 or 5 and shake from anxiety. As I approach that time, my dreams become weird and dark. Does this improve over time? My doc wants to increase me to 50 mgs, but I don't want the dreams to get worse. Even the good dreams are vivid and make me feel weird. That said, it is a blessing to be sleeping! Zoloft users, do you notice this side effect changes and gets better with time? Zoloft has really helped my anxiety, I don't want to change now!

Kimomile, I take Zoloft, and in the beginning you do get some pretty srange and vivid dreams, but I can tell you that they do get better, and go away. You might have a weird dream every once in a while but that's it. Don't be affraid to step up your dosage if that's what the doc wants you to do. It does get better! Good luck! Fox

I have been on and off lexapro for years. SSRI's cause repetitive freaky dreams for me. I have 3 basic dreams. I am back in a college dorm/apartment, wondering when I can return to my wife and kids. I am in an airport/train station trying to get home, but i have no ID/money, I have to find a bike to get home, but it has flat tires, and I have to pedal through a West Philadelphia ghetto to get home. I have to urinate, but my only option is a public bathroom where the floor is covered in feces and I have bare feet.

These dreams must have some meaning, but I haven't figured them out. They go away when I drop the lexapro ( along with weight and painful ejaculations). But my anxiety creeps back up.