Medication Dreams

[TelephoneAngel]

For the past week, I've been rescribed an antihistamine for an allergy I have, and I've been having really vivid dreams with it (like eating something and really tasting it, or last night that I was talking to my sister and it was so REAL).

Anyone else have these vivid dreams with medication? I'm not worried about it, and they aren't nightmares, but it just seems a bit weird that medication can alter the brain? I'm guessing that's what happens...........so things seem so much sharper in dreams.

[Fire_on_High]

Sudafed reliably makes me have dreams that feel like being awake, and usually doing the least pleasant repetitive chore I've been doing lately...do you know how much of a drag it is to configure Healbot for 6 hours straight, and none of your options are there when you log in?

[zombiequeen]

I take Benadryl at night because I live in an old house and I'm allergic to dust. I get those really vivid dreams too, the other night I was running and running and I couldn't get anywhere, and when I woke up, my husband said I kept kicking him :rolleyes:
Of course, I've had some really freaky nightmares lately too...those got scary.

[trailerparkmedic]

When I'm on codeine, I dream of things covered in blood.

I'm not surprised that antihistamines could mess with your dreams. I'm poking around Wikipedia and it looks like at least some histamines receptors are in your central nervous system (brain and spine) so that means antihistamines will be floating around in your nervous system to block them. Anything that affects your brain can have bizarre side effects.

If you're really curious, I could bug my Pharmacology professor. He is a pharmacist and likes answering our weird questions.

[TheSHAD0W]

I've heard of Advil giving people strange dreams, too.

[Greenday]

Beer and alcohol give me crazy dreams. I love it.

[BookstoreEscapee]

I've never had it happen, but I have heard of it.

Well, I never remember my dreams, so maybe it has happened and I just don't recall in the morning. :shrug:

[MaggieTheCat]

I've never had strange dreams due to medication, or at least not that I'm aware. I take Advil a lot (it's my drug of choice for pretty much everything except Migraines...I don't take it every night or anything, but usually at least once a week or so I take a couple if I have a backache or minor headache before bed.) Maybe I should keep a dream diary whenever I take it and see if there's some correlation between it and my dreams. I dream so often that I never thought to see if they're connected to something else.

I have had extremely vivid dreams before, though. I remember a time when I was in college, for a couple weeks, I had a few very vivid dreams of me talking to professors, and I honestly could not remember whether the conversation actually took place or not. To this day I don't know if they were dreams or real (the conversations weren't really important enough to double check, but it sure was strange wondering to myself whether I had actually had a conversation with someone or not.)

[sarasquirrel]

ive always had strange dreams, and they tend to amuse my friends haha

but i kinda noticed that since i started the generic celexa, my dreams are still strange, but more vivid or something. i do take it at night, but the dreams dont really ever bug me that much. some are pretty damn cool, some are *meh*, and once in a while i'll have a bad one

[Greenday]

Friday night, had a nice vivid dream involving me crashing into someone illegally entering an intersection but I was able to walk away from it. I'd prefer it if this wasn't one of my many premonition dreams that I tend to have.

Drank during the Jets/Yankees games tonight. Should be set for messed up dreams. Add in that my ex-girlfriend from senior year of high school/fall semester freshman college year just messaged me tonight on facebook and God knows what can happen while I'm sleeping.

[TelephoneAngel]

Had really vivid dream about caving of all things last night and people looking for nice purple crystal rocks. :)

[Cazzi]

I've always had pretty vivid & sometimes fairy lucid dreams.They get to epic proportions when I take some brands of anti-inflammatories (sp?).

With some types of antibiotics I get nightmares for a night or 3 after finishing a course :cry:

[Mytical]

I've always had pretty vivid & sometimes fairy lucid dreams.They get to epic proportions when I take some brands of anti-inflammatories (sp?).

With some types of antibiotics I get nightmares for a night or 3 after finishing a course :cry:

This. One dream was so vivid I was able to describe a house IN DETAIL that I had never stepped foot in. Down to the cracks in the porch.

[Greenday]

Dreamed the other night that I was in an accident in the middle of an intersection/ Pretty bad damage to the cars. I was able to just walk away. Not sure about the other guy.

Took an ambien for the first time tonight. Took awhile for me to feel anything (around an hour) but now I feel like I've lost motor control. Can't wait for any hallucinations or crazy dreams.

[Ben_Who]

Vicodin and its generic equivalents tend to make my evenings interesting. My last course of painkillers, some weeks ago, I spent a night riding a bear through the snow-covered peaks of Dun Morogh, repairing bridges with a hammer that looked like Mjollnir. Fast-forward two weeks, the highlight of my dreamscape was attending a Seltzer and Friedberg movie and getting TWO boxes of popcorn.

Love, Who?

[sportsmom]

I don't know about vivid dreams, but there's an anxiety med out there that made my daddy hallucinate twice. It happened the only two times he took that med, I just wish my mom could remember the name of it.

I missed both times, one was at my parents house and the other was in the hospital, but my mom told me about both of them and we still laugh ourselves silly when she tells the story of the first time, even though my daddy's been gone for 11 years now. Apparently, he hallucinated that he was at some festival in Germany that involved costumes and was rather annoyed with my mother that she couldn't see the other people, to the point where he asked her "What the hell is wrong with you woman?", and my father didn't curse at all. She finally just went along with it and tried not to laugh too hard.

BTW, mom couldn't remember what festival it was either, even though he told her. Anyone have any ideas?