I’ve been taking Saroquel for just under a week now.. i dream every night and they’re so vivid. It’s like i’m myself.. but a different branch? Like i’ll dream about things that are happening in my life, but i’m a different version of me in the dream. It’s weird. Anyone notice anything similar on it?
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I did a quick perusal on some mental health forums that have a lot of seroquel users and apparently it’s very common to have bizarre, vivid dreams on the stuff. Huh. Learn something new every day.
lol. I noticed a trend in their posts, too – apparently, they have bizarre, slightly disturbing but very intense (and not nightmare) dreams that appear to generally make people feel like they’re going crazy or something. From the descriptions – and yours – I can see why you’d find it strange. I mean, I’ve had some weird experiences with dreams while taking antidepressants, but I’ve never taken anything like seroquel. I want to say my friend’s dad was taking it a year or two ago, but he switched to some atypical antipsychotic that works better for him. Not sure if he had similar experiences.
I was on Seroquel for about a year. Never had this happen to me. But I had extreme insomnia (and Seroquel straightened this out like you wouldn’t believe), so maybe the fact that I was fighting that kept me from having such dreams.
Hope it works out for you, Morrs.
i’ve been taking seroquel as well, but unfortunately i haven’t had the pleasure of the vivid dreams…when i first read the package insert it freaked me out, since it said it was an anti-psychotic, but a doctor friend of mine said it’s quite common to prescribe it off-label in small doses for insomnia
just a few days ago, i stopped taking it cause i was feeling very jittery, which i attributed to the seroquel
as anyone else felt that ?
Antipsychotics are weirdly related to antihistamines – some are direct derivatives of antihistamines like diphenhydramine (benadryl) or loratadine. That’s why they help with insomnia. Personally, I just take benadryl. It’s easier to get a hold of where I live.
I was given saroquel because i was taking gravol for sleep and began abusing it because it wasn’t working for sleep. My dose for saroquel is quite low.. 25mg taking one or two tablets. I didn’t expect to get any dreams from it. It’s nice to know it’s normal.. but it almost bugs me because i beginning to forget whats real and what was in my dream.
I’ve actually had those moments before, and I can still recall those dreams, even years later. I remember I fell asleep in an armchair by a window one day, in summer, in south Florida, with the window open, and I dreamed there was a dragon breathing fire on me from outside the house. Well, there kind of was – the sun gets really damn caustic down there. But after I woke up, I couldn’t shake the feeling that there was actually a dragon breathing fire on the house (even though I knew how absurd that notion was – it was a feeling more than the thought itself).
Is that kind of how your dreams are since starting with the seroquel?