I actually used alcohol as my main sleeping medicine for 20 years, I have only stopped drinking 3 weeks ago, I am on Fluvoxamine to help me sleep at the moment, Fluvoxamine is basically the ssri version of Amitriptyline and used mainly for OCD.
Prazosin and Clonidine both work on the alpha-adrenaline receptors in your body.
I think you are on to something here. 
No problem. Yeah seems like a big issue. For me sleep sacred, if I donāt sleep at least 8-9 hours I suffer from depersonalasition. That feels like a psychosis but only last for a couple of hours. Maybe @tera option is also something for your conditionā¦?
I donāt no man, I just can bring much Hope from SSRIās. But I will sure keep that med also in my mind.
@tera how does a āadrenaline rushā (from vivid dreams) feels for you (symtomps/description)? Right now Iām unable to do some research on the med you proposed. But from the way you describe your symptoms it kinda made me excited and hopeful that this drug might also work on me.
a panic attack is a rush of adrenaline as far as I know. You know you can feel it rise up in you and your heart starts racing and you thoughts narrow down and fixate, you get tunnel vision and you feel like you have to run, and of course youāre wide awake. Thatās how the dreams were affecting me, well maybe not that extreme. But definitely enough of that stuff to get me wide awake.
I started out on 1 mg of the prasozin and slowly worked my way up to 5 mg and they all of a sudden stopped just like that. I swear I havenāt been awakened by a dream since then. I understand that Iām probably still dreaming but Iām not even remembering my dreams at all. I should say that I was diagnosed with PTSD years ago and they use this med for PTSD but I see no reason why it wonāt help you because you said you were waking up when you start to dream. Iām not sure if it will work but I really hope it does. Sleep is everything when youāre suffering from mental illness. Without sleep there is no chance for wellness, in my opinion.
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i wake up like 3-4 times a night but sleep like 10 hours total since switching from geodon to abilify idk why
Lol if I had a penny for every time someone recommended melatonin to me 
The best sleep I ever got was on combination Ativan+trazodone. I wake up multiple times like you but that basically knocked me out the entire night, didnāt wake up once.
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Thatās sorta the case right now with me my friend. For me it only itās 7-8 times with a total of 9-10 hours a sleep. (At least when Iām home, elsewhere itās worse!)
That waking up just not once has been my wish for 12 years! (Since I got schizophrenia)
Bad news on Prazosin, it is off the market in my country. My psychiatrist/pharmacy might be able to order it from a different country but got the news my pdoc is going on vacation and I have to wait a month for an appointment.
Have researched this drug and I canāt wait to try it, this might be the Silver bullet Iāve been looking for for 12 years. Gonna order it online once I find a cheap and reliable source (also because I have no high hopes my pdoc will prescribe it to me off-label because itās against the treatment guidelines).
How are you doing. I am also on Zyprexa looking for something else.
Sleepā¦ still the sameā¦ badā¦! still wake-up every 1 or 2 hours. Meanwhile I had a sleep-study (polysomnografy) done. They told me my sleep-wake cycle is messed up (like I didnāt know that already). Iāve been trying a CPAP machine (even though I do not suffer from sleep-apnea) the past 4 weeks, seems like that wonāt fix it either. Unfortunately I still rely on Mirtazapine + Temazepam midweeks and Mirtazapine + alcohol in the weekendās, the last one is the only combo that gives me a solid 10 hour restful sleep.
I take 2 flexiril and sleep more deeply. Still wake up sometimes but not as often.
I take Phenibut for sleep but I cycle it.
L Theanine, Taurine, GABA, Passion Flower, Melatonin, Valerian Root are all great supplements for sleep.
If youāre going through the med route I recommend a benzo.
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huh?
My APās and trazadone put me out
it depends
sometimes up at 3 a.m.
I would suggest exercise.
Phenibut I might try but unfortunately itās not a clean drug/nootropic to take everyday.
Iāve tried everything you mention except passion flower, non helped.
@anon4362788 if Iām not mistaken Flexiril is Temazepam, which Iām already taking. It helps me too fall a sleep but doesnāt keep me at sleep.
@Daze Trazadone Iāve also tried but it doesnāt go well with Latuda and if thatās not the case, I just canāt tolerate that drug. Iām already exercising, that doesnāt help my sleep either.
Flexiril is cyclobenzoprine in the US.
I used to wake up 20+ times every night. It was probably stress-related. It went away on its own. I reckon your problem isnāt really medical, so donāt limit yourself to only trying meds for this. Lifestyle changes and stress management might work just as well or better.
Oh my bad @anon4362788, Cyclo is not available in the Netherlands.
@anon9798425 my interrupted sleep-cycle did start after a psychosis 2 years ago. Although itās been a very long time that I donāt stress about it or anything else than more than usually, so I doubt itās purely psychological. Luckily I donāt have nightmares but my actual problem is that I wake up due to (realization that Iām) dreaming.
Since Iām running out of possible solutions and the fact that I react positive to an alcohol induced sleep I might push my doc to let me try what looks chemically similar to it, Xyrem (pharmaceutical grade GHB).