I was talking with my friend and she told me that her dreams are very bland and in black and white.
Mine are the complete opposite. When I first developed sz symptoms, they became extravagant stories with vivid colors and flavors intertwined. I compare them to TV episodes because some have continuity.
So what are your dreams like?
Did they get more vivid after sz?
My dreams were always in color and very vivid. Iâve heard other people say that they had black and white dreams, a friend of mine that doesnât have any MI sees credits rolling on the end of some of her dreams lol, a lot of people without MI have vivid and colorful dreams.
I canât say they have⌠It all depends on how I sleep it seems to me. If I snooze I get vivid dreams, and this has been the case pre-sz as well. But I usually get up and get a coffee as soon as I wake up. I did continue to hallucinate and use coping techniques during dreams when psychotic.
I thought you were going to reveal what your âtotemâ was when I read the title 
My totem?
Whatâs my totem 
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if it falls youâre supposed to be dreaming or something like that.
Itâs an Inception reference Sharpii, flybottle likes to be mysterious 
I seem to have mainly nightmares or vivd widly eleborate lucid dreams anymore. Lucid dreams creep me out, it plays into my twisted probably delusional ideas of conciousness and perceptions of reality. I dont like either. I went 14 years thru teenage years and 20s without remembering having a single dream, wish i could go back to that, always dream now and i wake up creeped out or terrified many times thru each night. It was probably from all the weed i smoked during that time that i didnt have dreams.
If it falls youâre awake, if it keeps spinning youâre dreaming
I keep mixing them up 
Youâd make a great Leo DiCaprio
Oh man, Iâm sorry to hear that. I hope the nightmares clear up with time
Thatâs a thing I have heard more often. That once you quit it, you will notice to dream more
And since starting meds its always mostly nightmares, been years of them now. Different when i nap during the day they seem to not be as bad. But the sleep isnt as good either. Kind of an insomniac on and off lately.
Sorry to hear about the nightmares⌠I am not a steady sleeper, but fortunately nightmares have been a while. The last one was very weird, probably doesnât fit the profile of a real nightmare. Was me trying to understand something (donât know what) that I couldnât and it just lasted and lasted. Very weird, cause there wasnât like a setting in which this took place, just endless mental grasping without success. Difficult to picture. When I woke up I felt like I had been dreaming that for days.
I dont remember my dreams very much, but am told I thrash about in my sleep talking also. Its the overwhelming uneasyness or downright terror i wake up with thats so unsettling for me, not subject of the dream. In do have a repetitive dream that keep waking up and waking up from a nightmare, over and over and over, then I wake up and dont know whether im still in the dream or not. Really messes with me and possibly a trigger of 1 of my delusions.
I had such a waking-up-but-not-really dream once. It scared the crap out of me cause the first (fake) wake-up was exactly in my bedroom with everything as it is, just with a shady figure looking at me from the end of my bed. Then I woke up it was gone and I was confused and scared. I can see how this can feed into delusions of unreality really bad in szâŚ
That wake up dream is def troubling. I usually ask my wife if im awake to reality check myself. Last time i had it she told me 3 or 4 dif wake ups that i was awake, so my dream is catching on. Its always exactly like my bedroom, no discernable difference that i can tell usually except for the shadow figures or scary things that pop up. Ive been struggling with this dream for months. If anybody has any tips to conquer the âwake upâ dream let me know. Its a definite trigger for me on bad days.