Dreams and SZ

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Hello guys, I am interested on SZ.
How often do you have dream? Do you remember them?
How much time do you sleep? Is it difficult for you to sleep?
Are you taking medicine for your SZ?
If you feel better now, your amount of dreams changed than when you where bad?
Do you have a light sleep?

Thanks and best regards!

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I usually dream when I sleep. The past few nights I have gotten about three hours of sleep. My sleep patterns vary. I am taking the anti-psychotics Geodon and Seroquel for my sz. I usually have a hard time falling asleep at night. I often get my days and nights turned around.

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i am using temazepam 20 mg for sleep.
and 20 mg zyprexa as an AP.

so i get a good 8+ hours of sleep.

yet i dream more and can remember them, than without meds

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And when you started to develop SZ symptoms, how often did you dream ? Did you remember the dreams ?
I am interested on it because I read an article on internet that says that on SZ people, there are less REM (Rapid Eye Movements) phase of dream than in people without it.

Thanks for the replays!

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I try and maintain good sleep hygiene. Go to bed at the same time every night. Get my 6 to 7+ in.

But I sort of waiver between not remembering the dreams AT all or waking up convince it actually happened because it was so freaking vivid.

Also… I’m a chronic sleep walker. My sis even put an alarm on the door so I can’t get out like I used to. It’s really not uncommon for me to wake up in a vastly different room then my bed room. (kitchen floor, my sisters bedroom floor, curled up in the hallway)

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  1. I dream every night. (Actually everyone dreams every night, just not everyone remembers them.

  2. I remember almost all of my dreams. I would say I remember about 95 percent.

  3. I usually get 6-8 hours of sleep on a normal day. If I’m in an episode or otherwise in a paranoid mood I could get as few as 2-3. I have also gone entire nights without sleeping, though I usually force myself to sleep at least an hour. It does take me a long time to fall asleep, around 30 minutes on a good day.

  4. I am not on any medication currently.

  5. Whether I am in an episode or not seems to have little to no effect on my dreams, interestingly enough. I have studied this. However, my delusions and beliefs do tend to show up in my dreams and create themes.

  6. I wouldn’t call myself a heavy sleeper but I’m not really a light sleeper either. Once I fall asleep I’m good. It’s falling asleep that’s the problem.

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Thank you for your share Anna! I am studding Psychology and I am interested on Sz and the relationship with dreams.
I hope more people could share their experience.

Thank you!

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I am a psych student in university right now, I know that my meds mess with receptors that are associated with dreams. I have very vivid half of the time lucid dreams while I am well medicated. Nightmares when the medicine doesnt work and I get psychotic.

On my normal meds I sleep nine hours. On my emergency meds I sleep upwards of ten.

I remember my dreams on purpose most of the time, but sometimes forget them right after I wake up. Some dreams I remember from a very long time ago, some stick with me. Usually I remember for a few days and then the new dreams add up and I forget the ones from the week before. I have different scenes in each night of dreams.

I have dreams every damn night. Good ones and bad ones, bizarre ones too.

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my dreams are usually very odd and vivid or lucid. last night in the dream i freaked out on my parents in a rage yelling that they never listen to me and then i smashed my phone against the wall lol.

sillyness

but i have had bizarre dreams my entire life.

my parents said when i was like 3 or 5 i forget. I came into there room in the middle of the night sad cuz i thought my dad got baked into a pizza in the oven.