Apparently - Nightmares occur more frequently in patients with schizophrenia than they do in the general population . Nightmares are profoundly distressing and may exacerbate daytime psychotic symptoms and undermine day-to-day function. - according to google.
I just woke from another really vivid dream. Covered in sweat. Took a 0.5mg of Xanax to calm down.
My question is . Is this psychosis being played out in my subconscious mind? I take my ablify in the mornings and I’m on a depot. During the day I’m fine considering but once I go to sleep it’s a rolla coaster of vivid dreams.
I just read that research suggests people with psychosis experience more distressing and chaotic dreams because of thought disorder and anxiety, etc. But it said people with schizophrenia specifically have less emotional dreams overall. Also they dream less about people they know. It was just one research article i read and i dont know if its true.
@Moon my dreams aren’t always of people I know.
Sometimes they are even prophetic and come back as devavu.
Just things play out as I’ve dreamed in the past. So when I have a vivid or shocking dream I hope it doesn’t come true.
Could all be sz related or not. My dr doesn’t invest much time in this. But I find it all deeply disturbing.
." Kids with symptoms like these don’t necessarily have (or develop) a mental illness or disorder, and many times those experiences means nothing, Thompson says. But symptoms like these, especially on the more severe end of the spectrum, may be forerunners of psychotic illness like schizophrenia."
I watched a youtube video that said this dream people are people you have crossed with on the street or somewhere else at one point in your life you never met them but you saw them and your brain shows them up on your dreams.
Very interesting. But the characters in my dreams are well developed and I have no idea where I could have met them before. So I guess they could be in my subconscious from many years ago.
I take them in my morning meds every day as my dr says they cause insomnia which I suffer with greatly and I’m on sleeping meds every night. I haven’t had a peaceful nights sleep in years.
I had insomnia since the age of 13. No known cause. Only genetics as my father has always suffered from insomnia.
I’d say I’ve had nightmares since I was 21 and moved countries. But when younger I could handle sleepless night and now at 45 I need some peaceful sleep.
If I nap in the day I don’t have vivid dreams or terrors.
It’s bad but I don’t feel sorry for myself. It’s just draining. I was wondering if there is any link to sz or if any of you fine folk experience the same or similar?
I developed insomnia over the years it got severe when I was 18 I couldn’t have a good sleep hygene to save my life I lived like that for 5 years until I was properly medicated.
When i left the ward my nightmares were quite surreal. The memories of specific dreams leave me feeling unsettled. Its basically my brain trying to process my experience.
Mainly, i dream about old friends and the area which I grew up in. I feel as though to interpret it as our lost souls drifting about in the subconscious realm , often i’m on a mission to get home.
That’s exactly what my dr put me on last month. The terrors and nightmares stopped but still very vivid dreams which is almost as bad. Did you find you got a metallic taste with your lunesta? I have. It also wakes me up and I need something sweet to eat or drink to combat the metallic taste. Which I will probably put weight on because of that so I’m going to ask the dr to change that one tablet again.