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i've never had a problem with sleep. a few months ago, i decided i needed a change in my anti-depressants and have been working with a psychiatrist switching between medications to find what's right for me.
throughout this transition, my sleep has been affected. at first, i was sleeping too much-- 9+ hours a night AND 3-4 hour long naps during the day. now, i struggle to fall asleep (with and without sleep aids [over the counter or prescription]), i wake up at least 3 times throughout the night, and i have very long/vivid/disturbing dreams that i clearly remember EVERY SINGLE MORNING. i'm only 20 years old, so i wouldn't say aging has anything to do with the change in sleep pattern.
the dreams also seem to have nothing to do with my real life or inner emotions. for example, last night i was finally able to fall asleep without a sleeping pill (a rare occurrence). i had a very long and vivid dream following a young couple (that wasn't me or my partner and didn't have a single detail that correlated to our relationship). the young man ran away after the woman's mother yelled at him, so the young woman embarked on a journey across the great plains (befriending an amish father), over a snowy mountain, and through a homeless village until she found her lover, Marvin. this is an EXTREMELY simplified version of the dream. it does not include the explicit sex, the aggressive jet plane race, the kangaroo that peed on me, the death of my grandfather (who was crushed by an airplane in the dream), or the many innocents killed being run over by a train that started plummeting down the mountain backwards. and yet, im still only scratching the surface.
when i woke up, it was 11am, my left ass cheek was asleep, my wrist was locked and tingling, and i was both shivering and laying a pool of my own sweat.
this is a regular nightly occurrence, and in the morning i am confused and dazed. i don't feel like a normal person and i have to spend my morning readjusting to reality. and the dreams stick with me and make me feel weird throughout the whole day.
i told my psychiatrist about this at our meeting last month, and all he did was prescribe me a sleeping pill that only works if i take a full dose but leaves with an awful hangover effect the next day and does nothing to stop the weird ass dreams.
another strange side-note... the strange dreams happen when i sleep at my house and my parents house, and at both locations i also struggle to fall and stay asleep EVERY night. when i'm at my boyfriends house, though, i wake-up without remembering any dreams, fall asleep almost instantly, and stay asleep throughout the whole night. i never take sleeping pills at his house but i can hardly fall asleep without them anywhere else.
the only thing i can think to blame is my anti-depressants, but its my only side effect and i've tried almost every other anti-depressant and none of them work like this one does. i just want to be able to sleep soundly through the night so i dont have to sleep for hours during the day, and not have weird/long/vivid dreams that sick with me in the morning every single day.
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