Vivid dreams

[huskymom]

Morning all!

So yet another night of extremely vivid dreams! Normal ones I never remember, but the more vivid, they can stay with me for days! They aren't scarry or anything, but just strange. Last night my dreams had me all over the place....
They started when my Keppra increased to 2,500mgs. Anyone else having them?

 

[Nakamova]

I had'em with Lamictal. I wonder if they will go away when your brain/body adjusts to the higher dose.

 

[neilB]

onder:AH HA! Well I've had the same thing happen when my Keppra went to 2500mg! Last night I was dreaming I was at a train station but it was full of pizza ovens? (go figure) and the train was running late so I went to the next station and it had a HUGE oven. So, the train came and I parked my chair that I was getting around in (yes, a kitchen chair on wheels!) only to find out the train wasn't the right one. I was even worried about leaving the chair since there wasn't anything like a bike rake around to lock it up to. My dreams have been ALL OVER the place. I'm actually wondering if I'm even getting a good nights sleep.

 

[Cint]

I take 3000 mgs of Keppra a day along with some Topamax and some nights I do have very vivid dreams. When I wake they sometimes seem like it really just happened and I find myself wondering, was it real or was it just a dream?!

I've been taking Keppra for 10 years now and still have these dreams once in a while.

 

[huskymom]

Cint,

Exactly!!! I am still trying to figure out if they are real or not! It is just that powerful. I have been on the 2,500 for about a year along with 1,000 Carbatrol and 200mgs of Vimpat. It is not that they scare me or anything, it is just that weird feelingonder:

 

[jesusisonthefountain]

Yes, I do have very vivid dreams almost every night. I do not take medication for epilepsy and I am very healthy. Last night my dream was about these very large deer that now live in our neighborhood. In my dream they increased in size to about the size of large draft horses. My husband was laughing and so excited to see them. He was so close to them and I was scared they would hurt him, he had no fear. The color, scale and length of the dream was over the top. The sound and emotions were also.

 

[Meetz1064]

I've been

having very vivid dreams as of late. I don't know why either. Wish I did, because a few of them have seriously woken me up, thinking I was screaming out loud. They weren't nightmares.......just WEIRD dreams. But bright vivid colors, full details, and I could even hear people talking in some of them.

 

[Deb12345]

Hehe, I've always had vivid, interesting dreams since I was little, which I always seem to remember. It seems even more so now I am on Lamictal. I didn’t enjoy last nights dream because it was about school. :scholar: lol The weird thing for me is when I am fully awake from a dream and items in my bedroom don’t appear what they are. Or I see things i.e. a swinging log heading towards me with ribbon tied to the end nearest to me, or a huge hand size spider dangling above me. Eek!!! lol They last for a good few minutes. There have been times I have woken up and know for certain I am having a simple partial seizure which might last again for a good few minutes because my vision is blurred and I get double vision etc. I never know if the other ones mentioned above are simple partials or not!!! Any ideas? onder:
:e:

 

[morgan86]

2 days ago and yesterday i had a cluster of dreams upon waking up. i o nly remember the set from yesterday but basically i heard my husband come in the front door and my dog ran over.. this waked me then i musta feell back to sleep emediately. first i dreamt that he came in and called my name to wake me up. then i dreamed that he came in and layed on top of me to wake me up (sounds weird but its a playful thing he likes to do) then i dreamed the dog jumped on me and licked my face till i got up... then FINALLY i woke up. on my own accord. i went to the living room to check for my husband cuz i had no clue if he was really there. he was. but when i first swung my feet around and planted them on the floor to get up i honestly had no CLUE if i was awake or not. never happened except for 2 days ago and yesterday. here comes the interesting part tho. i had a seizure imbetween these events. like 2days ago had the dream then that night had a seizure then that morning had another weird dream like that. THIS morning... nothing! woke up like normal... WTF?!?!

 

[morgan86]

woah just realized i typed "waked" instead of "woke" grammer police shoot me now~! my bad

 

[PragueClaret]

I have incredibly vivid dreams.

I take valproate , lamictal and just started with keppra.

 

[Nakamova]

When I first went on Lamictal I had intense, scary, vivid dreams. Since then, I've backed off my dose a bit and my body has adjusted, and as a result I don't get those dreams anymore. For the most part, my dreams are too scattered to remember coherently now.

 

[morgan86]

i dont think mine is med related. i've been on the same dose of lamictal for the last 5yrs.. i started seroquel to help with sleep about 6months ago so that could be why i had those 2 random dreams.. i just hope they stop. its pretty darn creepy

 

[Endless]

Hi, Huskymom,

When I was on Trileptal my dreams were so intense and so real that when I woke up in the morning, I had to lay there and figure out whether they really happened or whether they were just a dream. Sometimes during the day I'd remember the information/event from the dream, but I'd forget it was just a DREAM. In a few minutes I'd figure it out.

Now I'm on Lamictial. I still have fewer vivid dreams but the ones I do have are nightmares. I wake up with my heart pounding and a kind of garbled scream coming out of my mouth. Those I know aren't real after about 10 seconds.

I never used to have dreams like this before meds, so I know it is medication related.

 

[jesusisonthefountain]

Woke up with that feeling

I woke up this morning with that head, neck, body pressed into the pillow for so long feeling that I started my day with a bit of a headache. My dream was very vivid about a garage sale I was at. I had my wallet and I set it down on a table, next thing I know I am in the public library that has been connected to a very large underground mall and airport. I kept getting lost trying to get back to the table that had my wallet. People, books, escalators kept getting in my way so I did the one thing I should not have done... I took the elevator. 3 of us got on and it began to drop so fast that we were pressed up against the ceiling. I could not breath, I was in full force panic and anxiety. Then I woke up. I could smell everyones body odor, hear the constant chatter from others along with their every cough and sniff from cold and flu season. It was amazing.:woot:

 

[ColmanMac]

Don't get dreams but quite vivid hallucinations after being given Midazolam rescue med

 

[Leviathan]

Do you guys have this problem?

I too have vivid dreams! This explains so much! I have dreams almost every night that are vivid and almost always they are very bad nightmares of things gone completely wrong! Often times they are strange repeats of all the worst events that have happened to me in the past. It isn't uncommon at all for me to wake up in a very bad sweat and heavy breathing.
The worst part about it is that my dreams seem to last FOREVER. Do you guys know how most people seem to just close their eyes for a couple of minutes and the next moment they are awake? I wish so badly I was like that because I feel like time doesn't even change for me while I am asleep. It's almost as if I never even fell asleep. Do any of you guys have that problem?

 

[petero]

Cint,

Exactly!!! I am still trying to figure out if they are real or not! It is just that powerful.

I've been feeling the opposite for a while now - not many dreams, but wondering if life is real or not...

life is but a dream sweetheart...

 

[Sandie]

I get vivid weird dreams almost every night and I always remember them. They are not usually nightmares but they usually include things I have been doing or thinking about during the day all mixed up and totally out of whack.