Clomid dreams

[pantryslut]

For the record: Clomid's side effects for me include occasional dizziness, and, yes, vivid dreams.

These dreams tend to be perfectly normal dreams, but as if I were awake. I seem to slip back and forth between vivid dreaming and awakitude easily, as well. You know how sometimes in the morning you will be having a really vivid dream, and then you wake up? That's what it's like all night.

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[panjianlien.livejournal.com]

It is very interesting to hear that described as a medication side effect. That's what my sleep/dream experience is like about 90% of the time, regardless of the time of day or night. Makes me wonder.

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

Hm. How do I say this? Most of my dream experience is like this, except with Clomid, it's noticeably enhanced. Like, "almost every night" to "every night," from "my this is vivid" to vivid is just normal. I spend a lot more time going "did this really happen or did I just dream it?" in the morning, because my first reaction is "of course it happened."

Also, in my regular dreams, there will always be something to indicate that it was a dream -- the setting will be off, or I will be talking to someone in my apartment who happens to be in Vermont right now, or something. For some reason, this *isn't* happening with Clomid, which makes the reality-sorting-out bit even more difficult.

[panjianlien.livejournal.com]

I hate not knowing whether I dreamed something. It happens less than it used to, mostly because I noticed a while ago that in my dreams, the "camera"/visual angle changes a lot, so if I can figure out that I was seeing a scene from a perspective that I would not have physically had, I know for sure it was a dream. It helps, especially when I wake up in the middle of the night and am thinking "what the hell?"

Wishing you more restful nights, in any case, and may all your very very vivid and realistic dreams be pleasant ones. :)

[innerdoggie.livejournal.com]

I'm somewhat like that in the PMS time, where I sometimes feel very light-headed (not dizzy, more like what the shrinks call "de-personalization"). Dreams are very vivid and often very unpleasant without being genuine nightmares.

I don't have the quantity of dreams you're describing, or the slippage between awake and asleep.

[beckastar.livejournal.com]

cymbalta has a similar side effect, though its abated somewhat. when i first went on it i was having tossing turning adventure dreams every night all night, and now its more like twice a week.