[Redway]

You don’t have to have a history of epilepsy or seizures of any other kind to have dreams of having seizures occasionally, and what’s striking with it is how vividly realistic they can be, almost as-if you’re actually awake and seizing.

Has anyone here had one of those dreams, or something similar?

[Cherie]

No, that sounds terrifying, are they drug induced?

[bots]

i've never even heard of it as a thing

[Ray.]

Originally Posted by Cherie

No, that sounds terrifying, are they drug induced?

Is it true, @Redway? Are you on the drugs now?

[Ninastar]

I get them a lot. They feel so real. Idk if it’s cause I take anti depressants but it could be why. I also die in at least one dream every night. It’s wild

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Ninastar

I get them a lot. They feel so real. Idk if it’s cause I take anti depressants but it could be why. I also die in at least one dream every night. It’s wild

…is it a similar experience to a vivid dream, Caitlin…?…

[Ninastar]

Originally Posted by Ammi

…is it a similar experience to a vivid dream, Caitlin…?…

Yeah, it’s pretty horrible. I think it’s the meds but if I stop taking them, it’s even worse. I mostly have the same dreams over and over, with the occasional new one. I also took melatonin once and it gave me night terrors. Not fun

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Ninastar

Yeah, it’s pretty horrible. I think it’s the meds but if I stop taking them, it’s even worse. I mostly have the same dreams over and over, with the occasional new one. I also took melatonin once and it gave me night terrors. Not fun

…yeah they really are pretty scary things to have and as you say, certain medication side effects can cause them for some people…and I know someone else also who has a same scary dream over and over and it’s pretty exhausting so that in itself can cause sleep disruption…so it all becomes a very layered thing because keeping a good sleep pattern is so important to try to counter those side effects…

[Crimson Dynamo]

Iv not has a dream about him in years

[UserSince2005]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

Iv not has a dream about him in years

He used to give me a lot of wet dreams too and. And now I look back and think how crazy I was. A man has muscle to be a man.

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by ChalkOutlineMan

Is it true, @Redway? Are you on the drugs now?

Now now, stop stirring Chalk, I meant prescription drugs

[Redway]

Originally Posted by Cherie

No, that sounds terrifying, are they drug induced?

I guess that can be the case but they can also just happen. Just like waking paralysis or just-plain nightmares, a lot can go down in the realm of sleep and it can be kinda scary, to put it one way.

Originally Posted by Ninastar

I get them a lot. They feel so real. Idk if it’s cause I take anti depressants but it could be why. I also die in at least one dream every night. It’s wild

Do you take amitriptyline?

[Mystic Mock]

I tend to get either violent nightmares or downright odd dreams.

Seizure dreams are more in the tragic in an everyday life sort of way, my dreams don't really work like that.

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Redway

I guess that can be the case but they can also just happen. Just like waking paralysis or just-plain nightmares, a lot can go down in the realm of sleep and it can be kinda scary, to put it one way.


Do you take amitriptyline?

I've had Sleep Paralysis in the past.

It's horrible when you're awake and you can't move your body, my mind always thinks of the worst scenarios aswell, so it's not a good combination.

[Redway]

When sleep-seizures actually do happen for-real, some people dream that they’re fighting random people (maybe their arch-nemeses in real life; who knows?) when in reality it’s paramedics, who are obviously just trying to get them into an ambulance rather than kidnap them.

I mention amitriptyline because certain medications, including tricyclic antidepressants (which amitriptyline is part of), can decrease your body’s seizure-threshold but it’s not so-much amitriptyline that does that. Clomipramine, amoxapine and especially maprotiline (other tricyclics) are the worst offenders there and seizures can easily happen in overdose. The risk of that happening with amitriptyline per-se is pretty low, like. But it can happen. Rarely.

[Ninastar]

Originally Posted by Redway

I guess that can be the case but they can also just happen. Just like waking paralysis or just-plain nightmares, a lot can go down in the realm of sleep and it can be kinda scary, to put it one way.


Do you take amitriptyline?

I had to go and look cause I never remember. But no, I take fluoxetine