Vivid dreams and whether anyone else has them

Started 3 June 2025 · 22 replies · 210 hearts · read 3.4k times

BassCoventry, UK · 3 June 2025

about a year ago

Starting a thread on this because it keeps coming up in ones and twos: Vivid dreams and whether anyone else has them

I have avoided asking about this for six weeks out of pure embarrassment.

I have read the guides here, which were more useful than anything else I have found, and I still have a question they do not cover.

I have written down what has actually happened, in order, because I find that more useful than my summary of it.

The thing that has surprised me most is how much of this is about other people rather than about me.

Sorry for the length. If anyone has been here, I would very much like to hear it.

RillaAberdeen, UK

I have been in this circle a year and this question comes round every few months. It is not a silly question. It is the question.

BrunoMilan, IT

Similar here, and mine turned out to be a completely unrelated deficiency picked up on bloods.

SunnivaBodø, NO

What the opening post described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

I asked my nurse the same question and she said something I have repeated ever since: that the aim is to keep you on treatment, not to get you up the schedule.

KikiFacilitatorGlasgow, UK

I want to slow this down a little. There are four different answers flying about and they are all somebody's real experience, which makes them true and not necessarily relevant to the person who asked.

SamPortland, OR

What helped was lowering my own expectations of the week rather than trying to hold the week together.

KezWigan, UK

Gently disagreeing with the reply above, or rather adding the other half of it.

My experience was very boring, which I offer as data. Some of us just get a dull time of it.

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HollisBath, UK

I am the person who had the frightening version of this. I went in, it was investigated, and it was not what anyone feared. Going in is the whole of my advice.

SinéadCork, IE

Coming back to this a fortnight later to say it settled. Leaving the update because I hate reading threads that stop.

GigiNaples, IT

What the reply above described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

I keep a two-line diary and it is the only reason I could answer this question about myself. Worth starting even now.

NettieBarrow, UK

#10

No advice, just recognition. That sounds exhausting and I am sorry you are in it.

RufusGuildford, UK

#11

It got worse before it got better for me, which I wish someone had said. About ten days of worse.

Ollie OPeterhead, UK

#12

For what it is worth, the trial data on this is thinner than the confidence of the internet would suggest. Worth knowing when you read the posts.

LeifTrondheim, NO

#13

the reply above said something I want to sit with for a second.

I am about four months behind you and I have been dreading exactly this, so thank you for writing it down before I got there.

OrrinGlasgow, UK

#14

Yes to the burping. It is real, it is unbeautiful, and it does settle.

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TorinBelfast, NI

#15

Gently disagreeing with the reply above, or rather adding the other half of it.

I did exactly the same and felt terrible about it. You have not done anything wrong.

8me too 1

RuthieLeicester, UK

#16

Practical, boring answer: write the three questions down before you go in. I have never once remembered them otherwise.

RunaAarhus, DK

#17

Have you got anyone who can be with you when you do it? It made an enormous difference to me and I felt silly asking.

GildaTrieste, IT

#18

Building on what the reply above wrote rather than answering the original question.

The thing that changed it for me was going slower, agreed with my prescriber. I am not suggesting you do that. I am saying the conversation exists.

NilsUppsala, SE

#19

Please do not read the comments under news articles about this. I lost a fortnight to that.

PeggyRotherham, UK

#20

What the reply above described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

Yes. All of this. I had the same in my third month and I remember thinking there was something specifically wrong with me, which there was not.

KikiFacilitatorGlasgow, UK

#21

What the reply above described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

Before anyone offers a remedy: what has been described here is on the list of things that need a clinician today rather than a thread. I am going to be firm about that, kindly.

TobySwindon, UK

#22

Mine lasted about seven weeks and then lifted over a few days. I cannot tell you why. I can tell you it lifted.

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