Help Any way to stop dreams?

[CFLoser]

Does anyone know any herbs, food, techniques, whatever to stop dreams from occurring?

Prozac is giving me crazy nightmares and it's starting to affect my waking life too

 

[Brick In The Wall]

Alcohol usually works for me. That or just sheer sleep deprivation. The first one probably doesn't go well with Prozac though.

 

[ArtsyDrawer]

Hah. I thought you meant the "aspirations" kind of dreams. Started thinking of some long winded speech I heard somewhere.
I noticed that for me the internet is a great dream killer. Reddit, specifically. r/askreddit is great at that. I spend the evening rolling cigarettes, scrolling down every so often, and nose-exhaling every so often over a clever pun.
Still, it's not a perfect, 100% dream kill rate. Every so often, quite rarely I will have a very vivid, often meaningful dream.

 

[exhausted]

Smoking weed stops dreams for a lot of people.

 

[Brick In The Wall]

Smoking weed stops dreams for a lot of people.

This works for me too. Or it starts them temporarily until I've built an immunity.

 

[exhausted]

This works for me too. Or it starts them temporarily until I've built an immunity.

I smoked constantly for years and never stopped dreaming, so I was surprised to hear that stoners miss having dreams or when they quit weed, their dreams come back and it makes them happy.

 

[Brick In The Wall]

I smoked constantly for years and never stopped dreaming, so I was surprised to hear that stoners miss having dreams or when they quit weed, their dreams come back and it makes them happy.

I was also a heavy user for years. The dreams would only start when I'd quit or start smoking again. Everyone's different I suppose.

 

[TrailerTrash]

I have the same problem ...... seems the more sedating whatever I take is and deeper I sleep the worse the dreams ..... open to suggestions too.

 

[Deleted member 1465]

Many people report not to have dreams. I suspect they are incorrect, that they simply don't remember them.
I further suspect that it's beta wave brain activity that may be necessary for flushing out the metabolic cerebrospinal waste products in your brain. This means that you need to dream, that it's a healthy brain wave cycle that is required, which only happens when you are asleep.
As someone who hardly sleeps at all, when I do sleep, I have crazy vivid dreams. Mostly they ate nightmares but I'm grateful even for that cus it means I've had some sleep.

 

[Worthless_nobody]

I think ssris can increase vivid dreams/nightmares in some people. It happened to me when I was on them. If I don't ctb soon I'm going to a sleep Dr to try and get meds that can reduce rem sleep and lessen the nightmares. They are so vivid and upsetting it's affecting my whole day and making everything worse than it already is.

Everyone ALWAYS suggests weed but that does absolutely nothing for me nor all my exes who were very heavy smokers but still had vivid nightmare recall.
Edibles, smoking, vaping...weed does nothing for me I'm glad it's magic for everyone else though.

 

[Fragile]

i can vouch for weed, specially in edible form, the first 6 months i literally had no dreams that i can remember and finally was able to sleep without horrible nightmares.

but it may only be when eaten, i stopped taking weed edibles and now i smoke daily and still have dreams but it may be the stupid high tolerance that i developed for over 2 years of daily use.

still worth a shot, plus making weed edibles is actually really easy if you have access to an oven. but be careful with the dose at first, they can fuck you up waaaay more than smoking and a bad trip can be traumatizing.

 

[Taki]

You can use CBT (cognitive behavioural therapy) to control nightmares. Probably not regular dreams though.

 

[hhsp]

Stay awake one night, and try to sleep the next night.
Sleep deprivation is known to elevate mood, sometimes it works for me sometimes not.
Fasting for minimum a week.
I took Prozac I think it is totally fake just messed me up terribly - only side effects - no real uplifting effect. Maybe extreme depression gets lifted a little bit? I heard this only. I could not take it long enough.
weed you can try it had really great effects for me, for sleep and to stop the mind. Cheap vaper, dont smoke too strong. THen after three month I had a panic attack and a lot of anxiety, it increased the anxiety, so I stopped. Might start again, I am a medical Cannabis patient.

 

[Soulless_Angel]

Stay awake one night, and try to sleep the next night.
Sleep deprivation is known to elevate mood, sometimes it works for me sometimes not.

I would have thought sleep deprivation would cause a mood to lower as it's a bodies basic need?

Either way Sleep evades me and when i do get it, I am plunged into hell, I would give anything never to dream again

 

[Anathema]

Are you on antipsychotics? When I was taking them I always had very weird dreams day after day for months.

 

[azucaramargo]

Does anyone know any herbs, food, techniques, whatever to stop dreams from occurring?

Prozac is giving me crazy nightmares and it's starting to affect my waking life too

I take SSRIs, too. (Actually, I'm currently on Prozac, but probably not for a long-enough period of time [?]/ at a high enough dosage [?]to tell any difference). But, I've taken SSRIs for 20 years, and I wanted to say that I also tend to experience the disturbing dreams to which you referred, but, in my case, I only get them when I fail to take my meds for a few days. (i.e., If I take the SSRIs consistently, I don't have stressful dreams.) But, question for you, Fellow Prozac-Taker: does the drug increase your appetite? I mean, In your particular experience? I feel like it does mine a little bit.

I wish I could go back on Zoloft. I took it for about 15 years until it stopped working. Zoloft is the first anti-depressant I took, and so I will always have such a love affair with the memories of that exultant relief when those little reuptake inhibitors started working their magic. Anyway, I digress. Hope those dreams cease for you. What made the bad dreams unduly distressing for me was that no one wants to hear about my damned dreams. Yet, they were so traumatic and disturbing to me, I would feel such a need to "process" them with someone, but I felt I could not because who gives a crap about what happens in our effed-up dreams? (Even shrinks hurry me along when I want to discuss dreams.) Please let this post be an open invitation for you to public- or private- message me about any disturbing dreams you need to get off your chest.

 

[Thereisnothing]

Many people report not to have dreams. I suspect they are incorrect, that they simply don't remember them.
I further suspect that it's beta wave brain activity that may be necessary for flushing out the metabolic cerebrospinal waste products in your brain. This means that you need to dream, that it's a healthy brain wave cycle that is required, which only happens when you are asleep.
As someone who hardly sleeps at all, when I do sleep, I have crazy vivid dreams. Mostly they ate nightmares but I'm grateful even for that cus it means I've had some sleep.

Very interesting what you say and I agree. I dont think we can stop dreams from happening anymore than we can stop thoughts we have constantly through the awake hours. Like you I get very little sleep and then when do its all very vivid stuff and those dreaded nightmares, its horrid isn't it but am glad am not alone in this, hope that doesn't sound bad, but you know what I mean, I thought perhaps just my stupid brain! Yes it means we have had some sleep, however little and traumatic!

 

[Deleted member 1465]

I take SSRIs, too. (Actually, I'm currently on Prozac, but probably not for a long-enough period of time [?]/ at a high enough dosage [?]to tell any difference). But, I've taken SSRIs for 20 years, and I wanted to say that I also tend to experience the disturbing dreams to which you referred, but, in my case, I only get them when I fail to take my meds for a few days. (i.e., If I take the SSRIs consistently, I don't have stressful dreams.) But, question for you, Fellow Prozac-Taker: does the drug increase your appetite? I mean, In your particular experience? I feel like it does mine a little bit.

I wish I could go back on Zoloft. I took it for about 15 years until it stopped working. Zoloft is the first anti-depressant I took, and so I will always have such a love affair with the memories of that exultant relief when those little reuptake inhibitors started working their magic. Anyway, I digress. Hope those dreams cease for you. What made the bad dreams unduly distressing for me was that no one wants to hear about my damned dreams. Yet, they were so traumatic and disturbing to me, I would feel such a need to "process" them with someone, but I felt I could not because who gives a crap about what happens in our effed-up dreams? (Even shrinks hurry me along when I want to discuss dreams.) Please let this post be an open invitation for you to public- or private- message me about any disturbing dreams you need to get off your chest.

Prozac didn't increase my apetitie, but ssris do mess with your metabolism, if you are hungry then your ghrelin or leptin levels may be changed. There are studies that say that long term anti depressant use may advance onset diabetes. But then so does eating chips.

 

[azucaramargo]

Prozac didn't increase my apetitie, but ssris do mess with your metabolism, if you are hungry then your ghrelin or leptin levels may be changed. There are studies that say that long term anti depressant use may advance onset diabetes. But then so does eating chips.

Thank you,@Underscore! Only just yesterday I was reading about the potential risks of protracted anti-depressant regimens, but the info about diabetes that you so graciously shared with me was something new. I also appreciate your explaining why hunger increases on ssris; I was aware of *that* side-effect, but I am/was too lazy to look into the reason why. So, I appreciated learning from you (rather than from Google) about ghrelin and leptin. Much more palatable. Thank you.

 

[Jean4]

Insomnia does wonders.

 

[Forest Fire]

I've used Cannabis to stop nightmares for the past 17 years. It's the only thing I've tried that's been 100% effective for me

 

[k75]

I'm on Prazosin for nightmares. Mine are usually PTSD-related, so they're extra vivid. I'm bad at pills and sometimes neglect to take it, but when I do it helps.

 

[Final Escape]

Stimulant medication, weed