No dreams or no memories of dreams for months?

[[be...]]

Hi guys

 

I am one month out. I either have not dreamed in months or I just do not remember any dreams. I just started taking remeron 2 nights ago for insomnia. I was only getting 2 to 4 hours a night. My sleep was very broken. I do not have any memory of dreams. This has been going on for months.

 

When did you remember any dreams in your experience? Also, do you have nightmares?

[[mu...]]

How are you sleeping now?

 

Dreams when i slept normally were far and few between.  Now I have dreams every night, not sure why but my sleep is basically 5 hours solid sleep 2 hours dream sleep.

[[be...]]

How are you sleeping now?

 

Dreams when i slept normally were far and few between.  Now I have dreams every night, not sure why but my sleep is basically 5 hours solid sleep 2 hours dream sleep.

 

Thanks murph145 for responding. I must not be getting into the dream stage. I am sure that after 20 years of a benzo that it surely messed up my normal sleep patterns. I can't wait to actually start dreaming again as that will tell me that I am closer to recovery. Of course I am having many other sxs in this acute stage but the remeron is helping me stay asleep longer.

[[sa...]]

Can we swap?  I'd do a lot of things to get a night without dreams.  Sometimes I even dream without sleeping.  My dreams mostly are OK, some are exciting stuff like flying, some annoying stuff like can't find a bathroom.  Not many nightmares.

[[Sw...]]

I have been recently having sporadic dreams after 18 months without remembering a single dream.  Most of mine are not pleasant that I can recall.  Mostly about how I have forgotten to do something, or must get something done (I guess addressing procrastination).

 

Sweet pea

[[no...]]

Can we swap?  I'd do a lot of things to get a night without dreams.  Sometimes I even dream without sleeping.  My dreams mostly are OK, some are exciting stuff like flying, some annoying stuff like can't find a bathroom.  Not many nightmares.

 

 

Be grateful for the dreaming, REM is when the brain is healing, its a good thing not a bad thing at all, benzo's repress REM sleep and tapering and getting off cause rebound REM as the brain is now repairing. I have it began while in unbeknown tolerance withdrawal on my regular dose  and its gotten more so while now in hell tapering but stopped I dreaming for years due to Benzos, I dream all the time now as I used to before Benzos. I may feel like hell and dying  but the dreaming proof my brain is repairing. Also we can dream all night and not be at all aware of doing so and  have no memory  of it so just because you can't remember doesn't mean your not dreaming at all. The brain also repairs while we're awake but believe it or not the brain is a LOT more active during sleep than when we're awake

 

l. Sleep seems to facilitate the organization of long-term memory and the integration of new information (see the Memory Processing and Learning section that follows), but it is also a time for physical restoration, the repairing and renewing of tissues and nerve cells, the neutralization of neurotoxins, and the restoration of normal levels of chemicals throughout our bodies. Even more specifically, it appears that while REM sleep is largely devoted to brain repair and restoration,

 

 

http://www.howsleepworks.com/why_restoration.html

 

Love Nova xxx :smitten:

 

[[be...]]

Thanks sapphiremoon, Sweet pea and nova 1 for chiming in here. That helped me a lot. 

 

I am betting that I am not getting restorative sleep and maybe not the dream stage but if I am my brain is not remembering any dreams due to my long term use. I did dream while on k-pin but not the past few months that I was tapering and not since I have been off.

[[al...]]

I think that you only remember your dreams if you wake up during R.E.M. sleep long enough to reflect on them, committing them to memory. My mom sleeps straight through the night and insists that she does not dream. She probably dreams as much as anyone, but has no memory of them. The awakenings that you are aware off might be from a deeper sleep then R.E.M. Your sleep cycles might be a little scrambled for now.

[[Ju...]]

What was the original reason that the Klonopin was prescribed for way back when?

J-man

 

[[be...]]

I think that you only remember your dreams if you wake up during R.E.M. sleep long enough to reflect on them, committing them to memory. My mom sleeps straight through the night and insists that she does not dream. She probably dreams as much as anyone, but has no memory of them. The awakenings that you are aware off might be from a deeper sleep then R.E.M. Your sleep cycles might be a little scrambled for now.

 

Yeah, alohafromhawaii, I probably do dream but I just don't remember because this morning I had a very faint memory of a dream for like 2 seconds, then I noticed the awful morning dread of anxiety. No recalling of a dream after that.

[[be...]]

What was the original reason that the Klonopin was prescribed for way back when?

J-man

 

Hi J-man

 

I was originally put on clonazepam for both generalized anxiety and insomnia. More so for the anxiety, though. 

[[al...]]

I think that you only remember your dreams if you wake up during R.E.M. sleep long enough to reflect on them, committing them to memory. My mom sleeps straight through the night and insists that she does not dream. She probably dreams as much as anyone, but has no memory of them. The awakenings that you are aware off might be from a deeper sleep then R.E.M. Your sleep cycles might be a little scrambled for now.

 

Yeah, alohafromhawaii, I probably do dream but I just don't remember because this morning I had a very faint memory of a dream for like 2 seconds, then I noticed the awful morning dread of anxiety. No recalling of a dream after that.

 

Yes, dreams have a way of fading real fast unless you reflect on them a bit to commit them to memory. If you just jump out of bed without thinking about them, you will have no memory of them. Sometimes something during the day stimulates a vague memory or feeling that I think must be related to an unremembered dream the night before.

[[Pr...]]

Ok, well I was on clonazapam and Remeron  before. Any drug prescribed for sleep is known to not let you reach deep sleep or REM sleep. This is scary because you need both of those for regenerating your body. The only sleep that is good sleep is sleep that is not drug induced sleep. I would

Know lol. Your not really going to dream on these types of drugs.

[[al...]]

My Mother sleeps like the dead every night. Very deep with no remembered dreams and she has always been totally drug-free. I suspect that she dreams, but does not wake up while in R.E.M. sleep so there is no memory of dreams for her. I personally enjoy dreaming a lot. Probably even more than deep dreamless sleep. My mind must need a reset more than my body needs restoration.

[[hs...]]

Been having dreams everynight for 5 years....brain surely takes loooooooooooooong time to heal.

[[bl...]]

I dream every night, sometimes all night, but it's nowhere like it was during early withdrawal when I was having nightmare upon nightmare.

 

My situation may be different though, I was a heavy pot smoker for years and years before all this, and weed suppresses REM sleep, so it's quite possible that I'm experiencing major REM rebound after all that, or it could be the Remeron, which is known to cause vivid dreams as well.

 

To be honest, I don't think there's anything wrong with dreaming. It's normal and a sure sign you're sleeping.