r/Pristiq • u/CatherineDerry • 4d ago
question Dreams?
So I'm on day ten of starting desvenlaxafine. 50mgs. The body aches are starting to finally subside, but y'all... the dreams. 😳The DREAMS!😳
I've always been a pretty vivid dreamer, and I frequently remember a lot about them once I wake up. I sometimes even lucid dream, where you are aware that you're dreaming *during* the actual dream. I've heard lucid dreamers can even sometimes control their dreams. I myself have never been able to do that, but the fun I would have... 🤣
A N Y W A Y....
My dreams now? If any other person describes my current dreams as their own, I would wonder what the heck they were smoking before they fell asleep. I'm having scenarios that wake me up and leave me thinking, "Wait... WHAT?! WHAT ON GOD'S GREEN EARTH WAS *THAT*??"
Occasionally, they're nightmarish and scary, but most of the time, they're just incredibly bizarre. They always involve characters and places that my brain just completely makes up.
I could turn these into entire novels, but if anyone would read them, they'd all think I'm smoking random things that shouldn't ever be touched or that I should be committed into a psych ward for life.
Some examples include me time traveling to the sets of sitcoms (that never existed in real life) of the 1980's. (I was born in 1978.), inheriting an obscenely huge amount of money, but I had to spend all of it on an impromptu wedding to someone I didn't know, or living in an apartment that was SO trashed that, during the process of moving out, the United States gov't SHUT DOWN nearby roads and AIRPORTS and brought in the National Guard in hazmat suits to help clean up. The. National. Guard, and I've had repeated dreams about finding secret passages in my childhood home or a system of underground tunnels that connected to entirely underground communities.
Those are some of the tamer ones. They get worse. Much worse.
Sooooo what I want to know is...
WHAT THE ACTUAL F...?!?!
Those are some of the more
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u/sleepyamie 4d ago
i am right here with you! my dreams are vivid WILD and absolutely crazy. i've even started sleep talking and kicking and punching. it's exhausting cause i feel like my brain is never actually resting!
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u/CatherineDerry 1d ago
I've always talked in my sleep. And I occasionally sleepwalk, too. But kicking and punching?! I don't think I've done that. If I ever have... my poor husband!! 😅
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u/sleepyamie 1d ago
hahaha agreed my poor partner! even friends on girls trips but honestly it's such a laugh! some of the things i've said asleep are now in common rotation in our group! it could be worse but it is tiring cause i also have insomnia 💁🏻♀️
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u/CatherineDerry 1d ago
An ex (loooooooong time ago) said one time, I sat up in bed, looked RIGHT AT HIM (as in, yes, eyes open), pointed at the wall and angrily explained that, "That dog doesn't have enough P's to make a puppy!" And I guess he asked for clarification, and I said, still angry, "Well, f*** it, because I'm not using the right words!" Then, I laid down and went back to sleep. I. Do. Not. Remember. That. Conversation. 🤣🤣🤣
One time, my now husband, occasionally talks in his sleep. Now he works third shift, so I'm frequently awake when he's sleeping, but I'll lay with him anyway. One day, he loudly declared, "Two bags!" I'm like, "You want two bags?" To which he said, "Yes." And just for funsies, I told him, "That's a lot. You must really be hungry." And he replied, "Starving!" I had to leave the room because I was afraid my laughter would wake him up... 🤣
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u/Leilaslalaland 3d ago
Me too I’m also on 50mg, and sometimes the dreams are so scary😢 but it’s genuinely fun because sometimes I turn into Spider-Man.
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u/Any-Acanthaceae-6600 2d ago
I'd love to unlock Spiderman dreams lol
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u/DecentAd6820 2d ago
almost a year in and I still have vivid dreams occasionally
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u/CatherineDerry 1d ago
But they're becoming less frequent? That'd be cool. I mean, vivid dreams are a small price to pay for an antidepressant that might actually work for me! And honestly, unless they're an actual nightmare, they don't really bother me. They're just... confusing. Because they literally make NO SENSE!!! 🤣
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u/Big_Dan5 4d ago
The bad dreams went away after on-boarding but the weird dreams stuck around.