Why am I having such vivid dreams every night?
Hello, I recently started taking seroquel to treat my SI and severe depression, my psychiatrist hasn’t confirmed but in general basis was thinking bipolar depressive (I don’t ever have manic episodes or thoughts that align with mania beside when I was at my most suicidal). In addition I’m on 50mg Zoloft and 150mg Wellbutrin.
Now, I’m only 4 days in on seroquel so I know I’m definitely experiencing side effects, I just don’t know if they call for notifying my psychiatrist.
I wake up always from these weird vivid dreams, I wouldn’t call nightmares but definitely not ones that leave me feeling good.
For example: I had one with my ex and he’s telling me everything I wanted to hear, then in same dream I’m playing a board game that’s to the death against my ex best friend.
Tonight, I woke up where I’m in high school and two recent friends from college are there and one had fireworks, so I lit it in the assembly and it went wrong and exploded right where we are sitting and I owned up to it and was getting carted around to find the principal and police, and old classmates were there like sobbing as if I’d bombed the place
There was another one but I can’t remember, all I know is how conscious I am in these and making choices to an extent / have control over myself to a level.
I assume I’m in some REM cycle or working through trauma in some way, however I don’t know if these dreams call for concern as side effects as they’re not pleasant and I make myself wake up the same way I do when having a vivid nightmares because I don’t like the way they make me feel or direction they’re heading and I don’t know I am messing with my sleep or going to fuck up my future sleep if these persists because I don’t want to have such vivid dreams EVERY night
So does this side effect go away? It is a side effect right?