Has MS affected your dreaming? how?

[anaishunter]

I'm not talking about life dreams, just the regular dreams that happen when you sleep...

Here's my story. I am such an anxious person that the doctor put me on Effexor about 14 years ago. All dreaming stopped back then (yes, everybody says I still dream but I just don't remember it). It just felt like having a stone instead of a brain.

Anyway, I'm starting to dream again. I am still on a low dose of Effexor. But I now have dreams a couple of times a week. Normal, funny, odd dreams. It feels awesome!

I don't know what to attribute this to?? high dose of vitamin D, new diet, Ocrevus fighting to keep the MS lesions at bay in my brain, getting slowly but surely out of the MS brain fog, more exercise. I love it!

[Jazzihorsecat]

WOW! That's great to hear anaishunter, 👍 my dreams are strange latley, not very long & very sporadic, almost weird... I heard us with M.S. should not Lucid dream, it might be dangerous, as the body cannot live w/out the mind! But congrats/Mazel Tov!❤💗👍Blessings--Jazzy🌹💜

[bxrmom in reply to Jazzihorsecat]

I have never heard that about MS patients and lucid dreams, don't know how we can control what we dream or how it would be dangerous to us. I will have to look that up.

Jessie

[RoyceNewton]

hmm I can not remember when I last had a dream, maybe I just do not remember them, congrats hope you have good ones.

[bxrmom]

Glad you are having dreams again anaishunter I have dreams that sometimes I remember and others I don't. I'm usually awakened by my dog when I have a good one to go outside, not fair lol

Jessie

[Guava69]

😀👍🌈

[kdali]

I dream the same amount that I’ve always have.

[agate]

anaishunter --For many years since being diagnosed with MS, I didn't dream. Maybe once a year I'd remember a dream. In the last couple of years I've been dreaming more often--maybe once every 3 months or so I remember a dream, and I'm not taking any MS treatment except vitamin D3. I've heard that it's short-term memory problems that make it hard to remember dreams for people with MS sometimes, and my short-term memory is bad.

[greaterexp]

Sweet dreams!