View Full Version : More dreams or more vivid dreams anyone?


anilyze
01-29-06, 11:52 PM
I know this is a side effect with Straterra, but I hadn't heard of this occuring with Adderall. For the last week that I have been taking Adderall though, I am remembering my dreams and they seem more vivid. I rarely ever remembered dreams before this.
Is it just coincidence? Maybe I've been waking up right around my last REM...

Has anyone else experienced this?

LacyLew
01-30-06, 05:08 PM
It's most definately happened to me. Since I wake up many times in the night, I KNOW I'm dreaming a lot. Not necessarily bad or good dreams, but lots of them - and really weird sometimes.

KFabulous
08-30-06, 03:28 PM
I have strange dreams as well! Hahahah! Perhaps the dream cycles are longer because your body is more tired when you are on Adderall. You need to be in REM cycle 4 to repair your body when you sleep. This could be an effect of the stimulant. I find I sleep much better because I am so tired at the end of the day. :)

D.B. Cooper
08-30-06, 05:02 PM
Dream changing/disturbances are commonly associated with a change in norepinephrine.in the brain. Both strattera and adderall inhibit orepinephrine. reuptake so its not strange at all.