Dreams or Reality

[Princesapeach]

Hi. Recently I've been having dreams that seem so real it's scary. Sometime's they're nightmares, but sometimes they're just regular dreams about my day to day life. It's gotten to the point where I'm finding it difficult to distinguish dream from reality. Now I understand that this happens to people occasionally, but this has been going on every single time I sleep for the past couple of weeks. What's worse is that every time I wake up I feel ridiculously tired and never rested.

I have been diagnosed with insomnia and clinical depression. I take Ambien and Lexapro to treat those disorders. There has been no recent change in medication, so I am positive that cannot be the cause. I'm worried now that these dreams and feelings of confusion are being caused by something else.

When I first went to a psychiatrist, he diagnosed me with borderline personality disorder, or BPD. At first I thought he was crazier than I was and immediately found a new psychiatrist, but now I'm worried if he was right. I have always have periods of time when I feel severely depressed, suicidal and antisocial, and periods of not really caring about much. In these periods that I am carefree I am usually very happy (probably due to the fact that I just don't care about anything), but I also engage in dangerous activities. For example, I'll fall into drugs (cocaine, ecstasy, weed) and start drinking heavily, but I also become very sexually promiscuous.

Could this trouble sleeping that I've been experiencing lately be an indication that I have something else going on other than depression? Has anyone else had this problem? Please help

[Littleladybug]

Call your doctor and tell them what you just told us ASAP.

[crtclms]

I had that happen to me as a side effect of Trazadone. It was very disturbing to not know what had and hadn't actually happened. It is definitely worth a call to your pdoc, I have no idea what may be causing it in your case. It doesn't necessarily mean something else is wrong with you.

[The one lurking behind you]

I know how that feels. I am currently getting that almost every night. I also find that days disappear and my dreams/nightmares seem to replace the reality. It's all very confusing, sorry if I dont make sense, it's very disorientating. But yeah I have always put it down to depression though this is just my assumption so as others have said it's a good idea to tell your doc ASAP.

[HAL9000]

I so rarely dream (Remember anything) that they can feel real(er) then I think would be normal. I had a dream that happened a few times that was really odd. It was me reading a book. How dull is that? And it made me nuts to not get to the end of the book.

[Cheshire Kitty Cat]

I feel ya on this one. My dreams have been extremely stressful lately, they revolve around things that could happen...things that aren't completely impossible. For example I dreamed that one of my friends and I decided to had a baby after a recent pregnancy scare, in real life we have hooked up but never been in this situation...or even close to a similar one. When I have dreams like this I wake up exhausted and sometimes sore, like I've been tensed up all night.

Bc my dreams can be so vivid and realistic I tend to confuse small things like conversations I thought I had with somebody. Or tried to remember a store I was at, but ended up being a dream. One time I almost ran out of gas bc I had filled it up in my dream.

This stuff usually happens when I'm extremely stressed/depressed/manic/mixed. It's frustrating and can be embarrassing.

[bluelikejazz]

I haven't heard that there's an association between a personality disorder and dreams, if that helps. Is there additional stress at the moment? I rarely remember my dreams, but they are more vivid if I've been stressed.

It sounds like the BPD thing is still in the back of your mind, do you have a therapist you could talk to about that?