exl2398 Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 Has anyone had this problem? Last week I dreamed my dad bought cat litter, so while awake I went to change the box and there was no litter. Then, just now, my friend who lives with me was talking about how my neighbor took her trash to a business to throw away instead of paying her bill, but I said that I saw the trash people pick her trash up. He said I wasn't out there when the trash people came, that I was asleep. I must have dreamed that they picked up her trash. Wtf is going on? I told my pdoc about this problem on Monday, but it was weird to have it happen again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wonderful.Cheese Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 I do this all the time. I don't remember if I dreamed something or if it really happened. I live confused most of the time. I lie by saying, "was it you I told.." Or "did I tell you..." It's really about the dreams though. I don't remember who the fuck I told what or if it was all a dream. It fucks with my mind so much. I thought I was the only one who went through this. I'm sorry it's happening to you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exl2398 Posted October 2, 2014 Author Share Posted October 2, 2014 Is it psychosis related? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wonderful.Cheese Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 Exl, it could be. I'm not sure. I've not brought this issue up to my pdoc or tdoc. It seems reasonable that it could be related to psychosis. I feel like it's shifting in and out of reality. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flash Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 (edited) I have the same problem. I don't know if it's related to psychosis, but it can be embarrassing to have to ask people if such and such actually happened (or simply be told that it didn't). Edited October 2, 2014 by Flash Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Always Unstable Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 I get this ALL the time. Mostly it makes things really uncomfortable. It something that I've always had to deal with but I have found that it is worse when I'm on effexor. The reason I came up with for that is that I remember my dreams a lot more when I'm on effexor. I don't have an explanation for it before that though, lol. I also try to get by with the whole " oh was it you I told this to?" Etc etc.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melissaw72 Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 This happens to me too. I find that I'm asking people things to get reality checks to see if something is real or not (like something was said/done or not). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surreal Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 This happens to me frequently. I go through the day confused because of it. Like nothing is real or makes sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forstyrra Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 I get that all the time. According to my psych its a dissociaition thing. Its really disorienting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nonuser Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 Oh, this happened to me the other day. I forgot what it was exactly but yeah. It's a dissociation thing? Weird. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exl2398 Posted October 2, 2014 Author Share Posted October 2, 2014 (edited) I'd never heard of it before it happened to me. My pdoc didn't name it. But he ordered a dozen blood tests and took half a dozen vials of blood. Edited October 2, 2014 by exl2398 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lysergia Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 when it happens to me, it's always meds. and yeah it's hella disturbing. i've never taken topamax or clomipramine, but fwiw neither lamictal nor lithium came with this side effect. does getting the dreams mixed up coincide with any med changes? (ps not saying it's always the med's fault for everybody! i'm sure there are different causes) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoaringRaven Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 (edited) I developed this problem after going on Lamictil. It's really embarrassing, and sometimes infuriating. Infuriating when I'm so sure that I did something requiring a lot of time and effort only to realize that, nope. It was a dream. This happens with schoolwork sometimes. I've had to do homework at the last minute because I mixed up my dream homework and my real homework. Edited October 2, 2014 by SoaringRaven Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rachael Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 This happened to me a few times when I was a child (6 or 7 I think, maybe younger). When I was a teenager I had terribly disturbing nightmares that I just couldn't distinguish from reality. That was at the beginning of my first psychotic episode that lasted almost half a year. I still have very real dreams sometimes, but not to the point that I can't tell they are dreams, and I have very bizarre dreams all the time, so it's usually easy to tell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crtclms Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 I've always done this to an extent: Usually the type where you get up, start getting ready for work, and then the alarm goes off, and you have to start getting ready for work all over again. But Trazadone made it so severe I was no longer sure what was real or what was a dream at all, I had to keep reality checking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
San Posted October 4, 2014 Share Posted October 4, 2014 I get this once in a while, confusing dreams with reality. It's fucking annoying. It generally happens if I'm taking AAP's for sleep. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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