The combo of painkillers, antibiotics, and cold meds have caused some strange dreams of late.

Like the one I had a few nights ago of listening to an audio of a hot and heavy torrid three-way sex orgy.....

.....between Mark Levin, Laura Ingram, and Orly Taitz.

My libido may never forgive me......

Mine may never forgive you, either!

We have sold the building that we are currently occupying cause it is way too large for just Yoda and me. We are moving two doors down to a tiny rental place of three offices and a reception area that is much more our style right now. As such I have been packing, throwing away 30 years worth of trash, storing files, you name it for the last ten days, I am utterly EXHAUSTED. I wake at 4am in the morning (when my DH's alarm goes off) and immediately begin to think of things I have to do, get the phones transfered, get the electricity and water transferred, get all the closed filed moved to the storage unit, get all the dead computer towers and monitors to a recycling center.

Last night I was in a dead sleep at about 3am dreaming of something else entirely when I heard the familiar "slam" of the office back door as the boss came into the office, I sat right up in bed and thought "what the hell is he doing coming in at this hour" I was in my bed at my house and I distinctly heard my boss come in through the back door at the office. Dreams are weird.

Whenever I take the muscle relaxer Flexoril, I get weird dreams. Haven't figured out what that's about yet.

None of you has some of my sisters dreams , direct from her mind with no chemical additives. I will gather a few and post them,

OK, this is just plain WEIRD

Driving by the post office I had a vision of me going into the PO to mail a manuscript. I mean a vision. It was vivid and clear felt like a memory. It even has a vague date attached. What a surreal experience.

I have nothing in the works. I haven't, in fact, written a word in 6 years. But this, this was so fucking real.

Damn, I almost wrecked the car. I'm really glad the street was empty at that moment. I must have looked drunk.

Hahahahahaaaaa Flexoril! I have some serious back problems and they used to give me flexoril. One of the side effects that occurs in, IIRC, less than 5% of those taking it is :drumroll: vivid, psychedelic dreams!

You and me, Highlands, we're in that special demographic! I got switched to Soma/carisoprodol. I could actually function on that one. I don't take anything stronger than Tylenol these days.

Estevio!!

I haven't needed the Flexoril more than a couple of times, which is good. I almost dread sleeping when I'm on it.

Never did any LSD or mushrooms in my youth, so that's not it.

My wife sometimes has a dream that I have done something wrong and when she wakes up she is upset with me and wont talk to me. Sometimes she even hits me.
Regards............Dick

I quit smoking and am using the patch still. Been about 2 months now. I noticed that the patch seems to make me remember my dreams more often and for them to be more vivid. Although I must say I am one of those who has had very memorable dreams from time to time. Just more so since I quit smoking.

Perhaps I need a smoking patch, Clairez - despite the fact that I haven't smoked in nearly 40 years. I know when I've dreamed and I get good REM sleep when I dream, but I can hardly remember the dream anymore.

I virtually NEVER have good dreams, either they are some convoluted vignettes of things I have screwed up or they are nightmares from Star Trek about Darth Vader OR, post-surgeries, aided by the pain killer that I wish I could remember its name coz it is just so darn good, they are just totally bizarre.

Still can vividly remember the dream where a few members of my fave band dressed as lobsters, hid in the bushes and robbed a Starbucks but were thwarted by a flock of crows.

I can third the flexeril fun. Extremely vivid dreams.

But on the otherside, I'm a lucid dreamer anyway. I tend to move about a lot, been know to sleepwalk (even cooked scratch brownies in my sleep once), talk, sing, yell... you get the picture

I remember most of my dreams. The only ones that I can't are the night terrors when I wake up suddenly and have that loverly sleep paralysis. Can't seem to move. Brain disconnected from the rest of the body. Ain't no going back to sleep after that.

You made brownies in your sleep???!!!

I barely even turn my head from side to side and could sleep through virtually anything.

Did you watch "I Love You, Alice B Toklas" the evening before, Jez?

Doubtful..

I was 16, I think. Got up in the middle of the night, banging around in teh kitchen. Woke up my mom. We had an entire conversation while I melted butter and chocolate, adding the flour, eggs, etc. Poured the stuff into pan, baked them, pulled them out of the oven, turned it off, cleaned up the mess, and went back to bed.

This is what my mother tells me. She realized I was asleep when I cleaned the kitchen.

Good brownies though.

If you travel to places where quinine-resistant malaria is found, you may be prescribed a preventative drug developed at Walter Reed for the Vietnam War. It is Lariam in the Hoffman-LaRoche brand and generically mefloquine. It is taken once a week.

The night on which it is taken is notorious for vivid, often violent nightmares in somewhere between 10% and 25% of persons taking the drug. Severe neuropsychiatric side effects have required hospitalization for a few patients. Some former users of Lariam are convinced that those effects can remain for a lifetime in the form of recurring dreams. Class action lawsuits were contemplated but failed because the U.S. government developed the drug and only licensed the manufacture to Hoffman-LaRoche.

I recommend doxycycline as a substitute. It seems to work as well as mefloquine as a preventative. Its main disadvantage is that many people become photosensitive with it, which is not a good combination: bright sun is often found in areas where the malaria parasite is prevalent. Sunscreen and hats help a lot.

I have the impression that most physicians now know about these side effects and prescribe Lariam rarely. I am not sure whether it is still required of military in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other malarial areas.

I once had a dream where I was a hot dog chasing a doughnut into a train tunnel.


Discuss.

I was too wiry for that. I wasn't half bad in the 880, though.

I was a miler.

I dreamed I ate a giant marshmallow and when I woke up my pillow was gone.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lariam

From this article, it seems that this drug is no long distributed in the US nor is it used much by the military. From what I remember, people did not like taking it because of the side effects. Regular old quinine is still a good drug. I take it now and then for those wake-up-screaming leg cramps. However, gin and tonics work just as well.

It depends. Were you smoking a cigar at the same time?