Vivid dreams/nightmares every night

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It’s been a fortnight now of horrendous dreams every night. I don’t know how to break the cycle of it and I can’t find a reason for it either.

So far this week they’ve included being in a lift where the cables break, a train that’s crashed, had half my jaw removed without anaesthetic at the dentist and last night had to sort a major poonami on a small baby (not my own) whilst being held at gunpoint, and only having three baby wipes in the pack!! (Which sounds funny but wasn’t at the time!)

Can anyone offer some advice on how I can have a normal nights sleep please!

Are you on any medication? I used to get this sort of thing on pizotifen.

No new medication. I’m on hrt but have been for 9 months so not that.

People always used to blame eating cheese during the evening!🧀
Nb. You haven't started using nicotine patches recently?

Do you take a magnesium supplement? I started taking one every evening on recommendation to help stop night time tooth grinding and it gives me very vivid dreams.

Valerian does this to me - do you drink any herbal teas / take herbal sleeping tablets?

I took magnesium two of the nights last week, have taken it lots before and it always gives me vivid dreams but not nightmares. It made no difference taking it or not this time :(

No herbal teas no nicotine patches. Nothing new. No change to diet or to stress levels!

I was going to say this i couldn't wear nicotine patches at night due to this