Health - Effects of Benzodiazepines on Dreaming?

[truestbet]

I have been prescribed xanax and xanax XR for anxiety, and can't get past the nightmares from both of them. All benzo's do to me anymore if make me tired and give me nightmares. Very scary nightmares that freak me out and cause me to sleep longer. Usually the regular give me nightmares for 1-2nights and the xtended release gives me nightmares for 3-5 nights, i guess because of the longer half life. Do you think something with a shorter half life like ativan would be better, or something with a longer half life like valium would be better on the nightmares and tiredness. thanks in advance.

[Lehendakari]

Anyone else have lucid dreaming when on xanax??

SWIM has been using xanax lately, taking breaks to avoid tolerance and sometimes when he takes a large dose and goes to bed he has the most amazing dreams, very lucid and he can think very clearly and see everything in perfect detail.

The most amazing thing is how rational he can think. Last night he was dreaming and got aware he was dreaming and started observing all around him and was amazed how detailed the dreamland looked like, he was in an unknown house walking, he was with people around, but he was only interested in not waking up, he kept thinking thinks like "you will remember this when you wake, this is too real to forget."

There was a moment he saw a window, and he instantly thought about flying. Then he thought better and said, "let's just stay here and see what I can do" eventually he thought: "ok I'm bored let's fly" and on he went. Flying feels very good but there was a point were there was water and he was falling, he couldn't fly anymore and he thought: "let's see how cold water feels like in a dream" and he kind of felt the water but right then he woke, he thinks, cause I don't recall anything else besides seeing my dark bedroom.

The thing is that the memory of the dream is fuzzy and he wishes he could remember better. So SWIM gets this incredible dreams after doing xanax and a little bit of MaryJane, but when he wakes he looses many of the details, he just remember the dream was very real and the thinking very rational but even when he tries to memorize when he is dreaming he just can't.

[Spare Chaynge]

Swim was presribed xanax for a while. At first your dreams are like that but soon you wont remember much at all and probally will be so out of it that you wont even notice the lack of dreams your having.