On Zoloft; Dreams Seem Like Reality

[the racha]

I have been on Zoloft for approximately 2.5 months. I started at 50mg, after a week or so went to 75mg and have been at 100mg for about 8 weeks.

After a month or so on the 100mg, I began to have tons of dreams every night. Sometimes it's like I'm watching TV, sometimes I'm in the dreams. It's a constant reel, and I remember pieces throughout the day.

Anyway, I've had two instances where I dreamt something that I thought happened in real life. It is odd. I asked my partner if she read a headline about something, and she said no-- when I googled it, I realized that it hadn't happened and was instead something I dreamt up.

Does anyone else have experience with this (on Zoloft or any other anti-depressant)? It is really scary; this is the last thing I need! :wall:

the racha

 

[Mina]

I'm not on any meds, and I too have tons of dreams that seem very real. My DH is always shocked at the level of detail when I tell him about them...it's like I'm actually living and feeling them. I haven't yet mistaken them for reality, but I think it's partly because I remember them upon awakening - they don't come to me in bits and pieces through the day like they do to you. If it's been a particularly active night for dreaming (the last two weeks has been insane), I'll lay in bed and think about them for a few minutes when I wake up. I try to recall the images, interactions, characters, places, etc...and I tell myself that they were dreams, and that although they seemed so real, they didn't actually occur in real life. I think it helps make it dreams vs. reality clearer when I get up.

 

[autoperception]

I realize this post is many many years removed, but I have been having the same problem. I am taking 100mg of Zoloft daily, and I have a really hard time differentiating between what happened in a dream and what is going on in real life. The worst part is that my dreams don't really make any sense, so I have to try really hard not to say anything out loud as it will make me sound crazy if I explain what I am thinking is real. I don't know, I suppose, if that is the Zoloft, the rot cause of me having to take the Zoloft, or just my tendency to overthink and over analyse everything that is the root cause.