Influence of drugs (and medication) in your dreams

I use Lisdexamfetamine for treating my ADHD, and I was told that I should take it when I wake up, since it would negatively affect my sleep, and it was unnecessary to say that I should absolutely not take it at night. As you may have guessed I did take it at night, I mistook it for another medication I had to take at night since my allergy was killing me. I went to sleep about four hours later hoping that the effects would be mitigated (and I don't know if that changed anything), and eventually I was indeed able to "fall asleep", but it wasn't exactly "sleep". It was pretty strange, in fact, I wouldn't have noticed that I fell asleep if I hadn't looked at the clock to see that 8 hours had passed. Let me elaborate: First off, before falling asleep I noticed that I was much more focused, obviously. Generally a background music plays in my head before I start to loose consciousness, but the only thing I could hear was the deafening silence around me. Then I "fell asleep", but it didn't look like it, I wasn't dreaming. I could only see the same black I see when I close my eyes trying to fall asleep. There was no sound, no sensation of touch, nothing. Only my mind tirelessly working and thinking about things on the real world. In fact, I was trying for some days to solve a mathematical problem (if you are curious, the problem was: "prove that for an f:ℝ->ℝ, only one or neither of the Lebesgue integrals of f(x) or 1/f(1/x) exist") and I managed to solve it during that dream, but that was the only positive thing about this whole ordeal. I woke up feeling as if I hadn't slept at all (understandably so, since my mind was working for the entire night). What is your experience with dreams under the influence of drugs or medication?

When I first started on prescription Mirtazipine it would give me the most bizarre dreams and realistic night terrors. All extremely vivid. I later learned that some people take it off prescription purely for the deliriant effects, no idea why as it was an awful experience.

>>3425 SSRIs are terrible for dreaming. I currently take Paxil (have for the past 5 years or so) and none of my dreams ever since then have had any sort of meaning. They're all just odd compilations of random events in my life with nothing fantastical at all.

>>4147 SSRIs are all very different from each other, with citalopram i went from no dreams to intense vivid dreams.

>>3426 I have a shiiton of mirtazipine from an old prescription though I don't regularly take it anymore. I took one or two 7.5mg (honestly can't remember) a few nights ago and had a quite pleasant dream; although I might not know what that is anymore since I'm so isolated lately. I think the best dreams I've had were on Amitriptyline. It's an older not as widely used anymore antidepressant. I was given it for a sleep aid after a day of multiple 20mg IR Adderall doses. Though it's dangerous taking over 50mg of that stuff can be quite euphoric while awake (assuming your body can handle it, it's known for causing seizures and other undesired effects.)

>>4148 i take citalopram too and i went from very boring dreams to random/vivid ones. usually they make no sense at all. i think it might be linked to the fact that SSRis kind of make bland your life, and dreams have a compensation function in the unconscious.

>>3425 >(if you are curious, the problem was: "prove that for an f:ℝ->ℝ, only one or neither of the Lebesgue integrals of f(x) or 1/f(1/x) exist") I'm interested in learning math but my skills are still very basic. I know it's off topic to OP but could anyone explain to me how exactly that works? Any books i could read to understand that better?

>>3426 >When I first started on prescription Mirtazipine it would give me the most bizarre dreams and realistic night terrors. >>4147 >SSRIs are terrible for dreaming. These. I had weird dreams for a couple of weeks when I started taking meds. The dreams weren't pleasant but they weren't nightmares either. But after that I either just didn't remember any dreams at all or just had nightmares. Not to mention that anti-depressants and antipsychotics cause addiction (officially they are called withdrawal symptoms but let's be honest here) and they dull your cognitive abilities as well (especially the antipsychotics) >>4148 >SSRIs are all very different from each other, All SSRIs have similar working mechanism, so they are all pretty similar.

>>3425 well of course there's the standard thc inhibits rem sleep and prevents dreaming (which is why i quit). you just lay your head down and wake up. although i did once take a nap after staying up 26 hours and coming down from weed and i managed to solve a geometric problem dealing with a traveling over tiles on a three dimensional axis over the surface of an octahedron to represent spherical travel in a straight line along those axes. when i did wake up i was sure to put my solution into code and after a bit of refinement made a wonderful dynamic octahedron tiled with equilateral triangles that could be traversed along three axes like a sphere, although distance traveled was not considered in each step. the best dream i had was when i accidentally fell asleep with a nicotine patch on. it was one wild ride that started me as a 30yo woman being put in an insane asylum by my husband because i had a psychotic break and started attacking people while taking our daughter to an amusement park for her birthday. while my husband kept apologizing to me that he was sorry, i was reassuring him that i understand i was not in my right mind at the time and was a danger to others. and when recalling what set me off i remembered some hairy eyeless slug with tentacle arms and that is was forming some shape with them and saying some gibberish, which i proceeded to try to replicate to show my husband. then like some magic spell i found my self no longer in the asylum and new memories started to creep in. i wasn't really 30, but more like 15. i had no family left. my father was killed by his brother for the throne that should be mine. i was the heiress of the galactic space empire and that monstrous creature was trying to free me from some mind prison. i then left a ruined magi-tech cage that i assume was broken by a spell i was taught in my psychotic episode and recruited the galaxies most deadly assassin as my bodyguard, promising to absolve him of all past and future deeds for his help in retaking my throne. we release the other prisoners, staged a mutiny, and took over the prison ship. afterwards we hopped off on the first inhabited planet and let them go do what ever. god i love that dream and still remember it so vividly. woke up at the point and tried to go back to it to no avail. never had anything like it before or after. of course i've never fell asleep with the patch on again since. i just smoke rolling tobacco out of a bong before i go to bed. but that one time it all just felt so real and involved, not like the fractured bits i normally have to work to remember.