Does Zoloft have an affect on your dreams?

Question

I mean, I've taken Zoloft before, and it never affected my dreams, but ever since I've been taking it for the past couple of months I'm having some off the wall dreams. Usually my dreams are very vivid and realistic with maybe a few things out of the ordinary. Lately, my dreams have been far from reality...I'm just curious.

Well it doesn't bother me...I am just curious. The dreams cause some interesting conversation. Hehe.

Well when I'm awake I'm aware of reality. The dosage is really low, and is perfectly fine for stabilising my moods, and what not. I just find the dreams amusing, and was wondering what it was that could be causing it. I've recently become a vegetarian and my father jokes that it is all the soy I'm taking in...

Answer 1

Zoloft can readily alter your concept of reality.

I would attempt to determine if the dosage is too strong.

As with many medicines, the correct dosage creates good results, but if you cross the line and begin to take too much, there can be an abnormal reaction.

Answer 2

I have been on Sertraline (zolft generic) for about 5 months now and when I first began taking it I had very vivid unsually violent dreams. I don't know if it was the med or not, but I noted that when I started taking it.

Answer 3

Zoloft does affect your dreams. You would have vivid dreams. The following article depicts this.

Psychiatric Disorders¾Frequent: yawning, other male sexual dysfunction, other female sexual dysfunction; Infrequent: depression, amnesia, paroniria, teeth-grinding, emotional lability, apathy, abnormal dreams, euphoria, paranoid reaction, hallucination, aggressive reaction, aggravated depression, delusions; Rare: withdrawal syndrome, suicide ideation, libido increased, somnambulism, illusion

Answer 4

I had sleep problems and dreams as well as some physical side effects. The cure in my case was switching to Celebrex.

Answer 5

My pshycologist said lucid dreams were just a side-effect, they can be so strange sometimes though