a conversation between your mother and my mother
me: “I should go to a doctor. I have trouble sleeping. I take sleep medication. I take a lot of sleep medication. One time I took, um, a whole bottle. It’s like, 4pm? I was half asleep and then I drank the whole bottle at once. I have this nightmare, every night, where I’m in a movie theater and there’s this monster behind me, and it’s going to devour me, and it has a giant mouth that’s going to devour me and then I’ll die. And I can never sleep at night because of it. It’s horrible and terrifying. You know, I thought it would just get a lot better after I got on Prozac but actually I’m still going to die, but this nightmare won’t ever get better. So yeah, that’s kind of a problem I’ve had for several years, where I can never sleep or anything else.”
my mother: “Have you tried, like, sleeping with a pillow between your legs, or just lying facedown?”
me: “Nope! I can’t sleep with anything in between my legs. And I did lie on my back but it didn’t work.”
me: “The only thing that worked in my dream was turning around. So I think I’ll just keep on doing that. That way, I’ll always be facing it.”
Well part of the issue may be that you’re taking Prozac tbh. Trouble sleeping/vivid dreams are a known side effect. When I was on it I had the most convoluted dreams every single night and I never felt rested
I’m taking Lexapro, and I took it when I had the dream the other night (the giant monster was replaced by another giant monster). Still vivid dreams.
I do know that there are a few times in my life (pre-psych meds era, I think?) that I would sleep very little and be extremely sleepy during the day – I could still function though.
I still wonder what was up with all that, though
You should probably talk to your doctor about that frank
I did; it’s not a medication side effect. It was one of the things that made me wonder if I had ADHD.






