Does anyone get creepy nightmares from Seroquel?

Yes, so bad are the nightmares, I wake quite often but the same horrible dream just resumes its self. I have trouble falling asleep without it as well. I will speak to my dr and let you know what he says.
Trish

Yes!! This is exactly what I was experiencing with this! I take 150mg of lamictal and 25mg of Seroquel for BP. I started off dreaming great dreams, and then they turned into complete nightmares. They were so scary that I thought I was being attacked by a spiritual force. I tried to stop taking it because the nigthmares were so scary and vivid, but I literally cannot sleep without them. It brings me peace that I have read this thread, knowing that I'm not crazy!!

Yes, and all night every single night. I’ve been on it for about 14 years and the dreams continue to shock me as to how bad they can be. I’ve even had at least 1 dream that was somewhat hard to differentiate between if it was a memory or just my dream. I often wake up feeling almost sick from how awful my dream was. When I wake up, I’ll often remember some of the dreams and for a while I will think about it and be disturbed by it even though it was only a dream.

No, I took it because I have night terrors and Seroquel got rid of them. I remembered NO dreams, at all, while I was on it. However, if I didn’t fall asleep within 30 minutes, my nasal passages closed completely and I got restless leg syndrome really bad. I would be awake for over 5 hours trying to breath and stop the leg action, before I got any relief.

I am so glad to have come across this post! I have been struggling to justify how I get these crippling fears from my nightmares. Some days, it is so bad that I cannot get out of my room to go to school or work. Quetiapine/ Seroquel used to work wonders for me. I have been genuinely convinced that it was the meds that pulled me out of the deep dark hole of depression and anxiety. But I can't say the same these days. The nightmares are always feeding off my personal traumas, fears and insecurities. It's absolutely triggering and I am not even on a very high dosage of Quetiapine (12.5 - 25mg). Thank you everyone for sharing your experience, it genuinely helped me validate how I am feeling.

Absolutely. Every single night I feel like I am having horrible nightmares the entire night. They are awful. It is rare, but sometimes I literally cry in my sleep. I will wake up and my eyelashes are wet with tears or they are running down my face. That usually occurs if I dream my mom or parents died. I am unable to sleep without seroquel. I don’t take it for bipolar or schizophrenia or something, I just take it for sleep. I have bad anxiety and my entire life I have had extreme difficulty sleeping for more than 2 hours at a time and it usually takes 2-3 hours just to fall asleep in the first place. I really want off this med but nothing else worked for sleep.

Why do we suffer like this? Has medication not advanced enough that we have to deal with an alternate reality of terror that sticks in the back of our minds throughout the day?
I’ve only been taking it for a few months, but the intensity of my nightmares have gotten so that I’m actually relieved to wake up in the real world to deal with my usual bi-polar depression and PTSD. Still, if it continues to get worse -and I’m honestly terrified by the idea it could - I’m not going to take it. I’d rather not sleep. The more my psychiatrist medicates me, the more my unmedicated life seems preferable - which it clearly wasn’t, as I’ve been desperately seeking help. We can’t keep settling for something that isn’t working. There has to be a better way... I’ll at least consult my doctor, but we should be getting better instead of restrained, shouldn’t we?

At least you're getting sleep. I've been ordered it 50 for my sleep but afraid to take it because I don't want any side effects like tired next morning or feel drugged up, but I sure need sleep, Insomnia issues for a very long time now. I'm 62 now and do also take klonopin/clonazepam. How is the seroquel working for you now?

I started to get nightmares almost immediately- I have 2 bad ones then wake up and have one good dream. Are yours the same dream over and over?

I was just prescribed Seroquel about 3 weeks ago... my psychiatrist added it to my existing meds and just adjusted dosages of the others. I'm supposed to take 25-50 mg at bedtime, as needed. Night before last, I had my first crazy dream, I woke myself up screaming outloud. Thankfully, I just woke my husband and not the kids. And, yes, I laughed at his response for at least a half hour. My poor hubby, I love playing tricks on him when he least expects it. Hahaha

I go next week for a med check... I hope there's a viable option or that a higher dosage will be less likely to cause dreams. I would rather use a different antipsychotic and sleeping med than to make my husband think I'm dying in my sleep. Last night, I either had no dreams or I don't remember them. My husband used to work in the behavioral health field in an independent living facility of sorts. He knew exactly what caused it without my telling him anything.

I hope this works... I don't want to try 15 other medications before we find the right "cocktail" for me. :-(

I have been experiencing night terrors for several weeks. Didn’t connect it with Seroquel at first. But I noticed that I will wake up with heart palpitations, feeling out of my head, thinking I am going to die. One night I was awaken to pins and needles feeling in my head! Sometimes during the day I get feelings of doom and gloom, feel as if I’m going out of my head. In reading these responses, I see that I’ve not gone crazy! Thank God! I will definitely tell my doctor tomorrow.
Sha

I've quit seroquel for this reason ( nightmare or very vivid dreams) . Also I was feeling weird the day after. Seroquel is given left and right by doctors who don't know what else to prescribe ( in my case anyway) so, if you can manage without it, it would be better. If you take it to fall asleep just switch to restoril ( temazepam) or even amitriptyline ( elavil) . For me seroquel is the worst med that I ever took. If you take Restoril ( temazepam) start with the lower dosage because we develop a tolerance to it after a few years.

This is my fourth day/night in taking seroquel, and my dreams are so vivid. I'm even experiencing emotions, in the dreams.
In real life, I'm a cancer survivor, post menopausal with no libido. But in my dream today, I had an orgasm! I woke up with the feeling lingering and feeling kinda embarrassed. ( my 28 year old son and his 2 friends were in the room next to mine, and I hope I wasn't making any sounds, out loud! )
Last night's dream was nightmarish. In it, I had a controlling boyfriend, who was ignoring me. I really felt the emotional abandonment. I was then being chased by him. I was hiding in a succession of neighbour's yards, at night. He was chasing me, looking for me with a torch. He found me, and berated me/ gaslighted me, in front of the neighbour, who came outside to see what the commotion was. In the same dream, I found out my own yard was covered in white tiles. I scrubbed away all the dirt to reveal them.
My dreams are not fading away from my psyche as the day goes on.

Omg I tell you what I have been taking Seroquel about 6 months now and all of a sudden this past week I have been feeling like something is crawling on my feet Really scary !! and it was given to me to ease up my bad dreams and help my Ambien to work better and for awhile it worked and as I said that is the only new medication and I definitely am having creepy dreams !