Can Trazodone cause me to have nightmares or very odd dreams?

I have been on trazodone for years and just in the past few months I’ve noticed I wake from having really vivid dreams some peaceful some nightmares. It’s very exhausting because I don’t feel rested at all, but if I don’t take my trazodone I don’t sleep. Who else feels this way?

I just started taking Trazodone 1 week ago. At first, I had a dry mouth and found it difficult to get up. Usually you have that moment when you hit your alarm that you’ve slept 20 more min... but with it I’ll sleep for 2 more hours and not notice. However the last 3-4 nights I’ve had vivid dreams that end in a nightmare. Half of the Dream is a truth, like a concert I’ll go to this week, picking my boyfriend up at the airport, etc and the other half is some kind of outrageous humiliation or terror. If I forgot about them when I woke, it would be fine- but I can remember them very clearly.

Yes, but I personally don’t get them often. It varies from person to person but I am generally happy with trazodone :)

I've been taking this medication for a few months now, I started at a half a pill, and it had absolutely no effect on my insomnia, I gradually increased it up to now, where I'm taking 150mg of it, and I can tell you, I'm having dreams like I'm a kid again. Super vivid, and like someone said before, scary in the moment, but it's like watching a movie. Dreaming I'm other people doing insane things. I'm going to continue with this dosage until I start experiencing these night terrors people here are describing.

I take trazadone only when I have trouble sleeping, but it has the same effect on me. I always have very strange dreams. I'm on a few other meds but last night I decided to only take my trazadone and the dreams started, so I'm starting to think it does have this effect on me

My doctor took me off Ambien and put me on 100 mg Trazadone, which I took for the first time last night. I had a dream so disturbing that my dog woke me up. I had two strange but not scary dreams after that. I remember all three in detail. I'm going to try 50 mg tonight.

Im glad im not the only one! I have crazy vivid dreams everytime i fall asleep. Ill wake up and purposely fall back asleep to have another dream. Most of them are nightmares but i like them as they're interesting and i know they're just dreams. Im prescribed at 75mg i took 2 for the first time tonight as i couldn't sleep so i wonder if the nightmares will worsen or not but excited to find out!

So happy I decided to look this up because I thought something was wrong with me. I feel like I am in the matrix while taking this medicine, I cannot tell if it really happened or if I was only dreaming about it. I will definitely talk to my Doc. about this because I am going crazy trying to decipher what actually take place the day before.

I have been taking trazodone every night for about a month. I wasn't sure if this medication was the cause of my nightmares, so I stopped taking it for about a couple weeks. I have been taking it every other off day now for a couple of weeks and everytime I take this medication I wake up in a sweat and very exhausted from horrible nightmares. It would be so horrible that I would wake up crying my eyes out just out of instinct following up to the dream I just woke up from this terrified me .so now I know that the Trazodone is the problem. Because of this I thought it would be smart to try to break it in half and see if that helps any, so far so good nightmare free. I did not understand why or how a certain medication will affect your dreams. This is very real and very common, so as my primary care physician had told me.

I'm glad I looked here. I've been on Trazodone for a week treating insomnia. I had one or two questionable dreams and didn't worry. An odd family in DC is the constant, yet I live in Baltimore, Md and hardly go there or know who these people are. I was just awakened from my sleep just as I was ready to be attacked with a knife. This is getting creepy.

Yes ! I don't generally have nightmares. Rather, I have dreams that have small snippets of distressing moments but are overall pleasantly and exhilaratingly strange... often including intimate moments with people I would have NEVER thought of about in that way in real life. I remember a lot of the dreams I have. And for a lot of them... I wish they could be real.

So glad to hear these comments. I have taken Trazodone for over a year, at 100 mg., without issue. Last night I took the dose too early and I wasn't getting the effect I was looking for, so at 1:30 am, I took another. I had dreams all night - some that I would call nightmares, some hallucinogenic. I was also experiencing, visual and auditory hallucinations when I opened my eyes. Most bizarre was one where it seemed that I had a laptop on my thighs, and that I could "Facetime" with friends and family. They would ask me a question, and would actually wait for my response. Two other things: 1) they were very long and involved dreams, and 2) I can still remember every one!!

The nightmare I had was vivid and full of anxiety after taking one pill. However, I will NOT allow a nightmare to keep me from having insomnia, I have not slept well in months, I will look at it as a Fright Movie, and continue to take my pill. Before going to bed I will fill my brain with affirmations
of peace, love, and tranquility!