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Despite all the psychoanalytical stuff about the interpretation of dreams, it's my understanding that it doesn't matter if you remember them or not

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It does if you undergo twice per week psychoanalysis. Freud famously said that dreams are the royal road to the unconscious. Hmmm dog with glasses, that is interesting...

Interesting in the study that the dream reports seem to indicate after first month they stop, or are probably so infrequent people aren't remembering.

Suggested that my father talk to his Dr about Flomax to help him, be interesting to see if he gets it, does he have the dreams as well.

My take on dreams is that it's all random. Your dreaming mind's eye produces a shape and then assigns attributes to that shape. The shapes become objects or people, and your mind places them in a setting and then it's off to the races.

Dreams can have a definitive ending- when you wake up suddenly, but can you recall the beginning of a dream? That's because they slowly materialize as your dreaming mind builds the scenario.

Freud? Yeah, 1940 called...

Naturally, one's waking life invades one's dreams. This goes back to your dreaming mind assigning attributes to shapes as they materialize in your REM sleep cycle. But, for Freud and others to say that "this means this" or "this means that"- no, ain't buyin' it. That shit has bought a lot of summer homes for psychiatrists, and it's given troubled people something to latch onto, but the truth is, just as I said in my first post, the events in your dreams are just your brain "rambling down a hillside, picking up random things" as it goes.

No doubt, medical professionals will disagree with me, but, ask yourself- many people say they don't remember their dreams, so if Freud was correct, where does it leave those people? If dreams are intended by nature to give us a pathway to better understand ourselves, what about those people? And there are lots and lots of them.

I was talking to my best friend today and he mentioned he was having lots of dreams. I asked if he was taking Flomax and he said he started it about 2 months ago.

Have you ever read the package insert for Flomax? I wonder if it’s detailed in there somewhere.

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Everything else under the sun, as per usual. No increase in dreams.

I don't take any prescription drugs and few over the counter drugs either.
I go through phases where I don't seem to remember any dreams and then others where I have more vivid dreams that I only remember partially.
The ones I remember all seem to be mostly pleasant but random thoughts of things recent and long ago that are mostly jumbled together.
My guess is that these are due to the sleep level I'm experiencing at various times.
In any case, if they aren't upsetting, they are just another form of entertainment while I'm unconscious and don't cause me any harm.

Para, are you by any chance also taking melatonin? It also causes the same dreams you are talking about in lots of people.

No, nothing like that.

I am going to need both blood and urine work ups
Salt, sugar, caffeine, tobacco and alcohol levels.

Isn't there a member here whose CUT is "That's just the Flomax talking"? Maybe these dreams are what he means?

Bravely you fought! Yes, mmm!

He was much taller. Ears, much smaller.

Still wearing his armor in the bakery. Go figure.

Apparently dreams like Para’s are highly desirable: people take training to get “lucid dreams”; and now there’s a drug that can reliably bring them on:
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Apparently dreams like Para’s are highly desirable: people take training to get “lucid dreams”; and now there’s a drug that can reliably bring them on:
Link

It's quite possible I am mistaken, but it seems to me that lucid dreaming is more wishful thinking that reality. You'd have to be at least partially awake to control your dreams, and if you knew you were dreaming (something I've never experienced), it just seems to me like that would halt your dream.

What I'm experiencing can more accurately be described as vivid dreams, which I am much more likely to remember when I wake up. If I don't "record" the dream in my waking memory, shorty after I wake up from one of them, the memory of the dream fades to nothing by the afternoon. Last night, for instance- I didn't bother to commit the dream to memory after waking, so, it's gone. I do remember, though, that I had two hand grenades and was trying to figure out how to best use them.

Something else which has always interested me about dreams is tat I will "forget" the dream after waking, not be giving it any thought at all, and then at some point that day, someone will day something, or I will read or see something and then, boom, there it is- I remember the dream. This is very short term. I've never had this experience except for the day after waking up from it. That is to say- have a dream Monday night, wake up Tuesday and something may trigger the memory of it, but never will the memory of the Monday dream come after Tuesday, if that makes any sense. Fascinating stuff.

I've been doing a bit of research regarding the other medications I'm taking these days, and one thing I've fond out is that beta blockers may trigger vivid dreams. However, I've been on beta blockers for almost two years now, but the intense dreams began only after beginning the Flomax. I wonder if the combination of the Flomax and the beta blocker is the reason for my midnight movies.

Chantix is a big cause of vivid dreams aka nightmares. Ten percent experience them and find it so troubling they quit the drug.

I have been on generic form of Flomax for aboutb6 weeks . Perhaps my dreams have been more detailed and involving real people from the last 40 years. I can’t prove these were cause shy flomax as I have had intermittent dreams like that in the past.
I would like to ask it any here have experienced worsening Tinnitus after being in Flomax. I have terrible hissing anyways but it’s really worse now. It could be because of a natural progression of tinnitus. I quit taking the flomax for four days and the tinnitus is still worse. I also take nutrient supplements and maybe something in those are spiking the tinnitus . It’s horrible and I can’t sleep to enjoy any of those flomax dreams. If flomax is the culprit I will try to go to Proscar.

I am hoping some of you folks could shed some light.

I have dreams like you are describing quite often. I find it is usually when I am stressed. Brain trying to process whatever's going on. I did take Flomax last year for about a week after surgery when the anesthesia caused poor flow, but I didn't notice any out-of-the-ordinary dreaming.

I have tinnitus but I've noticed no change in it since beginning this medication. For sleeping, sound-masking is the way to go. Most people use a fan.

And you can't get quality help anymore, not even in dreams.

"I need your signature, right here."

"For what?"

"This says... Cone-shaped Cattle Switches."

"What's that?"

"I don't know, but you've got three crates of them- two gross per crate."

"I didn't order anything like that."

"I still need your signature."

"Where are they?"

"At the warehouse in Tulsa."

"You want me to sign for something I didn't order, and that's not even here?"

{shrug} "I just work here."