Meds can do that.

My dreams are like Indie Movies { like the movies from India} beautiful colors ..wild dancing

Moulin Rouge kinda dreams

Or bloody gorey scary icky dreams

But always COLOR and SMELL and LOUD !

I sometimes feel like I have more of a life in dreamland than I do in the real world. Sounds crazy but there is more action in them.

my dreams mostly consist of nightmares involving some very disturbing shit

I usually have nightmares when I dream as well.. .At least the ones I remember..
I think it's from Seroquel.. A lot of meds have that side effect

I usually have nightmares, thank goodness there not too often, but have woken up and felt like they were so real, that I was being possessed by the devil, had to ask a family member if my dream was real. I've ended up sleeping with a cross in my hands, because I get so scared that I am possessed. These dreams are really mind boggling.
On the lighter side, one night this week, I kept waking up finding myself laughing, and not knowing what was so funny to me. It was a change, from having nightmares.

nick..I totally understand about your "dream life" , being almost more exciting and fun than real life.

Sometimes when I am having one of those dancing dreams , and I feel myself waking up...I try to swim back down into the dream !

Different meds give me different types of dreams.

ive noticed during the last year or so i keep waking up talking in mid dream but quickly forget what it was about. nothing scary. i love the state when you are half asleep and semi controlling the dream and then get lost fully in it. does anyone else do that. i do it a lot during the day.

I used to have great dreams, semi lucid dreaming and actually able to go back to sleep, either shortly after waking or the next night, and consciously pick up on the same dream. Now I rarely dream or remember dreaming but am told I talk and sometimes hollar in my sleep so I'm guessing I am getting enough REM sleep.

My only recurring nightmare is when I fly too high and then start plummeting to the ground when I kinda realize, semi consciously, that wtf I can't fly...then I get that "Wile E. Coyote" feeling. Been awhile since I've flown.

I think sometimes dreams reflect our past present and future (deja vu) and other times it's just something I ate. Dreams are cool, I'm missing the interaction I once had with them.

kinda off the subject, but sorta pertains, my pdoc gave me an awesome med for nightmares and flashbacks...prazosin...2 mg...no trouble at night whatsoever anymore...absolutely love it!

as far as what they say, i think it's our unresolved issues and anxiety playing out in our sleep because we haven't dealt with it during the day...

My psychotic episodes are like dreaming while i'm awake and they are very wacky.