I haven't experienced this, but I did notice a lot of people on this board were having sleep studies done and several found they had sleep apnea.

Maybe you do? It could be worth looking into

I still dream. Sometime I even run in my dreams. Maybe looking into sleep studies would be good. Also tell yourself you will remember your dream or start writing them down. Sometimes it takes practice to remember.

Disrupted sleep isn't restful or refreshing. Anyof the following can interfere with a good night's sleep: steroids, frequent nighttime urination, spasms, periodic limb movements, depression and anxiety. Think about any medications you are taking. They may interfere with your ability to dream also. Dreams do occur during REM sleep as you say, so perhaps MS isn't allowing us to enter REM sleep and truly get some deep sleep, and dreams. I personally love to dream, even though experts say that dreams disturb sleep. I always awake refreshed when i dream.

I have REM Sleep Disorder and Obstructive Sleep Apnea.and in Limbo on MS

Be careful what you wish for.I dream oftenand if I am kicking or punching or running in the dreamthen that is what I am doingI dream often and get no restand am dangerous to be around when I am sleeping...

I may be a little late on this but i stumbled upon this post while Googling MS and the lack of dreams. I have had MS for 2 1/2 years and almost never dream anymore. Every few months or so if i wake up a little early and doze back off I will have a dream. I'm assuming the lesions are affecting my ability to reach REM sleep. Oh well, i really did enjoy dreaming.

No, I dream very vividly still! But if you are having disrupted sleep that can be the culprit! I've read extensively on dreams and dreaming for 10+ years now and I came across some advice for people who were having trouble dreaming or remembering their dreams... if I remember right it was to sleep 7-9 hours every night and at the same time. So doesn't matter what time, just that it is consistent and the length is consistent.
Then, with regularity, you will dream again and remember dreams better. It had to do with people having insomnia and sleep-debts to make up and such.
If you have trouble falling asleep cause of symptoms, consider magnesium supplement! Mine works wonders! Without it I can't sleep at all but with I am back to happy nights and no side effects :) Some lower quality mag pills can give you shits though, just a warning
Also consider melatonin if you have trouble staying asleep.
If you want something stronger, I recommend baclofen. It helps with spasticity, pain, and other symptoms while sleeping. The only thing is its not a natural sleep so I dont know how it would affect your ability to dream

I read that even if we're not seeing any dreams, we're dreaming. You wake and feel you had none but you did they were just too fast to comprehend consciously. Or maybe you forget them right away. Either way, sounds like you need MORE sleep and at a consistent time! :)

I don't know this for a fact, but it was always my understanding that you always dream and only remember dreams if you wake up in the middle of one. And thus, I have many vivid dreams every night and I wake up a lot in the night. I do not sleep well.

My husband, rarely wakes up at night a never remembers his dreams.

Don't take me at my word, this is just a theory, but it might be worth googling.

ive been dreaming more and acting out my dreams. i think it can go either way with MS

i hear acting out your dreams for frequently can be a symtoms of ms

For the past six months I've been having VIVID dreams that I remember the next day. I'm on Betaseron, baclofen, Ampyra, and magnesium. Once in a while they wake me up at night - usually if there is some sort of danger - and I do deep breathing to stop my heart from racing.

I have to agree with Rain Gwen and tarabunnyears. I do not remember my dreams 99% of the time. The only dreams that I do remember is when my sleep is interrupted.

Even when I do remember a dream when I awake, it is only for a short while and I then forget them. I remember only a couple of dreams my entire lifetime. I used to remember awaking with a dream where I was trying to find a bathroom (before my MS was ever dx). Apparently I had to go to the bathroom during the night. I would remember looking for a bathroom wherever I was and never finding one. So my spastic bladder was playing a part in my mind.

Recently I awoke with a dream where I remembered looking for a place where I could cath. That was a first where I remembered my MS in my dream. But looking for a bathroom seems to have been a reoccurring theme. The only real memory of dreams. Like I said I am grateful that I don't remember them because I usually wake up with some kind of resolution to a problem so I must have been working on it in my sleep. So I wouldn't want to remember the dream part. Like one comment said, be careful for what you wish for.

Hi Heynow! It's me, SharonMom. No, M.S. has NOT kept me from dreaming. However in most of my dreams I am perfectly healthy like I was most of my life before being diagnosed with M.S. at age 42. In only one of my dreams I had M.S. It's kind of sad for me, because in my dreams I am usually healthy, and then I wake up to find myself trapped in this body that has M.S. Oh well!

Yeah, BobbyJ. I think LDN helps decalcify the pineal gland and keep it decalcified. Seems to be why many have changes in dreams.

Some of them are quite awesome and all too real.