I can't speak for all of us but I dream constantly. I dream falling asleep, waking up, sometimes I even have a final dream after I'm "awake" from my alarm but before I make it to my bedroom door.

It's definitely due to N; one of it's defining traits is that we reach deep sleep (REM) quickly and stay there most of the night. (Normal sleep takes over an hour to reach REM and it's only 25% of the night) So we dream vividly way more than other people.

THIS SOUNDS LIKE ME. I dream all the time. I fall asleep while reading and incorporate the book I'm reading into my dream, wake up and pick up reading right where I left off. It makes for interesting dreams but very confusing books...oh well, I just go with it. The disturbing part about the dreaming is that sometimes I don't know if what I'm "remembering" is a true memory or something I dreamt. Does xyrem help with the dreaming issues?

I do. With my sleep study, every time I went to sleep, I was in R.E.M. with in 5 minutes.

Sometimes I am dreaming before I am asleep...I just close my eyelids and vivid imagery starts up and even morphs if I watch it. It's kind of cool actually...lol.

Sometimes I wish though, that I could fall asleep and have a blank night where I just wake in the morning. I awake continuously through the night. My study recorded 60 awakenings in a night. How can you function during the day like this!

I learned that our mind is just as active in the dream state, as it is in awakening life.

Yes. I dream CONSTANTLY!. Even if I'm only asleep for a few minutes. My sleep study showed I hit REM in just under 9 minutes. I often have the same problem as bsleepy. I'm not always sure what I'm "remebering" is real or not. I tried Zyrem briefly. I didnt tolerate it well. I don't remember it helping with the dreaming.

I'm on xyrem, I still dream a lot at night, but still function better regardless. I used to dream ALL the time....day, night, and in between. At least I have gaps now, lol.

I dream all the time. A lot of times when I nod off for a few minutes, I'll start dreaming.

I always go to bed about a half an hour before my mom does. I usually will go to bed, have extremely vivid dreams and maybe even some lucid dreams and then wake up to see that the lights are still on.

I used to dream all the time and have many dreams during the night. But since I've started Xyrem I have not had any dreams unless I go back to sleep in the morning after it has worn off. It's weird because I'll go to sleep quickly and then when it wears off my eyes pop open and I'm wide awake. And I don't wake up tired any more.

I used to dread getting up because I was in such a fog from not sleeping. I would wake up thinking when can I nap? ---Right after work or do I need to run errands....although mostly I just went home and napped because I always figured the errand could be done on the weekend or by someone else in the family.

I definitely do. Only for me 90-96% of my dreams are nightmares, the kind that make it hard to go back to sleep if I am lucky enough to wake from them and escape.
It was my vivid nightmares that had my doc suspect N in the first place.
I was on Clonazepam which helped lessening the severity of the nightmares but I eventually gained a tolerance for it and had to stop taking it.

My doctor suspected N was my problem because due to the fact that I reported very light sleeping (a pin drop would wake me), very vivid dreams and never feeling refreshed in the morning. I've been that way my whole life but a stressful event caused it and my thyroid to worsen.

The Xyrem is helping so much. I'm still adjusting to it. I'm not up to the full dose yet but already the difference is huge. One downside, well two, you have to have a regular schedule (during the week that is okay since I work but the weekends I do go to bed later and seem to still do better with it) and the funny taste I have all day. I hoping it will go away or I'll get used to it. Not terrible but different.