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Any chance it's also partly due to medications people are taking more of? First-generation antihistamines are known to give people weird dreams. I've experienc

Any chance it's also partly due to medications people are taking more of? First-generation antihistamines are known to give people weird dreams. I've experienced this many times. And these are common ingredients in multi-symptom OTC cold/allergy/flu medications, especially anything that says "night" in the name. A lot of people may have mild and/or undiagnosed cases of COVID-19. They feel sick, they reach for some medicine. Coughs are a COVID-19 symptom, so maybe they take cough syrup. If they take Robitussin Nighttime Cough DM, that has doxylamine succinate in it. And Robitussin Severe Multi-Symptom Cough Cold + Flu Nighttime has diphenhydramine hydrochloride in it. Or maybe they don't have a cough, but their go-to medicine for any time they feel like crap is Nyquil. It also has doxylamine succinate in it. And/or maybe they don't have COVID-19, but they have heightened alertness about being sick and they're just more likely to take medication when anything (mild allergies, etc.) seems off.

adventured 7y ago
I'm pretty sure I had (have?) a mild case of Covid for 12-14 days or so. During the first week of symptoms I had wild dreams, which I remembered all of. I've taken no medication (that includes things like Robitussin, Nyquil). I might remember one dream per month on average. It's not common for me. With this, I remembered dreams almost every night. And they were surreal, vivid, very strange. I think it's because the body is reacting to an unusual infection. So called fever dreams from an infection are a normal thing. A high fever would explain it, however I never developed a high fever. There was a change in my sleep pattern, as for 4-5 of those days I slept for extended periods of time due to exhaustion (over two bad symptom days, I slept for 12 hours per day; normal is seven hours for me). My symptoms were sore throat, mild fever, general sick feeling, some abnormal pressure in my chest, light congestion. I only had a light cough for two days. This all went on for two weeks, with gyrations in the severity (one day I'd feel ~80% normal, then stronger symptoms would return the next day; on and on it went; two of the days I felt sick enough to nearly go to the hospital (I decided to test only if my fever got to a certain line; now I might do a blood test after the fact)). To put it into context, I haven't had a sore throat in six years; maybe one sore throat in a decade. I haven't had the flu in nearly 20 years. I get about one mild cold per year, which lasts a few days. I haven't been sick longer than roughly five or six days in my lifetime. Odds are it was the SARS-CoV-2 virus (I also had a prominent source exposure, a healthcare worker I know that has been xray'ing Covid patients). The dreams have disappeared now and I mostly feel better. My dreaming pattern is back to not remembering anything.
pixelbash 7y ago
Anecdotal, in NZ, myself and people I know are having strange dreams and not taking medication.
- pixelbash 7y ago
  Come to think of it, my partner has been having strange dreams too and she never takes so much as paracetamol or coffee. Personally I think it's a combination of isolation and stress.

adventured 7y ago

I'm pretty sure I had (have?) a mild case of Covid for 12-14 days or so. During the first week of symptoms I had wild dreams, which I remembered all of. I've taken no medication (that includes things like Robitussin, Nyquil). I might remember one dream per month on average. It's not common for me. With this, I remembered dreams almost every night. And they were surreal, vivid, very strange. I think it's because the body is reacting to an unusual infection. So called fever dreams from an infection are a normal thing. A high fever would explain it, however I never developed a high fever. There was a change in my sleep pattern, as for 4-5 of those days I slept for extended periods of time due to exhaustion (over two bad symptom days, I slept for 12 hours per day; normal is seven hours for me). My symptoms were sore throat, mild fever, general sick feeling, some abnormal pressure in my chest, light congestion. I only had a light cough for two days. This all went on for two weeks, with gyrations in the severity (one day I'd feel ~80% normal, then stronger symptoms would return the next day; on and on it went; two of the days I felt sick enough to nearly go to the hospital (I decided to test only if my fever got to a certain line; now I might do a blood test after the fact)). To put it into context, I haven't had a sore throat in six years; maybe one sore throat in a decade. I haven't had the flu in nearly 20 years. I get about one mild cold per year, which lasts a few days. I haven't been sick longer than roughly five or six days in my lifetime. Odds are it was the SARS-CoV-2 virus (I also had a prominent source exposure, a healthcare worker I know that has been xray'ing Covid patients). The dreams have disappeared now and I mostly feel better. My dreaming pattern is back to not remembering anything.

pixelbash 7y ago

Anecdotal, in NZ, myself and people I know are having strange dreams and not taking medication.

pixelbash 7y ago
Come to think of it, my partner has been having strange dreams too and she never takes so much as paracetamol or coffee. Personally I think it's a combination of isolation and stress.