epilepsy and dreaming - Epilepsy Message Board

kelcz · 08-13-2007, 05:05 AM

since i found i had epilepsy a year ago i have noticed an increase of vivid dreams and amazing recollection of them. no one i know is able to recall distinct details of their dreams like the clothing of a person near you or what shoes i may have been wearing. not only am i able to recall these amazingly well, what else is interesting is how random these dreams are. they often pick random people i know or dont know but have seen-like the lady who delivers pamphlets to my house who i have never met but dreamed about yelling and argueing with me, i also dreamed she had a son who was quite fat and wore an orange shirt and we were at a volleyball match. now i was wondering if this is epilepsy, or if it is just an extremely vivid imagination?

neurowreck · 08-13-2007, 08:27 AM

I have weird dreams about people I don't know (fiction dreams?) that are amazingly detailed, but I don't always remember them. I hadn't associated them with seizures, but who knows. I do have night seizures. But I might also just be having weird dreams because of medication, being really tired, etc.

jenlori71 · 08-13-2007, 08:42 AM

I also have alot of dreams that I remember real clearly. Yet, while I am sleeping and having these dreams I am also having seizures. Alot of times I am waking up with bruises and have no idea how I got them.

kelcz · 08-13-2007, 01:49 PM

thanks very much. i have always had nocturnal seizures, but what you have said makes me think that maybe i am having complex partial in my sleep. im not having tonic clonic as i normally bite my tongue to pieces, but i will investigate that further

wdmoor · 08-14-2007, 07:44 AM

I'd noticed the dream association with epilepsy before. Weird, isn't it? I have out-of-body dreams. I recently dreamt I was a young Japanese boy in a fishing village, and it was so detailed and vivid, down to sound and smell and color, I had trouble waking up and focusing my awareness. I was hung over with this dream all day. The brain is a strange thing.