Hi! Haven't posted in a while. I've been having weird, nightmarish dreams since I've been experiencing peri symptoms the last few years. The worst was last night. OMG! I had a dream I had a gun in my mouth! Now, I am not depressed, have never even thought about hurting myself one bit and am scared to death of guns. This really scares me. Right after that one, I had a dream my DH covered me with a blanket and tried to suffocate me. I woke up trying to scream. Can this be my hormones?
One possibility is that you are becoming more sensitive to stimulants. Most of us women loooove chocolate, and some of us (speaking for myself here) graduated to darker and darker chocolate as the years go by, thinking that milk chocolate just isnt strong enough. Chocolate is a drug. As I started going through perimenopause, I found that the euphoria part of chocolate wasn't working for me any more. I didn't get "high" from it any more. BUT, the other stimulant effects DID work on me. I noticed that my dreams after eating chocolate were vivid crazy action-packed colorful dreams that made me toss and turn (and wake up my husband), and frequently woke me up with a racing heart from nasty nightmares. I started calling them my chocolate dreams. And I reluctantly admitted that I had to give up chocolate -- I got only the negative side effects, and no longer any of the woooonderful good effects. Sigh.
Rheanna:
I don't eat much chocolate. Actually I can't eat any in the evening. It will keep me up at night. Yesterday I had two small pieces of dark chocolate and had no weird dreams last night. Go figure!
I have been having vivid dreams and nightmares for quite a few years in the three nights before my periods start, its nearly every cycle and so it must be hormonal. I find I can't get to sleep then when I do I have these unbelievable vivid horrible dreams and wake up about 5 times a night in a panic.
I have been having them for last 7 years and am now 45 and in perimenopause as my periods are all over the place in last 6 months.
Flyerfan,
I get these vivid dreams too and often wake up in a sweat or with my heart racing. I think this is all related to hormones. I don't get them every night, just certain times in the month. T
Scared to sleep -weird dreams 
Right after that one, I had a dream my DH covered me with a blanket and tried to suffocate me. I woke up trying to scream. Can this be my hormones?
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