About a month after my injury I started having very strange dreams/nightmares. Some were extremely violent, others extremely sexual, and sometimes both. Recently I've noticed that I don't get too many violent nightmares anymore but I still have all these very vivid sexual dreams. Has anybody else gotten this? Is there a reason for it? I'm very curious.

I've always had violent and sexual dreams--even before my concussions.

However, I do notice a difference in my dreams after a concussion. Before concussions, my dreams would at least follow a narrative. After a head bump, my dreams feel scrambled and jumbled; they do not follow a narrative. It can feel disconcerting in a strange way.

I have stressful dreams when I am not breathing right during sleep. I don't know about sexual dreams. They may be tied to hormonal issues.

I had odd dreams the first month or so after my injury, but I was still in the hospital and the psychologist indicated they were either false memories related to the TBI itself (psychologists call these confabulations) or due to or enhanced by medication I was given at the time. Mine weren't violent or particularly sexual, but did include things like floating around he hospital and imagining conversations and interactions that didn't actually happen.

Dreams aren't well understood by neuroscientists or psychologists. Some theories are that dreams are tools our brain uses to process ideas or thoughts in a "safe" environment (sleep), or they may be involved in memory processing.

Any insult to the brain, which would include the injury or current medications can alter the way your brain is processing your dreams. If you are still taking Zoloft, it can cause sexual dysfunction so speculation here might be you body is trying to find it's normal sexual rhythm.

Wishing you well in your continued recovery.

I've had my hormones checked a few times during hospital visits and I believe they were fine. And the dreams started before the Zoloft. It's strange. Most of them lately are just me being incredibly obsessed with sex.

Thanks for the replies, I was just curious.

If you ask 5 different psychologists you will probably get 5 different answers!

Best to you.

Are you taking Vitamin B? I started having crazy dreams after I added that to my daily supplement regime. I Googled it, and it looks like B is linked to strange, vivid dreams.

I'm not taking any supplements, but I've been drinking that "blue goodness" drink from Bolthouse with all the B vitamins, and eating blueberries here and there

I have also been having some weird dreams since my concussion. Mine are of me hurting myself either my head or getting shot somewhere on my body and I wake up scared and in pain like it just happened. Like if I hit my head in a dream I wake up either the moment I hit it in the dream and hear the bang and feel the pain in my head or when I start panicking about my head injury in the dream. It's very strange I have never experienced this kind of pain in a dream before. Once I got shot in the back and I woke up with the bang and it really hurt, I really thought I was shot for real haha.

I had a weird dream this morning, unusually today I managed to get back to sleep after lying awake for a long while and had a very vivid dream. It was like an episode of Doctor Who with mutant people in it, at first I thought they were handicapped or injured, it was more disturbing than frightening. When I woke I felt sleepy and relaxed where usually I feel wide awake so it must have been beneficial in some sort of way lol.

You're right about vit B, I once had a bad dream after taking it!