Has anyone else noticed having very strange/vivid dreams when taking lots of B vitamins? I would never have connected the dreams to the vits except I read it on another web site.

These dreams are just before I wake up. Not scary or awful, just seem to have little connection to my real life!

At least I sleep OK & for that I'm very grateful

Buttons

Many report dreams on Bcomplex. The condition pyroluria, which is a loss of B6 and zinc
from the body due to an error of metabolism in the liver...causes
loss of dreaming.

I think the B6 is elemental for this. Increasing your B6 status will help with
dreams.

Another thing that causes vivid dreaming is inositol.. I found that a very
strong correlation. (inositol used to be lumped together with B's...so check your formula and see if it is in there). If it is, then it could be contributing to
more dreaming for you.

I was taking the sublingual b12 .Not sure if i spelled that right.
Anyway i noticed i had very vivid dreams as well.I did'nt tell my sister about them.She was outta energy and having pains in her legs all the time{we worked together}anyway..She noticed improvement in her overall well being.
I had a hard time getting her to take a vitamin fro mthe drugstore before.So thats why i did'nt tell her about the dreams.So not long after starting them sub b12.She asks me if i had been having weird dreams.I of course asked why first..LOL
Then she told me she had very real like dreams.That hers were actually scary.
So when i told her,yes i had,she stopped taking the vits.
I hope if i tell her what i read here maybe i could get her to go back on them.
I worry about her all the time...
~Kell~

--many of which I still recall many years later, but I too have noticed that this effect has been enhanced over the 3-plus years now I've been taking large amounts of B-vitamins and other supplements.

The dreams are not normally scary, but they often seem to mix and match disparate elements from my life that would normally be juxtaposed. With that has come heightened awareness that I am actually in a dream; I have that revelatory "oh come on, this is not possible" moment that tips one off, no matter how consistent the internal logic of the dream may be. (I'm getting to rather enjoy it--sometimes one can be very creative in one's dreams.)

I find many of my "lucid" or vivid dreams much more satisfying than
even TV... When we go on vacation to a quiet, remote place..I have even
more vivid dreams. The relaxation, lack of noise/city crap... enhance them
even further.

But I do wonder about people who don't remember their dreams. Wonder if they are having B6 problems.

Our ancestors, relied on dreams to survive, and succeed in the hunt, and overcome physical challenges.
Much of our heritage and history revolve around dreams. Our mythology as well.
Dreams are our creative selves. Not to be feared, but embraced.

Those who do NOT dream creatively... should look into this lack. Those who
do dream creatively, are, I think, doing the human work we evolved to do.

This would be my guess: the vitamin b complex increase brain power so It would only be natural that you would dream more.

Just what I think....


xena

got this from DocJohn's Health News Headlines

http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/mo...d/15918934.htm

You know there is really very little in the body, that does not have a "use" for us. There is the appendix and wisdom teeth and the coccyx bones, but
biochemically there is a reason for everything. It stands to reason that the dream work we do is very important. Look a new babies--they have REM ALOT, and so do other young animals. Plastering our own egos over this physiology is what leads to misinterpretations, I think.

I know for me...sleeping on a problem is very useful. I often solve complex things this way, and get new ideas. I use this for my art work too.

And I know now for myself, over the years, it is best to not expose myself to certain types of visual stimulation. Nature programs with big spiders, snakes, or entertainment that is violent or sadistic... these themes will show up in my dreams. So I try to cushion myself now, since I learned this connection, and avoid them.

Dreams I find fun are
1) food dreams--- I've had these when ill, or on restrictive diets. Big buffets with great food choices! LOL ( I typically don't eat much when ill with viruses colds, etc).

2) for some reason I have garage sale dreams now and then. You know picking up novel, unique things for a very small price in a flea market setting.

3) I have garden dreams too. I have had recurrent ones of the same garden, over the years, and my replanting, moving, changing it. It is a huge garden too! I sometimes dream about moving and trying to decide which plants to take etc.

It is interesting considering my abusive past, and anguish then, I don't have dreams about this much at all anymore. But I did in early adulthood. I take this as a sign of progress away from that trauma.

4) I also have structural dreams involving work sometimes. You know computer stuff, rules, regs etc that get screwed up. I consider these anxiety dreams. (passwords, combinations to safes, locks)

5) Now that my son is older, and on his own, I have started having baby dreams of when he was little. And sometimes I dream about kittens/cats.
And when my husband shows up in a dream he is always younger too.

6) I've had dreams like movies...that seem endless. I've often wondered what they are pointing to? OCD? LOL

you are dreaming my business life mrsD

Chemar.... you might be right!

I should get out of this medical rat race and open my own shop! There you go!