I want to know if exremely vivid dreams are normal. Every time I wake up I m confused because they re so real. Even if it s something that never would happen, I think it s real until I jolt awake. Please, I need an answer. I m starting to get scared by this.
Exact reason for Why we dreams is still unknown, but frequent & extremely vivid dreams can be manifestation underlying psychological turmoil. Many psychiatric illness can have early manifestation of extremely vivid dreams of fearful or strange nature. Depression, Anxiety, Primary sleep disorders etc. are major psychiatric illness presenting most of the time with vivid dreams only. It can be due to side effect of many over the counter medication used for different reason. Improper use of sedatives & hypnotics now easily available OTC for minor sleep problems, are most common cause for vivid dreams in my opinion. Among the sedatives short term use and sudden withdrawal of alprazolam is most notorious for causing disturbances in dreaming processes.  There is no need to prevent dreams at all. What you need is proper evaluation of your problem by a psychiatrist.Thank You