Latuda - Anybody else have more realistic dreams?

Just started Latuda as well for bipolar disorder (misdiagnosed for the last 25 years). Crazy, almost fever type, dreams. 40mg dose. I’ve also been getting a weird restless feeling that makes me feel kind of sick and uncomfortable. Seems to fit with what they call “akastesia”. My heart goes out to everyone dealing with this stuff. It’s no joke.

I'm currently taking Lamotrigine and have extremely realistic dreams. Been on it for 7 years. EVERY NIGHT for these years, I've had a dream. Thought maybe with time it would go away. It hasn't. I can't remember every dream. But the ones I can remember are of situations from my youth, with random people in it.
7 years and it just dawned on me to see if anybody else had these "side effects"

I have only been taking Latuda for about 3 weeks and I am having vivid dreams at least once or twice a night. I rarely ever remembered my dreams. They are always about people I knew in my past even 50 or more years ago. I wake up wondering what has happened to them over the years. Sometimes I try and find out and get lucky. So far, never scarey.

So maybe I’m getting deeper/REM sleep, but the quality is greatly diminished due to these incessant, vivid dreams. From the moment I shut my eyes until the moment I wake up with a racing heart. Marijuana helped tamp down this manic dreaming (“brain riot”, I call it) but I quit cannabis for other reasons. So now the Latuda dreams run wild. I’m on a high dose, hoping a decrease will make a difference. It’s enough to make me want to give up on this medicine.

Yes i just started taking it and im having the worst dreams ever. And mind you im a fan of horror movies and took criminal justice not much bothers me. But these deams are so real and scary. I woke up 3 time 3 hours apart each time and i was almost in tears because of how scared i was. And at one point i thought i woke up and thought i was telling my husband about my dreams then he died off a heart attack and i woke up again.

I have been taking different medicines my whole life to see which would level my bi-polar, anxiety and a couple other things out. I just started Latuda. I hate disrupted sleep. One of my worst things. I’m so used to it that if I don’t wake up once then I feel off balance. Well tonight (5am) I woke up 6 times or so. Each time with a more vivid dream. These dreams are somewhat bothersome merely because they are so realistic and seems like something I could analyze. For example, a friend of mine since childhood (I’m a woman he’s a man) is in prison for life for molesting a child, pictures of that child and worse

I just woke up from the most terrifying dream of my life. I recently went from 40 mg to 60 mg of Latuda and went up on my lamictal by 50 mg. I've noticed I've been having super vivid dreams and even told my sister that my dreams have been really crazy since the increase of the latuda. But just now my mom woke me up in a panic because I was making loud muffled screams and shaking violently. It was a dream about my past, like a suppressed memory of these kind of social experiments that had been done on me. I'll spare you the details but man it was bad. I know I was trying to scream in my sleep but couldn't get the screams out. I woke up out of breath and my throat hurts from trying scream. Man, I'm getting off this latuda asap. I gotta call my dr as soon as they open. I dont want these dreams ever again! I've also noticed that if I don't go to sleep right away it makes me feel really strange. Just off, it's super weird.

I see this post is kinda old but I was trying to look up information on this exact topic. I just had my 3rd baby 6 months ago and this time have had terrible postpartum depression and anxiety. My Dr just recently switched me to 40 mg a night of Latuda about 3 weeks ago. I’ve noticed since the morning after my first dose how intense my dreams have been - literally every night. I am EXTREMELY lucid in my dreams to the point that when I wake up I remember in my dreams thinking why does this feel so real when I am completely aware that this is only a dream I’m currently in. They are occasionally scary or negative but for the most part they are just very random sometimes strange dreams. I’m not even sure how to thouroughly explain it. I also wake up all throughout the night either to see to my baby or for no reason at all. Is this normal?

I've noticed many more intense realistic dreams. Mostly about my past. It's hard to get out of the emotions from the dreams for me.

Latuda is putting you in a deeper sleep. We dream in REM sleep which is a deeper sleep so you are getting a better/deeper sleep with the Latuda. Many drugs that sedate and/or change brain chemistry can cause more vivid dreams. Also, if you wake abruptly from REM, you will remember your dreams. People always dream, it is just whether or not you remember them. If you come out of sleep more slowly, you often do not remember your dreams but waking abruptly from REM helps you remember them better. You will probably have less vivid dreaming as your body becomes used to the medication.