Dream reports disorder

Prior to Solms s work, sleep researchers did not suspect this region to be of crucial importance to dreaming even though, as Solms points out, there was evidence in the literature on the effects of deep bifrontal leucotomy, an operation introduced in the 1930s to relieve intractable cases of schizophrenia and severe obsessive-compulsive disorders. According to Solms, a loss of dreaming was sometimes reported, in addition to such side effects as motoric inertia, bland docility, and emotional passivity. 

Melatonin appears to be well tolerated and is often used in preference to over-the-counter "sleep-aid" drugs. Although melatonin is associated with few adverse effects, some next-day drowsiness has been reported as well as tachycardia, depression, vivid dreams, and headache. Sporadic case reports of movement disorders and psychoses have also appeared. 

Lamotrigine has been nsed as maintenance monotherapy for rapid-cycling bipolar disorder in 324 patients (open label) and 182 patients (donble-bUnd) with rapidcycling bipolar disorder (5). In aU, 265 patients reported adverse events during the open phase. The most common adverse events (over 10%) were headache, infection, influenza, nausea, abnormal dreams, dizziness, and rash. During the donble-bUnd phase 122 patients reported adverse events, eqnaUy with lamotrigine and placebo. 

Skin tolerability in patients with a history of eczema, psoriasis, or other skin disorders has been studied in 1481 participants (33). The adverse effects reported were erythema, rash, pruritus, irritation, edema at the site of application, musculoskeletal pain related to the application site, dreaming, and other sleep disturbances. 

There have been several reports that some species of fish are psychotogenic in that ingestion can cause delirium, mental disorder or hallucinations. Indeed one of the sea chub family, Kyphosus fuscus, reputedly causes nightmares and is subsequently referred to in certain regions of the Pacific as the "dream fish". 

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