I had a psychosis a year ago, eversince I have been waking up frequently, 9-10 times a night due to realizing I am dreaming and/or that the dreams wake me up because they won't stop if I do not wake up. I never have nightmares luckiley and my dreams are quite pleasant but still, I wake up un-refreashed in the morning and that drowsy feeling keeps on for hours/even the whole day. I wake up with sort of a "hangover", unable to tolerate any stimuli. This, you may say, is due to the use of a high dose (30mg) Mirtazapine, but that's not the case.. I've been on Mirtazapine for 7 years and of those 7 years 6 of it it never caused drowsiness. Past years I've tried replacing Mirtazapine with Ambien, Clonazepam, Temazepam, Seroquel, Doxipin, Amitriptyline, Trazadone, Promathazine, Magnesium, milk with honey, Melantonin, higher dose of Zyprexa and what not.. They've all failed to PUT and KEEP me at sleep (with the exception of Mirtazapine inducing sleep and being able to get a full nights rest even though the struggle of waking up upon dreaming).
Right now (for a week) I'm on a trial of Prazosin (the solution sleep drug to turn to for PTSD patients with nightmares) and I notice a little improvement. I'm still playing with the dose and tbh I'm unsure if taking a higher dose (I'm on 5mg) will change anything.
All my hits on this subject on google turns up to unscientific stuff or to stuff that helps a (healthy) mind with insomnia but didn't help me and I'm unable to find anything that helps against sleep maintenance insomnia. The drugs (so far) I find are drugs that I've already tried and did not help.
Sorry for the rambling, my goal is to find a drug that disables dreaming at all (don't know if that's even possible but I know from researching this subject some people that do not dream at all or don't realize they've dreamt)
Any input which brain chemicals induce dreaming and how to "disable" it?