Moderna vaccine and vivid dreams

[happybird]

I got the first shot yesterday and was very sleepy last night. I expected to sleep like a log, but had strange dreams all night. Not nightmares, just very vivid and sometimes weird ones. Some were about mundane things, the type of dream that when you wake up, you don’t know if it was real or not.

The dreams kept waking me up. I’d fall back to sleep after a few minutes, so I do feel good and well-rested today.

Did anyone else have this? I can’t tell if it was from the vaccine or maybe because the weather changed? It’s very warm and windy outside today, after being gloomy yesterday.

[dalton99a]

1. People Reporting Crazy Dreams After Getting Coronavirus Vaccine

https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/video/5417602-people-reporting-crazy-dreams-after-getting-coronavirus-vaccine/

MARIA SIMBRA: Sleep specialists are hearing stories like this from their patients.

DANIEL SHADE: We're seeing a lot of anecdotal reports. The literature really doesn't support this right now, but it's early.

MARIA SIMBRA: After immunization, or with a COVID infection, or just during the pandemic, in general, Dr. Shade says his patients have commented on bizarre dreams.

DANIEL SHADE: Along with a lot of [AUDIO OUT] is that it really affects your sleep-wake cycle.

MARIA SIMBRA: He doesn't have a precise explanation, but guesses it has something to do with poor sleep from the anticipation of side effects.

DANIEL SHADE: They're expecting to experience fever, muscle pain, headache, and they're probably not sleeping well. And the most common reason that we remember dreams is that our sleep is disrupted.

MARIA SIMBRA: Whether the immune response is reacting with brain cells, it's too soon to say.

DANIEL SHADE: But we're going to look back on the data years from now and say, you know what? These dreams weren't just PTSD. There was actually a physiologic cause for it.

MARIA SIMBRA: If a booster dose is needed in the future, the intense dreams won't stop Richard.

RICHARD VETSTEIN: Ventilator versus feeling a little bad, a bad dream? I'm sorry, but I'll take that trade off.

MARIA SIMBRA: Severe illness with COVID would be the bigger nightmare. I'm Dr. Maria Simbra. KDKA News.

[happybird]

3. Thank you!

I hadn’t seen anything about dreaming being a side effect. Glad to know it’s not just me.

[Cracklin Charlie]

2. I had crazy dreams with corona virus.

Cray zee. And some of them happened when I was not really asleep.

[happybird]

5. That kind of sounds like what I had

When I’d wake up, it was like I was some weird place between sleeping and waking, like I was still in the dream, even though I knew I was awake. Not quite hallucinations, but something close to that. Awake dreaming??

It was strange and hard to explain properly. I’ve never experienced anything like it.

[Cracklin Charlie]

7. I didn't really sleep for 4 days.

So, it’s hard to call it dreaming. More like, I was seeing things (faces, landscapes, weird scenes) when I tried to close my eyes for a bit. I have heard a term...lucid dreams. I don’t know if that’s what it was or not, though.

Strangest thing that ever happened to me.

[Wingus Dingus]

4. Got my shot yesterday too, had a pretty terrible night, fever and

pain from my upper arm injection site shooting up my neck and the side of my head. Fever down today, but can't raise my arm very far. I don't normally have vaccine reactions, except for some normal soreness after tetanus, so this was a completely new experience for me. But no dreams that I recall.

[happybird]

6. I'm sorry you feel so poorly :(

My boss and her husband both had the really, really sore arm, neck pain, and headache, but it only lasted a day. Hopefully you will be feeling better by this evening.

[Wingus Dingus]

8. Thanks. I don't want to come off like I'm complaining, I'm grateful

to have gotten the appointment because I thought I would have to wait longer into April. But yeah, I wasn't anticipating the reaction because I don't normally have an issue with vaccines. I'm already doing better today. My husband didn't have that much of a reaction to his first shot, but was pretty sick for a couple days with his second one. I deliberately didn't take anything for symptoms, because I didn't want to dampen the inflammation response. It's an interesting experience.

[happybird]

12. You didn't sound like you were complaining!

It’s interesting to me how everyone is affected differently by the vaccines. My mother got short-tempered and downright mean (according to her) for 3-4 days after the first Pfizer. Then, it suddenly went away, “like a cloud lifting,” and she realized how mean she had been to my Dad, lol! He just got very sleepy for a few days.

I’m a little nervous about the second one, but grateful to be in line to get it.

[Wingus Dingus]

13. Yes, I think the second one will be a real kick in the pants. Funny that my parents (late 70's)

barely had a reaction at all to their first Pfizer, neither of them--they're still waiting for their second.

[Tree Lady]

18. I got my second Moderna shot yesterday afternoon

After 3 hours pain in arm started like last time, got real bad so i took Tylenol at 11pm. Finally slept for only a hour from 1-2am then bad muscle aches all night and chills, don't know what fever was felt too bad to get up. Took more Tylenol at 6, felt better for a few hours then fever started going up and up until almost 102, took more Tylenol at 12 and used cool wash cloths.

A bunch of my cousins were sick for 3 days with second so I mentally prepared myself as much as you can. One of those cousins is a nurse and she messaged me also with advice.

Fever went down again to 99.5 and I am hoping it doesn't go high again. Doctors office called me to encourage me to hang in there.

My husband had zero effects both shots, same with my older mom and daughters who both got pfizer only got arm pain.

I don't want to scare anyone, I made it and glad I am done! Just listening to bookclub book on audible. Just sent hubby to store to buy juice popsicles.

And I have never had a reaction either from vaccines except once in awhile sore arm. I think it's because two in a row.

[Wingus Dingus]

19. Yikes--that's definitely worse. My husband was pretty much out of commission for a full two

days, he's had a lot of vaccines in life (anthrax via the Air Force was the worst up until now) and hasn't had a reaction that bad until this one. So I'm going to brace myself better for the next round.

[Tree Lady]

21. Its stayed little over 99 last 6 hours

And I feel better, took nap and got hungry had soup and juice Popsicle. I can feel the worst is gone.

[bahboo]

9. after my second Pfizer shot...

my dreams were like a night at the Multiplex. Some crazy, if entertaining shit...

[liberal N proud]

10. Received my first shot on Monday

I don’t recall any dreams. I did have a sore spot on my arm.

Turned to itch yesterday

[tavernier]

11. I did, but they were very nice dreams.

More detailed and less vague than normal, but nothing bad or scary.

[Xoan]

14. One of the side-effects of ...

the chip starting up.

[NightWatcher]

15. Smoke weed and you won't have dreams....

It's due to something like skipping over that part of REM sleep. When you stop smoking weed they will come rushing back with a vengeance however in that first week.

[happybird]

16. I didn't dream for the 10+ years

I was on methadone maintenance. It was so nice to dream again when I was finally off of it.
They came roaring back, just like you said, and it was intense.

Last night was just weird.

[Totally Tunsie]

17. I've noticed the same, especially after my second Moderna.

I usually don't remember my dreams when I wake, but these have been so clear and so vivid that they stay with me. Like you, not nightmares, but strange events in strange settings. My sleep has been very deep, and I wake in the same position as when I first curled up.

It's interesting to learn others are experiencing this.

[RussBLib]

20. No. I've had 2 Moderna shots, no dreams.

Maybe my brain is too old and tired.

[roamer65]

22. Get left on ciprofloxacin too long.

I had nightmares that Stephen King could have used for new novels.

It was so bad I was nervous about falling asleep for a few months.

[electric_blue68]

23. Woah! My dreams are always vivid and a mix of mundane, fascinating, and wild my whole life!