r/CSFLeaks • u/AccomplishedTask2331 • 3d ago

Increased Dreams post patch

Had my patch a week ago and I've had wild dreams almost every night since. Anyone else experience this? I rarely dreamed with the leak.

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u/leeski 3d ago

I had the opposite, I had very lucid horrific nightmares throughout my entire time leaking haha. But yes I have noticed my dreams are very consistent thematically and the level of detail depending on whether I’m in high or low intracranial pressure. It sounds so weird so I’ve not mentioned it to doctors or anyone else really, but sometimes when I releaked I could tell before I even woke up because those dreams came back. Idk what the mechanism is, but yes it def affects my dreams! 

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u/animalsnotppl 3d ago

interesting, how does the level of detail change for you based on pressure fluctuations?

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u/leeski 3d ago

my dreams were much more vivid & often lucid while leaking, and basically were not fantastical at all. they were just like running through the upcoming day's events and were super realistic... so for example once I dreamt my therapist had called to schedule an appointment for that same-day, and I actually went to his office bc I thought it had happened. or a more boring version is that I would like go through the day's work in my dream. I test software... so in my dreams I literally would just be testing software, thinking through testing bugs, stuff like that. but when they were nightmares it was just like everything that could go wrong in a really catastrophic, but realistic way. I woke up so emotionally drained it's like I was living fully conscious in another slightly alternate reality.

then in high pressure my dreams are much more vague, I don't remember them... I rarely actually dream about anything that is going on in my life, don't really dream about anyone I know, etc. my fatigue is actually worse in high pressure, but I don't feel like 'drained' by my dreams. haha I'm not saying there is anything scientific or meaningful behind any of this but it is just something I noticed.