Can Medications Suppress Lucid Dreams?

[Slacker]

My reason for asking this is, I've been taking medicine for my allergies for the past couple of months, and I haven't had a lucid dream or anything close to one. Also, my dream recall's gone to shit, and I wake up completely disoriented sometimes, not even knowing what the numbers on my clock mean. I take it before I go to bed, so that might be the cause of the problem. I take: -Singulair -CVS Brand Antihistamine -Vitamins I'm mainly concerned about the CVS medicine, but the Singulair could be doing something as well.

[Tsen]

There are several medicines that impair LDing or even dreaming in general. Each medicine has slightly different effects on each person, so it's hard to say whether a particular medicine will affect everybody the same way. Either way, both of those medicines have a side effect of drowsiness-and when you're exhausted both recall and lucidity tend to fail.

[NeAvO]

Like Tsen said its hard to say the effects of medicine on LDs, some can suppress LDs but some vitamins can make the dreams more vivid, e.g B6. I haven't heard about being disoriented when waking up? Maybe its because you take more then one type of medicine before you go to bed.

[Gwendolyn]

Sometimes medications do supress LDS. However, your health is far more important than LDs. So, if you need to take the medication, don't stop because of the suppression. I mean, it sucks, but still...