February 14th, 2006

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Does Advil Give Anybody Else Crazy Dreams?

I’m feeling under the weather again. I’m certainly not a pleasure delayer, but I am traditionally a big illness delayer. Now that Northern Voice is more or less wrapped up, I’ve got a little time to be sick. Of course, I probably just caught it from one of the hundred-odd hands I shook on Friday and Saturday.

I was reminded, about four hours too late, that Advil gives me insane dreams. I’ll spare you details–nothing is more boring than hearing about other people’s dreams–but suffice it to say they were Carollesque in their technicolor weirdness.

I don’t drink or take drugs, so maybe Advil is sufficiently mind-altering for my relatively virgin system. Does Advil affect anybody else this way?

Comments: 22 Responses so far

Jody
February 14th, 2006
4:58 pm

Advil doesn’t bother me, but Neo Citran does a number on me. In my late teens I took a dose before bed, than in the middle of the night started sleeping walking, hugging my mother so tightly I started to hurt her. My brother had to help get me off. I remember all of it but had no control. I woke up soon after in a daze. Fun stuff. I haven’t tried it since.

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Rob
February 14th, 2006
7:08 pm

I take advil like vitamins, so I haven’t experienced that. Like Jody, I get some weird effects from NeoCitran, but it could be the mix of Tylenol cold and flu, NeoCitran and a few homeopathic things I take. It sure works though.

Go to the Fare and get some Oscillo. Trust me on this one.

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Rach
February 14th, 2006
11:05 pm

Yup! Advil does that to me too.

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Gwen
February 15th, 2006
4:53 am

I haven’t noticed the dreams (I have weird ones anyway) but it does make me feel like I’m three sheets to the wind *before* I go to bed (dizzy, nauseous, etc.) so the dreams are probably somewhat weirder than usual. Head pain in general gives me insane dreams, though (ah, those hair curler-induced nightmares).

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BB
February 15th, 2006
8:57 am

An alternative explanation: I’ve always read that people think certain kinds of foods give them strange dreams, when, in reality, it’s the digestion of those foods that drags them now and them out of deep sleep, enabling them to remember the weird dreams that they otherwise have but forget in the smooth transition between REM sleep and waking. Might it be that the illness for which you’re taking the advil is screwing with your sleep pattern and waking you up to the things your mind normally does at night?

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Chris
February 15th, 2006
11:01 am

Just so you know, Advil pills don’t have happy faces or peace signs on them ;)

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Randy Poling
March 1st, 2006
6:12 pm

Good thing I found this page. Advil gives me the weirdest dreams! I was just talking about this with my brother and it has given me really scary and strange dreams!

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Mark
April 3rd, 2006
10:10 am

Yes, I have experienced the most bizarre and disturbingly graphic dreams after taking Advil. Even after being woke up by the dream, my mind seems to continue with very bad thoughts, and I don’t know if I am awake, or dreaming again. After what I experienced two nights ago, I will never take that stuff again before bedtime. But if those thoughts do occur while I’m awake, maybe I’ll just do without…

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Minnie
April 16th, 2006
4:23 pm

Advil is the only med that makes me very sleepy and lethargic. It is the best sleeping pill in the world for “me”..

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Sara
September 7th, 2006
5:23 pm

Man,advil gives me the most insane dreams ever.

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Jose
December 11th, 2006
12:00 pm

YES advil pm gives me incredibly insane dreams. most of them are frightening and unpleasant. they feel very real too.

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Rob
January 4th, 2007
8:09 am

Yes, I have multiple often somewhat scary dreams whenever I take Advil before bed.

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Sarah
January 4th, 2007
5:39 pm

Oh God I have only taken Advil once before sleeping and I will never do it again! I had the most vidid, frightening and unpleasant dreams. They were extremely realistic. I kept thinking I was waking up but I wasn’t; I would “wake up” and everything in the room was identical but I couldn’t move, couldn’t speak then something crazy would happen. At one point I thought I woke up to my dog licking my hand. I started to roll over when I felt it change to a chew and it was getting hard and starting to hurt. I looked over and there was a huge, black wolf chewing on my hand. In this part the room was all very realisting. Next I thought I woke up again and started screaming for help because I couldn’t move. I felt literally like I was screaming to the point of pain, but my friend sleeping just up the stairs said I didn’t make a sound. When I finially did wake up it took me about two hours to finially realize I really was awake, and my hand seemed to hurt from being chewed.

Really, really fucking weird!

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skip
January 7th, 2007
10:00 pm

So maby its not the advil creating the bad dreams but in all actuality its working, doing what its designed to assist in sleeping and due to being relaxeed here come the dreams?

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Becca
January 31st, 2008
10:09 pm

yeah..sorta

whenever i take advil before bed, i do have very vivid dreams.. theyre not usually bad though. Just very real.

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amy
March 2nd, 2008
1:33 pm

just wanted to tell you that whenever i take advil pm…i ALWAYS have crazy really vivid dreams, sometimes nightmares, like last night when i dreamed the government made a giant (like 30 foot) trex-godzilla like robot…weird dreams…glad im not the only one!!!

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BobB
March 30th, 2008
4:20 pm

yes, Advil causes me to have obsessive disturbing dreams that you can’t get out of. It’s almost like the dream state has become grooved. Very scary. Needless, to say, I avoid the drug.

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goat man
April 8th, 2008
12:20 pm

thats odd im studing dreams right now i wonder y that happens…

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Dennie
September 3rd, 2008
10:37 am

The medicine ibuprofen I have taken for years without any dreams, until I picked up my last prescription (800mg). Every time since, it doesn’t matter if it’s a whole one or a half of one, the dreams are scary and bizarre. What the heck is going on??!!!

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ass
September 6th, 2008
4:56 pm

well after i took advil one night, i went to sleep, and then i “felt” like i was a wake, but i couldnt move and then i started thinking for some reason “devil” and then i heard a satan laugh, after that, i NEVER took advil, ever again, it scared me shitless, and i thought i was screaming, but i couldn’t even make a sound

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bezo
September 16th, 2008
8:47 pm

man i just took advil for the first time yesterday and i had the scariest dream i eva had..and it seem so real and its like i think i wokke up but im still dreaming. i thought i was finaly waking up like 6 times but i was still dreaming and the dream had to do with the DEVIL as well. I dont know where that came from..I do not have nightmares or anything like that so this was shocking to me. I WILL NEVER TAKE ADVIL AGAIN.

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senguin
September 30th, 2008
6:59 pm

I have taken Advil previously but recently I took a single Advil gel tab and had the worst, most vivid dream ever. I seriously have never been so afraid to go back to sleep.

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