Hostname: page-component-7c8c6479df-8mjnm Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-03-28T19:25:54.075Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Relationship between drug dreams, affect, mood disorders and lucid awakening in psychotic patients on a treatment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2020

D.F. Frías Ortiz*
Affiliation:
S.E.S.P.A- V Area- Mental Health of Asturias “Hospital de Cabueñes”, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Gijón, Spain
J.M. León Alegria
Affiliation:
S.M. “Salud Madrid“- S.G.A.P. 8, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Madrid, Spain
Z. Fernández Guerra
Affiliation:
SM Salud Madrid “Hospital Gregorio Marañon”, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Madrid, Spain
O.W.M. Ali Al Shaban Rodriguez
Affiliation:
S.E.S.P.A- VII Areaof Mental Health of Asturias “Hospital Alvarez Buylla”, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Mieres, Spain
J.J. Fernández Miranda
Affiliation:
S.E.S.P.A- V Area-Mental Health of Asturias “CTI MONTEVIL-Hospital de Cabueñes“, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Gijón, Spain
A. Gonzalez Fernández
Affiliation:
S.E.S.P.A. III Area Mental Health Asturias “Hospital de San Agustín”, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Aviles, Spain
*
*Corresponding author.

Abstract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.
Introduction

This experimental trial aims to describe the experiences felt by a group of patients diagnosed with different psychotic disorders (schizophrenia, delusional chronic disorder, etc.) in which the use of Benzodiazepine derivatives were related to emergence of lucid dreaming and dissociative events (to see oneself out of your one body, etc.), and to a lesser extent had subsequent depressive symptoms. Fifty-six patients were monitored and linked to the emergence of depressive symptoms related to the use of Benzodiazepines or sedative-hypnotic. While on this treatment, they had vivid or lucid dreaming.

Aims-objectives

To explore the relationship between occurrence of drug dreams (DDs) and daytime negative affect with lucid awakening during the course of a 9-week treatment.

Methods

Using the dream journal methodology, 56 participants reported occurrence of dreams, dream content, and ratings of affect. The relationships between the experience of DD, dream content (“active” vs “passive”), and affect were analysed using mixed model methods.

Results

The experience of DD was associated with higher levels of negative affect (P < 0.001). The occurrence of DD did not decrease significantly over the 9 weeks of the study. Benzodiazepine users reported a higher occurrence of Lucid Awakening (P < 0.05) than the other drug groups (zolpidem and clometiazol).

Conclusions

These results are consistent with the hypothesis that DD can act as drug-conditioned stimuli to elevate negative affect. Although correlational, such findings support the implementation of psychological and pharmacological interventions aimed at minimizing the impact of DD on patients with lucid awakening and psychosis.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

Type
EV499
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2016
Submit a response

Comments

No Comments have been published for this article.