While the types of sleeping problems vary from person to person, practically all fibromyalgia sufferers can relate to the aches and pains, fatigue, and depression that chronic insomnia and sleep disturbances can cause. Repetitive and ongoing nightmares are common complaints. If you've been diagnosed with fibromyalgia, you learn quickly that the sleep difficulties you've experienced for years are part of a much larger picture.

For some people with chronic insomnia, even waking up after they finally fall asleep, is an ordeal. Pain, depression and anxiety often accompany waking. And then there's the fatigue... it feels like you've been up all night. I've heard it described as "I feel like I'm running relay races in my sleep, even to the point of experiencing shortness of breath when I try to get up!"

Many chronic insomnia sufferers will tell you that they fight sleep as long as possible trying to avoid the dream state... or REM sleep cycle due to the unpleasant nightmares. Night terrors are not uncommon among fibromyalgia sufferers.

I have very vivid dreams, to the point where I need to really work at orienting myself upon awakening. As a child I was a sleepwalker and same vivid style dreams. My father and sister also. I think that makes it a brain thing, not a fibro thing for me.

Yes I do too

That sounds like a side affect of medication. Some kind of med interaction. Also some meds have rare side affects that they dont tell people about until you have them. My son had dreams like that from taking melatonin. He has trouble sleeping because of his adhd.