Since I started taking antidepressants, my dreams are more like feature films - long, in color and I can recall them when I wake up. For example, riding a public transit bus to a Beach Boys concert while dressed in blue flannel PJ's with white clouds on them; a recurrent one is being back in the hospital where I had my first job, having a full patient assignment and being unable to do my work for some reason -- Pyxis doesn't recognize me; or my login for the computer doesn't work; or something like that. Popular ones like being out in public half-dressed or being at class on the day of the final exam after having missed half the lectures. ("Sorry, Elyse, but we have to take your degree back." "But I'm a nurse! I have proof! Here's my license! I passed the boards!") With that last one I always check to make sure my nursing license is still in its place when I wake up!

I was briefly on bupropion and my dreams became nightmares. In one I was driving a car and running people down, and in another I was shooting at people with a gun. I never saw who I was running down or shooting at. But those were very distressing. So I quit taking the bupropion very soon after I had started it. Now that I'm off of it, I don't have nightmares anymore but I still do have very vivid, detailed dreams.

I'm with Grace - some meds can cause night terrors.