Nightmare
13 drugs6,543 FAERS reportsMedDRA PT
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/api/v1/reaction/nightmareReference statistics only. FAERS reports are voluntarily submitted and are not incidence rates, safety signals, or causal evidence. The drugs below are ranked by how often this reaction appears on FAERS reports for each drug — high share does not mean the drug caused the reaction, and absence from this list does not mean the reaction never occurred. This is not a symptom checker.
DefinitionNLM MeSH D004325
A series of thoughts, images, or emotions occurring during sleep which are dissociated from the usual stream of consciousness of the waking state.
Drugs reporting Nightmare (13)
Share = reports listing this reaction ÷ total matched reports for the drug. — means the upstream totals query failed at ingest and the denominator is unknown.
- 1Almotriptan38040%
- 2Dihydroergotamine28223%
- 3Tafenoquine913%
- 4Daridorexant27311%
- 5Mefloquine149.1%
- 6Suvorexant7385.8%
- 7Tasimelteon2684.6%
- 8Varenicline3,3554.1%
- 9Ketamine1693.7%
- 10Lemborexant763.0%
- 11Chlorthalidone4082.8%
- 12Rizatriptan4262.7%
- 13Ramelteon1452.0%
Related reactions
Other reactions most often co-reported on the same drug set. Ranked by Jaccard similarity over drug-id sets — pure data-derived co-occurrence, not a clinical relationship.
- Sleep Paralysis3 shared · 0.23
- Poor Quality Sleep3 shared · 0.21
- Abnormal Dreams5 shared · 0.20
- Nephrolithiasis4 shared · 0.19
- Middle Insomnia3 shared · 0.19
- Product Used For Unknown Indication2 shared · 0.14
- Initial Insomnia2 shared · 0.13
- Paranoia2 shared · 0.13
- Mood Swings2 shared · 0.12
- Anger2 shared · 0.11
Literature
Recent PubMed references pinned to Dreams as a MeSH major topic. About the reaction term itself — not about any specific drug.
- Delivering Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Nightmares (CBT-N) in primary care within the Veterans Health Administration: A preliminary report on clinician-perceived barriers and benefits.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2026 · Bolstad CJ, Fung CH, Davis L, et al.PMID 42171872DOI 10.1007/s44470-026-00073-z
- Sexual Dream Frequency and Self-Reported Cardiovascular Morbidity: Findings From the SLEEP Study.Missouri medicine · 2026 · Egom EEAPMID 42125296
- "Silent Echoes of the Day: Dream Content Analysis in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis".Brain and behavior · 2026 · Bombaci A, Giordano A, Lavalle I, et al.PMID 42102048DOI 10.1002/brb3.71387
- Clinical, behavioral, and physiological characteristics of isolated rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder patients with ambulatory dream enactment behaviors.Sleep medicine · 2026 · Kim SM, Noh TG, Byun JI, et al.PMID 42019301DOI 10.1016/j.sleep.2026.108968
- EEG microstates reveal distinct network dynamics in lucid and non-lucid REM sleep.Consciousness and cognition · 2026 · Wang X, Peters E, Strelen J, et al.PMID 41980578DOI 10.1016/j.concog.2026.104047
- Dream-enactment behaviors without REM sleep without atonia.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2026 · Lanza G, Mogavero MP, Sorte G, et al.PMID 41946854DOI 10.1007/s44470-026-00062-2
Note. FAERS reports are voluntarily submitted and are NOT incidence rates, signals, or causal evidence. Counts reflect reporting volume, not how often a reaction occurs. Reference statistics only.