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I have had C Diff. It is extraordinarily unpleasant. In addition to the normal symptoms it also came with extreme fatigue and a weird sense of doom about the future. The antibiotics need to be taken every 6 hours (limiting your ability to sleep) and gave me really creepy dreams. Being stuck with recurrent C Diff sounds miserable and I'm so glad that people in that position have a way out

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I don’t want to make you relive the dreams, but can you elaborate on “creepy”?

I have “creepy” dreams or nightmares that ruin restful sleep. They are exceptionally vivid and nightmarish: horrifying scenarios involving people I love, painfully realistic doomsday scenarios, all kinds of death, monsters who look like people but with horrifying deformities...

Think of the most weird fever dream you've had and that is probably similar.

I think one of the stranger fever dream I've had was sometime in college when I was learning about complex numbers, the red standby LED on the TV in my room seemed to be a portal into the complex plane one feverish night.

Having also tried a number psychedelics, fever dreams do have quite a different quality to them.

One time I dosed up on pseudoephedrine to help with a particularly nasty flu, fell asleep, and dreamed I was watching a disturbing cartoon. It was very slapstick and "wacky", like a Tex Avery cartoon, but something was... off about it, and it was horrifying.

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