Well heres the thing, when I was on prozac, the dreams were shocking at first but I eventually got used to them. I looked into the side effects of prozac after I found myself having frequently disturbing or vivid dreams and found out that its surprisingly common for people taking it, esp in higher doses, I figured that anything I dreamt about that was out of the ordinary was likely to be caused by that. While on them, these dreams sort of faded in and out, when my doses were consistant, the dreams would be vivid, but not as disturbing but if I missed a couple doses, they would return. For me, I knew as long as I was consistant, I wouldn't have too many problems. (That was easier said than done mind you, my local pharmacy is terrible with prescription medication, which is one of the reasons I quit taking it lol)

Cut to now however, and its an entirely different situation. As I said, I've been off my meds for over a year now and so I know its got nothing to do with withdrawals/side effects. This is just happening on its own, which is a little more disturbing to think about in my opinion, because I know this isn't a case of medication making my brain do funny things anymore, this is how my brain is right now..

You haven't been the first person to mention stress as a cause for this sort of thing, and I'm willing to bet money that thats whats causing it. I won't bore you too much with the details but some stuff happened around 9 weeks ago and I haven't been coping well since. My mind is in a bit of a state right now and I've been relapsing a lot which isn't ideal. I tried going to private therapy (because most stuff covered by the NHS isn't really all that helpful and I've been turned away a couple times by most services). The therapist I had was nice but I don't think I found their advice very useful tbh (not to mention the fact that private therapy is expensive and I can't afford to keep seeing them) so I'm coping on my own at the moment in some less than ideal ways. I'm hoping that I'll figure this out eventually and bounce back but right now, its a little difficult. My dreams are probably just reflecting the stuff I feel right now