Dreams feel like reality

I have general anxiety disorder and have been fighting it since last year with the help of medicine and doctors and psychiatrists. One of the medicines I take is clonopin (don't quote me on that spelling) and it was prescribed to help me sleep. on nights that i do not take this particular medicine (which i was told i do not HAVE to take) my dreams are extremely frightening, detailed, and worst of all... real. I have never come across this before but all of my fears wind up in the dream and compared to most dreaming, where time goes by so quickly that you have a small dream and have slept for six hours, these dreams compress time almost to the point where time functions just the same as in real life and the details and logical progressions make them feel very real. I think this is because they are all usually based on things that are real or true and then twists them into sick nightmarish plots. Also recently, I have begun to have things appear in my dream that are very old and outdated that i havent interacted with since my childhood (I am almost 18 now). For example, today in one of my dreams, my fridge had those juice pouches that came with the straw that had sour stuff inside of it so whenever you drank it, it was very sour. I haven't even thought about these in probably the better part of a decade now and it just randomly popped up. Once i wake up i can distinguish between the dream and real life but when i am immersed in it the dream feels extremely lifelike. i'm just wondering if this is normal, if anyone else is familiar with this, if the medicine that my brain uses to shut off makes it misfire sending memories and fears together to the processing portion of the brain when I don't take it, and just any generalized help that can be offered. I will mention all of this to my therapist when I see him next week but just hoping to find some answers or at least a community that understands what i'm dealing with in the meantime.

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Yes this is very normal. There are other anti anxiety meds that do the same.