"i am on 50mg of trazodone. i take as needed for sleep. i have always been an anxious person however the past six months i have had a lot of life changing events happen to me. i was put on 20mg of lexapro, that helped with the anxiety however i could not sleep. i was given trazodone and it works great, i find when i am extremely anxious iit is not as effective. the only side effect i have is that i have very vivid dreams, i have always been the type that would have vivid dreams but the dreams i have when i am one trazodone are intense. when i wake up in the morning i sometimes contact the person i was dreaming about to see if it was real or just a dream. doesn&#039;t bother me though."