Question: I often scream during a dream during the first few hours of sleep. The scream awakens me, often my wife reassures me, and I fall back to sleep. I have had chronic insomnia over the years and for several years took Klonopin. During that time I didn’t have the screaming problem. Recently I take Ambien, but only once in a while, not regularly. I don’t have the screaming when I take Ambien.