I saw another thread talking about dreams, I’ve had less than a handful of dreams throughout my life.
Do you dream? Every night?
Every night.
You almost certainly do too, but the part of our brain that commits things to long term memory is inactive when sleeping. When people recall their dreams, it’s at best just the ones that occurred right before waking up. Maybe you’re a heavy sleeper and tend to sleep through that window.
Also why people tend to not dream if using substances that have memory loss side-effects—weed is common. And same reason people get “black out” drunk or drunkenly repeat themselves. The brain just isn’t noting anything down, but it is happening.
I dream every night and can recall most dreams months sometimes years later. There just some dreams that never fade from memory.
I dream most nights, though the dreams themselves very rarely make it into my long term memory and are forgotten within minutes of waking up.
I dream in a fashion that I “experience” the dream and remember it later, but only around the changing of the seasons. For instance, in Central America where I live, were transitioning into the rainy season soon. I’ve been dreaming so vividly for the pas two weeks, and only started feeling rested two nights ago.
In a week or so, that will taper back to rarely remembering ant dreams, and not surface again until October or November when our dry season starts again. (Disclaimer: we haven’t had a rainy season with rain the past two Yeats, but we still call it the rainy season)
When I lived in New England, it was the same, but four times a year, and most pronounced in the fall-to-winter and spring-to-summer transitions.
That’s not to say I never dream outside of those times, but rarely remember, and not consecutively. Last night I had one dream from 3am to 7am. I woke up once and used the bathroom and easily returned to the same dream, albeit subdued.
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I have a dream landscape? It’s like all the places I’ve ever been have blended together to create a new world. And in a dream I know I can get from the fancy section (where there’s the wierd Victorian house that is like a coop I used to live in, and sometimes there’s a special room I can access by crawling up a specific wall) to the bar/shopping district by walking/going south, while by going west I can get to the beach that’s an amalgam of several Texas and Mexican beaches along with a strong dose of Egypt. There’s an epic resort there I often end up at, sometimes as a guest, other times worrying the whole time how I’m going to pay for it. There’s also a subway system that leads to a New York/Paris/other massive cities I’ve been to with bad ass museums. I think that’s to the northeast…
Anyone else have this? Love to hear about it.
I almost never remember my dreams, probably only a few times a year. If I do, about half the time they’re nightmares.
I dream pretty much every night, and sometimes wish I wouldn’t remember them since they’re often much better than reality lol.
Almost every night now.
I used to never dream but I would go to bed with the TV on. I wanted to switch to falling asleep to music. At some point I realized I would have nightmares whenever I slept without either. It was like my brain couldn’t handle the lack of external stimuli.
But I wanted to dream more, so I started going to bed without it more and more often. Eventually those nightmares turned to dreams as I pushed through it. It was fantastical. Almost like hearing music for the first time after being deaf. It was a whole new world and I can’t get enough.
I can’t. I lost the ability around age 7-8 and have never had problem sleeping sense. I do have a small 1-2 nightmares every 7-8 months though. They did a sleep and psyc study on me and found that I just sleep heavy and my brain relaxes and i go i to deep sleep for most of the duration instead of processing information. It is also the reason I can fall asleep on “impulse” and also why studying before sleep works well for me since my information retains where it left off. It is my one super power if I was to say I had one.
Every night. Lucid only once or twice a year though . Dreaming is part of normal sleep cycle but if you wake naturally you don’t wake up in the middle of a dream. I often wake some when my husband first gets up and will notice I am dreaming then.
I love sleeping and dreaming. A majority of the dreams feel like my brain defragmenting or something, just a mix of thoughts and memories from the day getting mixed into stories, but some are so wonderful.
Yeah I dream, but mostly when I’m sleeping.
Last night, i dreamed that a bank of printers at work was humming Fog Hat - slow ride
I’ve found that I dream a lot, I just forget quickly, which can feel like not dreaming. For a while I kept a very light dream journal, just writing down whatever small thing I remember, even if it’s just a feeling or something super vague. Don’t worry if you don’t remember anything initially — just being in the mindset was enough to boost my recall. Key is to do it right after waking up, while you’re almost still half asleep. Write on paper with a pen, not your phone — it’s too distracting.
During that period I remembered multiple dreams each night in full, and the memories were incredibly vivid, sometimes almost lucid. It was honestly crazy — some of those dreams had elaborate storylines, often super interesting scenery, and sometimes even almost video game-like “mechanics”. I can only recommend keeping a dream journal… you learn a lot about yourself.
I dream. Sometimes during the day, sometimes during the night.
I remember none of them.
I dream a lot, but how vivid they are and how much I remember them varies. Sometimes they’re very visual, weird or interesting, but often they’re vague and hard to recall. I find that if I’m not getting enough sleep I don’t dream as much, but then if I’m on holiday and catching up on sleep I dream pretty hard.
