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Here's an odd question

Nisk

Nisk

The Spoiler King
Am I the only one that rarely dreams when they sleep and I know what your thinking it's not that I don't remember it. I clearly remember most nights of dreaming of just sleeping.

So the question is does anyone else rarely dream or simple dream the exact same dream every night?
 
I have read that we dream much more than we suppose. As to not cause confusion we are pretty much hardwired to forget what we have dreamed. You have likely experienced the sensation of waking up from a dream and having the details evaporate from memory just as you are recall what happened. As we get older we tend to recall fewer of our dreams, but this is not to say we stop dreaming.

I would say that these days it is rare that I recall a dream, whereas before I would quite often wake up with memories of very vivid dreams.
 
Dreaming... that weird thing my mind sometimes does.

I rarely recall my dreams... and the ones I remember are usually the rather graphic ones.

What's worth mentioning for me personally is that often, the dreams I do recall and aren't anything spectacular (most of the time) are often visions of something that has yet to happen. But as said, nothing spectacular but things like conversations I'm having with a friend or so (yet in my dreams I already had them; and I can't help myself but sometimes finish their sentences whenever I have such a deja vu, lol).

Well, and there was this one time I dreamt I was in a car crash with a co-worker. The next day, said co-worker didn't show up because he was in a car crash, 60 miles from where I was, at around the same time I was having the dream. I remember waking up sore. To make it more interesting, when he showed up at work a few weeks later, I described him the scene and he stared at me as if he saw a ghost, asking me how I knew all that stuff.

But yeah, most dreams I don't recall and the ones I do, probably stay with me for a reason I suppose.
 
I dream quite a lot, I think, but I don't always recall my dreams. Most of my dreams are disturbing in one way or another and I don't want to recall them.
 
I dream a lot, too. I don't recall much of most of them after waking and clearing my head. But there are some particularly disturbing ones (and a few great ones) that have stuck with me for decades.

I do sometimes have the same dream as before, although I wonder if they are exactly the same or if there are slight differences... I think there must be some subtle difference but perhaps I am so busy recognising the similarities to notice the differences. One pattern in my dreams I have noticed is that the times I have multiple versions of the same dream I am actually having the dream on the same night... So it seems more familiar. Another pattern I've noticed is that in times of stress I will dream variations on a theme over the course of weeks or longer.

My dreams are usually disturbing. When I was in my late teens and early twenties I went through a period of several years in which every night my dreams were about running away from someone/something. Sometimes they were permutations of the same dream, but mostly it was just the same theme with different antagonists. They all but stopped after I left home. :D

Everybody dreams every night, even if we don't recall it. It's vital for brain function. Dreams are our way of processing the day and any problems we are experiencing. I think this is why we repeatedly see the same thing in dreams when we are stressed or depressed. The more vivid dreams that we are more likely to remember are the ones we have during REM sleep. Non REM sleep dreams are less vivid but if our brains are trying to work on a problem these dreams are likely to be about the same subject as the vivid REM ones. I have a friend who is a sleep researcher and she has told me about studies she has conducted where participants are prevented from dreaming or woken when dreaming and the participants go pretty crazy after a few days of it! O.o
 
Supposedly we all dream at least 3-6 times per night as part of normal sleep, but I only rarely remember my dreams. If I forget to take my anti-depressant for 24 hours I will have nightmares, often very vivid ones. :emojiconfused:

The dreams I remember are varied but they often take place in settings I've dreamed of before, either familiar or invented. There are common elements to many of them, though.
 
I always seem to be waking up from some dream or other, but I start forgetting what it was about seconds after waking. Occasionally they are creepy or disturbing enough that I have to turn on the bedside lamp and keep it on while I fall back asleep. The nightmares were more common a few years ago, though, when I would often go to bed with a fever.

Anyway I wish I could dream less. I seem to get very little restorative deep sleep.
 
I used to dream a lot, but about my past and since I sort of resolved that, I barely dream and I know this, because I remember my dreams.
 
I dream very often and usually they are quite vivid. I can at least recall that much, even if I cannot always remember the exact details. I still remember almost every detail from a nightmare that I had when I was five or six though (now 22), so some stick with me. I remember that one time as a kid (probably nine or ten), I told my mom in precise detail everything from a dream that I had the night before (I had questions about something that occurred in it). She basically told me that I was making it all up because there was no way to remember my dreams in such vivid detail.
 
Not that it really matter, but I am a lucid dreamer, that is an active participant in my dreams. I can fly, run like" the Flash". I once went through a 3 week deep depression, had a lucid dream that to this day is still vivid. If anyone wants to, one cN learn to dream, lucidly, with just a little training and effort. Do a search'
 
cherryq said:
I dream very often and usually they are quite vivid. I can at least recall that much, even if I cannot always remember the exact details. I still remember almost every detail from a nightmare that I had when I was five or six though (now 22), so some stick with me. I remember that one time as a kid (probably nine or ten), I told my mom in precise detail everything from a dream that I had the night before (I had questions about something that occurred in it). She basically told me that I was making it all up because there was no way to remember my dreams in such vivid detail.
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cherryq
Your Mom is wrong.
I will share one dream.
The set up,...
Long ago when I was 30 my wife and I divorced after 7 years. The split was amicable enough, no real complaints, life goes on. I lost my zest for life, work, fun and consciousness. Slept days and nights, did not eat, and was slipping into despair.

The dream.... I am sitting in the upper deck of a red English double decker bus. On either side of the narrow road are some kind of tall narrow trees like arbor vitae. The setting sun flashes between the trees. Flick, flick, flick.
I am the bus driver looking and driving. Flick, flick, flick.
I am the bus, the headlights are my eyes, flick, flick, flick. I crest a hill and go around a down sloping curve, and see a winding road leading to what looks like an Italian sea side village built on a mountain side. All the houses were whitewashed and the red/ orange terra cotta roofs were brightly lit in the setting sun. Off in the distance in the bay was a causeway leading to a Neuschwanstein looking castle, think Disneyland castle. The bus was going faster and faster, like the brakes had failed.
In time I roared through the village and the sun flick, flick, flicking in between the white houses.
Straight ahead is the cause way and I am still the bus. The white balustrades of the causeway with the blue green sea beyond with the setting sun flick, flick, flick in my headlight eyes. Ahead the palace, but the drawbridge is up. Disaster is eminent. I am roaring out of control. At the last possible moment the draw bridge goes down and the massive doors open.
I, the bus crosses a black and white tiled floor. The interior of the castle is filled with works of art, armor, statues and tapestries. I want a closer look and the bus soars and floats around the massive room like a feather in the wind.
I am stunned with the vision, and wake myself up by my clapping. Really, every word is truthful.
I felt that I was about to lose everything, every treasure that I had accumulated in my life and that I better get my act together.

The very next day I pulled my act together, landed two full time jobs and one part time job. I talked to my prospective bosses and worked out a viable schedule day, night and weekends, and sorted out every difficulty that I had in a month. In a couple of months , no more, life was under my control and joy abounded without any pressure.
Does that sound like I can't remember a dream?
 
Epicurean Pariah said:
Not that it really matter, but I am a lucid dreamer, that is an active participant in my dreams. I can fly, run like" the Flash". I once went through a 3 week deep depression, had a lucid dream that to this day is still vivid. If anyone wants to, one cN learn to dream, lucidly, with just a little training and effort. Do a search'
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when I was going through my aforementioned escape dream phase I also had several lucid dreams, which were a nice change at the time! I find my dreams these days see me more in control of the action than when I was very stressed and riding a metaphorical roller coaster.
 
Slithytoves said:
The dreams I remember are varied but they often take place in settings I've dreamed of before, either familiar or invented. There are common elements to many of them, though.
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I am the same way (minus the nightmares). My dream-worlds can become very very complex, and I often find that I remember things (that is, dream-world things: events, places, people, etc.) during the dream that I don't remember when awake.
 
I often have nightmares but I very rarely "dream". I do understand that they could be classed as the same.
 
ancusmitis said:
I am the same way (minus the nightmares). My dream-worlds can become very very complex, and I often find that I remember things (that is, dream-world things: events, places, people, etc.) during the dream that I don't remember when awake.
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Yes, I experience this, too.


I remembered my dreams this morning, and I realised that they were on the same theme as I've been dreaming about for a few years now... The general theme is that I am feeling a bit lost, but not in a frightened way, and am in some complex "structure" such as a shopping centre/mall, city (real or imagined), hospital, luxury hotel (not that I've ever stayed in one), etc., with many tunnels, corridors, aisles, streets, paths, etc. the dreams seem to start with me accompanied by someone but invariably I end up alone, repeatedly trying to find my way out or to reach the conclusion of something. Like there is something I must fulfill. Towards the end of many of these dreams I think dawn must be approaching because I often start seeking a toilet, haha:D but even whenI find a toilet, afterward I seem doomed to continue my search for the end of the dream. I am trying to figure out what it may be that I am missing in real life. I know there is a message for me in these dreams. It may just be that I am feeling unfulfilled in my daily life as a full time mum, and I'm constantly searching for a way to make money that I can stick with (I have LOADS of ideas on how to make money, have tried a number, but committing to one is a big challenge for me).
 
I only remember about 3 or 4 dreams a year and they are very boring. Usually I walk down the hallway and then I wake up, that's it. I also have dreams where I'm walking to the bathroom. Then I wake up and realize I have to go. I remember some vivid dreams from childhood. I used to have a recurring dream in which my bed would levitate and fly around our apartment.
 
I once had a dream that I was a mute Gaisha slave. My master took me to an auction for mystical creatures. One of the creatures on display had the ability to contort its face into any form it pleased, including my own. At this, I laughed indignantly, but realized my master had found his new infatuation. I had lost my novelty. Then some dance music started, the walls were ripped away like curtains, and I found myself in a frenetic gay bar monage.

Bannannas before bed. The potassium will take you to some crazy places.
 
I went through I couple years where I didn't (remember a) dream at all. But recently I dream almost every night. I think it depends on. What you are able to remember and what you put in your body that day.
 
Datura said:
I once had a dream that I was a mute Gaisha slave. My master took me to an auction for mystical creatures. One of the creatures on display had the ability to contort its face into any form it pleased, including my own. At this, I laughed indignantly, but realized my master had found his new infatuation. I had lost my novelty. Then some dance music started, the walls were ripped away like curtains, and I found myself in a frenetic gay bar monage.

Bannannas before bed. The potassium will take you to some crazy places.
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This dream is bananas, bee ay en ay en ay ess
 
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