I saw another thread talking about dreams, I’ve had less than a handful of dreams throughout my life.

Do you dream? Every night?

  • RozhkiNozhki@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I dream every night and it is always some kind of a crazy bizarre acid trip that may morph into a nightmare on occasion if I had a bad day or something is weighing on my mind. I’ve had this all my life and sometimes when I don’t dream (which is extremely rare for me) it feels weird waking up.

    But that’s the regular stuff, the insane stuff is that I have dreams that reoccur and evolve for decades, and it’s like getting a new season of a show that you watched two years ago, but with new characters and plot lines.

  • illi@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    I used to, usually several different dreams a night - sometimes flowing seamlesly from one to other.

    I probably still dream just as much, but remember fuck all. I get up knowing I dreamed something but that’s it. Incredibly frustrating.

  • mad_asshatter@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I dream all the time, and always have. There are often common themes, eg., searching for my wife, yet she’s never actually appeared in my dreams (that I recall.)

    My departed parents often appear (moreso my dad, recently), and 2 days ago, a recently-departed SIL appeared, though ‘visually’, it wasn’t her.

    I’m not sure of whether there’s a significance to any of this. It is what it is.

  • EndOfLine@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    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.

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    6 months ago

    From how I understand it, you dream every night as your body enters REM sleep, but you often don’t remember dreams. You can try and train yourself to better recall your dreams and in doing so you may find that you “dream more often”.

    I’d say I have weeks where I remember my dreams, sometimes multiple, every night, and other times where I’ll go a week or more without recalling any. It varies on a lot of things. In particular, I’ll find if I stop smoking weed for about 4 or more days, I’ll start remembering dreams vividly and frequently, but that’ll lessen over 2 weeks.

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      6 months ago

      The bigger issue IMO would be that not everyone has quality sleep, so they might not have a long uninterrupted time in REM to properly dream.

      Personally even when I’m in the right state to experience dreams (the type that I do remember) they usually aren’t very vivid, for the above reason or possibly something else. I also have aphantasia so it may be related (or other brain/life stuff). Once I did have a colorful-yet-still(ish) dream related to then-recent photography.

      @Hegar

  • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@midwest.social
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    6 months ago

    Multiple times a night. Typically I know I’m dreaming and can choose to wake up or alter the dream if I like, but I have some “uncontrolled” dreams as well.

  • OhmsLawn@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Yes, every night AFAIK, but I sleep very deeply and seldom remember them beyond a matter of seconds. If I’ve had caffeine late, I do tend to remember them more.

  • The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    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.

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      6 months ago

      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.

    • Fredselfish@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      I dream every night and can recall most dreams months sometimes years later. There just some dreams that never fade from memory.

  • Passerby6497@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I really haven’t had dreams in years. I used to dream regularly in high school, and would regularly experience dream deja vu irl.

    I thought maybe it was due to my appreciation of cannabis, but I only had one dream during my last T break and it was early in the time period. No other dreams over the course of multiple weeks, so idk.

  • brygphilomena@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    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.

  • kosanovskiy@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    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.

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      6 months ago

      That’s fascinating! I can remember snippets from hundreds, if not thousands of my dreams, but it takes me at least 60-90 minutes to fall asleep each night.

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        6 months ago

        My SO is the same way, and jokingly she hates me that I can just close my eyes and be instantly gone as she used to get upset that “I don’t dream about her” since she dreams a lot and remembers lots too. But I don’t dream about anything she knows that now but took a while for her to realize that.

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          6 months ago

          It doesn’t seem fair! I think I’d rather have the extra sleep than the dream memories; the sleep seems more valuable.

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            6 months ago

            Oh I agree, I drew the golden rest ticket. And it is OP. Feels like it makes life happier and easier in general tbh since I employ the tactics of “sleep on it” pretty much anytime and helps me process info and take time as well as cool off mentally if needed. In famous words of Bueller, “If you have the means, I highly recommend picking one up.” Good luck though, keep working on it and you may be able to train yourself.

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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.

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      6 months ago

      I have something similar I think, but yours sounds way cooler! Over the years I have essentially recreated a whole section of Denver Colorado in my dreams. My brain keeps adding things over time and many of the new stuff sticks; dream Denver now has a whole ocean north of downtown, and a boat ferry that goes to an island out there.

      Crazy stuff.

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        6 months ago

        That is super cool, though! An ocean right outside Denver?? With an island?? And a ferry?? That would be amazing. Think this is very similar. Are you from Denver / spent a lot of time there?