I saw another thread talking about dreams, I’ve had less than a handful of dreams throughout my life.
Do you dream? Every night?
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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.
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.
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.
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 every night and my dreams are usually both very vivid and also very surreal. The last dream I had involved getting lost in a restaurant that was a non-Euclidean space
لم أعد أرى أي حلم. كأن أحلامي نفدت…
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.
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.
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.
I dream every night and can recall most dreams months sometimes years later. There just some dreams that never fade from memory.
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.
If only they made weed strong enough to block out the nightmares…
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.
Yes.
When I wake up I notice that I was dreaming once or twice per week. It’s always weird dreams. Weird as in:
- aliens spitting on trees
- tomato fighting in the library, killing and burying the old librarian, to resurrect a god
- using a rolled newspaper as a magic wand, triggered by the word “photon”
- a vulture digging gold nuggets from my liver, a la Prometheus
- a pig praying (stupid dream bilingual pun)
- my cats preparing popcorn (I don’t even like popcorn)
Haha, I LOVE the weirdness of dreams. Clicked this thread just because I knew some people might share a few.
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.
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.
Every night.
I’ve heard hella people say you don’t have dreams if you smoke weed, but it’s never stopped me. 🤷🏻♂️
I’ve smoked like 50g per month for the past few years and reduced by quite a lot now, and I only started to dream again once I did that. I feel like the thing about having no dreams is only really true if you smoke excessive amounts. How much do you smoke?
Excessive amounts.
