How often do you dream?

[Sims2789]

I almost always dream.

 

[MummyMan]

I remember a lot of the dreams i had as a kid but i can't remember many now. I do remember one where i was flying though, and that was awesome. I think i'll try writing them down after i wake up.

 

[Uncle Sam]

Perhaps I remember them because now that I'm dreaming constantly, when I wake up, the first thing I try to do is piece together my dream?

I dream frequently, and i sort of remember a dream when i first wake up, but by the time i get up, use the bathroom and get a glass of water i've usally forgotten it all.

 

[Mise]

I have a distinct memory of waking up, looking at the clock, and then going back to sleep only to wake up either 15 seconds later or 1 minute and 15 seconds (non digital clock) later having had a dream that spanned 10 minutes. Makes one wonder.

Apparently, your brain "fills in the gaps", i.e. before you woke up, you had some dream, then you checked the clock, then you fell asleep again, and dreamt again of a similar but different dream which lasted only 15 seconds, then you woke up, thinking remembering distinctly the first dream, but thinking the second dream was related to the first, your mind "filled in the gap" between the first and second dream by incorporating 10 minutes of stuff you didn't dream, in order for it to make sense.

Heh, that was a bit rambling, but I think that's what must have happened. I forgot how they proved that dreams happen in real time, but I remember it was a good proof!

 

[Hygro]

An interesting explaination, but I'm inclined to believe my own thought process. If you ever find an online location of this proof, I'm happy to read it.

 

[Mise]

An interesting explaination, but I'm inclined to believe my own thought process. If you ever find an online location of this proof, I'm happy to read it.

Just googled 'dream real time' and came up with this from http://www.faqs.org/faqs/dreams-faq/part1/section-7.html

A. REM sleep periods, and therefore dreams, last typically in the
range of 5 to 45 minutes (cf. section 6). Often, the subjective time
spent in a dream is much longer. One possible explanation for this
time-stretch effect is that dreams are combined from pieces (see
preceding paragraph) that have their own different setting in
time. You first dream of something that occurred a year ago, then -
following - of something that occurred just recently, mix them up a
bit and are left with the remembrance of a dream that lasted a year.

But experiments suggest that dreamed actions run in "real time" - what
you do in your dream takes exactly this time to dream. With external
influences like the radio running in the morning, you have both the
real time in which you hear something and - sometimes - the feeling
that it lasted considerably longer. Anyway, time is one of the
perceptions that are heavily distorted in dreams.

Not quite proof of dreams being in real time, but proof that I'm not making it up! (or dreaming it up....)

 

[Hygro]

That's a good point that perceptions with radio and similar noises being incorporated real time. This, however, doesn't leave out the possibility that it's not uniform.

 

[Serutan]

I've been dreaming every night for weeks now, and I remember them too. In fact a few times I have started thinking about what I thought was a memory, only to realize it was a dream...

I'm not sure if I'm going crazy or if my brain is just in a creative overload.

It's kind of streaky for me. There are stretches where I don't remember
anything, and other stretches where I frequently remember them.

BTW, from your posts, it's safe to say you aren't going crazy; you have
long since gotten there...

 

[Xi 12]

So no one else has Deja Vu dreams but me?
Cool.

 

[Hygro]

There are many with precognitive dreams, I myself have had a few, but I've never gotten a feeling a deja vu from them. More like a feeling of validation.

 

[Global Nexus]

I've got numerous story ideas inspired by dreams. My latest was a dream about a Far Eastern servant girl who gets lost at sea and winds up on some island. I get a lot of weird-but-fun dreams. Another one I had involved robots, mechanical suits, a chubby-but-pretty girl named "Chelsea", and an evil organization. It was COOL...and the dream ended complete, too! That was a wonderful feeling for a dream.

 

[Hygro]

Those sound great!

 

[Global Nexus]

Yeah, they are. I love them. However, they are counterbalanced by the occassional dreams I have involving velociraptors, Tyrannosaurs, and dragons...

 

[King PJ]

It is a proven fact that everyone dreams like 5 times a night but we just don't remember them all. I had had a dream last night that the spirit world was opened up and demons and negetive spirits were coming up from the underworld. I was on a team of marines (Doom 3 comes out tommorow) and we went deep into the underworld and planted a nuke. In order to aviod the nuke explosion we launched into space and while in space I called a counselor and explained the situation. I also have had strange gothic style dreams/nightmares that are usually in a medeval setting.

 

[Sims2789]

One time I had a dream within a dream. I was dreaming, but that dream was about a dream, and I "woke up" from that dream (After I had it.). Later I woke up for real. And I do know that I didn't wake up twice in real life but one time go back to sleep really fast.

 

[cgannon64]

Mise I think you're right about your brain piecing stuff together, because oftentimes my dreams have very strange segues.

 

[ManOfMiracles]

Do you dream in Black and White or COLOR?

Oddly enough I remember one dream I had back in the mid-late 1980's. The entire dream was nothing more than one particular shade of blue-green. That color ended up being the hot thing in cars the next fall...

 

[The Last Conformist]

One dream from the eighties I recall was about blue-green balls of different sizes laying on the floor of my bedroom.

 

[Hygro]

Ever been woken up really early, and not totally out of dreamstate you will be confused about your surroundings, and then come to the most illogical conclusions? One time I didn't comprehend how I was taking a shower, because of course it doesn't make sense that a house can't take a shower! Or like the other day, I didn't want to get out of my bed because I didn't understand how Imperialist Germany could mobolize its entire army to get out of one bed and into one house.

 

[cgannon64]

Yeah Hygro. I do that in my dream too. One time I dreamed I was on the train, and I was going to take a shower on the train (the subway), but I stopped and though, "Oh no! People will be able to see me! There's no curtain!"