I don’t dream. No nightmares either. I have no problems sleeping and I’m not on drugs so it isn’t a health thing - I’ve been like this all my life.
The only times I’ve managed to dream are when I nap while already well-rested, but even then I still usually don’t. Like I might get 1 or 2 dreams a year in total from when I go back to sleep immediately after waking up, but never from normal sleep.
Anyone else like this?
I either don’t have dreams at all or don’t remember them. I only had dreams (or remembered them?) 3 times in my life, and all of them were nightmares.
In the first one I was falling from the sky and woke up when I hit the ground. In the second some a was drowning in some oily liquid and then woke up suffocating under my blanket, so maybe that was the cause of this dream. And in my last dream (it was ~2 years ago) I cut my sister’s head off and then cut my throat. The entire thing was realistic af and after I woke up I really thought I killed her and wanted to call the police :/
😰 that’s fucking rough… I think no dreams is better than dreams like those
I believe that’s perfectly normal.
I’ve read a scientific piece which claimed that actually everyone has dreams regularly. It’s just that you normally don’t remember them. Sometimes, if you are waken up at a particular moment, you might remember them, but otherwise you would not. So it’s nothing to worry about at least…
On the other hand, I had a date once, who claimed she actually lives an actual 2nd life in her dream world, every single night, and remembers absolutely everything about it. Now that is something unusual…but she was also…let’s just say “unusual” in her 1st life, so who knows what was going on there…
My girlfriend is like that, except she has night terrors, so the other world is more being buried upside down in the desert next to an anthill
Frankly, that sounds terrifying.
That’d be so cool! If she’s honest then I’m super jealous
Some year and a half ago I gave a party and bought this cheap red wine in a box. The 3L kind. Party was over, one of the boxes had quite a bit left and I put it on a shelf for a while. After some months I started drinking it again because I thought: ‘it’s alcohol what’s the worst that could happen?’. I had the wildest dreams because of that wine. So vivid, so intense and so long. When the box was done I stopped having those intense dreams. I dream from time to time but I rarely remember it these days and it never really is that intense.
I don’t drink but I’d seriously consider taking it up if it means dreaming like that. I wonder what Europeans put in their wine
I seldom ever.
That’s funny because it’s your dream post that inspired this one
Dream journals help you recall more and more over time, fwiw
Doesn’t work if I can’t dream anything in the first place :(
For a time I used to try to lucid dream, and part of that was writing down my dreams immediately upon waking up. The more I did that the more I remembered my dreams and the longer they tended to be. I eventually gave up and it seems like I don’t dream anymore though I’m certain I just forget them immediately upon waking.
I only dream if I fall asleep after taking caffeine, but it’s basically guaranteed that if I have caffeine right before bed I’ll get something cool.
Huh. Maybe that explains why my dreams are almost always bizarre.
I remember thinking the same a few years back but I definitely do dream these days. It’s very hard to remember them just a short while after waking. I suspect it’s related to some foods. Blue cheese seems to result in intense dreams.
Almost everybody dreams. Sometimes I’ll forget my dreams as soon as I wake up, but other times I remember them, and occasionally I’ll even record one.
I do not remember much of my last dream, but I do remember that it was, interestingly, about the word ‘Israel’, and how it is wrong to refer to Zionism’s régime as ‘Israel’ since that word can also refer to Jewry, and it gives the poetic expression ‘the children of Israel’ an unintended meaning. I thought back to this old epitaph:
The children of Israel wanted bread
And the Lord sent them manna,
Old clerk Wallace wanted a wife,
And the Devil sent him Anna.If my brainwaves go haywire in my sleep but I don’t wake up to remember anything, can we really conclude that it was a dream? 🤔 Maybe it was a little seizure who’s to say
And yeah the coopting of Judaism by Zionists is despicable. Hexbear has had a few struggle sessions over depicting the Israeli flag on fire because it’s got the star of David on it.
i remember them semi-frequently, at least once every 2 weeks, or even once a week. Used to remember them almost every night when i was a kid, I’ve had a lot of wild nightmares, including several recurring ones. Luckily I don’t have hardly any outright nightmares anymore, although I probably still have one every few months. a couple years ago i started keeping a dream journal and started remembering them more and more frequently, until I stopped randomly, but I honestly think that’s why I even still remember them as frequently as I do. I should start keeping a dream journal again…
I hear you can start lucid dreaming if you keep a dream journal long enough. Have you ever felt control over yourself while dreaming?
a couple times, but the dream kinda collapsed after a little bit, so i didnt lucid dream very long
That’s so cool! You should pick up journaling again. Creating your own dreams sounds like a super power
yeah I’ll try and get a new journal at the store tomorrow, it was pretty cool
I dream every night. I’m just an average guy, so I don’t know what’s so special about dreaming.
Yes, yes, yes, but no. I dream but I generally don’t remember any of them when I wake up. Sometimes, though. And more often with age it seems.
That’s interesting because someone posted a link that says people generally forget their dreams more often with age. You’ve got a deluxe brain I think
I usually remember dreams when I’m woken up from them.
But not if you sleep fully?
Hmm, usually not. Like 90% of the time I don’t remember dreaming at all. Maybe like 7% is that I remember the dream because someone IRL was yelling my name and I somehow added a character in my dream that yells my name, then I wake up. Maybe 3% of the time I can remember my dreams naturally. I used to write in a dream journal to describe my dreams the second I wake up, not anymore tho.
That’s a bummer. You could be playing LSD dream simulator irl and you wouldn’t even know
I don’t dream often, but it’s not rare.
I only get (or probably remember) dreams when I’m well rested. I think you just don’t remember them, and you could try sleeping more