Do You Often Recall Your Dreams?

[MrNFL_FanIQ]

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I almost never recall dreams. As soon as I wake up, it's gone 99.9999999999999% If I remember it, it's only for a few minutes too, and is gone forever pretty quickly.

[BurghFan]

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I don't believe in any kinds of superstitions, luck, horoscopes or anything of that matter, but I believe my dreams. Sometimes, I dream events weeks or months in advance. They haven't failed me yet. It's kind of scary because they happen exactly how I dream it. The event, people and place are usually perfect. I kinda hate a big event happening and I haven't dreamed it, because I have no clue what's gonna happen.

Well, that just made me look crazy

Nah, I have those same sort of precognitive dreams. See this thread for details.

http://www.operationsports.com/forums/#

Also, last night I had a dream that the half healed cut on my finger suddenlty regressed to when it was fresh and raw.

[~LiverpoolRed~]

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I have this crazy knack of daydreaming about a funny scene from Seinfeld or a Simpson's episode and within a day or 2 that episode comes on the tv. It happens to me quite often.

[slickdtc]

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Dreams are such a mystery to me. A lot of it definitely has to do with what's been weighing on your mind recently; I've had a decent amount of stress in the last few weeks and my dreams reflected that.

I'm with the others in that I can feel inside me exactly how the dream went, but there's details that I can't describe. It's like looking at a picture: you can see everything there, but you can't really feel it because you simply weren't there at that time. My girlfriend & I share our dreams, but she's always better at it then I am. I can give vague descriptions and skip around from this to that because I simply can't describe it.

Or sometimes they're too crazy/odd to make me want to describe.

There are times, a time or two a year, I'd say, where a dream really bugs me for a day or two. It just gives me a strange feeling I need a little time to shake.

Only once did I wake up and was teary. Two people I know died in a plane crash in the dream and it freaked me out. Hasn't happened before or since.

[Redemption]

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About once a week, sometimes more. Most of them I don't remember in fine detail, but I remember them. As in, I know I had a dream and I can sometimes remember one image in my head from the dream, but I can't remember exactly what happened or who I was with, etc. It seems like the ones I fully remember are the ones I wake up from. I think it's been proven that the further your dream is from you waking up, the less you'll remember it.

I still remember a terrible dream I had when I was a child, like 10 years ago. Probably because it was so ****ed up it scarred me.

Redemption - I'm in bed by midnight or 1 am and I usually wake up at 9am. 8-9 hours of sleep a night.

the further you are from REM the less likely it is you will remember your dream. It is believed now that you dream pretty much at all times when you are asleep, the difference is that only during REM are your brain waves close enough to normal waking consciousness that you can actually remember them. In the other stages you are simply in too "deep" a sleep.

Sleep cycles go in approximately 90 minute intervals, so I'd wager revis, that you remember your dreams much more often when you get closer to 9 hours of sleep vs 8.

You also feel more refreshed when you wake up at the end of an REM cycle, as opposed to in the middle of your sleep cycle (aka 8 hours). You could try setting your alarm for 7:30 hours to test this out for yourself. It is less sleep than you normally get, but 1) You should be more likely to remember your dreams, and 2) There is a good shot you will feel more refreshed.

[Redemption]

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of course, keep in mind that everyones sleep cycles vary a little... for anyone thats struggling to remember their dreams, I'd suggest one night that you drink a whole bunch of water before you go to sleep. You will naturally wake up at the end of one of your REM periods, at which time you'll easily be able to figure out your own biological cycle