Published on 12, July, 2020
Do you dream? (or at least, do you remember your dreams)..
Do you have recurrent dreams?
Do you assign meaning to your dreams?
One recurrent dream I have is of being somewhere where I need to use a phone urgently and all the numbers I need aren't on it, so it's a very frustrating panicky situation.
Last night I dreamt I was trying to take a shower in someone's loft. Someone was already in there + came out so I stepped in but the shower curtain didn't fit and the water was going all over bags of belongings.
Then I found I didn't have a towel to dry myself.
Then I remember saying these words: do you think that all the organised people in the world who are trying to control their lives, who lead quiet lives, who like everything in order, who notice fine details and are careful in what they say and do are autistic and the rest are not?
In my dream I'd decided that half the world was autistic.
I've had loads of dreams where I can fly
I love dreams like that.
Flying in the sky, far away and high.
To the lands of fantasy, where nothing can hurt me.
:—)
I have dreams where I can't do something for some reason and I dream I am back at school and I haven't done some homework. I guess it is linked to our high anxiety.
I had a lot of flying dreams when I was a child. I remember one where I was flying around my school classroom, and perching on those fluorescent lights that hung from chains - like circus trapeze bars.
Martin said: I had a dream where, when sitting cross-legged on the floor, if you thought in a certain way about your buttocks you could levitate
You have reminded me.
Lucid dreaming sounds interesting ....
Thank you for that article.
I shall take a look.
My husband has REM Sleep Behaviour Disorder (+ sleep apnoea).
The 1st evidence of this was when he hurt his foot on the wooden bed whilst dreaming about kicking a ball during a football match.
I have had a few, less than ten, lucid dreams in my life. Where I was aware that I was dreaming and could control the dream, a very pleasant way of dreaming, like being an all-powerful magician. Mostly I'm aware of dreams when I get really exasperated with an irritating or stupid dream and wake myself up, which I seem to be able to do.
I have bizarre dreams. In one I was stuck on a ledge halfway up the face of a huge dam - like the Hoover dam - but I knew that I was in France. I had to remember what the French was for 'help me!' Which I managed to do. I had a dream where, when sitting cross-legged on the floor, if you thought in a certain way about your buttocks you could levitate. I also had a dream where I was Charlemagne leading an army into Rome, delusions of grandeur!
I believe it's something to do with REM sleep states. If you wake up during or shortly after one of those phases you are more likely to remember them.
There is an interesting article on the topic here https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190516-why-cant-some-people-remember-their-dreams
The article suggests drinking 3 big glasses of water before bed makes you more likely to wake up at the end of an REM cycle of sleep and remember the dream.
I won't be doing that as I don't want any more of those dreams that are memorable for the wrong reasons!
I dream so much.
And I'm lucky to remember the majority of them.
Most are pleasant in other worlds, sometimes though they can be frightening and distressing. I think that's to do with my PTSD.
I love my dreams. I always write them down after. I have one I get frequently and read about after frequently where I've found a secret village in a forest.
Pegg said:My closest friend died suddenly at the beginning of the year and I had a dream about them soon after that felt absolutely real, very weird.
I still have vivid dreams about each of my parents although my dad died 20 + years ago and my mother 5 years ago.
I also remember dreaming about them very close to their deaths and it being as though they were with me.
My condolences on your loss.
I still dream about being at University sometimes, although it was years ago, don't know why!
A recurrent dream is being in a house and trying to put the lights on but none of them work, it's horrible. A metaphor for my life maybe!
Or an anxiety dream.
My closest friend died suddenly at the beginning of the year and I had a dream about them soon after that felt absolutely real, very weird.
I wonder why some people remember dreams and some don't.
I think I've read previously that we remember dreams if we wake up during them.
I tend to wake up every hour so maybe that's why.
Interesting re the SSRI.
I tend not to remember my dreams at all.
Sometimes I will wake up incredibly anxious and panicky for no apparent reason. That may or may not be related to a dream but if it is I have absolutely no memory of it.
If they are memorable it tends to be for the wrong reasons. On more than one occasion as an adult I have dreamt that I needed the toilet, found one and felt the relief. Shortly afterwards the waking realisation that I was not on the toilet but still in a (now wet) bed
When I was on SSRIs they gave me vivid and horrific nightmares whenever I did manage to get some sleep.
Yeah my dreams were already pretty vivid but they're definitely worse now! They're mostly just strange though so I'm not too concerned.
battybats said:I take an SSRI and it gives me extremely weird dreams fairly regularly.
So do I (Paroxetine) but I'd forgotten that a side effect can be 'abnormal dreams'.
Food for thought there although I was having vivid dreams that I remembered before I was on them.
I was so used to seeing your original when I saw the new my brain almost crashed lol. Have a nice day.
It'll change back tomorrow! If I can find the original!
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What'd DP?
Meds can cause horrible dreams.
Nice DP. That's going to take a long time to adjust to now.
When I was on SSRI'S I had horrible dreams. It was always the suggestion of horror rather than actual.