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?
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.
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
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 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.
I seldom ever.
That’s funny because it’s your dream post that inspired this one
I don’t dream often, but it’s not rare.
I dream every night. I’m just an average guy, so I don’t know what’s so special about dreaming.
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 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 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
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
Dream journals help you recall more and more over time, fwiw
Doesn’t work if I can’t dream anything in the first place :(
Lucid dreaming and astral projection and contact of the 5th kind and bad drugs and occult practices led to paranormal experiences and negative experiences with sleep and dreaming which led to me smothering my dreams and training myself to instantly wake up if i begin dreaming. Since those years, i have slowly tip toed around dreaming again, i can tell i still have reflexive safe guards that dampen my dreaming ability.
If you want to dream more, one tried and tested trick people have learned: when you do dream, make sure to take note of it immediately, tell someone about it immediately. Preferably both vocally and in writing. Over time this will lead to more dreams…and more lucidity, which for most people is a fun or interesting plus.
Might be that you do dream, but don’t remember. I usually only remember dreams when I wake up really early, right after they’ve ended or even in the middle of them.
