paulr

...is that normal?

The Zohan

I tend to get them if i have a lot on my mind and am worried otherwise very few.

davegtt

eat more cheese

Dunno if its normal or not, but apparently we have loads of dreams in the night and the reason theyre so wierd is because you only remember parts of them and theyre pieced together in your head, maybe you have a cr@p memory and cant remember that you've been dreaming at all

I dream all the time, if I go to sleep thinking about something then I will probably have a dream about it and end up having a bad nights sleep and be very tired in the morning.

16vmarc

Im sure you mean you rarely have dreams that you remember

OllyK

I suspect more a case of having them but not remembering them. Dreams are associated with REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep which occurs before deep sleep. Apparantley it's an essential part of sleep, believed in part to be the brains time to reorganise the information it has absorbed during the day.

unclebuck

Brain dead.

little-ginge

Judging by some of the freaky dreams I have, I shudder to think the rubbish my little brain soaks up each day

MJW

In heavy cannabis smokers, yes.

dpb

Its the daydreams you want to avoid....

paulr

So you dont have dreams either?

Franx2

No. You're going to die


That said, I very rarely do either. Only if I've a lot to think about when I go to bed. Cheese, for some reason, stops me sleeping altogether, so I try and avoid it before bed

mart360

All people dream, its a normal part of the sleep process,

what is happening is they you are waking up long after the rem period, and therefore dont remember the dream.

afaik if you wake up around a 10 minute window after rem sleep, you will remember the dream, or parts of it.

if your really skilled you can stop, start and reenter a dream.


i have a dream that i know can never happen, so as soon as this dream starts i can stop it straight away, or if i want run with it and then change the outcome

mart

Ken 275

A bit of a freaky thread as I have been remembering most of my dreams from the previous night's kip when I awake in the morning for about the past four months. They are not pretty or nice.

They actually scare the $hit out of me and when you think you are screaming out loud in a dream, well I have verification I was doing it. It's a sad day when you are afraid to go to bed.

Also, I tend to wake up with a song going through my mind, and not one I've listened to for a while or even own a copy of; it might be the fillings I have left in my teeth picking up the radio reception! eg. and the list is not conclusive (I don't even like half of them!) :


Artist / Composer Song

Carly Simon Clowns In My Coffee
? Rule Britannia - Rebellious Scots to Crush (!).
Leo Sayer
Jeff Beck Hi Ho Silver Lining
Genesis Abacab (WTF?)
Hall & Oates? Call On Me
Jimi Hendrix Purple Haze
The Animals The House of the Rising Sun
Deep Purple Smoke On The Water
Deep Purple Child In Time
Carl Orff Fortuna, Imperatrix Mundi

K.

little-ginge

Ken - are you or have you been under alot of stress?

unclebuck

<Butthead> Coool dude.... </Butthead>

The Rani

You're luckier than me - I very rarely actually sleep these days - even when I did it was only for about four hours a night .....

davegtt

Put me in this catagory, I can stop and start them more often than not, othertimes I struggle to change it, I get a repeating process and my brain starts it over everytime I try to change it. othertimes I can change it easily. Although I find when I dream like this Im not exactly in a deep sleep, Im at a point where I could wake at any minute or Im already awake with just my eyes still closed if that makes sence, usually feel very tired after a night like that.

Southern Guy

I remember a few dreams, but mostly know i have dreamed but cant remember...

I rememebr the ex she used to have some right messed up dreams, used to talk (could even hold convos with her) really cool at times, and no, no other guys mentioned in teh dreams lol

Quiet sweet really....

Everyone dreams, some people sleep heavier than others, thats the difference

Scoob99

iTrader: (1)

well I awoke the this morning after dreaming of driving a Jaguar over water and meeting Geore Harrison coming out of a hotel room
Must book in to the local nut house
Cheers
Colin

Scoobychick

iTrader: (1)

I frequently wake myself (and Bob) up trying to shout or scream during a nightmare. I get loads of them but don't know why as I don't feel stressed or unhappy. Maybe I'm just wierd? Perhaps I should write them down and make a fortune Stephen King stylee

The Rani

To sleep, perchance to dream .....

King RA

The best lucid dreams you can ever have are after being awake several days on amphetamines, so desperately, desperately tired, but at the same time some element of you brain is awake. They can be so lucid they appear real and are completely controllable, like playing a computer game in your head.

.....apparently.

The Rani

I've been awake several days without amphetamines .....

Ken 275

I was under some stress with work, health and family. I've since quit my job to try and deal with things and am currently sitting on my ever decreasing bank balance.

I've thought about cataloguing my dreams but it would be an enormous task and to revisit the experiences would probably be detrimental to me.

There is no "medication" involved.

Mucho weirdness only.

K.

King RA

In that case when you go to sleep you'll probably instantly fall into a deep sleep. You don't seem to have got the jist of what I said.

The Rani

probably too tired .....

King RA

lol

Robbie T

iTrader: (8)

I get this as well! I wake up usually with the same line of a song going round and round in my head, even if i know the song i cant get my head past that line. As above its always songs i haven't heard for ages. It continues for a couple of minutes even after i've got out of bed, i cant remember any of the songs and i don't have any fillings

Could this be stress related then?