Comradeship // Freechat

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...

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 :/

Other way around, have pretty good recall being a natural lucid dreamer. Near everyone dreams they either don't remember and/or have a form of aphantasia and its not visual but uses other senses (which tbf is extra hard to remember if you're used to a visual heavy world). I dream even on really small amounts of sleep like naps. I figure most people not remembering dreams is a mercy since a majority of my dreams are boring recaps of real life.

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.

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.

sorry i've been hoggin' all the dreams.

I seldom ever.

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.

Dream journals help you recall more and more over time, fwiw

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.

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.

I dream every night. I'm just an average guy, so I don't know what's so special about dreaming.

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.

Does "99% of the time" count? If so then yes. I remember almost every dream I have just because I have so few of them that it's a notable event for me when they happen.

But, maybe this seems weird, I feel like I'm aware of the time I spend sleeping more than the average person. I can say to myself, "I will wake up at six AM", and then do it without an alarm. I think it's related to how light I sleep (I need earplugs to sleep soundly in any room with another person), like maybe I'm waking up and looking at my clock and not realizing it.

I usually remember dreams when I’m woken up from them.

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 don’t dream often, but it’s not rare.

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.

I don't dream when I've been smoking weed regularly

yeah, I don't dream either. Used to, when I was much younger.

idk but offhanded ill say i always really liked ur pfp

I'm probably in the same boat as you, as in most of my dreams, if you can even call them that, happen in a pitch-black void with nothing to do. There are a few cases where I actually dream, where I remember one case to have been me consuming spaghetti and a few hours of feeling funny later a giant worm with sharp teeth popping out my stomach, but that dream and a few others I don't remember are just exceptions, not the norm.

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.

piggybacking this dream thread to ask: how do you dream about something specifically? i really want to murder benito mussolini in my dreams