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?
sorry i’ve been hoggin’ all the dreams.
“Grrr… Curse you, Colin! Looks like you’re bound and determined to get in my way! I’ll have my troops swat you like a fly!”
idk but offhanded ill say i always really liked ur pfp
Thanks! I chose it because Olaf Advance Wars looks like a mix between Stalin and Marx to me. I like seeing you around the fediverse too <3
piggybacking this dream thread to ask: how do you dream about something specifically? i really want to murder benito mussolini in my 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.
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
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
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
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.
Are your recaps lucid? That seems like the opposite of boring to me but I guess I might feel differently if I experienced it every day forever
Generally no, my normal dreams are recaps, sometimes during a recap I’ll figure out I’m dreaming and then go off to do whatever I want, starting with a teleport the hell out of there, sometimes I just want to pester dream people representations of my psyche with annoying questions. I generally ld around twice a week with minimal effort, I have a coworker that lds every dream, not really jealous since we’re retail and sometimes she struggles with exerting control over the dream so she can get out of dream version of work to go have fun. Nothing like going home, sleeping, then finding yourself at work in your sleep, then having to wake up to go back.
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.
my last dream is really embarrassing
My mom gave me a bag of weed. I smoked it with Rick from Rick and Morty. We both had giant glass bongs that constantly changed colors. Then when I went back inside, I tried to give my mom the rest of her weed back and I accidentally dropped it all over the floor. While I was picking it up my sister came in an accused me of trying to steal my mom’s weed because I was addicted to it, and I spent the rest of the dream trying to convince her and my mom that that wasn’t the case.
I can sometimes do the internal alarm clock thing too, but for me it happens when I’m so anxious about the upcoming day that I don’t sleep much in anticipation.
and LMAO you should’ve pinned it all on Rick!!
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
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
