Not dreaming

How many people here don't remember their dreams? It's not like I never dream, but only very rarely do I wake up able to remember one. I can't remember the last time I remember dreaming.

Very, very, very rarely. When i was in school, all of my dream were me doing my routine. Walking to school, doing chores, etc.. Now whenever i dream it's related to something that makes me feel either fear or sadness. It's not uncommon for me to wake up closing all windows and checking all doors, however i never remember the dreams, i just wake up with an intense feeling of fear/paranoia. But yes, i'm in the same place as you are. Even if the contents of my dreams changed throughout the years, the frequency is still the same, maybe i dream even less nowadays.

I normally never have dreams. I just fall asleep and wake up with nothing in between. The only time I remember my dreams is the really fuarrrked up vivid nightmares I always get whenever I'm really stressed out.

I rarely dream but when I do I can usually remember the ones I have, but the memories vanish in about 5 minutes after I wake up. I also have the constant feeling when I am in a dream that it's fake and I'm really dreaming.

I usually only remember them if I take care to not move once I wake up. Then I try to make it come back to me. Thinking "what did I dream?" doesn't help in my experience, I try remembering what I feel. Most of the time I do this I can remember my dreams again. Give it a try, maybe it'll work for some of you.

I used to never remember my dreams at all, until I started keeping a dream journal at the recommendation of my friend. At first I just had to write down how I felt when I woke up because I didn't have any other details, but after a while I just started waking up with memories. Don't exactly understand how the journal effected a change, but it's nice. I dream a lot now.

>>36 Would love to dream as much as you lainon My story goes like this: When I was a kid I used to remember my dreams like everyday. It was fantastic. Then I started to grow up and most of my dreams have become about having sex with girls I knew. Then I fell into porn and going late to sleep trap. Olso using alarms early in the morning ruins it all. I feel like I am losing part of myself without creative dreams I used to have as a kid ;/ So... "just" starting dream jurnal and maybe normalizing my sleeping hours should help? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2V6vJwOJSo

Luckly for me i dont. If i do then i havent slept well and usually its just the brain soykafting itself. Though every once a while i have a cool dream, but very rarely.

>>38 A dream journal will probably help without normalizing

>>2 I think when I wake up after a nap, 50% of the time I remember a dream.

>>2 I've been having dreams very regularly lately. it's actually slightly inconvenient because my dreams are so ordinary they I always confuse them for reality.

>>5 >>38 Diphenhydramine (Benadryl) + alcohol can help with that. It makes me dream at least. Yeah, yeah, sleeping pills and alcohol sounds dangerous but it really isn't, diphenhydramine's LD50 is huge. Horrible for your liver in the long term if you make a habit of it. Probably.

>>55 fun fact, carrying over my teenage days on 420chan forever the fuarrrk ago: dph is a powerful deliriant in high doses - ie 300mgs plus. And by deliriant, i mean, having conversations with people and things that aren't there, legitimate hallucinations, rip legs. I used to take it when I was curious about seeing if I could replicate symptoms of schizophrenia. afaik, you dream every night, even if you're not conscious of those dreams upon waking. i'd suggest looking into a more conscious approach to dreaming, ie, attempting to invoke lucid dreaming while simultaneously keeping a dream journal. (that last suggestion is powerful stuff; it really works.)

>>56 It definitely has recreational potential. Same with other types of sleeping pills, if you take them and then fight off sleep strange things may happen.

As many said: a dream journal will help. Write one dream, remember other two. Weed makes me: Sleep more, dream less Or Dream more, sleep less. Idk why tho

I think it's pretty common not to remember your dreams. Usually I forget them few minutes after I wake up unless I try to recall them right away.

>>5 Me too, recently :/

>>55 ZZquil (or however it's spelled) is actually diphenhydramine mixed with alcohol. Very low dose alcohol, maybe less than what you use. But that might be quick and easy to mix the two. Though it'd probably be cheaper to buy generic Benadryl and take it with a few shots.

I remember my dreams maybe once every other or third month. I wish I could remember more but I just can't. Been like that for many years.

>>2 I always get vivid dreams when I am using too much caffeine. Won't recommend though

I havent been dreaming at all this year. This past week ive been making a conscious effort to improve it. Its tough, the most ive been remembering when i wake up is a single color or a random feeling. From past experience I know that its all I need, if i document my dreams consistently, to fully bring back long vivid dreams; it just takes a while though.

I don't remember my dreams too, OP. I wake up and about 20 minutes later I don't remember what I dreamed. Well, this is weird because when I was young I used to remember every dream what I had.

until about a month I very rarely, pretty much never, remembered my dream. Then me and my friends smoked some weed and what was unknown to us was that it was lased with CRACK. For a couple of weeks after that I dreamed more vividly and I could recall what went on in my dreams.

Whether or not you remember your dreams rests mostly on what phase of REM sleep you wake up during. It's possible to go a long time without recalling your dreams if you consistently wake up during one of the dormant periods. If it's important enough to you, you may want to try changing up your sleep schedule periodically.

I very rarely remember my dreams, and when I do, it's just a few minutes after waking up.

>>55 Yeah, I like sleeping after alcohol it goes very easy to fall asleep while being a little drunk. Also it makes me remember my dreams :D

I'm glad I don't usually remember my dreams, since they're mostly nightmares or overly bizarre. I try to wake up on a multiple of 90 minutes to avoid waking during REM sleep. Has the bonus of waking up feeling okay even if you didn't get at least 7 hours.

There's a point when you wouldn't need a dream jounral to remember dreams anymore, right? Thinking about starting one again, but if it's a long term thing then I'm not so sure.

>>439 Yes but eventually you go back to forgetting. When I kept a journal I would remember up to six dreams a night. When I stopped my recall was good but it gradually got worse. I'm lucky if I remember two more.

I remember dreams occasionally. Usually when it does happen it's there for a few seconds and then it's gone. I don't really mind. It just makes the times when I really remember a dream for a long time(happens a couple times a year) all that much better, and most of the time I just want the oblivion of sleep.

>>2 I only remember dreams when I wake up and for about an hour or so. The only dreams I remember are dreams that impacted me or scared me. I should start a dream journal.

desu I can't visualise anything. Think there's a term for it, apthanasia or something similar to that. I remember I used to play lots of violent and bloody flash games on newgrounds as a kid, probably more than I should have been, and I had vivid dreams about those things, but nowadays, I'll dream about 10 times a year, and I can never see anything in these dreams, and there's a never pattern to their occurrences either (e.g. only happening when I'm highly stressed) and the only detail I can ever remember is talking to someone (never a person I know nor anyone I can describe, I only imagine their voice) and then running away

I remember one time where I was simultaneously looking at my open window from my bed and dreaming at the same time. The dream was playing out as normal, but the bright light coming from my window blinded my middle field of vision. I could see my dream from the sides of my vision.

Usually right after I get up but I don't put the effort in to remember

Half the time I do remember, it's from a dream I had years ago.

I'm kind of the same. Most days I can't recall dreaming at all, and when I do, the memory vanishes within a few minutes. Are there any tips or ways to remember your dreams better?

I wonder if I did dream on those days where I believed I didn't dream and I just forgot it.

I personally rarely have dreams but if u want to dream more there are a few ways to do that. Generally you dream every night and not just once, because sleep consists of some sleeping phases in which you have dreams and if I'm not wrong these last like 1.5h. So why I can't remember any of those dreams? - you may ask. It's because remembering those would be not good for your brain, or basically not useful. You brain deletes those memories right after waking up, unless: -before going to sleep you think a lot about remembering your dreams. Something like "after i wake up i want to remember by dream" [repeat like 10 times] (is not the best way) -after waking up focus on the dream if you remember at least a part of it. If you do, you may recall some of the memories (not very efficient method) -sleep journal - thats mainly the method from above, but doing it daily and turning it into a routine affects your subconsciousness and causes better remembering of dreams Correct me if I'm wrong, I've been reading a bit about it but i don't do it, mainly because of laziness

>>55 It might be worth looking into supplements if you're worried about your liver. A krill oil capsule with breakfast and ~200mg of magnesium threonate before bed are doing the trick for me after a couple days. Last night I dreamed I adopted a cat small enough it could fit in the center of my palm after not remembering my dreams for several months.

>>2 I have vague memories of concepts minutes before waking, but even then that's rarer. I usually remember nothing and wake up with a vague sense of foreboding, fairly often it feels like I've slept for minutes despite hours passing. It's curious, though I can't help but wonder if it's related to the fact that I tend not to think verbally.

>>2 I have no memory of actually dreaming ever. The only way i know what a dream is by people telling me what they are. The closest i have ever come to a dream is sleep paralysis.

If I remember they're most likely morbid or disturbing

>>1085 Why do you think that is Lain?

I hardly ever remember them, when i do its usually as bad as zapping between tv channels, except with memories and trying to stick together as to form a plot.

>>2 I almost never remember them. When I do im super stressed out and a deadlines approaching >>36 Ill probably start keeping one soon. I've always wanted to try lucid dreaming and that might help me get to that point Also I kinda wanna get my hands on some Mexican dreamroot and see how that works

Last 40-50 days, I have been remembering my dreams more than 50% of the time. I can reconstruct their timelines and have ample graphical footage, often feelings or emotions, smells, muscle-feels in there too. The only things that really changed is that I rarely wake up to alarm clocks as I sleep whenever I am sleepy until I wake up, and the weather has been cold but I keep windows open anyway.

>fall asleep at night >never remember dream >fall asleep during daytime >have nightmare What if I always have nightmares, and I just don't remember the nighttime ones? Is there a way to tell? I'm starting to dread falling asleep.

Yeah, I can never remember either, but I have brain problems so I don't actually remember anything anyway. is like kicking dead whales down the beach though, sometimes I get a glimpse of the last part of a dream, and realize that the only time I ever feel whole is in my dreams

>>2 me, I don't ever remember mine. sometimes I'll get really vague emotions leftover, but I still can't remember what actually happened in the dream to trigger them

>>1523 You might. Daytime sleeps and naps are more likely to be remembered some say because you arent as deeply in sleep but I think it more has to do with your entrance and/or exit into and out of sleep is slower and your brain is more active during the entrances and exits. I remember a lot of my dreams because I tend to fall asleep imagining a story that ends up becoming nonsensical and turning into a dream and so my brain is aware during the hypnagogic states. I also get sleep paralysis frequently as I sometimes start realizing the story has become nonsense and wake up, but my body has already shut off. I think naps and often daytime sleeps if its not consistent bedtime end up also leading to less of a "knocking out" and a more active entrance/exit. Remember even putting aside deeper dream analysis your nightmares by nature are about things and situations and ideas that evoke real fear for you. They can be good in this way as conquering them in a dream is like practice for real life.

Your dreams immediately fade after you open your eyes and see your environment which attunes your brain waves into the wakeful state, discarding all it deems unnecessary such as memories from dream state (while you're flooded with memories from wakeful state, and your to do and what to do list). This is useful since there are times that you wake up from extended nightmares and you immediately forget all the details in the nightmare. If you happen to have dreams you liked, you just need to keep your eyes closed and try to re-visualize your dream and write it in a diary with your left eye still closed or maybe just whip up a sound recorder.

I usually dream very occasionally and remember very little, but a few times a year in moments of intense mental activity (starting college, the death of a loved one, or for no apparent reason) I have long, vivid dreams, sometimes for several days or weeks, and I tend to remember a lot. Generally they are related at least indirectly to the event that's going on. I think the mind generates dreams when it's looking for something.

Set an alarm for 5:00 AM every day, but don't get out of bed. You'll have crazy dreams and you'll remember them vividly for several minutes after waking up. This (waking up early and then falling back asleep) is the only circumstance in which I can remember my dreams.

>>2 >well isn't this an old thread Most people don't remember their dreams hardly at all and when they do they stick out as they were bad dreams that woke them up, alarm clocks interrupting things notwithstanding.

>>4572 >This is useful since there are times that you wake up from extended nightmares and you immediately forget all the details in the nightmare. I remember vividly all of my nightmares for weeks, and sometimes I can never forget them. For instance, I still remember my first nightmare with a surprising level of detail. I'd prefer remembering all my dreams and nightmares alike to remembering only my nightmares.

Think every one dreams if they sleep over 90 minutes. The actual issue is you don't remember most of your dreams. Even people with great recall likely have a dream or two they don't remember from that same session of sleep even though they vividly remember one.

one thing that helped me dream even vividly was to be completely exhausted, i remembered being in a taekwando class and it made me extremely tired to the point where i couldn't stop my legs to shake from all the exercises. it forced me to sleep and i can not only remember my dreams but also vividly experiencing them.

I started remembering my dreams partially for last week or so. Only small and most fuarrrked up parts like some dudes with headphones filled with pepsi.

i remember when my dreams are interesting enough to remember. They are a by product of your brain coping with something. If you don't remember, that usually means you are doing nothing to challenge yourself, that you exist in automatic, that you are not using your imagination. Perhaps you need some projects on your life to think about?

I sometimes have this very frustating experience of waking up and having this blurry memory of the dream, like an unfinished sketch of what the dream was supposed to be but not being able to remember it. When that happens I don't end up remembering anything but sometimes in the middle of the day Im able to know what the dream was about

>> 2 The dream lives in Trip, not in a dream. This is the allegory of your own destination - Mira -domo, where you strive to return. If you do not know your dreams, then you don’t remember where. People are overloaded with information, sensory streams of signals of OTRGANS of feelings, worries. You need to turn off everything, relax, disconnect and find the way home. This is a dream! And the fact that puppets call a dream - level to buy a car, house, go to sea with a female. These are not dreams, but reflection, a dead end!