not experiencing dreams

i haven't had a vivid or even remember-able dream in about 4 years, i feel like every day passes me by because of it. what can i do?

>i haven't had a vivid or even remember-able dream in about 4 years, i feel like every day passes me by because of it. what can i do? This often happens if you don't sleep long enough. How long do you sleep?

>>2439 1) Try to get more sleep 2) Keep a dream log. If you don't write down your dreams, your mind will purge them rather quickly.

How often and for what duration do you masturbate?

not even the kinky ones? must suck.

OP needs to drink the lovecraft juice >>2444 What's the point of OP keeping an empty book >>2446 It's irrelevant

You need to be deep asleep to remember your dreams. Is there something that keeps you from fully resting?

Stop smoking pot.

Do you smoke weed? Frequent weed smoking got rid of all dreams for me. Or medications? If not, tell us about your sleep, like how much hour a day, when do you go to bed, what you eat before going to bed, how do you feel yourself when waking up (tired? unmotivated? angry? sad? or the opposite of theese? or just normal?), what do you do before going to bed (books, excersize, computer, etc), and anything else that comes to your mind. also there are dream inducer plants, read about calae zacatechichi

>>2439 OP where did you find that picture of me?! I thought I could not be seen by cameras! Seriously though, dont worry about it, I have not dreamed in years. I do all my dreaming while I am awake. I feel more and more like a undead machine every day. Its terribly great.

>>2452 I learned to remember dreams every night, to the last detail, and now I can't stop it. On one hand is like living two lifes at the price of one, with some dreams lasting days or weeks of subjective time, on the other I some of them are relly disturbing an I fear it will make me psychotic on the long run (been like this for 10 years now, stopped keeping a log 'cuz I have no use for it anymore). Double watch reality checks were a necessity some years ago, by now I've come to accept the fact that qualitatively there's no real difference between perceived world and real world. Weed works to dull them down, depending on the quantity used, I periodically stop and then start again when dreams becomes too long and realistic.

>>2439 My tecnique is simple, but you gonna need some time off to implement it properly. You will need to alter your sleep pattern, sleeping for two hours then staying awake for two hours and go on continuously with this pattern for at least 2 weeks. Everytime you get up, you will probably have one last image of the dream. Picture that scene as seen from a different viewpoint, that will force your visual cortex to recreate the dream environment, helping you to remember. Write down all you can remember and go on with your normal activities during your two hours of wake time, drink and eat at your leisure, go outside for a walk, but avoid watching tv/internet or using weed or other drugs if possible. Listen to music or read books to stimulate your imagination. Everytime you go to sleep again, choose another position (a good one is the David Bowie method, with your arms extended over your head) or change place to sleep in (bed. couch, floor, garden, bathtube) At some point you will get false awakening, maybe even more than one or two in a row, for this you will need a wristwatch (best type is classic watch with hands, the information is more visual) and a wall clock for reality checks. Synchronize them. If you watch and another one gives different times everytime you confront them, you are still dreaming. If your watch and the clock on the wall are giving the same time, you're likely to be awake. Realizing you are dreaming will almost certainly make you panic and wake you up, otherwise your dream will become lucid from that point on. When you can remember a dream in full detail upon awakening, you can go back to your normal sleeping pattern and retain the ability by keep using the dream log and watches. This method worked for me and it was worth the time I spent at home to implement it (in the global view of my personal researches on the nature of reality) I've been teaching it around but I never knew if it worked for somebody else, or if someone else ever even tried. Have fun and whatever you see or happens to you, remember, it's just a dream...isn't it?

I have same issue. Though maybe it's not same issue since a lot of my dreams are boring or nightmares about my life that I don't want to remember but even if I have a good dream I barely recall it only bits and pieces. When I was a kid I had very good dream recall where I could remember a lot of detail of a full dream. I sleep 10 hours a night usually unless I am trying to change sleep hours and have insomnia where I may go as much as half that. I don't smoke weed and am not on any meds. I've been depressed a long time which I thought increased not decreased dream recall.

for me it's the dope, if i smoke ~3-4h before i go to sleep i have trouble falling asleep and never have any dreams

I find many of my dreams occuring when I wake up without an alarm. This has obvious reasons. >>2472 Oh fuarrrk yes give us the recipe. I want to be the next Randolph Carter! >>2473 Is a log really necessary? I can just sit and remember stuff without a log, I don't wanna waste time writing down the cheap ones. I remember my (conceptually) great dreams because I wrote them down, I wanna discard the rest.

Do you consume caffeine in the evenings? I used to have tea way too late into the evening, and I didn't have vivid dreams for a few years until recently cutting the habit. Caffeine generally fuarrrks with the quality of your sleep badly.

>>2584 All the time

>>2448 From what I've seen around, due to the intense visual nature of pornography its possible to deplete the brains chemical stores required for spontaneous brain waves. Edging for over an hour a day can cause these effects. Similar cases can be seen in amphetamine users. (while not in withdrawal)

I can remember additional details from my past dreams, but only if I'm dreaming. This is kind of like how looking at a photo of something that happened years ago will bring back memories I didn't realize I still had. Does this happen to anyone else?

Any period where I don't watch porn or masturbate, I have vivid dreams. When I go back to porn my dreams stop. Not sure the science behind it but it's always been consistent so there must be something to it.

fuarrrk up ur sleep schedule more what i found worked was just setting random alarms in the middle of the night and just tweaking them until you start waking up mid dream. if ur getting a good amount of decent sleep already, ur probably already having dreams, but just end up forgetting them before u wake up, thats why forcing urself to wake up during them works also i find when i leave the window open or leave the lights on i get more vivid dreams, but that might just be me... wouldn't recommend it though can really fuarrrk up ur sleep cycles