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What do you think of dreams/dreaming?

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I don't mean success dreams - I mean literal asleep at night dreams.

- Do you dream a lot at night?
- Are they intense or normal?
- Do you think it relates to anything in your actual life?
- If so how do you interpret what they might mean/signal?

For as long as I can remember I have had super vivid intense dreams.
I am often in the middle of some crazy situation and a ton of wild stuff happens.
I would say 80% of mornings I wake up right after some type of intense dreams.

I also don't take any stimulants (no coffee, alcohol, very little sugar etc) and sleep usually 10pm-6am.

Would anyone with insight say this normal (I have a strong imagination) or a sign of stress or fatigue? I had a sleep wristband thing before and always scored 95-100% excellent sleep - so my sleep quality is good on paper.

Anyone want to share their own insight or experiences?
 
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I would think that intense dreams are a sign of good sleep. Dreams are an indication that you have entered REM sleep, and this typically happens more at the end of your last few sleep cycles. As for the content, not sure I can comment. If you haven't, check out "why we sleep" by Mathew Walker, it is an amazing book that covers most of the science of sleep.
 

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- Do you dream a lot at night?
- Are they intense or normal?
- Do you think it relates to anything in your actual life?
- If so how do you interpret what they might mean/signal?

1. Yes, I dream every night.

2. Some nights they are more intense than others, but I'd say that even the normal dreams I have are still quite silly to reflect on. I also experience sleep paralysis once in a while. Which used to be quite frightening, but now I find those experiences fascinating.

3. Sometimes, there are correlations between my dreams and my life. So I may dream of people I know , places I've been or life experiences I had. But, as the dream plays out these often change. The people I know might turn into chickens, my home town suddenly is on a different planet entirely and that life experience where I simply hit the ditch with my car is now extremely dangerous as now I am teetering over a cliff and there are zombies running towards me. :eek:

4. I'm a skeptic when it comes to dreaming. Is there real meaning behind my dreams? Can I be sure that there is meaning behind my life... Okay, I'll stay out of the existential weeds and answer the question. I interpret my dreams sort of as if they are movies.

Sometimes there is substance to what I experience in a dream that can have some impact on my reality. For example, once in a while I'll have a dream where I hear music and then the first thing I do when I wake up is learn to play it on guitar or keyboard.

Other times my dreams may be weird for the sake of being weird and even if it seems quite vivid.

I had a dream I was walking down a long hallway and having a conversation with some intelligent man. Right off the bat, he told me he knew I was dreaming and tried to explain how the universe, reality and everything works. Of course it was well beyond my level of understanding for him to give me a concise answer, so he told me to find his book or paper that mentioned "Offbeat Physics." I woke up and started searching the internet... That man in my dream either lied to me, I couldn't find it or there never was such a work published.

Would anyone with insight say this normal (I have a strong imagination) or a sign of stress or fatigue? I had a sleep wristband thing before and always scored 95-100% excellent sleep - so my sleep quality is good on paper.

Anyone want to share their own insight or experiences?

It may be normal for you. Dreaming seems to be an area where different people have a different baseline of normalcy. Of course, if one ever was concerned that it could signify some underlying health issue I would recommend seeing a doctor or sleep specialist.
 

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I would think that intense dreams are a sign of good sleep. Dreams are an indication that you have entered REM sleep, and this typically happens more at the end of your last few sleep cycles. As for the content, not sure I can comment. If you haven't, check out "why we sleep" by Mathew Walker, it is an amazing book that covers most of the science of sleep.
man, I sleep like a baby still I rarely dream(maybe I forget before waking up).
 
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My dreams are intense. Sometimes my brain comes up with dumb inventions, and sometimes I am too excited/frightened/confused to go back to sleep.

Tonight I had a dream about composing a sick rap song and producing a music video clip for it... I woke up excited af...

It's morning now, and when I think back to lyrics it's one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard.

P.S.

I am not even a hiphoper.
 

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I don't mean success dreams - I mean literal asleep at night dreams.

- Do you dream a lot at night?
- Are they intense or normal?
- Do you think it relates to anything in your actual life?
- If so how do you interpret what they might mean/signal?


1) Seldom. Maybe once every few months.

2) Normal, short ones.

3) Yes, sometimes. When I think about certain things a lot during the day for weeks, it may manifest itself as a dream once at night.

4) Dreams are just the subconscious mind coming into play.
 

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This thread is already attracting the meditation spammers. Deleted 3 today.

That said, I used to have nightmares all the time, really freaky shit.

Once I cut out the sugar in the late afternoon/evening, they stopped.

Now my dreams are pretty banal and harmless, usually on the positive side.
 
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- Do you dream a lot at night?
- Are they intense or normal?
- Do you think it relates to anything in your actual life?
- If so how do you interpret what they might mean/signal?
1. I average 2 dreams per night, if not more. Also no caffeine or stimulants. I find that I dream more when I'm "clean."

2. They are weird. At first they seemed silly, but then I started reading Jung, and now I'm actually beginning to think that my subconscious is telling me things. Most are not menacing at all. I used to have threatening dreams, but over time I took control of those and I almost never have a nightmare. Some can be intense, but not threatening.

3. Yes. Sometimes no. I'd say 40% yes, the rest is gibberish nonsense I can't figure out.

4. Mostly I write them down, think about them, and usually I come up with an answer as I'm writing. I actually think Jung (and Jordan Peterson) are on to something when they say that dreams really mean something. I just don't buy that that's always the case however.

Example: I frequently dream that I'm in a subway / underground rail system, but with a lot of shops and sidewalks and alleys, just like above ground, with signs and intersections. Once I was wandering around and this person told me, “The thing about being underground is that it’s easy to get lost, so you must pay attention to the signs. The words are important.”

I interpreted that to be my subconscious mind telling me to watch out and pay attention to where the hell I'm going when I'm dreaming.
I guess?
 
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- Do you dream a lot at night?
- Are they intense or normal?
- Do you think it relates to anything in your actual life?
- If so how do you interpret what they might mean/signal?
- I dream about once every 5 days. If you count the strange content the mind creates while on the precipece of sleep, then its every day.

- They're generally normal. About once every 4 months I have a vivid dream though. Ones that probably mean something in a metaphorical manner. For instance, I had a dream about a nuke going off in my city shortly after getting over my ex. An indication of clearing out the past.

- As above, yeah sometimes they relate to my life. Another intense dream I had featured an airplane and my grandmother's house sitting empty. My grandfather had recently passed away and grandma isn't far off. Something about it being time to pack up and move on.

- re: interpretation, when the meaning isn't clear, I sometimes tell two friends about the dreams. One is a hypnotist who recognizes complex visual metaphors. The other is like... an artist.
 

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Thanks for the thread. It makes me think about dreaming for the first time since an eternty .


Dreams come up every now and than.

There are problem solving dreams. The are about real dreams in my life, but only 10% are helpful. Often they are abstruse or funny.

There are sexual dreams. They are funny sometimes and sometimes I enjoy them a lot.

There are strange ones.
One strange dream is me flying over an area of gravel by wagging my arms, which is very exhausting in my dream. On the gravel there are lying coins. One and two DM coins ( DM is Detsche Mark, the money we had before Euros).
And I can collect them only while flying.
In the end I either have a lot of coins or don. Depends on ... . Don’t know.
That dream is repeating since about 50 years again and again.

In general I dream less as I become older.
 
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I never remember by dreams unless something horrible happens but I know I have them. Sometimes I wake up in a sweat or with my heart racing so I know I'm dreaming about something but very rarely do I remember. I also know I don't get the best sleep possible. My cat likes to wake me in up in the middle of the night when he's hungry. He also has a tendency to like to lay down on my hip bones which isn't that comfy for relaxing.

The dreams I remember something involving loss or death usually. I have nightmares on occasion about being at my mom's funeral (she's 70 and very healthy). The only funny-esq dream I have is that I'm still in HS and I forget my gym clothes and need to take an absent for gym that day and being the nerd I am, that makes me very upset.
 

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If I take ZMA (a magnesium supplement that puts you into deeper REM) I tend to have extremely vivid dreams. Normally my dreams mean nothing, but there are a few times in my life where I believe that my dreams did symbolize something. For example, last year I was going through a gritty breakup where I slept only 2-4ish~ hours a night due to pure stress and anxiety. During that time, I had a dream where I was being chased by bears (the interpretation of this dream from what I've read is that you're running away from problems instead of facing them head on). A month or two later after I had somewhat recovered from the breakup and came to grips with it, I had a dream where I had killed the exact same bears that had been chasing me in the previous dream (the interpretation of this dream is that you have become stronger and are ready to tackle the difficulties of life). Personally, I don't believe in nearly anything (I'm not religious or spirtual) but I can't help but believe my subconscious was giving me a message through those dreams.
 

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I think they are mostly a result of what we spend a lot of time thinking about, either conciously or subconciously.

I'm an infrequent dreamer. Had one last night for the first time in quite a long time. But it was centered around a person that I was thinking a lot about, particuarly that day.
 
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If I take ZMA (a magnesium supplement that puts you into deeper REM) I tend to have extremely vivid dreams.

I had to stop taking ZMA - was like doing acid every night.
 

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Vivid dreams all the time. There are definitely patterns that emerge between them. They're also cyclical. This has led me to relate the patterns in my dreams to uncover aspects of my subconscious desires and behaviors.

I have a recurring dream of being late for a flight. The gist of this dream is that I, in the middle of some happening, will remember that I have a flight, and I'm typically 30 minutes or less away from the flight departure. I consciously know I cannot make this flight. Despite knowing, I spend the rest of my dream anxiously dealing with any idea and abstraction in a fight against all odds to make this flight. I use to really struggle with this dream, and I thought it related to something specific in my life.

There was a time that I had this dream every night. My girlfriend suggested I practice "F*ck the flight". I started consciously talking out loud, reminding myself that there's no flight in the world I give a shit about. F*ck the flight, I'll stay home and smoke a joint. I literally kept saying some variant of this hoping it addresses my dream.

After some time, my flight dreams began to change. I would almost glitch in my dream. I'd realize I'm late for a flight, but by this point I believe I had some conscious adaptation to the idea of "F*ck the flight", so in the dream I glitch, a moment of awareness, and the dream suddenly changes.

Alas, I dream just as vividly as before, it's the content that is ever changing. What I find important is the general gist, or the energy, or the feeling of the dream. I can't know for sure, but I intuitively feel like what I experience in my dreams is a manifestation of the emotion I carry subconsciously. I can typically tell if I've been experiencing angst, lust, rage, excitement or depression through my dreams. If I've been leaning on a certain emotion without being aware of it, my dreams will start to eventually point to the obvious. Maybe not the content, but more how I carry myself in my dream.
 

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I wish I could have good dreams but I usually don't.
Many times, I dream about being in an elevator going down VERY fast.
Either that or a plane I'm on is going down or I accidentally run a red light, get in a car crash.
Or I'm stressed out working even in my sleep.
I suspect that I have a lot on my mind or I feel that I still have some unfinished business that I want to complete and that's why I'm having these dreams.

There are occasions where I dream I'm eating lots of junk food, like candy and stuff. That's usually a sign that I'm cutting too hard and my calorie deficit is a little too big.
 
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I don't mean success dreams - I mean literal asleep at night dreams.

- Do you dream a lot at night?
- Are they intense or normal?
- Do you think it relates to anything in your actual life?
- If so how do you interpret what they might mean/signal?

For as long as I can remember I have had super vivid intense dreams.
I am often in the middle of some crazy situation and a ton of wild stuff happens.
I would say 80% of mornings I wake up right after some type of intense dreams.

I also don't take any stimulants (no coffee, alcohol, very little sugar etc) and sleep usually 10pm-6am.

Would anyone with insight say this normal (I have a strong imagination) or a sign of stress or fatigue? I had a sleep wristband thing before and always scored 95-100% excellent sleep - so my sleep quality is good on paper.

Anyone want to share their own insight or experiences?

I think it is normal for certain people. For instance, my dad constantly has vivid dreams where crazy situations happen. He can recount them in great detail in the morning. My mom never experiences dreams like this.

I used to dream a lot like my dad. Then, for a while, I stopped.

A few months ago, I cut out caffeine for over a month. I noticed that I started dreaming again with intense, wild dreams once the caffeine was out of my system.

I would more likely chalk it up to your brain's creativity than stress or fatigue. But that may just be me.

Question - have you had dreams like this ever since you were a child? And as a child, were you pretty carefree, or was your childhood stressful?

Do your dreams make you wake up stressed or fatigued? Or do you wake up feeling like, "Cool, that was a fun dream!"
 

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Curious if anyone can report dreams with intuitive insights or premonitions. They say the Alpha state (kind of pre-sleep dooziness) lends itself to such things.

Question - have you had dreams like this ever since you were a child? And as a child, were you pretty carefree, or was your childhood stressful?

I used to have nightmares all the time, like 5 of 7 days for the first 35 years of my life.

Once I stopped sugar consumption, namely in the afternoon or early eve, the nightmares disappeared. Now they only happen if I have something sugary later in the day, and even then, they aren't guaranteed.
 

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I have recurring dreams about tornadoes sucking me up. Sometimes it's a nightmare, sometimes it's really cool. Not sure if those dreams or any other dreams have any inherent meaning or not.
 
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When I was a kid I was really into trying to lucid dream. Lucid dreaming is basically a state you reach where you can control your dreams, and it usually happens when you suddenly realize you are dreaming. If you've never had a lucid dream it's hard to describe the feeling, especially as you go from the non-lucid to lucid state. For me, there's a thunder of sound, my field of view expands a lot, and sensations get more intense (colors, sounds, even feelings like wind or smell, if you pay attention to them).

The main pillars of the intentional lucid dreaming practice are keeping a dream journal and "reality checking" through the day. The dream journal helps you improve your dream recall so you don't forget your lucid dreams if you have them, and also helps you can track patterns of weird shit in your dreams that could be used to notice you're dreaming and trigger the lucid state. The reality checks are things like counting the fingers on your hand, looking in a mirror, a clock, or anything else that is clearly normal in real life but might be strange in a dream (just like Cobb's top in Inception). The idea is if you make reality checking a habit in real life, you are likely to start performing them in dreams, giving you a reliable way to notice you are dreaming.

I don't actively try to induce them anymore, but I have full-on lucid dreams by chance occasionally. More often however, even in a non-lucid state I'm able to recognize nightmares for what they are and "rewind" them, or to change the dream to something completely different.
 

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Curious if anyone can report dreams with intuitive insights or premonitions. They say the Alpha state (kind of pre-sleep dooziness) lends itself to such things.
Every once in a while, I will have a very specific dream with very specific details. It's kind of like turning on a movie for 5 seconds in the middle of the film and seeing everything out of context. I'm left wondering things like, "What is that room? Why am I there? What is the situation? How did I know to say that?"

For instance, once I had this dream of being in a large room with white walls and tile floors. There was an echo-y sound in the acoustics of the room. Other people were standing around in the room. I had the feeling I knew these people, but at the I time I dreamed this, I didn't recognize the room or the people. Someone approached me and asked me a question, and I sat down on a wooden bench and wrote "SARAIVA" on a small scrap of paper and gave it to the person. Then the dream ended.

So I wake up thinking, "What was that word? How did I even know that word? How did my brain even come up with a word that random in a dream? Why was I writing it down? What was this about??"

Fast forward a couple of years. I'm in Spain for a language course. I'm in a building. The room has tile floors and white walls. Other people are standing around talking. This Brazilian guy and his wife had just moved into my apartment, and one of his friends came up to me and asked me if I could get the guy's phone number, because he wanted to connect with him, but he had already left. I said, "sure," and sat down on a wooden bench that was nearby. I tore out a little piece of paper from a notebook I had and wrote my apartment mate's name, "Saraiva" and his phone number on the paper.

At that instant, I suddenly remembered the dream. Everything was in its exact configuration. It was like an extreme version of deja vu. I was like, "I've seen myself doing this before!" It was very surreal.

This has happened to me a few other times. One was when I was in the car driving to the place where I would meet David for the first time. David later became my husband. But at the time, I was NOT thinking there would be any romantic interest whatsoever. It was just a meeting over a marketing project. Other times have been SUPER random and seemingly not connected to anything important at all, kind of like the "Saraiva" one. But they're always oddly specific like that...like they always have some detail that would disqualify any "random" situation from matching the dream.

I have one dream like this that's still "pending" (as in, I've dreamed it but it hasn't happened in real life yet). In the dream, I have just ridden an elevator to a very high floor in a tall skyscraper that is faced with window glass on the entire outside of it. I get out of the elevator and walk into a posh-looking office. I can see down the hall to the end office, probably where the big boss works. The end office door is open and I can see out the windows. I notice that we are very high up above the horizon. To my right is a reception desk, and to my left is a seating area with couches that have dark-colored, stiff-looking leather squares as seat cushions. I go over and talk to the receptionist about an appointment I am arriving for. She says, "Great! He is expecting you. You can just walk down to the end of the hall and go in his office." I'm dressed in a suit and heels. The suit is a light color, like fawn with a hint of lilac. (It's not a clothing item I currently own.) I start walking down the hall, and the dream ends.

We'll see if this one ever happens.

Anyway... whenever this has happened to me, the way I process it is just to conclude, "Hmmm, God saw me doing this before I did it, and he even gave me a glimpse into it myself."

The idea is if you make reality checking a habit in real life, you are likely to start performing them in dreams, giving you a reliable way to notice you are dreaming.

I do the opposite. When I'm in a dream, and I notice, "This is a dream," instead of doing a reality check for something normal, I check for something awesome and fun that I can't do in real life. Like, "Hey that means I can fly just by jumping!" I try it out and it works, confirming that I'm in a dream. It's super fun. I'm always SO bummed when those dreams end.

(I guess this implies that you have to have a way of noticing it's a dream in the first place... but for me, that tends to happen automatically without me trying, which has been the case ever since I was a child.)

The other thing that happens to me with those kinds of dreams is that sometimes I'll have a recurring dream, so when I get into one of those, I'm like, "YES! I get to explore this world further than I did last time." I typically just "go on an adventure" with these dreams to see what wacky, bizarre things my brain comes up with to surprise me, rather than trying to control the dream.

The intriguing thing is, my brain does surprise me. But my brain that gets "surprised" is the same brain that came up with the surprise. Somehow. But I wasn't consciously thinking through the plot twist. It just felt like it "happened."

This boggles my mind to no end when I think about it.
 

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At that instant, I suddenly remembered the dream. Everything was in its exact configuration. It was like an extreme version of deja vu. I was like, "I've seen myself doing this before!" It was very surreal.

Wow, just wow. Talk about warping space/time...
 
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I was a swimmer in high school and in college (club - I founded the club).

My favorite recurring dream is one where I eggbeater (water polo tread) my way up into the air and then breaststroke kick through the sky.

Other dreams suck, like "chasing" dreams when you're stressed or anxious and you're running away from something.

I've read studies that say you always dream every night, you just don't always remember what you dreamt.
 

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I've read studies that say you always dream every night, you just don't always remember what you dreamt.
Yup, and for most people, keeping a dream journal can improve dream recall over time because it trains the brain to prioritize keeping those memories (at least for long enough to write them down)!
 

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I would love to lucid dream. Unfortunately, I wake up everytime the opportunity presents itself.

I kept a dream diary for a few months. Blew me away when I would read them again. There was zero recollection but some bizarre stuff.

Pay attention to you feelings if you can.
 
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I would love to lucid dream. Unfortunately, I wake up everytime the opportunity presents itself.

I kept a dream diary for a few months. Blew me away when I would read them again. There was zero recollection but some bizarre stuff.

Pay attention to you feelings if you can.

I drink alot of Coke at night so I wake up 2-4 times a night to pee. I can often remember my dream right when I wake up. Some nights I remember 3-4 dreams easily. I've been like this ever since I was young.

I saw Nightmare on Elm 2 in grammar school. For those who don't know that's the movie where if Freddy kills you in your dream you die in real life. Well, turns out that during my grammar school and teenage years, I was killed by Freddy many times in my dreams and obviously woke up each time. This is probably why I don't have what most people would consider nightmares. I mean I have bad and scary dreams, running from zombies, dog running away, airplane crashes, stuff like that, but they don't scare me at all. Kind of weird.

I also have alot of very creative dreams, stuff that would make good movies IMO. I'd wake up happy and can't go back to sleep on those.

I also dream alot that I am back in high school or college but as an adult. For example a few weeks ago I dreamt I was about to get my 5th BS degree. Everytime I graduate, I just re-enroll into a new major. They made me leave the college and I was upset.

I need to start writing them down!
 

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I would love to lucid dream. Unfortunately, I wake up everytime the opportunity presents itself.
Super common for both beginners and experienced lucid dreamers. One of the best ways to stabilize the dream is to focus on a sensation - the feeling of the cold dew on the grass below your feet, or the flutter of the leaves in the wind. Another, as odd as it sounds, is spinning. Spinning was hit and miss for me but for some people it helps, and it can also be used like a dream teleporter - imagine the scene you want to dream of and start spinning, and when you stop you will be there.
 

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I don't mean success dreams - I mean literal asleep at night dreams.

- Do you dream a lot at night?
- Are they intense or normal?
- Do you think it relates to anything in your actual life?
- If so how do you interpret what they might mean/signal?

For as long as I can remember I have had super vivid intense dreams.
I am often in the middle of some crazy situation and a ton of wild stuff happens.
I would say 80% of mornings I wake up right after some type of intense dreams.

I also don't take any stimulants (no coffee, alcohol, very little sugar etc) and sleep usually 10pm-6am.

Would anyone with insight say this normal (I have a strong imagination) or a sign of stress or fatigue? I had a sleep wristband thing before and always scored 95-100% excellent sleep - so my sleep quality is good on paper.

Anyone want to share their own insight or experiences?
I have dreams every night. They are very vivid in color. They usually do seem to involve family, friends, people. Usually, there is traveling, or on and adventure to some geographical location.

I probably should write them down. I'm usually doing some activity I do awake like writing, or reading. I even had a dream about people in this forum a few years back and in some building with a bunch of entrepreneurs and two parrots in a cage were on this table. I think it's just my brain processing information and problem solving.

Many times, I might not have an answer to something, and then in the morning I will have it. I kind of chuckle before I go to bed, because it's kind of seeing what the next dream is about.
 

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My dreams are vivid, and I have lucid dreams often. Multiple dreams every day, from the moment I start falling asleep. It usually starts as a few seconds of dreams flashing through, as I start drifting into sleep.

So even while I'm still mostly conscious, mini dreams occur. As a teenager, going to bed was one of my favorite things. It was the same feeling you get when you're boarding a plane to a far away country you've never been, and know you'll have fun there. Except in this case, it's a different world with literally endless possibilities.

My dreams usually play out like movies, and I can typically remember very fine details when I wake up. I even once had a dream where I was sitting in a chair for a long time, just reading page after page of a book. I could remember most of what I read when I woke up.

A lot of my dreams are connected. In dreams, I remember things that happen in previous dreams as "memories," the same way you'd recall something that happened to you before. So I might say to someone in a dream, "remember when that bridge fell some months ago?" That event would be from a dream I might have had years before. Like Bekit, I've also had a lot of "deja vu" in real life, but with a dream as the original reference. So, a scenario from a dream seemingly playing out in real life, and it overwhelms you in a strange way.

I've always been fascinated by dreams, and almost created a forum some years ago, dedicated to dreams. Just for the interest, not to monetize. I decided against it, because even though I am fascinated by dreams, I believe they're mostly nothing but your brain messing around, or reacting to external stimuli. Like, I have more nightmares if I sleep facing up when I'm cold. A dream forum would attract mostly people who try to interpret everything as some kind of "grand revelation," so not my cup of tea.

In college, for my graduating "Independent Project," I had made a short film called "The Dream App." About a guy who started getting strange texts from someone telling him to try a new app called "TDA." He eventually gives in and tries it, but the app starts recording his dreams to his phone, after he scans his eye retina as part of the app setup.

I still have a few detailed dreams I wrote down years ago. I could go on and on about dreams, but this post is already too long.
 
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