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Does anyone else remember dreams from when they were kids right before falling asleep? (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Right before I fall asleep, I'll remember some random details of a dream I had when I was 5-10 years old. It changes each night, but never is a newer dream.

Does that happen to anyone else?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Man, I don't even have to wait until I'm falling asleep.

I don't always remember a dream after I wake, but I'm what might be called "hyper-phatastic". You hear about people that can't visualize, and often don't have visual dreams at all. I'm the opposite. When I read books, I see what is being described, if there's enough to go from. My dreams are extremely vivid, and the more vivid they are, the clearer I remember them.

And I remember a ton from childhood. The one with tornadoes, the super-hero one that was recurring, the fire dream, the ones about other worlds, the ones about family. I could write down a hundred descriptions like that about childhood dreams I can still see in my head, even while awake. It's a little fucking crazy sometimes.

I have had a few dreams that were so bad I get PTSD flashbacks when something reminds me of them. That's not exaggeration, it's not a misnomer, I've discussed it with a therapist and a psychiatrist in conjunction with my other PTSD triggers.

But, luckily, it's usually the good dreams that get triggered instead :)