Wait do y'all actually dream every day? For the full time of sleeping?
I only dream after I've already slept way more than enough for the day and even then it's like a less than 10% chance of having any dreams at all
Everyone dreams every night, but not everyone remembers their dreams in the morning. I don't remember my dreams most of the time.
Sex is weird too. You undress and make your self vulnerable and expend a lot of energy and risk catching a disease and then fall asleep. Either we do it for fun or to create a parasite that we have to take are of.
I always tell myself I'm going to be fully self-aware when I enter the dream tube, but sadly I never remember if that happened or not.
Start keeping a dream journal and get in the habit of writing in it the moment you wake up. The more consistently you do it, the more you'll remember as time goes on.
If I don't smokadaweed before bed I do tend to remember them. One of the reasons I try not to smoke late in the evening.
I have the opposite issue. Really stressful, anxiety inducing, or nightmare dreams.
Weed fixes that problem for me by being an organic skip button for dreaming
My understanding is you get less rem tho and less rest as a side effect.
Double sided sword, or whatever
HUMAN BEINGS MAKE LIFE SO INTERESTING. DO YOU KNOW, THAT IN A UNIVERSE SO FULL OF WONDERS, THEY HAVE MANAGED TO INVENT BOREDOM.
- Death of the Discworld
check out the film "Dark City"
Just writing to confirm that I am typing this during the daytime, and it is in front of me, and I am not just some memory of a comment you saw on lemmy
Or the Trek episode Schisms
Fantastic flick
We slip through the veil of reality, do we.
You can train yourself to remember dreams if you start writing down everything you remember.
You can also learn to recognize that you are in a dream and take control (look up lucid dreaming).
Or don't, maybe we are supposed to forget them. For instance I do not want to remember my dreams as I have barely ever had a pleasant one. I'd rather wake up in blissful ignorance of whatever shit my broken brain threw together while it tries to suffocate me.
I subscribe to the idea that dreams are a byproduct of your brain defragmenting itself, or priming its neural-net with images trained during the daytime.
To remember the byproduct might undermine this process, in the same way that feeding a NN its own output might produce garbage output later.
The recent AI generated videos are such an accurate portrayal of dreams that there must be some parallels there
just wanted to point out that most people don't have a lifetime of nightly nightmares, and your could be eased with some therapy, or at least mushrooms and puppies.
and if you LIKE nightmares and want more, slap on a nicotine patch right before you go to bed.
I used that stop smoking drug back in the day. Forgot the name, makes you ill if you use? Holy shit the dreams!
I'd have the most horrific nightmares, but they didn't bother me in the slightest. I loved going to bed, it was like going to a new horror movie every night.
Now I have even a slighty spooky dream and sometimes have to turn the light on to shake it. Speaking of, there was a "dog thing" I dreamed the other night that's going straight in my next horror short.
Champix?
I used to be able to remember my dreams, or at the very least I would wake up with a sensation that I had had a dream, but anymore though I just feel like a blank slate, like nothing happened. If I dream anymore I’m completely losing them because I don’t even have the feeling that I’m forgetting anything, it’s just blank when I sleep now.
If you happen to smoke weed that can do it. I've barely dreamt (that I remember) in years
I've always heard that weed smokers have less dreams, but as someone who kinda started doing it more regularly within the last year, I haven't experienced that? Honestly I think I tend to have more vivid and weird dreams when I've smoked before bed. Do some people not get the REM suppression?
I wouldn't know, I haven't looked into it to that degree. Not surprising for different people to experience different side effects. I've been an all day every day smoker for well over a decade
Alcohol does it too. I've heard people say that's what dts are. Your brain dreaming while you're awake.
I'm not familiar with dts. What is that?
I'm a former alcoholic (always an alcoholic but not a sip in over a decade) so that checks out too
delirium tremens. -sober alcoholic who is a bad speller. I probably should have capitalized it like DTs maybe
I still wouldn't have known, so thank you for telling me. I'll have to look it up. I was extremely lucky and had a clean break from it
I used to smoke weed, but that was 20 years ago and I hadn’t ever been a big smoker.
That's one of my favorite parts of weed, I want to sleep, not have to watch some shitty movie I'm not able to control or interact with.
Right? I can't fucking stand it when I do remember a dream now. They are all hyper realistic most of the time, and hard to distinguish from a vague memory
You hear people talking about the weird and out there dreams they have, where they're like a humanoid watermelon flying though space to save the universe from an invasion of butter demons, then there's my dreams, with me, being me, but dumber, weaker and mute.
Yes. It's fucking terrible lmao
That's a weird way to look at dreams. To me, they're extra entertainment with stuff that I literally cannot and will not ever experience outside of them, like another day where I dreamed I was in a rock band's show inside a garage/arcade, but both the band and the music I was "listening" to were wholly made up in my mind
That's the problem. Mine are not stuff I can not do. It's normal fucking shit I have to separate from real life in the morning
And yet we think our waking life is more real.
8 hours of sleep ! Wow I'd love that ! If I can get 6 hours it's a great night. Haven't been able to sleep 8 hours in years except for the rare weekends where I don't get woken up by the neighbors dogs or to work my second job.
Was going to say! I sleep 2 hours, up 45 minutes, sleep an hour, up an hour, sleep 2 hours, up 20 minutes. Like that all night long.
Ear plugs bruh
I will always shill Mack's Ultra Soft for sleeping
We are, after all, merely brains in a (bone) jar. :-)
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