Do you dream?

[Sailfisher]

Do you dream when you sleep? Good dreams? Nightmares? Nothing?

 

[not_a_robot]

Almost never. I use weed daily which kills dreams or the ability to remember them (for me,at least).
But weed tolerance has to be regulated like any drug, and during periods of high-tolerance and breaks, the nightmares are frequent and vivid, making sleep very unpleasant and difficult.

 

[Madden87]

No dreams, I've been smoking cannabis habitually for the past 10 years. Had one recently after a few nights off it but can't recall what transpired in it.

 

[Robbyna]

I dream every night. My dreams are vivid and fun. I wish I could live in one of my dreams.

 

[not_a_robot]

I dream every night. My dreams are vivid and fun. I wish I could live in one of my dreams.

I remember feeling like that when I was young. Seemed so fun and mysterious. Then I spent my whole adult life just giving myself living nightmares.

 

[Now_And_Then]

Every dream I have had since the late 1990's have been dark and sinister

What ever happens in the dream , whether they are good or bad , the dreams always have a dark and menacing atmosphere in them


I do not under stand what is wrong

 

[JoeFailure]

Many dreams I have now include the money/career problems/regret/shame/fear/anxiety/depression/ I have now since that's just constantly ruminating every second of every waking moment of my life.

But every once in a while I'll have a good one. Like friends and family hanging out, and no worries about money. I will always hate money.

 

[Soul]

I have very odd dreams and I enjoy them a lot. I love that all our minds come equipped with a little film director.

 

[Juggernaut]

Most dreams we wont remember. I've had some falling dreams, before I land I jerk awake, some dreams where I was being chased by something, some dreams where I was a completely different person. But the only really meaningful dream I've had was the one I had recently where I dreamed my partner was still with me. I woke up from that and I could still feel him and smell him....when I remembered he was gone I was devastated all over again

 

[Conflicted Cat]

I do, every so often. But some nights It'll just fall asleep and wake up in what feels like a minute, recalling absolutely nothing. When do though, it's weird nonsensical shit. SOMETIMES, the rare dream that I enjoy, and wish to go back to.

But when I was a child though? I was struck by nightmares that left me sweating in fear every single night. I couldn't escape them. Countless nights staying up at 3AM, scared shitless because I didn't want to go back into these terrible worlds my brain created.

 

[Chalken]

I've read somewhere that everybody dreams everytime they sleep, it's just that you forget most of your dreams, or all of them. The brain can't imagine complete nothingness, so your subconscious dreams. As for me, I very rarely remember my dreams.

 

[not_a_robot]

I've read somewhere that everybody dreams everytime they sleep, it's just that you forget most of your dreams, or all of them. The brain can't imagine complete nothingness, so your subconscious dreams. As for me, I very rarely remember my dreams.

I read that it's impossible to see a face in a dream that you haven't seen in real life.

 

[dreamsofdestruction]

When I remember them, it's mostly nightmares, often about people close to me dying or other bad things happening.

 

[lostangel]

Do you dream when you sleep? Good dreams? Nightmares? Nothing?

I over sleep a lot and I have dreams most of them are weird and dont make sense but a good few of them are about old classmates and that makes me sad. If I get really depressed before sleeping that makes me dream so much

 

[Final Escape]

I don't dream either, probably the weed.

 

[Going Home]

Sometimes I dream. I try to remember the pleasant dreams.

 

[262653]

If I'd go to bed at 10-11PM, unlike now, and get a decent sleep, then chances are I will recall 3-4 of them.
I get low recall rates when I'm actively playing video games, like now.

 

[Deleted member 1768]

I read that it's impossible to see a face in a dream that you haven't seen in real life.

Well that is definitely wrong...lol. At least for me.

 

[not_a_robot]

Well that is definitely wrong...lol. At least for me.

Supposedly the brain asleep is unable to fabricate a new face, so it duplicates from faces of strangers you thought you forgot.
I have no idea how they thought they "confirmed" this, lol.
It's one of those "factoids" I read and never forgot because it just seemed so weird. Like, who knows how many faces we think we forgot, or what we see in dreams?

 

[Deleted member 1768]

Supposedly the brain asleep is unable to fabricate a new face, so it duplicates from faces of strangers you thought you forgot.
I have no idea how they thought they "confirmed" this, lol.
It's one of those "factoids" I read and never forgot because it just seemed so weird. Like, who knows how many faces we think we forgot, or what we see in dreams?

Hmmm...probably used the same method psychiatrists used for the DSM-V. They can confirm anything...wink.

 

[sadgirl2002]

The last dream I had was after my afternoon nap yesterday but it was awful. It was so weird. Before falling asleep, a video of old romantic songs from YouTube was playing on the TV. But in the dream, I remember listening to the same video but I was crying. All I remember was having an immense loss of hope of somebody special to me ever coming back. I remember the exact feeling... the feeling I always get when I go downhill again and I knew I was going to do something to myself like self-harm or even suicide. The feeling of extreme anxiety and despair. When I woke up, I felt so relieved because I didn't want to get bad again. I haven't had a dream like this before. I guess the dream was showing my subconscious fears. I'm glad it wasn't real.

 

[sad_frog]

When I was first diagnosed with PTSD I was prescribed this drug for nightmares called Prazosin. After about +6 months of taking it I started having the most fucked up dreams! In the dreams people I love would treat me like a criminal, ignore me, lock me away, beat me. My teeth would fall out and I would panic but no one came to help. I watched people I cared about in my life preform awful actions. It was affecting me so much that when I'd wake up I would be angry/stressed/depressed and sometimes wonder if these things actually happened. I stopped taking the medication... probably on accident--but noticed right away that my dreams weren't so vividly disturbing!
It feels like my dreams are showing me my deepest darkest fears; like people abandoning me or believing I'm crazy.
I now look to my dreams to find out what's really bothering me. Thank you brain...

 

[not_a_robot]

When I was first diagnosed with PTSD I was prescribed this drug for nightmares called Prazosin. After about +6 months of taking it I started having the most fucked up dreams! In the dreams people I love would treat me like a criminal, ignore me, lock me away, beat me. My teeth would fall out and I would panic but no one came to help. I watched people I cared about in my life preform awful actions. It was affecting me so much that when I'd wake up I would be angry/stressed/depressed and sometimes wonder if these things actually happened. I stopped taking the medication... probably on accident--but noticed right away that my dreams weren't so vividly disturbing!
It feels like my dreams are showing me my deepest darkest fears; like people abandoning me or believing I'm crazy.
I now look to my dreams to find out what's really bothering me. Thank you brain...

It's a bp med, ptsd is an off-label use.

Nighttime-only prazosin may worsen insomnia, nightmares in PTSD

Bedtime doses of prazosin worsened nightmares and insomnia among patients with PTSD, contrary to expected findings, according to data from a pilot, randomized clinical trial.The researchers also found that prazosin was not linked to any change in suicidal ideation or daytime-only PTSD symptoms.

www.healio.com

Apparently if one pill a day worsens nightmares, two pills a day cures them...

 

[Ko9]

I have every night, nightmares about the times I was at school, got bullied, didn't understand shit and people, got hit and all that boiled up anger...

Otherwise I have had good dreams 3 times in my life with such a big smile on my face I wonder why my brain communicates that to me. I am thinking about how shitty my life is all the time, why would my brain show me what happiness would be like? I see no point.

 

[Donewith_]

I get dreams( normal ones) sometimes. my nightmares have reduced .. to some extent. but still.. i get some.

 

[_NoName_]

Lately I had a lot of vidid dreams due to excessive alcohol consumption. My dreams are generally bad - hopelessness is the most common feature.

 

[Black_Knight]

Yes. They are vivid and make me doubt my sanity.

 

[Numbtopain97]

i only have Nightmares

 

[Icarus]

I do. Recently I saw devil pulling up to me on the bike. He looked like Hellboy. I gave him a hug and said I missed him.(((

 

[k75]

For me, it's usually either nightmares or nothing. I have PTSD, and my flashbacks tend to manifest as dreams. Vivid ones. Bad ones.

Very rarely, I'll have a non-flashback dream that's just disturbing. Like I'm about to kill myself or just watched someone else do it. My sleep isn't safe anymore.