What does it mean if you remember your dreams?

[gear02]

It's bedtime and I still remember the dream I had last night. I remember reading somewhere or hearing that it means something if you remember your dream. Does anyone know what I'm talking about??

It's kinda weird...I usually don't remember dreams.

[Tommy Boomfiger]

i didnt think that remembering your dreams had any significance. i love remembering my own dreams, theyre always so wierd. usually its better than the stuff on the scifi channel

[Full Monty]

I remember a lot of my dreams too. There have even been a select few in my lifetime that I still remember, some dating back 10 to 15 years. Weird how some of them can have such an impact.

What I hate, though, is when you have a dream that is so completely absurd and you wake up and think, "Why didn't I know that was a dream?"

[Hunny]

Originally posted by gear02
It's bedtime and I still remember the dream I had last night. I remember reading somewhere or hearing that it means something if you remember your dream. Does anyone know what I'm talking about??

It's kinda weird...I usually don't remember dreams.


It means you have a good memory:P

...actually, I think its the dreams you can't remember that mean something...ever have that deja vu moment...you've been there, done that...I think its probably part of something you've dreamnt & can't remember ( is that a word) or maybe an afterlife thing...anyhow...
I know what you're talking about but I'm not sure , and if I could find my dream book right now, I'd tell you ...but I can't so...thats that!

The most disturbing dreams I have, are the ones that I get hurt or fall and don't land...or the one I had chasing the school bus down the street with half my clothes off :shake: I'm too old for this...

[ArkiStan]

Ok this time I'm gonna be the idiot who tries to "set things straight" (with the trivial knowledge they heard from some TV show) when everybody's just having fun coming up with their own interesting theories... ;)

If I recall correctly, people go through altered states of consciousness while they sleep. There's the REM (Rapid Eye Movement) stage and different NREM (Non Rapid Eye Movement) stages. REM stages repeat every 90 minutes or so. And overall about 20 to 30 percent of a night's sleep is spent in the REM stage.

They say the REM stage is the closest to being awake, and it is when you are awaken during the REM stage that you remember your dreams, and sometimes confusea dreams with reality. I'm sure everybody has experienced this.

[welfareloser]

:stupid:

if you remember your dream, it means you had that dream during a certain stage of sleep after a certain amount of sleep ahd already taken place... doesn't happen often for the typical sleep-deprived american.

[Hunny]

Originally posted by ArkiStan
They say the REM stage is the closest to being awake, and it is when you are awaken during the REM stage that you remember your dreams, and sometimes confusea dreams with reality. I'm sure everybody has experienced this.

Every day I'm confused ... :|





:P

[whitak24]

i don't know too much about all the "technical" sleep science stuff -- all i know is that i only remember my dreams when i wake up in the middle of them.

that seems to happen independently of whether i'm sleep deprived or not.....it seems to have more to do with how freaky the dream is :eek:

[sizemic1]

I tried this experiment for a while and it's really quite weird.
For a couple of months i kept a pad of paper and a pen on my nightstand. And whenever i would wake up from a dream i would try to remember everything i could and write it down. I think i could only remember maybe one dream a week, but it made for an interesting journal. I finally ended the experiment and packed up the pad. The FUN part was rediscovering that pad about 5 years later and reading it. All of the dreams vividly come back to me..but reading them made me wonder wtf was i smoking? :P

I did a little research regarding dreaming, lucid dreaming in particular, and typically if you can remember your dream it's usually because you've woke up during a REM cycle. If you typically just get up naturally, you won't remember much if anything.

[brainsmile]

Originally posted by gear02
It's bedtime and I still remember the dream I had last night. I remember reading somewhere or hearing that it means something if you remember your dream. Does anyone know what I'm talking about??

It's kinda weird...I usually don't remember dreams. http://images.drphil.com/images/phil.jpg I want you to start living your life as a gay man.

[Speedfreak]

I hate it when I have dreams of winning a lot of money or doing 2 chicks at one time and it seems SOOO real, then I wake up.

:mad:

[Jeffbx]

Sometimes I'm in the middle of a dream & whatever is happening is so implausible that I'll actually realize that I'm dreaming... then I'll try to change what is happening. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

[whitak24]

Originally posted by Jeffbx
Sometimes I'm in the middle of a dream & whatever is happening is so implausible that I'll actually realize that I'm dreaming... then I'll try to change what is happening. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
hey, me too :D

i've had dreams where, uh, there have been "women" around and we're naked but not really doing anything and i think "damn, this is a dream, and i'm gonna wake up soon, so i better hurry up and get some action before the dream gets cut short" :naughty: :hihi:

[TERRIBLETOM]

I've had dreams that I was working my azz off and I wake up exhausted.

[zenbooty]

The dreams, the waking hours. They all just end up running together :bigeyes: :hoboy: :puzzled: