What are peoples thoughts on dreams and sleeping. When we recall vivid dreams and their events, do they happen in real time while dreaming and do our recollections accurately reflect the actual timeline? Has anyone ever been woken at a point whilst dreaming where a crucial conclusion was to be discovered. Or were we destined to awake at that point anyway and the dream itself was an imagination of our mind relayed backward from our point of being fully conscious. Anyone have any thoughts and opinions on this?
Dreams - are they experienced in real time?
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Go to bed, it's too late for thoughts like these.
I'm in bed but my active mind won't allow me to sleep!
Why are you going to bed high?
No, however I do tend to be able to recall dreams more vividly if I've eaten fajitas the evening before
.I remember reading somewhere that what we experience as a dream may be an artifact of the brain coming online.
At the point of regaining consciousness there are all sorts of jumbled thoughts/bits of information our brain may have been processing during sleep. The part of our brain responsible for constructing a coherent narrative of our experiences takes all this data floating around and cobbles together what we remember as a dream. In reality the whole dream and its timeline was created at the point of waking.
At the point of regaining consciousness there are all sorts of jumbled thoughts/bits of information our brain may have been processing during sleep. The part of our brain responsible for constructing a coherent narrative of our experiences takes all this data floating around and cobbles together what we remember as a dream. In reality the whole dream and its timeline was created at the point of waking.
Be a bit weird remembering them the morning before though
.Wish I could remember my dreams. Sure my weird brain thinks up some interesting rubbish.
Only if you have recently bought a large high resolution gaming PC and its changed you.
No in all seriousness I dont think you do, I think you only dream in certain stages of sleep and they are not lengthy although often repeating (depending on length of snooze), it just feels like its all the time as you were in a different mental stage the rest of the time.
I think I remember an article about how your dreams just loop as your brain goes through the cycle of sleep and you get confused or multiple dreams when you go through the stage multiple times.
But I'm like Mynight, in that I never remember dreams. I've only experienced feelings of dread after waking up but no memories or stories but that's a yearly occurrence if that.
Used to date a girl who was a very vivid dreamer and it always was odd waking up and having her talk about a completely random story that could last 10 mins of explanation.
No in all seriousness I dont think you do, I think you only dream in certain stages of sleep and they are not lengthy although often repeating (depending on length of snooze), it just feels like its all the time as you were in a different mental stage the rest of the time.
I think I remember an article about how your dreams just loop as your brain goes through the cycle of sleep and you get confused or multiple dreams when you go through the stage multiple times.
But I'm like Mynight, in that I never remember dreams. I've only experienced feelings of dread after waking up but no memories or stories but that's a yearly occurrence if that.
Used to date a girl who was a very vivid dreamer and it always was odd waking up and having her talk about a completely random story that could last 10 mins of explanation.
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Try doing it in 4k, it's a whole new level. 
On a serious note, I only tend to remember dreams if I'm stressed because that's when I tend to have bad dreams. But again, that is very rare.
My ex GF used to be a quite vivid dreamer too, used to talk about all sorts of stuff. I remember having a conversation about custard cremes, and said stupid things to see how far it went... Further than I expected.
Was funny in a sense I guess.
On a serious note, I only tend to remember dreams if I'm stressed because that's when I tend to have bad dreams. But again, that is very rare.
My ex GF used to be a quite vivid dreamer too, used to talk about all sorts of stuff. I remember having a conversation about custard cremes, and said stupid things to see how far it went... Further than I expected.
Was funny in a sense I guess.
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Have you not seen Inception ?!
Is this where you're fully conscious of the dream you're in? I used to be able to do this and once had a dream where I woke into another dream. Weird stuff.