What does it mean if you dont dream

Old Turkey · 7 May 2006 at 12:28

According to Freud it means you want to sleep with your mother. :eek:

Tehehe only joking! I really meant to say your father.

Burned_Alive · 7 May 2006 at 12:50

Im fortunate enough to have Lucid dreams, its awesome

Mike · 7 May 2006 at 12:54

You smoke too much weed then, I didn't dream for 15 years

Oblivious · 7 May 2006 at 12:58

I find that if I go to bed late, I don't dream. If I go to bed earlier then I do usually.

This is can be overided by being very tired, in which case it doesnt matter what time you go to bed, I wont dream.

cleanbluesky · 7 May 2006 at 13:25

Well, I think that dreams are a really important way of the mind balancing fantasy and reality.

I don't think its posible not to dream (without being ill, or influenced by drugs such as cannabis) but it is possible not to remember it.

Ultimately your dreams are a way of your subconcious trying to communicate with your concious, your fantasy (both intellectual and emtional) attempting to balance and adjust to cope with the emotional and intellectual reality you face.

If you cease to dream, reality will most likely lose its luster - or 'fantasy' may break into reality for you... resulting in psychosis.

Just my personal opinion.

Dave · 7 May 2006 at 13:29

Burned_Alive said:
Im fortunate enough to have Lucid dreams, its awesome

Damn, trying to get the skill here! I have to recognise (whilst dreaming of course) that I'm in a dream but I'm failing fairly miserably - in a dream last night for instance I noticed that the time on a clock leapt past 2 hours in the space of seconds but I didn't notice it! Going to have to start using "reality checks" now . . . although it may be weird for anyone in my bedroom to notice a sign above my bed that says "this is reality"

SexyBetty · 7 May 2006 at 13:29

Ive been having really vivid dreams the past couple of nights, one was quite intense and scary so I forced myself to wake up, that was weird

sja360 · 7 May 2006 at 13:50

cleanbluesky said:
Well, I think that dreams are a really important way of the mind balancing fantasy and reality.

I don't think its posible not to dream (without being ill, or influenced by drugs such as cannabis) but it is possible not to remember it.

Ultimately your dreams are a way of your subconcious trying to communicate with your concious, your fantasy (both intellectual and emtional) attempting to balance and adjust to cope with the emotional and intellectual reality you face.

If you cease to dream, reality will most likely lose its luster - or 'fantasy' may break into reality for you... resulting in psychosis.

Just my personal opinion.

your opinion is ringing alarm bells for me, i usually blame myself for a lot of stuff

Kazatan · 7 May 2006 at 13:59

eat some cheese 40 minutes before going to bed = dream time.

Rich_L · 7 May 2006 at 14:55

Pretty sure it means you have no soul. Unlucky

sja360 · 7 May 2006 at 15:16

Rich_L said:
Pretty sure it means you have no soul. Unlucky

haha no soul, tbh how'd you know if someone does/doesnt? because they dont show emotion or care for others? or have you got some sort of special equipment which detects souls

i'll give cheese a go, have to be towards a half block of it though as if i havent dream't for so long its gonna take a while..

Rich_L · 7 May 2006 at 15:18

haha no soul, tbh how'd you know if someone does/doesnt? because they dont show emotion or care for others?

Nah, it's whether they dream or not, like I said.

sja360 · 7 May 2006 at 15:20

Rich_L said:
Nah, it's whether they dream or not, like I said.

so i aint got a soul...hmm
anyone fancy selling theirs for £10?

speeduk · 7 May 2006 at 16:21

Dreaming happens in a different state of consciousness. This means that you are more likely to remember a dream when you first wake up after having the dream, or while entering sleep again.

I tend to remember dreams while trying to get to sleep the following night.

The brain stores dreams in a diffenent part of memory compared to normal day to day memory.

If you do remember a dream while awake though obviously it is a lot easier to remember later on because it then gets stored in the day to day memory section.

SexyGreyFox · 7 May 2006 at 17:13

In the early 80's I was a test dummy at Keele University and the bods reckon everybody dreams but most can't remember.
I have the rare condition of going into dream mode (REM) as soon as I fall asleep so I don't have to sleep as long as some.
Apparently it takes the average person two hours to enter REM.
I was tested at Keele because I claimed that I started dreaming even if I nodded off for 5 minutes and the experts confirmed it and gave me £250 for a weeks sleeping.

Shador · 7 May 2006 at 17:35

Dreaming is your brains way of making up for lack of stimulation.

Foods such as cheese and ice cream intensify your brains stimulation which is why if you eat these before you go to sleep your more likely to remember your dreams because they are more intense.

If you are on medication especially anti - depressants or hard A class drugs then your also not meant to dream....

So your probably getting enough stimulation that any dreaming you do is very minimum and you don't remember or your taking drugs that remove the need to dream as well

Unconditional · 7 May 2006 at 18:21

Does anyone else find that if they wake up 1-2 hours earlier than normal, say for the toilet, and then go back to sleep then they have a lot of dreams in that period?

DarkShadow · 7 May 2006 at 18:24

Meh, I'm preparing for an exam on this subject ~Yawn~

Basically there's the stage of being awake, then there's stages 1-4 of sleep.

1 - Light sleep

2 - Light, but not as responsive

3 - Deep sleep, unresponsive

4 - Very deep sleep

After stage 4 is the REM period of sleep. This where we usually dream. We usually enter REM arounds 4-6 periods a night. The brain is most active whilst one is awake and in REM.

Everyone dreams, it's just most of some don't remember. There's the conscious, pre-conscious and the unconscious.

The activation synthesis theory of dreaming shows us that according to Hobson and McCarley, that from a physiological perspective, what we experience as dreams are the result of the brain's attempts to interpret random nerve impulses.

If you didn't dream you'd most proberbly start hallucinating and lose touch with reality as you'd start dreaming in the day time. Read up on Peter Tripp

shifty_uk · 7 May 2006 at 18:32

Unconditional said:
Does anyone else find that if they wake up 1-2 hours earlier than normal, say for the toilet, and then go back to sleep then they have a lot of dreams in that period?

Yeah, I get this.

If I wake up on a saturday morning, and decide nah, I need a long lie, then I go back to sleep, I have dreams, and then if I wake up again I can remember them, and then sometimes I will decide to go back to sleep several times, and I always get loads of dreams, and I remember them after I've woken up.

I'm not sure how to explain it, but sometimes I feel that when this happens, if I wake up and I've just had a dream, I can sit and think about the dream, and then fall back asleep and keep dreaming about the same dream. Does this make sense?

HighlandeR · 7 May 2006 at 18:50

shifty_uk said:
Yeah, I get this.

If I wake up on a saturday morning, and decide nah, I need a long lie, then I go back to sleep, I have dreams, and then if I wake up again I can remember them, and then sometimes I will decide to go back to sleep several times, and I always get loads of dreams, and I remember them after I've woken up.

I'm not sure how to explain it, but sometimes I feel that when this happens, if I wake up and I've just had a dream, I can sit and think about the dream, and then fall back asleep and keep dreaming about the same dream. Does this make sense?

Get this too, I think its normal its like when u have woken up so your still dozy but your aware of things if u go back into the lovely world of your bed and doze off again u sorta recall it better cos half your minds there....

Proberly makes less sense then your post