No Dreams

[FalseFace]

i usually remember a lot of my dreams, and they're usually long and detailed. lately though i haven't been remebering any dreams and when i do it's just like little flashes of a few seconds. it's really frustating because i enjoy dreaming so much. anyone have any ideas on why i'm not remebering my dreams or how i can make myself start remembering them again? my sleeping habits haven't changed so i know that's not the problem, maube i'm just having my first dry spell or something but i really hope it ends soon because it's really weird waking up and not remebering what i dreamt about.

[purinpuff]

I know for sure you have to try and recall as much as possible before you sit up or get up in bed.

I have my phases, too, though. For a long time I rarely dreamed or remembered dreams. Then I went through a thing when I had dreams every night and I could recall a good number of dreams.

[Xavious]

i usually remember a lot of my dreams, and they're usually long and detailed. lately though i haven't been remebering any dreams and when i do it's just like little flashes of a few seconds. it's really frustating because i enjoy dreaming so much. anyone have any ideas on why i'm not remebering my dreams or how i can make myself start remembering them again? my sleeping habits haven't changed so i know that's not the problem, maube i'm just having my first dry spell or something but i really hope it ends soon because it's really weird waking up and not remebering what i dreamt about.

Well technicaly scientists say you have thousands of dreams every night. Sometimes you can't remember them. They say the reason most people don't remember them is because you wake up in the middle of the night. If this happens keep some paper and a pencile beside your bed. If you wake up remember everything you dreamed of and write it down (that is if you dreamed). Any way this is how it works for me.

[LycanSpectre]

For several years now, I have almost never dreamed. On the RARE occaisions when I do, they are always related to therainthropy/lycanthropy.

My question is this: What does it mean from a psychological standpoint for a person to have a consistent lack of dreams?

[Savage]

I duno what it means but for me it means a night of peaceful good sleep. When I do dream I always end up in pain, physcially hurting in my dreams. Then I wake up can't go back to sleep. Personally I see it as a good thing. But thats just me.

[lycanthrope012_8_03]

I.ve heard people that don't dream forget their dreams, or they are insane, this might be a myth though

[Rlib]

I.ve heard people that don't dream forget their dreams, or they are insane, this might be a myth though

I've heard everyone has dreams and if you think you don't you just forget them. But maybe some mental disorders do mess around with your sleep cycle enough to prevent them ... in other words, the above two explanations seem pretty plausible ;)

[Nightmare GenoReaper]

Now don't go screaming around that your a werewolf, i can prove you wrong.

You dream everynight, it's just a matter of IF you remember it. You could wake up and not remember what you dreamt. Perhaps there isn't alot important to you. Because i don't remember i dream everynight, but i do. I swear it's the truth, you go to sleep, and your mind processes the dream like that old saying "In one ear and out the other"

If your dream refers to lycanthropy, just relax, it's probably on your mind alot. I find dreams usually reflect what the person sees or thinks about the most; in your case, shapeshifting

What i suggest is to start getting your mind off of this subject. Again, meditation helps, also if you keep your brain active, it might help. Perhaps your not being challenged enough, or perhaps TOO much.

try different alterarions between work and rest. See what helps best

[LycanSpectre]

Now don't go screaming around that your a werewolf, i can prove you wrong.

No worries, I do not think that I am a werewolf. I am a therian with a wolf phenotype. However, I do think that P-shifting would be nice, if not currently possible.

I suspect that the rest of your post is right; I am not bieng challenged. Im still on winter break from the university, and do not have much to do, except examine the contents of my skull. So therianthropy does come up alot. I go back to school next week, so we'll see if it gets any better.

Since the consensus seems to be that we all dream, wether or not we remember the dream, or even dreaming, does anyone know any ways to help one remember dreams?

[DarkWolf]

From everything I have read on this: Nightmare GenoReaper is perfectly right.

Personally, no night has ever passed me by without be remembering my dreams, but that's mostly from my, probably unhealthy, interest in dreaming.

[FocusedWolf]

Hmm speaking of dreams...i haven't had a dream in a while...but last night i dreamed i could control the weather with some device...but actually fast foward and rewind time to any season that i choose...I tried summer, but the sigt of melted snow and muddy earth freaked me out so i quickly rewinded back to winter...Man i gotta one day move to Alaska...f*** summer lol

[Nightmare GenoReaper]

No worries, I do not think that I am a werewolf. I am a therian with a wolf phenotype. However, I do think that P-shifting would be nice, if not currently possible.

I suspect that the rest of your post is right; I am not bieng challenged. Im still on winter break from the university, and do not have much to do, except examine the contents of my skull. So therianthropy does come up alot. I go back to school next week, so we'll see if it gets any better.

Since the consensus seems to be that we all dream, wether or not we remember the dream, or even dreaming, does anyone know any ways to help one remember dreams?


You'll remember something more if you're interested in the subject. So Try to expand some of your hobbies, maybe it's the key to remembering your other dreams

[Rlib]

does anyone know any ways to help one remember dreams?

Writing down as much as you remember every morning seems to slowly increase the amount you can remember ... might take up to a few months I've heard.

[blueeyes]

^ Avoid sugar and soda the day before, make sure you won't have an alarm waking you up, and having a good night's sleep the day before are supposed to do something. As is trying to focus on one thing (preferably what you want to dream about) as you go to bed.
Medications such as Nyquil or drugs will make dreams more faded, if they occur at all.

[LycanSpectre]

<looking back on my Psych 201 notes>

Since we only dream during REM sleep, which occurs after you have slept for an average on 90 minutes, lasts a short time, then re-occurs later, I wonder if I consistently wake towards the end of a sleep "valley." (time between REM sessions). That way, I would be maxing my time out of the dream, and it will be most faded in my memory then (I assume going back into REM sleep refreshes your memory of that dream.)

Or it could be that I am bieng disturbed in my sleep, causing REM sleep to be put off, and achieved only seldom. In that instance, the memory of the dream would not be rehearsed, and would only exist in short term memory (which only lasts for 30 seconds without rehearsal). In that case, I truly would not remember my dreams, the memory would be lost.<Insert thoughtful emoticon here>

(If someone has no idea what I just said, Ill explain if you ask. :) )

[Tohaan]

I spent several years not being able to remember my dreams. I made a choice to REMEMBER my dreams and kept that thought with me all the time.
It helped.

[Cephas]

I am kind of befuddled because I am not experiencing any dreams at all. I find this odd because I am definitely a therian, but with no dreams in my sleep, I am getting a bit lonely (if that is the word for it).
Is there anything I can do to maximize my chances of remembering any sub-concious or *any* dream?
I will be grateful for your help.

[Fuzzy]

fatigue yourself during the day. stay as active as possible in order to keep your brain and body at full speed. You'll sleep like a baby, and your synapses will be firing like crazy. I wish i had an easier way for you to get back to dreaming, but this tends to work for me.

[Snackrib]

i usually remember a lot of my dreams, and they're usually long and detailed. lately though i haven't been remebering any dreams and when i do it's just like little flashes of a few seconds. it's really frustating because i enjoy dreaming so much. anyone have any ideas on why i'm not remebering my dreams or how i can make myself start remembering them again? my sleeping habits haven't changed so i know that's not the problem, maube i'm just having my first dry spell or something but i really hope it ends soon because it's really weird waking up and not remebering what i dreamt about.

I usually remember what I've dreamt like almost every night, sometimes I remember very little, sometimes nothing and sometimes I remember really much like 2 nights ago I dreamt a great dream that I became a vampire at this night club where werewolves and vampires got along and ate humans in the night.

[Lycan_bites]

Is not remembering dreams a bad sign, or does it just mean that I'm way tired?

For about 3 months now, I've only been able to remember one dream, and I remembered that as some random view of grassland and a voice telling me that the Native Americans were the first people to have gods (or the oldest gods or something like that), and when I woke up I believed it. Any other tiny moment of dream I remember, I can't distinguish from actually being awake, no matter how weird or random the dream was.

So am I just tired or what?

[Lemieux Dashing]

If you want to remember your dreams better, why don't you try self-hypnotism?
It's really easy, and not only can it help you remember dreams, it can promote lucid dreaming and even eliminate bad habits!
If you want to know the procedure, let me know via PM.

-Dashing

[Bloodlust]

I havent remembered one of my dreams in seven years..can someone help me dream?

[SugarFalls]

The only time I ever remember my dreams is when I don't take my medicine at night. And when I do remember them, I'm always by myself in the dreams.

[Lord_Turkey]

Ii honestly am lucky if I can remember any dreams I have. I remember nightmares all the time but when it comes to regular dreams...ziltch.

Whats wrong with me exactly ?

I've studied psychology so I really should know!

[Lycan_bites]

If you can only remember nightmares then surely that means that there's something in your life that's bothering you? Generally that's what they're there for. For instance, if a friend was hurting you then maybe in the nightmare they would be killing you.. simple stuff like that.
Or perhaps your nightmares are just reliving the past. I don't know what they are so I couldn't help you but either way you should try and find out the meanings of your nightmares. Maybe you can't remember your average dreams because of the nightmares.

[Binkx]

Not remembering dreams isn't a bad thing or good thing at all. It just means there was no real signifigance to it. After all, all dreams are only made of things that we have already seen or heard.

But like Lycan_bites said, all nightmares have signifigance to them that you have to uncover. Your subconcious sending you messages in an oddly coded form.

But trust me, average dreams arn't really worth remembering, though at times they make for good stories, you still forget details.

[Sin of Humanity]

I'M CURED!

For the past week I've drempt every night. Sometimes all I remember is fragments of multiple dreams but it's still there. All I did was every night before I went to bed I just kept reminding myself to dream.

Simple.

Easy.

Effective!

[Lost_Soul]

I seem to have trouble remembering my dreams. I don't actually have trouble remembering the details of my dreams, I just don't consciously remember having them in the first place.

Yeah...it kinda sucks.

Does anybody have any advice about this?

[Sin of Humanity]

I have the same problem, or had. Basically all you need to do is fall asleep thinking about dreaming. That's all I did. And I was bad enough that a nightmare would cause me to wake up with a jump and I wouldn't recall it at all.

So try it, it took a few weeks of doing it to work and even then it only happens every couple of days, but I think it's worth it.

[voldraj]

It also depends on if you wake up in your dream cycle or not. Most likely you are dreaming but because you wake up out of your cycle you don't remember it.

[DoubleStar3]

There is a thread for this. Please remember to try a search of the forum before posting next time. (Merged.)