I’ve been having the most interesting dreams this month.
I suspect the only reason I can recall them is because I haven’t been getting that much REM sleep.
The majority of them involve running, getting lost (or losing someone), or being in a car with someone else driving. Also traveling.
When I check my dream dictionary (yes, I have one of those), all signs don’t point to good things.
Do you put much weight in dreams?
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I definitely know that I’m working things out in my dreams, and when I feel something is significant, or I start to notice a pattern, I write it down in a dream journal. I have a lot of bad/creepy/unpleasant dreams, too, which is often unsettling.
I keep a dream journal too. Well, it’s a notebook next to my bed for ideas/thoughts I get during the next. This week I’ve really seen a pattern, so best I wrote it down.
I thought dreaming only occurred during REM sleep. Hopefully that means that you are getting more REM than you realized.
I enjoy dreaming, but for me dreams are just a form of nighttime entertainment.
Hmm, I just recently read an article sighting the opposite – but I have no idea. I’ve been looking into sleep studies, which is why. I have been sleeping for longer periods before wakings 3-4 hours instead of 1-2, so that is definitely a plus!
i have always been a skeptic about dreams having any meaning. I’ve looked at them as just the ongoing rambling of our minds. I still find them fascinating and after the heart slows and the dreaded feeling that accompanies a “bad” dream. I feel I have been fortunate to be able to experience something like that. I find it frustrating how a dream can be so strong and vivid but once awake it fades and the memory of it decreases rapidly unless we write it down or describe it to someone.
That’s a nice way to look at it, as an outgoing rambling.
Yes, dreams can certainly be frustrating.