Wait do y’all actually dream every day? For the full time of sleeping?
I only dream after I’ve already slept way more than enough for the day and even then it’s like a less than 10% chance of having any dreams at all
Everyone dreams every night, but not everyone remembers their dreams in the morning. I don’t remember my dreams most of the time.
Everyone dreams every night
Really doesn’t seem to be the case for me, there’s a pretty noticeable difference between ‘I had a dream but quickly forget what it was about’ and not dreaming at all
If you have a REM cycle, which you should have at least one every night, you are definitely dreaming.
REM stands for Rapid Eye Movement, and it’s because you’re looking around at things within your dreams. Unlike the rest of the body, the eyes are not typically affected by the natural process of sleep paralysis (the system your body uses to stay still so you’re not constantly acting out your dreams in bed.)
Fascinatingly, the brain/sub-conscious naturally purges dream memories as soon as it deems them ‘not-reality’. You can train your brain to rememember your dreams more if you write them down as soon as you wake up, this tells your sub-concious that those memories are actually worth remembering.
You forgot about it before you woke up.
I don’t dream and when I do they are usually mundane like going to work. Which makes me sleep in as I think I am already heading to work
We are, after all, merely brains in a (bone) jar. :-)
brains in a (bone)
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I mean if we want to get technical…
More than relevant. Stolen from. This person just slightly reworded an XKCD comic into a tweet.
Yeah, that was my thought too, though it is possible they came up with it independently. Or forgot they read that xkcd which came out 18 years ago (fuck!).
It has happened to Randall himself before (see the header)
HUMAN BEINGS MAKE LIFE SO INTERESTING. DO YOU KNOW, THAT IN A UNIVERSE SO FULL OF WONDERS, THEY HAVE MANAGED TO INVENT BOREDOM.
- Death of the Discworld
Terry Pratchett - G.N.U
It helps having an idea of what causes the phenomenon, certainly. I get a lot calmer about basically everything when I know just what the hell is going on.
We slip through the veil of reality, do we.
I have had only a few vivid, real feeling dreams that have stuck with me for years. Do I know what they mean, nope. Do I wish I had more of them… yes. Working on improving my sleep in the last year or so. I think my average sleep time actually got a few mins. shorter. Oops.
8 hours sounds nice. I usually manage about 4 or 5
Obligatory sleep hacks from a person who loves sleep:
- Clean bedsheets
- No phone in bed
- Same sleep time every day
- Same wake time every day
- Exercise during the day
- No lights in the room. No LEDs, no street lights
- White noise
If you do any one of these your sleep will improve. If it doesn’t, I give you full permission to flame me and my dog.
What does your poor dog have to do with this?
This concept is known as “sleep hygiene” if anyone wants to read further.
Ear plugs have been a life saver for me. I can’t sleep without them now, fortunately they sell them in huge containers so I only have to buy them like every year and half.
Do you put in a fresh pair every night?
No, I just keep them in a clean spot and they last about a week before they start looking dingy. Then I use a new pair.
I don’t get a lot of earwax though so someone who’s ears make more will probably have to change them more frequently.
I have slept many nights, on average about once a day for many years. In my experience, it’s the routine that has the most effect. I know it’s super difficult to maintain but going to bed and waking up same time everyday is the key.
no way. sleep is great but sleeping in is glorious.
White noise is critical and underrated.
Don’t have children
8 hours sleep? I wish… As I get older sleep become an elusive thing.
Look at the guy who sleeps 8 hours a night and also have dreams, I wish I would have that luxury
Almost everyone does it almost every day, it would be more strange if everyone was freaking out about it.
Yeah not all of us get the amnesia unfortunately.
I’ve only had a couple dreams that were legit traumatizing. How bad could it be to remember 100x more of them!? That’s like only one or two truly life altering traumatizing dreams per night!
Capital won’t care about dreams until they can inject commercials, propaganda, etc.
Luckily the dream state is still one of the few remaining surrealist safe places to us humans.
Every time I lucid dream, I end up waking myself up with something stupid like tripping as I step off a curb.
Just realizing I’m dreaming wakes me up every damn time. The only times I’ve gotten to have some fun is when I don’t question why the laws of physics suddenly changed and just go with it. The second I start going, “Wait a second, I think I’m drea-” boom, I wake up. It’s infuriating, I just want to fly around or explore the ocean depths or some shit.
Whenever I realize I’m dreaming I usually just get really excited and it accidentally wakes me up. I don’t get time to do cool stuff.
