So, today’s Question of the Day is about dreams. Do you remember your dreams? Do you dream a lot?
Me, I think I’m an oddball. I might dream, but I rarely remember them. I actually don’t think I dream much, but I’m sure, scientifically, I probably do. I am getting to an age now where I rarely sleep through the night. With the tinnitus, once I wake up, I have a really hard time getting back to sleep. But, right when I wake up, I never remember anything about a dream. Only once in a blue moon. If I do, I only remember a tiny bit, just a snippet, not a long or drawn out series of events or something. And mine are usually odd. Like a mixture of something from the distant past, mixed with something recent from my life, or a tv show or movie or something I’ve seen. Like they got thrown in a blender and came out, not making any sense! LOL! 🙂
Tim often tells me about his dreams, he remembers quite a lot. His retelling is pretty vivid and usually full of a lot of detail. And my mother-in-law is the same way. She seems to remember them and be able to recount details of what she dreamed, what she said and did, etc.
What about you? Do you dream a lot and do you remember any of them? Are they good, sweet dreams or really weird dreams?
Rarely remember (yay!) but they’re always bad (boo!). Not even just weird, but actually terrible, nightmarish things. Or perhaps those are the only ones I remember.
I have always been a vivid dreamer who remembers my dreams. And they are almost always weird, bizarre blender-mixes like those you described, and sometimes they’re bad or scary. I rarely dream anything really good, darn it.
So here’s something weird. This was all true, until back in August when I had my 2nd major surgery. I was out for 6 hours and then was so drugged up afterward that I spent the next 12 hours mostly unconscious as well. Then I took narcotics around the clock for 10 days. From that surgery on, I either no longer dreamed, or at least no longer remembered them. This, after a lifetime of having incredibly vivid, memorable dreams! It was WEIRD, let me tell you. I don’t know what did it, but it’s probably something about being under anesthesia/heavy drugs for so long. Okay, so that bugged me for a few months, and then I very slowly, gradually began to remember a dream now and then–usually just a faint snippet after waking up. And that progressed over the next couple of months, and now, 6 months later, I’m finally dreaming again and remembering them. Not as vividly or as often as I used to, but I expect that will gradually come back to me, also. Isn’t that strange??
(I also came out of that surgery with blurred vision that has improved, but hasn’t gone away. After always having 20/20 vision, it’s strange to not be able to read as well now…I probably need glasses now.) I think they gave me some serious drugs that time around!
Philip is like you and very, very rarely remembers his dreams, if he even has them at all.
I remember my dreams every.single.night. I have very vivid dreams, mostly weird and nonsensical. Sometimes I don’t remember them right away, but then something will happen during the day and it will come back to me in little pieces. My son envies me, because he doesn’t remember his dreams. I feel like I live two separate lives, because they are so weird! I should keep a dream journal, but most of them I’d rather forget. They aren’t bad dreams, just weird and exhausting.
I’m more like you. I remember snippets at times. Other times, though, I’ll remember feelings more than the actual dream. The ones that leave me bewildered or in despair are the ones that affect my waking mood. I don’t like that much. :/
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