I don’t dream. No nightmares either. I have no problems sleeping and I’m not on drugs so it isn’t a health thing - I’ve been like this all my life.
The only times I’ve managed to dream are when I nap while already well-rested, but even then I still usually don’t. Like I might get 1 or 2 dreams a year in total from when I go back to sleep immediately after waking up, but never from normal sleep.
Anyone else like this?
I believe that’s perfectly normal.
I’ve read a scientific piece which claimed that actually everyone has dreams regularly. It’s just that you normally don’t remember them. Sometimes, if you are waken up at a particular moment, you might remember them, but otherwise you would not. So it’s nothing to worry about at least…
On the other hand, I had a date once, who claimed she actually lives an actual 2nd life in her dream world, every single night, and remembers absolutely everything about it. Now that is something unusual…but she was also…let’s just say “unusual” in her 1st life, so who knows what was going on there…
My girlfriend is like that, except she has night terrors, so the other world is more being buried upside down in the desert next to an anthill
As they said, you more than likely dream often but you simply don’t remember them. And you can totally do what his date does too.
To remember your dreams better and to gain control of what happens during your dreams, you need to practice lucid dreaming techniques.
I highly recommend Stephen LaBerge’s Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming. It has a great explanation of everything, different methods, and practice strategies to build up your skill. It taught me how to lucid dream and, at my height of practice, was generally having a very interesting dream life and remembering it often.
Other way around, have pretty good recall being a natural lucid dreamer. Near everyone dreams they either don’t remember and/or have a form of aphantasia and its not visual but uses other senses (which tbf is extra hard to remember if you’re used to a visual heavy world). I dream even on really small amounts of sleep like naps. I figure most people not remembering dreams is a mercy since a majority of my dreams are boring recaps of real life.
Are your recaps lucid? That seems like the opposite of boring to me but I guess I might feel differently if I experienced it every day forever
Generally no, my normal dreams are recaps, sometimes during a recap I’ll figure out I’m dreaming and then go off to do whatever I want, starting with a teleport the hell out of there, sometimes I just want to pester dream people representations of my psyche with annoying questions. I generally ld around twice a week with minimal effort, I have a coworker that lds every dream, not really jealous since we’re retail and sometimes she struggles with exerting control over the dream so she can get out of dream version of work to go have fun. Nothing like going home, sleeping, then finding yourself at work in your sleep, then having to wake up to go back.
I either don’t have dreams at all or don’t remember them. I only had dreams (or remembered them?) 3 times in my life, and all of them were nightmares.
In the first one I was falling from the sky and woke up when I hit the ground. In the second some a was drowning in some oily liquid and then woke up suffocating under my blanket, so maybe that was the cause of this dream. And in my last dream (it was ~2 years ago) I cut my sister’s head off and then cut my throat. The entire thing was realistic af and after I woke up I really thought I killed her and wanted to call the police :/
I only dream if I fall asleep after taking caffeine, but it’s basically guaranteed that if I have caffeine right before bed I’ll get something cool.
Dream journals help you recall more and more over time, fwiw
