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I've had a recent bout of memory loss when it comes to dreams. But I've been starting to remember them again. I kind of wish I didn't since they're so freaky and surreal.

Also, summer dreams are the worst.

 

[Eric C]

I only remember my dreams very rarely, I'd say maybe only a few times a year.

I used to remember them more when I was a kid.

 

[Hurley]

I can remember quite a few dreams going back 10 years now. Only the really vivid ones though.

 

[lj167]

I almost never remember my dreams. On the occasions when I do, which I could count on one hand in the last 4-5 years, I forget them within 3 minutes of waking up.

 

[-Pyromaniac-]

I went months and months without ever remembering any but then it came back for a while. Comes and goes.

 

[RPS37]

I almost always remember my dreams. They're amazing.

 

[Orbis Tabula]

At best, I remember like 1 dream a month. It sucks.

 

[commanderpepper]

Only dreams I remember are nightmares I had as a child.

 

[Skinpop]

try faking sleep problems and get some melatonin prescribed. It's safe, has no side effects(might be a bit tired the day after, that's all) and is produced naturally by the body. Usually given to older people with sleeping problems.

Anyway, I have legitimate sleeping problems and since nothing else works I take it sometimes, and when I do I get the most vivid dreams that stay with me all day. Worth a try, might even pop one now myself since it's late and I haven't had any fun dreams the last few days.

 

[Ultra Magnus]

Only on rare occasions do I remember what I was dreaming about.

This is me as well. The dream has to be something catastrophic or prophetic in order for me to remember it

 

[Turok_TTZ]

I have to get to my dreams to remember them. Sadly my mind would rather fight me instead.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis

^^ This shit makes me never want to sleep again.
Protip never open your eyes it leads to madness. I'm not sure what hallucination sits on my chest and beats the ever living shit out of me but last time I opened my eyes I almost had a heart attack. It felt like the darkness was going to swallow me whole when I woke up. You'd think after 10 years I'd be used to it, but I don't think you can get used to it.

On topic I remember my dreams occasionally, when I do they are vivid.

I get SP as well. I always open my eyes when it happens. Ends quickly if I get mad enough. Nothing weirder than feeling completely detached from yer own body.

 

[RangersFan]

You tend to only remember your dreams when you're half awake. So if you're a good well rested sleeper you're probably not gonna remember them. If you're a terrible sleeper who often wakes up and goes back to bed you might be able to recall dreams, albeit briefly before you forget them.

 

[Where's my goat?]

What I do after waking up and not recalling any dreams during the night is to close my eyes and go through a list of words in my head. Often a word like "water", for example, will bring up a fragment of a dream that I had during the night.

 

[Necromanti]

It varies for me. Could be once a week, or once a month. I often forget when I last dreamed, though, so I can't really say.

What I do know, though, is that every time I sleep on my couch, there is a 90% chance that I will remember my dream that morning (and often can recount several of them). This seems to have been consistent, too. The less comfortable I am (and I guess the less deep my sleep is), the more likely I have been to remember.

 

[dragonlife]

I remember dreams for the entirety of the day I had them and, if they're cool enough, they always stay with me in the back of my mind until I spontaneously remember them who-knows-how-long into the future.

I still remember both nightmares in my entire life that have made me jolt up from sleep and look around in confusion. I also remember most times I have sex dreams and with the person they concern, merely because sex dreams are a rare occurrence for me. And they're hot as fuck.

Speaking of waking up, when I was young I once dreamed I was in a winter wonderland with a Pikachu and lost it in a blizzard, so I was yelling out "PIKACHUUUUUUUUUUU!!!" and woke myself up because I was actually screaming it for real. I felt so embarrassed because it was loud and I was repeating it over and over in the dream, so I could only imagine how many times I said it outside of it and before I woke up. And, yes, there were people around to hear =/

 

[Charlie McCarthy]

I never have this problem anymore since keeping a dream journal. I know the OP says he has none at all so this isn't possible for him but those who just remember slight fragments, start with just writing down what you remember, no matter how little. Over time you will remember more and more, till the point im at now where it takes a long time to write my dreams out because of all the detail I remember in them.

Also with this, don't write down just what you seen, write how you felt as well. I have over a hundred dreams written out in detail and when you read over them you can often find common themes.

Also dreams do not happen in deep sleep. The best way I have found to "induce" dreams is to use the snooze alarm. Set an hour before you wake at 15 minute intervals. This is when I have very clear and vivid dreams. So those that never remember even having them, try this if you can.

 

[Cronnie]

It's been a few years since I can recall a dream, I've always put it down to the lack of sleep I've been getting.

 

[teruterubozu]

weed = no dreams

 

[GraveHorizon]

My friend claims he rarely ever remembers his dreams. Nearly every time I recount any of my dreams to him, he claims I have really weird dreams. I view it as his lack of dream recall taking away his understanding of how weird dreams are in general. On the rare occasion he does remember a dream, he only remembers short snippets of them, and they're about as weird as and random snippet from any random person's dreams.

 

[InvisibleKnight]

I don't.

There was a study that compared people who don't remember dreams with people who do and from a physiological standpoint scientists couldn't see any difference.

Then the candidates were interviewed and again there weren't differences. Finally it was asked "do you care about remembering you dreams?" and surprisingly people who don't remember their dreams answered "no" and the "dreamers" answered "yes". Easier than it seemed.

After the discovery it was asked to non-dreamers to concentrate on dreams as soon as they woke up and keep a journal. Most of them begun to remember and made progress in keeping memories of dreams.

I can't find the source right now but I did a research on this topic few years ago.

This tells you something about it:
Dream FAQs

 

[roosters93]

OP what about when you wake up in the morningbut are lazy and go back to sleep for a little while? I find I recall my dreams much more when I haven't been in deep sleep and am snoozing after being awoken.

 

[Log4Girlz]

What a bump. Anyway, I rarely remember them for too long, as they are nonsensical, and I always remember that there was more to what I actively remember. Having said that, it is very, very rare for me to merely go to bed only to wake up with absolutely no recollection of a dream. You know where you feel like "Dude I could have been dead that whole time". I always have some vague memory of having one at the very least.

 

[WesternHeretic]

Every morning when I wake up I remember 95% of my dream. Almost to every single world uttered, clothes worn, down to almost every single detail.

After my morning routine (shower, shave, etc..) I usually just remember the general story of what happened. A lot of days when I get into my car in the morning I try to figure out wtf exactly was the point of my dream.....

By the time I get into bed that night I just vaguely what happened or what I thought happened. And this just repeat every single day...

 

[Pharaun]

OP you're not alonem. I haven't been able to remember my dreams for almost 20 years. It's a bit weird because I don't even have the faint recollection that I was dreaming. I go to sleep and for the next 6-8 hours there's a whole lot of nothing, and then I wake up.

The last dream that I had was amazing though, I still remember it vividly nearly 20 years later. I was the star in a John Woo type Hong Kong action movie and I was running all over this city fighting bad guys and trying to find a briefcase. I guess my brain knows it can't top that and has stopped trying.

 

[plainr_]

I hear funny and clever catch phrases I've never heard of before in my dreams. Sometimes I wake up half asleep in the middle of the night and giggle.

 

[Fancy Clown]

I usually remember my dreams, which is awesome because they're so cool and weird

 

[7threst]

Sometimes when I wake up I remember parts of it. But it's strange, in the middle of the day I often try to recall what I dreamt about that night (when I remember what I dreamt when I woke up that is) but most of the times I can't recall a thing anymore. I should have a notepad next to my bed to write down what I dreamt. Which is often so weird that I probably feel stupid for even writing it down.

 

[Gentle Rodriguez]

If you sleep more than necessary you'll remember them more often, once in a light sleep dreams become more clear to you. And some study found out that people who write down their dreams retroactively become better at remembering them. I once even succeeded at a lucid dream that I tried for, just that one though. Lately I've been remembering a dream every night, not all good though.

 

[Booker Dewitt]

I didn't used to, now it seems like every other day I do. Which is a bummer, cause I usually feel shameful about the dream.

 

[terrisus]

OP what about when you wake up in the morningbut are lazy and go back to sleep for a little while?

I've never really been able to fall back asleep after I've woken up. When I was younger it used to be really extreme - where, if I would happen to get woken up at, say, 1AM after just a couple of hours of sleep, I would be up for the day - and while I'm not that extreme anymore, if the sun's up and I wake up, I'm up. I might lay there for a bit, but I'm definitely not falling back asleep.

If you sleep more than necessary you'll remember them more often

Well, that could be it too then. Since, I've never really slept more than necessary (and often times less than necessary)

 

[curlyfriski]

Maybe you're dreaming right now

 

[terrisus]

Maybe you're dreaming right now

Am I butterfly dreaming I'm a man?
Or a bowling ball dreaming I'm a plate of sashimi?
Never assume what you see and feel is real!

 

[White Man]

I dream multiple times per night, usually 2 or 3 separate or loosely linked things. I usually remember them if I make a point of spending a minute or so recalling what happened after I wake up. If I wait more than a few minutes I forget things. I usually only sleep 5-6 hours a night and I tend to wake up every 2 hours for a few minutes, so I think I basically have one dream session per 2 hour sleep session, more or less.

 

[dorkimoe]

I used to when I was a kid. 26 here. I don't remember them. I think mybe once a month I'll remember for like 3 seconds when I wake up. But I try and go back to sleep I forget and have no clue.

I also don't sleep very well

 

[Billy Lee]

I'm happy that I remember a lot of them, often in great detail.

One of my latest:
I was watching some kind of media (tv/newspaper), and a former prime minister of Norway, Kjell Magne Bondevik, came on. This is him:

He said that he had thought up a plan to create a million new jobs in western Norway. The plan was to let workers tie together two pikes (a huge fish) using an eel.

A million people would do this, and produce pike-eel-things in enormous numbers. These would then presumably be sold to someone.

 

[lastflowers]

Very rarely do I remember dreams, and if I do any actual specifics are forgotten by the end of the day. What I might be able to remember is a thematic bit.

Usually it's like I'm in school, or at work, or playing soccer and I wake up from moving my body like I would be in the dream. Kicking the end of the bed at 1/2 force is still really painful.

 

[phaonaut]

I had dreams once, but that was...*sniff*

A long time ago...

Bipson is that you?