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?

  • DankZedong @lemmygrad.ml
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    8 months ago

    Some year and a half ago I gave a party and bought this cheap red wine in a box. The 3L kind. Party was over, one of the boxes had quite a bit left and I put it on a shelf for a while. After some months I started drinking it again because I thought: ‘it’s alcohol what’s the worst that could happen?’. I had the wildest dreams because of that wine. So vivid, so intense and so long. When the box was done I stopped having those intense dreams. I dream from time to time but I rarely remember it these days and it never really is that intense.

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    8 months ago

    I remember thinking the same a few years back but I definitely do dream these days. It’s very hard to remember them just a short while after waking. I suspect it’s related to some foods. Blue cheese seems to result in intense dreams.

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    8 months ago

    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 :/

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    8 months ago

    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.

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    8 months ago

    Yes, yes, yes, but no. I dream but I generally don’t remember any of them when I wake up. Sometimes, though. And more often with age it seems.

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    8 months ago

    i remember them semi-frequently, at least once every 2 weeks, or even once a week. Used to remember them almost every night when i was a kid, I’ve had a lot of wild nightmares, including several recurring ones. Luckily I don’t have hardly any outright nightmares anymore, although I probably still have one every few months. a couple years ago i started keeping a dream journal and started remembering them more and more frequently, until I stopped randomly, but I honestly think that’s why I even still remember them as frequently as I do. I should start keeping a dream journal again…

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      8 months ago

      Thanks! I chose it because Olaf Advance Wars looks like a mix between Stalin and Marx to me. I like seeing you around the fediverse too <3

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        8 months ago

        Hmm, usually not. Like 90% of the time I don’t remember dreaming at all. Maybe like 7% is that I remember the dream because someone IRL was yelling my name and I somehow added a character in my dream that yells my name, then I wake up. Maybe 3% of the time I can remember my dreams naturally. I used to write in a dream journal to describe my dreams the second I wake up, not anymore tho.