Thread: gaps in dreams?

Originally posted by dj0s
I was looking in my dream journal today and i realized that many of my dreams have \"gaps\" in them. For example i can be at one place at first and then i am at a different place without remembering how i got there. So I wonder are such gaps common things? Are the gaps a result of bad dream recall or am i rememberring many different dreams?

i suffer from the same thing. Often I cant remember what had happened between one dream setting to the another. Almost like i blacked out or lost conciousness, and then woke up in the next dream setting. I dont know what to make of it either. This even happens when i LD. I will still black out temporarily if i am changing the dream setting and most likely i will lose lucidity. thats why i avoid channging the dreams setting.

EDITh yeah..i forgot to mention. I once saw the dream setting change from a dirty street in the city to a very beautiful and clean beach. It just looked like the two merged. Like on one side there was the beach and the other side was the city. It was a little weird though, and im a little surprised that that didnt get me to question reality...

Its normally from bad recall. Dream can also change very fast. It is possible to walk across the street and go from the middle of the city into the middle of the forest in that time also. So what seems like a big gap might be a split second.

I remeber once I had a dream, I was in a building I looked out the window and I just appeared outside. If you don't have great recall you can easily forget that all you did was look out a window and it will seem like the dream just randomly changed.

This is a possible reason why time (even though time is an illusion) in dreams can move so quickly. Events and occurences are omitted and that's why you can spend an hour in the dream world, but have only slept for three minutes (standard time in dreams is twenty times faster than that of real world time).

In our dreams many thought and things we remember are all correlated together, while the logical parts of a brains are turned off, allowing are dreams too move randomly, from scene to scene, you could be walking through the park and then falling off a cliff. The logical parts of your brain are shutdown so nothing works in sequence, yet we accept it, even if something extremely wierd happens, which is why it is hard to get lucid.

That happens to me all the time. Often times it's after my first REM cycle when I wake up and fall back to sleep. Those dreams that follow usually have parts where there's a fade-out from one scene and a fade-in to another, with no really logical reason for the change. I don't think it's poor recall that causes that most of the time. I think that your subconscious (in its "infinite wisdom") may deem certain parts of your dream unnecessary and color over them. If you're crossing the street and eventually end up in a forest, your mind didn't think it was necessary to focus on crossing the street and you ended up doing something else.

i dont think i get gaps but for example:

im walking down the road with a dinosaur, the dinosaur turns into Frasier and starts talking to me about saving the chocolate milkshake of eternal bliss....

so my dreams change very strangely but i don't see anything strange in the dream! it sucks!