Thread: Can you distiguish between dreams?

Normally my dreams just fade away. Though in one, big letters said "END OF DREAM 1. WILL NOW PROCEED." Heh.

hahahahaha.

that's just the kind of ironic humor my brain might come up with.

my subconscious isn't exactly witty, though.

...Pity.

My dreams tend to change into something else.

Like in one dream, first I was having surgery on my ankle, and when I woke up, I walked out of the hospital and started searching for ancient Hawaiian artifacts...then that dream merged with another where I was stalking a Jeep from behind through tall grass with an assault rifle. Just weird shit.

Sometimes it's hard for me to distinguish which dream actually came first when I go to record it.

Most of the time I just wake up knowing where one dream ended and one began. however, i have dreams where i remeber wierd transitions from one dream to the next. For example, I had this dream where i was watching this geine flying around on this street and then i saw msyelf getting further and further away and the geine was on a screen. it was a movie of the geine flying on the street. and the movie ended and i walked outside to another different dream scene.

I can usually distinguish between dreams pretty well. Sometimes they fade into each other, but for the most part they're OK.

I agree with the level of recall determining, to some extent, whether or not I can distinguish dreams - at least some dreams. This happens more during nights of particularly surreal dreams. I don't know why I have certain nights filled with such dreams and then very clear and distinct dreams most nights.

For longer REM periods I recall the dream sequence backwards.

I remember episode D, then before that C happened, and before that B happened. However I often find segments which don't quite fit.

Last night I had a long dream sequence, and I remembered it well enough that I figured out that the parts that didn't seem to fit occurred as attempts to explain part of the dream or to distract me.

For example in one part of the dream my boss is wearing cut off jeans. (Extremely improbable). As I notice this in the dream, another DC appears to explain that my boss went running with X. (this is also improbable, but a previous boss did jog, and memory in dreams tends to blur things)

Then I notice there is some dirt on my boss's face, and there is a segment about another character who has fallen down due to drinking too much. (which I believe distracted me from the dirt my boss's face)

Before this dream, it was never as clear to me why events seemed jumbled.

Most nights I remember a number of dream segments, but the transitions and dream logic is not there.

Originally posted by BeautifulDreamer
Normally my dreams just fade away. Though in one, big letters said "END OF DREAM 1. WILL NOW PROCEED." Heh.

Hehehehe... that is REALLY cool. On a similar note, I swear, when I actually manage a lucid dream, my next big goal will be to have credits rolling, at start and finish, in all my LD's. I dunno if that's possible, but that would just be so flippin' awesome.

Anyway... do my dreams blur together? Here's my view, wrong though it may be.

Within any given REM cycle, we only have one dream... a perfectly vivid dream. The whole cycle is just one big vivid dream. What makes it SEEM like numerous, less vivid dreams is our memory of that dream... where the connections between two "segments" of a dream are totally illogical, or stupid, or just nbonsensical, our brain just "blots" the connection out, making it seem like we've had two or more dreams. Likewise, if a dream seems blurry, it's cos we don't remember much of it, not because it actually WAS blurry or non-vivid.

Meh... that's just my perspective... and of course, there's no way to prove or disprove it.

Originally posted by The Blue Meanie


Hehehehe... that is REALLY cool. On a similar note, I swear, when I actually manage a lucid dream, my next big goal will be to have credits rolling, at start and finish, in all my LD's. I dunno if that's possible, but that would just be so flippin' awesome.

Chainsaw Kitten says that sometimes her dreams do this...

Originally posted by Gwendolyn


Chainsaw Kitten says that sometimes her dreams do this...

Yeah, I noticed, but she seems to do it automatically. I wonder if there's a way to induce it? Like, before you go to bed, watch like an hour of movie credits on repeat?