Increased Dream Cognizance In Illness?

2 nights ago

I go to sleep. Now, in present tense, I recall vividly a dream. It is analogous in its notion to what I encounter EVERY night before I fall ill with a sickness bug. For the sake of completeness, I'll say that it was a specifically a dream that I was in the Army, and I was begging to leave and stop fighting in the battle, because it was making me feel very nauseous.

This was clearly where I physically felt nauseous too. I know why there was the Army connection, it was because before going to bed I was playing an Army PC Game. Alike all dreams before my illness really begins to show its symptoms, it is.. 'frustrating'. The dream was 'frustrating' somehow, because I could not leave this battle. Somehow all of these pre-symptomatic dreams are 'frustrating' to me some how.

1 night ago - next day

I recall two dreams. For the sake of completeness I may as well briefly outline them:

First Dream: I find myself getting a tattoo done by my local barber/hairdresser! It then proceeds to follow to a point where my father is complaining to me, telling me I had it put on the wrong arm, it should have been put on the left(!)

Second Dream: I find myself walking around an American city, foreign to me. Just exploring, not much more.

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None of these dreams were really lucid, but I recalled them really quite detailed and vividly. The fact that I'd even recall 3 at all in 2 nights is prodigious to me, vivid or not.

My question is: do you think that this unusual (at least for me) stint of increased recall (and its quality) could relate to myself being ill?

Transiently considering the ``external validity'' of my 'findings', I have correlated this heightened awareness of dreams to various other situations and environments I have been in, where I am about to be sick at night. Though not necessarily all cases resulted in good recall AFTER the sickness, I always had the vivid, 'frustrating'/'irritating' dreams before that sickness.

A vague, logical explanation for this could be that in being ill I cannot rest as well as I normally could when healthy, hence my consciousness remains more in sleep?

Many thanks to those who cared to read this behemothic post. :)

Yes, I heard many such reports.
I remember when I was young I was ill, and had a very long and vivid dream in which I visited an under-water realm. It is the first dream that I remember.
Your explanation could be correct, and also your brain metabolism is different when you are ill, with different levels of neurotransmitters and hormones, and this can account for difference in dream recall in vividness.

I had a cold last week and one night woke up remembering 4 dreams. That's probably a record for me.

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Yeah, before two nights i found i am ill and that i cant sleep without having temperature interupting me, so i thought that i wouldnt have dreams (i didnt even care, cuz i was thinking of being ill), but i had two lucids (or may be 3) and i remember them muuuch. It is probably, cuz your body is weaker or something like that. When u are ill u may even hear things or halucinate, but the dreams are pretty good.
Being ill = better dream recall