Thread: This is mindblowing!! Anyone else get this?

Originally Posted by Zenithar66

Then....Tonight i recorded a staggering 15 dreams!!!!!! 15, is that even possible? maybe some were the same dream?
I woke up and its like the dream floodgates just swung open and a torrent of nightly adventures poured from the dim rescesses of my dreaming mind! its like there are separate memory stores form dreams and non dreams...

Congrats! One day I hope to attain your amount of recall. You must have a good memory.

One question: how many words did you fill your journal with? (I don't actually expect you to count them, but my question is meant to get to the point I want to make.) Seventeen dreams is great, but if you ask me, how much you write in a night is the true measure of recall. The reason is because of how one defines what constitutes a discrete dream. What separates two dreams? A twenty year old who sleeps ten hours straight will accumulate about 2.5 hours of REM (40%). Ten hours of sleep means about six or seven rem cycles. So then, do you count how many dreams you had by how many times the dreamscape changes (perhaps 17 in one night would be accurate, then)? Do you count them by how many separate rem cycles you had, but then divide them up if you wake up during one? Say you woke up during half your rem cycles, that would mean you could have (7/2+7)=10 or 11 dreams in one night. If you never wake up during a cycle, then it means you could have 7 unique dreams. For this reason, I don't like to judge my dream recall by how many dreams I had, but instead by how much I write down.

Originally Posted by carwashguy

Congrats! One day I hope to attain your amount of recall. You must have a good memory.

One question: how many words did you fill your journal with? (I don't actually expect you to count them, but my question is meant to get to the point I want to make.) Seventeen dreams is great, but if you ask me, how much you write in a night is the true measure of recall. The reason is because of how one defines what constitutes a discrete dream. What separates two dreams? A twenty year old who sleeps ten hours straight will accumulate about 2.5 hours of REM (40%). Ten hours of sleep means about six or seven rem cycles. So then, do you count how many dreams you had by how many times the dreamscape changes (perhaps 17 in one night would be accurate, then)? Do you count them by how many separate rem cycles you had, but then divide them up if you wake up during one? Say you woke up during half your rem cycles, that would mean you could have (7/2+7)=10 or 11 dreams in one night. If you never wake up during a cycle, then it means you could have 7 unique dreams. For this reason, I don't like to judge my dream recall by how many dreams I had, but instead by how much I write down.

First off thanks for the reply.

I think your points are very intersting and it does call into question the distinction between what is actually a separate dream as opposed to 2 that led into each other.
And judging your dream recall by amount of words? hmm, i never actually thought of that..

my dreams in my journal today take up 1804 words...that was 17 apparently distinct dreams and at least 10 that certinaly were...

the night before was 1720 and that was 15 dreams!

i have never before be SO connected to the dream world, i mean ive had periods of great recall but this is something different, almost like something has changed , i am effortlessly remembering so much material and holding the imagery in my head for...well most of my dreams even from 3 years back still present strong imagery in my head..

I think i am answering your above question when i say, I generally wake up after about 5-6 hours sleep, then recall a few dreams, then the real fun starts, i keep waking up every hour and a half or so for the next 4 -5 hours at times and each time remember more!
of course my sleep cycles are very erratic sometimes for weeks on end so i have no definite way, many times i will wake up just the once in the late morning and remember lots of dreams..I am making it now my goal to never not remember a dream!

Oh and how i got those word counts is after I write the dreams in my physical journal upon waking, i later transfer it mostly word for word to my dream journal on the PC!(word count baby!)
which is getting rather chunky at 280 pages, i am now able to conduct VERy intersting surveyes to check for dreamsigns, enviroments I find myself in most and of course surveys of lucids and how many times i have entered SP!!

anymore questions I'll be glad to answer, and good look with your dreaming!

if you feel you had 17 separate dreams, then you probably did. or another way of looking at it is 17 chapters in one story. also, time is very different in the dream world than it is in waking life. You can have over an hours worth of experiences within a short interval of 15 minutes. This tells us that the human mind is capable of processing and consolidating information at incredible speeds and can share it with us in a sensory format. also, it doesn't matter how dreams you think you had, because i suspect that the human mind never stops dreaming, it is just that during REM sleep that the typical person is able to recall a dream.

17 dreams in a single night is brilliant! You must be having some hell of a REM period to be able to fit that much in Is there any change in diet or habits recently that you could possibly attribute to it?

Wow! 17 dreams in amazing! How long were you sleeping those nights?

pretty sure 40% of 10 is 4 but he said he stayed up for 24 hours straight, meaning he could have slept for a long time, but I would say at the most he could have had about 8 sleep cycles (12 hours worth :O)

Originally Posted by morethanadream

if you feel you had 17 separate dreams, then you probably did. or another way of looking at it is 17 chapters in one story. also, time is very different in the dream world than it is in waking life. You can have over an hours worth of experiences within a short interval of 15 minutes. This tells us that the human mind is capable of processing and consolidating information at incredible speeds and can share it with us in a sensory format. also, it doesn't matter how dreams you think you had, because i suspect that the human mind never stops dreaming, it is just that during REM sleep that the typical person is able to recall a dream.

very interesting thoughts...i agree that it could be 17 chapters in one story. It was an amazing night to be sure!

you musings on the human mind there are very interesting too, it does seem one can process information many times faster while apparenly asleep. I've had teh experience many times of awakening after having solved a problem in my sleep.

I've done something like this by DEILDing from LDs. You can chain them together then. I think I had around 12 dreams on a couple different occasions.

Mine is deep. I have a recurring lucid dream, but its as if I have an entire separate life elsewhere--I have a home a career and a family, and when I wake up I miss them...