Dreams in first REM period as vivid as those in the last?

**Bobblehat** · 08-12-2014 07:02 PM

Do you ever find that the dreams in your first REM period can be just as vivid as dreams in your last REM period before you wake in the morning? I find this sometimes. There doesn't seem to be a pattern to it or any way I can predict it will happen.

**Mystycal** · 08-12-2014 07:05 PM

For me, my dreams tend to get more vivid as the night goes on, but exception really aren't uncommon. Sometimes I get really vivid dreams in the middle of the night or rubbish snippets of dream imagery in the morning.

**OneUp** · 08-12-2014 07:18 PM

For me, all my dreams are the same vividness really. The reason I say that is because I had a lucid dream one night that was the first dream of the night. It felt just as real as any other LD to me. Of course though your level of lucidity, awareness, and everything else can play a role in vividness. However, if we are talking about vividness in the sense of the 5 senses, I find that all 5 are incorporated into my dreams that are later in the night. Seems as though it would only make sense because your mind is given more time to pitch in more into the longer dreams whereas the shorter dreams are- well really short, so there's not as much time to do so.

**FryingMan** · 08-12-2014 08:03 PM

My early morning dreams tend to be abstract and my memory of them foggy. But I've had some vivid first/second sleep cycle dreams that were clear and coherent, just not very many.

I think I experience all of my dreams vividly, it's just the memory fades, especially if you don't recall before you fall back into NREM. And early morning wakings, before my mind is rested enough, are a really hard time to summon the willpower to recall and record.