Dreams without imagery - non-Rem dreams?
I have noticed that I have two types of dreams that do not involve any imagery.
Sometimes I have dreams which just consist of conversations between 2 or 3 people. Upon waking it is very hard to remember much of the wording. (A recent dream had 2 people talking about elements of normal dreaming and lucid dreaming, and how the elements worked in each. For example gravity - awake this didn't really make sense as gravity fails for me in both NDs and LDs)
In other dreams there is only one voice talking about something, like a dream lecture.
With both these types of dreams, I'm never sure if I'm missing out on usefull information, or just gibberish. (one dream lecture had something about downstream loss of signal consciousness, leading to normal dreams rather than lucid dreams).
Do you have dreams like this? Do you think they are non-REM dreams?
In one dream conversation I became lucid. That stopped the conversation, and I was just in an empty space with no dream body or imagery. I tried to visualize and wait for images, but eventually I moved one finger and awoke.
dream thoughts - not so bright?
Last night I had another dream conversation without imagery.
I am talking with someone about dreams and dream characters. It is explained to me by a metaphor the consciousness of DCs is like cyclinders :?:
So when I woke up at 3:10 and wrote this down, I'm thinking this is great. But in full waking consciousness its like dream jokes that used to be hilarious, but now are wtf?
One thought at night was that the metaphor was based on height. Taller DCs have more consciousness. Which mean that when I dream of 8 feet tall people they're the most conscious?
The other connection is to some posts by pasQuale about her conversations with DCs, where some have told her they are hollow (like a cylinder?)
The other part of the dream conversation was explaining that consciouness in dreaming is like multiple windows on your computer. As part of multi-threading on your computer system resources are divided among the windows. In dreams part of your consciouness is 'running' the scenery, part is performing the DCs, and part is yourself as a DC. To become lucid you need to unify consciousness. (I've added to the explanation which was more basic in the dream)
This metaphor seems better. But consciously I don't believe you need to unify consciousness to become lucid. In my MILD DILDs, I just need to start questioning the experience (or I just need to open my questioning window :-P )
So I was hoping for dream profundity, but seems more like sleep induced defective thinking so far....