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I only recently discovered that not everyone dreams the same and i'm a bit curious about how other people dream (Usually without trying)? A friend of mine said that she doesn't dream before she sleeps and i'm wondering how this works, i always dream before sleeping and i tried not dreaming and couldn't do it (need to practice) i was awake for hours, gave up in the end and went to sleep normally. Does anyone else not dream? :?
Magpie :yumdumdoodledum:
What your friend sees is powerfull HI. Hypgogic Imagery. It's not dreaming, but can appear like a dream. The difference is, that you can't take control over HI in the same way as a dream. However, you can use HI as a way to enter a lucid-dream.
I'm not sure I exactly understand what you are trying to ask.
If you are asking why some people dont see/remember dreams the answer is pretty simple.
An analogy:
Think of dreams as a radio station - unless you tune in the station you wont be able to hear it. Same thing is with dreams. Most people are naturally attuned to perceive dreams - they catch at least a glimpse of their dreams each night. Experienced dreamers and people taking supplements may fine tune the reception so they get more clear, vivid, long dreams, etc...
Now if something broke your tuning onto the dream station and you are not doing anything about it you are not gonna see dreams.
Lol, what the hell, a dream is what happens while your asleep, you cant have a dream while awake...
then what do you call day dreaming?? I'm sure that we have all zoned out at one point or another and visualized the day-dream. Happens in class often, haha! I think that day-dreaming is a type of dreaming while awake. Your mind is visualizing situations and I have gotten to the point several times where I can see my day dreams, I know I am not sleeping becuase once I realize what I am doing, I get out of the trance (not on purpose) and am sitting in my desk perfectly awake. None the less, I am slightly confused about the origional question being asked
Hi,
My question was a bid garbled wasn't it? I'd just come out of a 4 hour plant biology practical and then a big revision session so it all came out a bit backwards, lol.
My original question was mainly just me being curious as to the different ways/times/frequency that other people dream (not including lucid).
Well I just go to sleep and let my brain do the dreaming, if that's what you wanted to know? I don't know how many dreams per night, people say about 6. I usually wake up before the last dream, so I remember little pieces of 2 dreams almost every day. There is one sleep cycle each 90 minutes, as I understand there are REM dreams and non-REM dreams. I really wouldn't know the frequency, I guess it's around 6 dreams a night. I don't know what you mean as ways of dreaming. But I do almost always find little things in dreams that I did, see or hear the last day.
I'd call day dreaming more like imagining/visualisation/deep thinking, I mean a dream where you actually see, hear, feel objects etc. I think this guy is talking about visualisation. That'd be my guess.