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How do you decide when the last dream ended and the next one started?

Dreaming is kind of continuous... I personally can't tell where the ends\starts are, only if there's a gap in the memory and there was a change of environment, then it seems that there are two different dreams. But the plot is kind of a continuation of the same or an off-shoot, so it's hard to say!

Damn, congrats deepsleep! I'll say your recall is improving. I've gotta get my numbers back up that high!

Originally Posted by Arutad

How do you decide when the last dream ended and the next one started?

Dreaming is kind of continuous... I personally can't tell where the ends\starts are, only if there's a gap in the memory and there was a change of environment, then it seems that there are two different dreams. But the plot is kind of a continuation of the same or an off-shoot, so it's hard to say!

I have no trouble doing this. For me it's almost exactly like remembering specific books in a series. You know they all happened in an order, and you can just remember and distinguish which series of events occurred with which other ones, and even if you can't remember how they started (usually it's not hard for me to remember how a dream ends), you have a notion of whether or not it was the continuation of another dream memory, or if it was another dream altoghether. I'd say that yea, that means you could be misinterpreting a lot of your dreams as multiples, except that sometimes a memory from the beginning of the dream or the end will come to me later in the day, and I'll be able to reconcile the memories with the help of a dream journal and figure out how many I am actually able to remember.

Plus if you wake up after each, run through it in your mind, and go back to sleep it's pretty easy to keep them segregated.

Originally Posted by Shift

Damn, congrats deepsleep! I'll say your recall is improving. I've gotta get my numbers back up that high!

aha it is

So do you wake up between every dream and go through them every time you wake up, or do remember more than one at the same time?

Originally Posted by Edo

So do you wake up between every dream and go through them every time you wake up, or do remember more than one at the same time?

How is waking up after every dream possible, though? If you're lucid then maybe, but I can't picture what would make you wake up after every normal dream!

Well that's what DEILD'ing is all about isn't it?

Originally Posted by Edo

Well that's what DEILD'ing is all about isn't it?

DEILDing won't make you wake up after every single normal dream, will it?

Originally Posted by Edo

So do you wake up between every dream and go through them every time you wake up, or do remember more than one at the same time?

noo,
when i woke up in the morning, and got up i started remembering them all..
they were not lucid

Originally Posted by Shift

you have a notion of whether or not it was the continuation of another dream memory, or if it was another dream altoghether.

Hm, I don't have a notion, every time I'm remembering a dream it's like it's the only one continuous dream.

But I'd like to read some description of a few dreams without gaps of memory in-between, to see how you separate them. You have a dream diary online with such a description maybe?

I'd say that yea, that means you could be misinterpreting a lot of your dreams as multiples

That's the problem! If new characters walked into your room and you started socializing, would it make it a totally new dream... I don't know. If you went out of your house into the street, would it be a new one... No idea. I guess no. The boundaries are blurry, if they even exist, no definite "plot" to come to end. Except probably dreams of death, but luckily I didn't have any.