6+ dreams a day?!

Okay so recently, i've been having some awkward nights, i haven't been able to sleep all the way through the night (sleeping 2-4am waking, sleeping until 4-7 waking and sleeping until 11 where i can no longer doze off). So i'll have 3 dreams, remember them and they'll be weirder than weird.

A few hours later, after not being able to sleep properly at night, i'll take a nap. During this nap, I'll have the 3 most vivid and strangest dreams I've ever known. These dreams feel like they last for literally hours and hours, when in reality i would've probably only crashed out for about 2-3 hours.

Somethign to note is i've napped with different music playing loud each time.

Does/has this happened to anybody else?

I'm not exactly lucid, but they're extremely vivid, I remember ALOT of detail and I even remember the surrounding colours etc aswell as exactly where i was.

Something i thought was maybe as th song changes, my mind changes the dream, but im not sure.

My record is 5 in one night. I don't nap at all through the day (unless I'm absolutely bored in class.) I don't know about you, but 6+ just seems amazing to me.

Music and other external effects can change the course of my dreams too. Sadly, I usually wake up to most of them. :roll:

I think it's quite unusual to recall that many dreams so clearly every night unless you've worked on your dreamrecall. It sounds as if you got good conditions to LD since you got good recall and wake up during the night. Maybe try working on WILD or/and DEILD? I had about 8 chained LD:s tonight after using WILD. Have you tried working on anything like that?

to have 6 dreams a night is geat but i myself am used to recording as much as 6-10 per every second night or so, i wake up adn just spew it all out onto paper and it all comes back to me its great!!!

Well we do dream up to 10 times a night.

My record is 5 :)

i dont really mean about the recall though lol

I'm sort of talking about the sudden influx of dream recall and vividness when the only thing changing is im only getting less hour of sleep which should really make things worse...

The wonders of REM rebound, eh? What is probably happening is that you are getting less REM sleep at night, so your naps consist almost entirely of REM sleep. It is generally accepted that the most vivid dreams occur in REM sleep, and the less you get at night the more you'll catch up in naps, if you are able to nap. This is why naps are such a breeding ground for lucid dreams for most of us. Your brain will often basically just go straight into REM sleep, cycling through the other stages of sleep rapidly.

I've had some of my most vivid, surrealistically realistic dreams during naps, or sleeping in into the afternoon, like today. I had some crazy, vivid dreams myself late this afternoon, with long drawn-out chase sequences, Spiderman-like agility, and gory evisceration.

Anyhow, naps tend to produce better recall quite often, as well, since you're typically waking at the end of your natural sleep cycle, instead of to an alarm, breaking in in the midst of a sleep cycle. The same could be said of the way you're waking up frequently during the night. And don't listen to anyone that tell you we dream at most ten dreams a night--my best recorded recall is fourteen detailed dreams in a night, and I get close to that fairly often. I recall an average of six to eight dreams every night, not counting those dull fragments that never go anywhere. I had to quit keeping a dream journal--it took too many hours out of my day to record my dreams in any kind of detail. It is completely possible to recall every dream you have, every night, with a bit of work and dedication.

An interesting experiment you might want to try, since you're napping with loud music playing anyway, is putting on something that mentions dreams, like Aerosmith's Dream On, on loop before your nap. Besides that, do reality checks right before you nap, and as soon as you wake from your nap, as false awakenings are common. As you doze off, mentally assert that you'll have a lucid dream, and if you wake directly from a dream, without moving or opening your eyes, ry to re-enter the dream lucidly (a DEILD).

Good luck!

My record for recorded is 5, but I remember waking up one time with at least 7 dreams and fragments, many of which I lost while trying to order them. =/

my record is 7 but lately i have benn having 5-6 dreams a night which is really pretty cool :D

My record's 6.

Just last night I was listening to music while I went to sleep, and I noticed that my thought process sort of followed the lyrics after awhile. Then I would realize that I was thinking nonsense and semi-wake up. I'd imagine music would influence dreams similarly (minus the waking up), but I can't think of any way one could test it...

Edit: No, I lied, I can think of ways to experiment with it.

my record is 9 dreams a night.. it happened when i was first learning lucid dreaming.. I studied it all day everday, and one morning i woke up and remember 9 dreams in full detail..

I can tell you afterwards, that whole day, my head hurt