Thread: My dreams don't flow

Glad to know I'm not on my own with this, I guess its a recall problem. Another thing I have noticed is sometimes I will be viewing my dream in a first person perspective then it will switch and I'm like watching from a distance

i don't think this is at all abnormal--in fact, that's a great dreamsign. if, throughout the day, you are constantly thinking back on what you just did, if you can remember how you got to where you are now, and everything follows a logical timeline, etc, you'll probably be able to get lucid a lot. my dreams jump around constantly. i usually just record them as separate segments of one dream.

As everyone else has already agreed, this is very normal. People dream in different ways. This is just your way. I often dream in that manner, also. Don't worry about it.

Like everyone before me said, it's completely normal.

This happens because your dreams are not prescripted storylines. Each event in your dream happens because of your brain associating that with a previous event.
For example, your brain might somehow associate playing an arcade game with running down the street, and because your imagination isn't bound to the law of physics, your situation will change according to what you expected.

You should watch Waking Life btw. It looks more like a dream than like a movie, and you'll see the environment constantly changes from out of nowhere too. Apart from that you'll notice a lot of other dreamlike things happening (like things changing form very subtly). It's really pretty amazing. ^.^

Originally posted by Umbrella
This happens because your dreams are not prescripted storylines...

Another words, you suck at improv.

But yeah, no worries, a lot of mine are like that too. For what to write for the "gaps" I usually just put "unclearness here" or a questionmark or just a scribble. The worst part is that these dreams are hard to remember, because I usually work backwards starting with the most recent memory and asking what happened before that. If what happened before had absolutly no relevence to that, it makes things difficult. Sometimes I can remember many peices but can't put them in order...

Originally posted by Mark75

Another words, you suck at improv.

Lol! no really? i'm good at improv., but i get the same kind of dreams with many ellipses i have to fill in. Usually, dream recall never actually matches the dream itself because of the difference between visual/aural inputs and words.

These things happen, but it doesn't matter, just write the fragments down. Often if there's a spot where many things change then I just write "later..."

Like this:

I'm in an arcade playing on the slot machines. Later on I'm running down the street...

I do it like that.

The most important thing is just to write everything down, or at least something so you can remember it...

Originally posted by Mark75

Another words, you suck at improv. *

But yeah, no worries, a lot of mine are like that too. For what to write for the "gaps" I usually just put "unclearness here" or a questionmark or just a scribble. The worst part is that these dreams are hard to remember, because I usually work backwards starting with the most recent memory and asking what happened before that. If what happened before had absolutly no relevence to that, it makes things difficult. Sometimes I can remember many peices but can't put them in order...

hi,

what i do first is write down the parts i remember, even if its just little snippets. once i have those down, i put them in order that they happened, and usually that triggers me to remember other events that happened in between. a lot of the time i can end up piecing together the entire dream. just do your best to get everything you DO remember, and over time your recall should improve!!

That's what I often do, but many times I haven't the slightest clue what sequence they occurred in. Thanks for the advice, though.

My dreams happen like this though. It doesn't even seem a matter of recall. Just in general I am in one place and then all of a sudden the dream itself jumps to another place. I write the dream down as is though. "I am here, then I am there". Unless somehow I am not remembering the whole dream and there are pieces missing, I can't be sure of that though. To me it just seems like a movie, that jumps from one scene to another scene that is totally different, but with the same actors in that different scene. If that makes any sense.

Originally posted by CoOlCoL
I have started my dream journal and I am getting good recall, about three dreams a night. *The only thing that is annoying is that my dreams have pieces missing or to put it another way they don't seem to flow together. *One example of this: I'm in an arcade playing on the slot machines and then the next thing I know I'm running down the street * Is it me or is this normal?

i have had somm dreams like that the first time i lded but it will end and welcome.

Yeah, it happens a lot. I've never known for sure if it's a recall problem or if the dream really does skip scenes (probably both). I just write that I somehow or suddenly appeared in a different location, or that I wasn't sure what happened next, but then I was now doing something else.