Thread: How many dreams do you have per night?

i think the amount of dreams can change from night to night.
I heard a while ago that you useually dream 5 dreams each night, but i don't know if that is true.
I have been able to recall up to five dreams from one night.

I recall three or four every night.

I think I wake up about 4 or 5 times every night, remembering a dream and writing them down in my journal. This is when I have not drank alcohol, or smoked hash. If there is hash in the game, I have complete blackout, and don't wake up during the night. I also don't remember one single dream in that occasion. With alcohol...depends on how much If not too much than about 2 or 3 maybe.

Feist

I woke up twice last night and got a total of 4-5 dreams. usually its about 2-3 dreams per waking up, depending how easily i can remember them.

Egad, the number I remember varies extremely by pre-sleep setup. Without any attempts to recall dreams or go lucid, I remember none to maybe three. When I do make an attempt, I'm usually guaranteed one to three recalls. My record was like five (that was indeed a good night for me!)

As a total, my goal is fourteen per week. Last week I recalled a tantalizing 18 dreams, though some lower weeks have eight or nine. Average is around ten, which means I'm close to the goal.

When it comes to chain dreaming, I've done those, and I understand the description of the void between scenes that can't be quite explained. Those are kind of annoying because it's not easy to distinguish individual dreams, thus distorting my count. It's also odd in retrospect seeing the same plot and characters, but then it's a while new scence.

To straighten some things up:

As was said, you dream during each REM-cycle. You'll get about five of these during 8 hours of sleep, and they'll last longer as the night goes on, while your delta sleep (stages three and four) get shorter. Those people who think they don't dream or have only one dream a night, simply don't remember more than that.
During the other five sleep phases, you normally won't have any dreams, though non-REM dreams do occur. However, these are often very different from normal dreams in that they're not nearly as clear.

Of course, it's technically possible for the topic of your first dream to continue once you reach the later REM phases. Of course, whether or not this is the same dream depends on your definition of same.
If you dream about the end of the world at first, and about pink dinosaurs playing quidditch later, but this all takes place in the same REM period (i.e the dream has not stopped, but was suddenly transformed) it's still the same dream, if you ask me. That means that even if you dream about the same thing in two different REM periods, it's not technically the same dream.
Of course, this is just my view, and I don't get to decide in which of these two scenario's the dream actually stays the same.

Either way, in practice, the above question isn't too important. This is about how many dreams you have a night. I can pretty much assure you that your long, epic dreams are simply dreams of, at the most, half an hour in real life. A lot of things can happen over a period of 30 minutes in a dream, and you're lucky enough to dream vividly and remember a lot of it.

If the setting of your dream actually would reform in a next REM period, you shouldn't actually notice anything like a break in between, because in the other sleep phases, you're normally too deeply asleep to be conscious at all. It's like turning a video camera on and off, and on again. It won't have recorded what happened while it was off.
I'd say the breaks you remember are a result of your conclusion about the seperate REM periods. this made you expect to experience short breaks and so they were there, as with all things in dreams.

Now to stab myself for my inability to write short posts.

Originally Posted by Umbrella

To straighten some things up:

As was said, you dream during each REM-cycle. You'll get about five of these during 8 hours of sleep, and they'll last longer as the night goes on, while your delta sleep (stages three and four) get shorter. Those people who think they don't dream or have only one dream a night, simply don't remember more than that.
During the other five sleep phases, you normally won't have any dreams, though non-REM dreams do occur. However, these are often very different from normal dreams in that they're not nearly as clear.

Of course, it's technically possible for the topic of your first dream to continue once you reach the later REM phases. Of course, whether or not this is the same dream depends on your definition of same.
If you dream about the end of the world at first, and about pink dinosaurs playing quidditch later, but this all takes place in the same REM period (i.e the dream has not stopped, but was suddenly transformed) it's still the same dream, if you ask me. That means that even if you dream about the same thing in two different REM periods, it's not technically the same dream.
Of course, this is just my view, and I don't get to decide in which of these two scenario's the dream actually stays the same.

Either way, in practice, the above question isn't too important. This is about how many dreams you have a night. I can pretty much assure you that your long, epic dreams are simply dreams of, at the most, half an hour in real life. A lot of things can happen over a period of 30 minutes in a dream, and you're lucky enough to dream vividly and remember a lot of it.

If the setting of your dream actually would reform in a next REM period, you shouldn't actually notice anything like a break in between, because in the other sleep phases, you're normally too deeply asleep to be conscious at all. It's like turning a video camera on and off, and on again. It won't have recorded what happened while it was off.
I'd say the breaks you remember are a result of your conclusion about the seperate REM periods. this made you expect to experience short breaks and so they were there, as with all things in dreams.

Now to stab myself for my inability to write short posts.

hmm, very interesting. I would have to say that in my case when i say a different or another dream happens the entire scenario changes. What i mean to say is that when they transition the entire dreamscape changes, no detail is the same, all of my DC change, well most of them, and the plot of the next dream is non-linear to the previous dream. It is as if i jump from one dimension to the next where each place is completely different.

The whole thing with walking through a door and having my dream skip to the next one i believe now was just my mind trying to put something there so it wouldnt bug me as much. I think that now because last night I wasnt looking for a change, although i did have moments i cannot recall where my dream ended and a new one started, but they were just empty spots not an actual transition scene. So who knows, i dont wake up during the night, unless i am going to WILD that night. everyother night i sleep straight through till morning.

I remember so much detail about my dreams, and i am not quite sure why. I have complete control over my actions and have only a few times had it where i watched from afar basically. I don't however have very much control over my surroundings, like if i concentrate really hard i can manipulate my dreamscape and break the natural laws. But it takes a lot of mental power and i tend to wake up somewhat soon after or i lose enough control that it is pointless to keep trying. I have used enough energy before that i just wake up or it all goes black. but i never actually have to do anything to realize i am dreaming, i just am aware that it is a dream and that i am no longer held by moral or most physical laws. I have only on a few occasions had a dream where i had complete control, but that was amazing. so i think i naturally have a good ability to LD but not enough to control it yet

Oh, and i do understand how fast time in a dream can pass, i had a huge dream before and woke up feeling exhausted it was so long, there were no breaks and i could see and remember all teh detail, but it was only like 10 min in real life. so i know what you mean about the time frame being skewed in dreams.

P.S. If anyone would like to give me a few pointers on the WILD technqiue i am having some difficulties with it. Thanks

Recalled 4 this night...