How many dreams do you have per night?

[M0rp8ix]

I have noticed that many of you guys are saying you have more than one dream everynight, is it that you actually wake up and go back to sleep and have a different dream or that your dream is just in sections? I dream everynight but my dreams are always very vivid and i have control over them, i have never had a dream where i cant control myself or at least some of my surrounding. and my dreams are usually epically long, like i get up and write in my DJ and it takes 2 pages of 11 font in microsoft word before i have listed most of the main things. I always have tons of people in my dreams and i cna remember 90% or so of my dream when i wake up. I dont think i have more than one dream everynight, i dont wake up during the night except to try fo ra WILD but my dreams are so long i dont think i could fit two of them into a night. so if you missed the question, I have one fricken huge detailed dream everynight yet alot of people say they have multiple dreams. are your multiple dreams short or long, and are they like detailed or what is going on with them?

[PeteB]

I usually have multiple dreams, although with a bad dream recall, I usually end up remembering just the last one (although I have improved enough recently to remember more than one a night by now) However, the length of them is random, sometimes they can last for a few minutes, sometimes seemingly longer. But that could be down to individual perception anyway. But from what I remember from A-level psychology a few years ago, we should dream during every REM session we have, and because we end up with more than one REM session a night, you should technically have more that one dream, even if you will only usually remember the last one. However, that could be completly wrong, like I said, its been a few years since I studied it. Perhaps someone else will correct/agree with me.

[Luminous]

I read somewhere that we have 4 dreams on average a night, assuming that we sleep 8 hours a night. I remember something between 2 and 6 dreams a night currently, on the nights where I sleep 7-8 hours a night. The more tired I am from the day before, the less I remember, and the less vivid the dreams feel. Those who tell you that they don't dream, lie. They just don't remember them.

[M0rp8ix]

hmm, my dream usually last a very long time like I am in a dream state for hours usually, do you think that maybe the different parts of my dream, like when i go from one place to another without reason or knowledge may be a break in my dream that i have just unconciously molded into one dream?

[Luminous]

I assume that it's possible to experience that a dream spam over several REM cycles, but that the dreamer doesn't notice the interruption when not waking up in between. I might also just feel like it's lasting longer than it acually is. In dreams, scenes might change and skip, making it feel like it's lasting for longer. At least that's my experience.

[M0rp8ix]

Whenever i wake up during the night i will do a RC then go back to sleep and what i have found is that i fall right back into the same dream nothing has changed. I have definately noticed though that there are usually 3 or 4 times during my dream that i have a gap where i dont know what happened or how i got there. and the time frame fo rmost of my dreams is pretty sonsistent like the amount of time i spend dreaming.

[Luminous]

Well, if I understood you correctly, you remember only like one dream a night, right? Sounds like that's what might be happening, the dream continues over several REM cycles. That's pretty cool.

[rebelscholar]

I have usually two dreams a night that are fairly long and can remember, but time is hard to judge in a dream for me. if i guessed, each one took about a half hour. i have a very profound dream maybe once a month, and have noticed some wickedly vivid dreams after a night of drinking hard liquor. As for control over my entire experience in dream (IE lucid), i have had only five i consider worthy of such a name. each was amasing, involving superhuman feats such as teleportation, strengh, human flight, and speed. I also am into music alot, but never dream of music (very rare) although i heard musicians seem to be sensitive to dream states.

[~Erin~]

hmm on average I believe I have about 3-5 dreams a night. THough, I think it's been said on average we dream about 5-7?

[Namio]

I normaly get a about 2 to3 dreams per night but only write down 1 to 2 of them as i have to get up for school, but I rememer almost all of my dreams that i have had from 2 months ago since i started my dream journal.

[Oros]

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.

[Überschall]

I recall three or four every night.

[Pastulio_]

My recall is pretty shaky. I'll remember three, then one, then zero, then four. The most I've ever remembered is six in one night.