Thread: Hello

Originally Posted by Enna

Hello to all!

Like always, before I start, please excuse my English which may be not so good .

Hey Enna, welcome For starters, don't worry- your English was absolutely perfect A lot of the members here are speaking English as a second or third or whatever language, too, and you did a great job

Originally Posted by Enna

Lately, I've become more and more interested about dreams, especially since I've discovered that my dreams are very intense. Is it normal that when I wake up to remember that I've felt different tastes and sensations in my dreams? As I've said, I remember tastes exactly and sensations (hungriness, coldness, pain) as well.

My normal dreams are the same way. I always just attribute this to pretty good dream recall, I think most people do not remember these dreams and that ones with such sensations are a little more rare than basic sight or sound, and so they are not remembered as often. Someone who is not fascinated with dreams and does not remember many dreams per night will probably tell you that such dreams are impossible, but I have them too I have no idea what statistic of people has dreams about a specific sense, though. I may have to look this up now, I'm curious

Originally Posted by Enna

But I have some problems - if I see something written in my dreams, when I woke up I remember than I knew what it was written, only that I don't remember the letters/words. This is so frustrating so if someone knows what can I do, I'll appreciate any advices

This can be pretty hard, and brings up a question... Have you ever had a lucid dream, or are you talking about non-lucid dreams? A lucid dream is one where you know you are in dream while you are dreaming, and those of us trying to learn to do this often use changing text to help ourselves realize it is a dream. I have found that reading something, then saying it out loud in my dream and telling myself to remember it will usually help me remember something very specific, but most of the time writing will change, be illegible, or just not make sense at all to begin with. Hopefully other people can offer you some advice, but that is all I have found to help me out.

Originally Posted by Enna

Another problem is: when I have to wake up really really fast & early to go to school I don't have enough time to remember my dreams. I've read somewhere that when I wake up I have to stay tranquil, and when I sit calm in the morning I remember my dreams perfect.

I have the same problem, and often I will forget that dream I had just before waking. Usually, I will remember at least a part of it throughout the day and can write that down and then maybe use it to remember the rest of the dream. You can also try to remember the dreams that you have earlier in the night, although this means that when you wake up at 2am you have to sit up and write one down! But it doesn't take too long to remember a dream. Maybe just wake up five minutes earlier, with a gentle alarm clock, and then have your regular waking alarm clock to make sure you don't oversleep as you lay there remembering?

Originally Posted by Enna

And another thing a person I've loved a lot died more than 1 year ago and I dream about her almost every night (the setting may be different, but the story goes the same). Is it normal? Should I be worried?

I don't think you should worry at all, and I think this is normal. Obviously, this is a person you felt greatly about and who you must miss quite a bit. Though we can't spend more time with those who have passed on, our dreams do allow us to revisit the memories of our loved ones. If you learn to lucid dream (which should be fairly easy if you are dreaming of this person so often), you can even be aware and conscious when they show up in your dreams and talk to them, to try to console yourself or just to give the person a hug. I for one think that having such dreams can be very therapeutic, so if you would like to know more about how to do this just ask

Thank you a lot!
When I was talking about the writings in my dreams I was referring at non-lucid dreams. I'm still in my non-lucid dreams period I'm going to try remembering better my non-lucid dreams and after this I'll try to experience some lucid ones (can't wait ).
I became fascintaed about dreams when I remembered'em in detail - if I saw some stairs or an old window I remember any detail of them - stains, how many colours I've seen, patterns - and this is so stunning.
I have read about how you can test your lucid & non-lucid dreams by reading something, and I'm going to try this as soon as I can. I hope it will work for me too, beacuse it's frustrating that I can remember every detail but words.
You were right about remembering a dream throughout the day - it happens to me too - in the morning, sometimes, I'm remembering only a part of my dream, and during the day I'm remembering more and more; or I just remember fragments of my dream suddenly.
Thanx again
Now I'm going to sleep and I hope to come back with good/interesting news

Awesome, glad to help! Good luck, hopefully you'll come back to tell me about your lucid