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Originally Posted by Trebyn
Have you changed your sleeping habits at all? Waking up earlier, going to bed later, using anything that might increase grogginess or exhaustion?
If you don't think about your dreams shortly after waking, you will lose memory of them once you start moving around. Even when you used to always remember dreaming, you probably weren't remembering every single dream. You would have woken up multiple times throughout the night, but gone back to sleep within seconds and had no recollection of doing so.
Perhaps try putting a pad of paper next to your bed if you don't have one there already. As soon as you wake up, don't think about what you have to do that day or what happened the previous day. Instead, try to remain as motionless as possible while you attempt to remember and replay what you had just been dreaming. Even if all you can remember is "It took place in a forest", write that down on the pad of paper.
So long as you are waking up mindful of what you had been dreaming, your dream recall will improve over time. Not only will you remember more about your dreams, you'll also remember the ones from the middle of the night that would otherwise be lost. Back a couple years ago when I was more diligent in recording my dreams it wasn't unusual to have written down 4 or 5 every night. It's a fantastic resource for creativity.
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Originally Posted by LaborIntensive
Don't feel bad. I have so many and they are all so insane or just dumb. I have been half awake a lot recently. The dreams are easily remembered this way. Otherwsie when I was working I would sleep "hard" and not remember my dreams as I woke. Sometimes just a fragment. I wish I had them as I did as a child but without drugs or anything else they just went away around my mid 30's. Heck even in my 20's I guess but by my mid 30's I just told people I don't dream because to me it was as if that were the case.
I used to have dreams about flying, meeting fun people, being in awesome places. Now they are just insane. Nonsense conversations with people who in real-life would annoy the heck out of me, eating something I dislike, one time it was something about a biker gang daring me to eat glass or die, etc.
Who the heck knows where they come from. I have actually read books and watched 3 different documentaries on the topics but they have been no help to me.
Best wishes to you on dreaming.
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Wow like I seriously dont dream anymore. Really, I hope this isnt bad. Yes my sleep patterns are horrible. I mean it takes a long time for me to fall asleep due to rapid thoughts or overthinking. Sometimes a song keeps playing in my head, it can be very annoying.
I never wake up in the middle of the night. When I was drinking I would wake up in the middle of the night just feeling terrible. Im so happy that I dont feel that hungover middle of the night feeling anymore. I def have to get on a better sleeping schedule. I go to sleep really late or may I say early in the morning most of the time.
My sleep will be my next goal. I havent drank anything since november so I think my sleep is getting better, but I never remember dreaming. But as soon as I wake up my rapid thoughts take over and the songs come back in my head. Its really tiring and frustrating.