[misty324]

Good Morning,

I haven't dreamed for years - well, that I remember. I'm sure I have. But just about two weeks ago, I started remembering dreams every single night. Weird dreams, but not necessarily scary. Every night it's something completely different. And it's usually about familiar things or people, just in weird circumstances. It's really almost to the point where I'd rather just stay awake because it's like work to sleep. Kind of like having the TV on all night, you know?

I do have ADD too but I was doing a lot better with herbal meds and relaxation techniques. I'm just wondering what could have possibly triggered these dreams all of a sudden. Not really the dreams per se, but the lucidity of them since I know we all probably dream but just don't remember dreaming.

Nothing out of the ordinary has happened - no major events, lifestyle changes, tragedies, etc. The only thing I can think of is that they started about 2 days after a really hard hit to the back of my head. Long story, but I whacked it really good on the bathroom sink. It was just a typical concussion and no need to see a dr. I've heard of having sense knocked into you but having dreams knocked into you?? What could start something like this so quickly and consistently?

[Perna]

The hit on the head sounds like a good candidate. Everyone dreams but we don't remember very many of them. One can get better at remembering by working at it but looks like your brain has found another "on" switch :-)

The Wikipedia article on dreams and dreaming is interesting:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream

[Zorah]

fascinating misty & Perna ,

we have experienced this recently too, after having a long period where we had the same dream everynight, then a couple of years when we remembered no dreams, we have passed into a phase where our dreams are so vivid that we can't differentiate between the dreams & real memories. we can't place a thing like a blow on the head as having happened at that time, but we did go into a major thyroid storm which can cause just about anything.

We find the inability to differentiate between the dream memories and 3D memories very disturbing.