[gypsymama]

I am a person who has had perfect dream recall through years of practice and keeping dream journals as part of my spiritual beliefs. I would normally awaken everyday and remember at least fragments of my dreams that I could piece together and interpret. But, ever since a recent illness, which also caused my bipolar and psychotic symptoms to get out of control, my dream recall is completely gone. Poof, vanish, does not exist! Where did it go? I have been better for almost 2 weeks now, and my dream recall has not come back, and the sleepless nights and startling wake-ups are getting worse. It's been going on for about 2 months now. And I have not had a medication change at all, just antibiotics.

Is this a part of psychosis I wasn't informed of and I'm just losing my mind?

[perpetuallysad]

I don't think it has anything to do with you losing your mind. Though it could be part of your psychosis or just generally because you are at a difficult part of your life. I most always remember large portions of the many dreams I have during the night, but occasionally after a really hard sleep or a really bad day previously, I won't seem to remember anything. I wouldn't take this as a sign of anything so bad yet, well other than the fact that you are clearly pretty effected by your recent break and hospitalization.

Can you remember when you started to not remember? (Oh that sounds like a stupid sentence, but you know what I mean.)

[gypsymama]

Originally Posted by perpetuallysad

I don't think it has anything to do with you losing your mind. Though it could be part of your psychosis or just generally because you are at a difficult part of your life. I most always remember large portions of the many dreams I have during the night, but occasionally after a really hard sleep or a really bad day previously, I won't seem to remember anything. I wouldn't take this as a sign of anything so bad yet, well other than the fact that you are clearly pretty effected by your recent break and hospitalization.

Can you remember when you started to not remember? (Oh that sounds like a stupid sentence, but you know what I mean.)

I stopped remembering when the I started having fevers, about 2 months ago. I had a really bad kidney infection that required 2 rounds of antibiotics.

[Perna]

I think your physical illnesses may have superceded your dream recall for a bit; your physical body needs you more than your dreams can help. I don't think there is anything "wrong" with you/that. You don't need mental balance at the moment but physical?

We dream as many as 5+ times a night and as you have, one can train one's self to remember lots but I don't think we can remember all and other issues in our life may make dreaming harder/not as high on our list of things we need?

Hope you are getting better physically? It's hard to concentrate two places at once.

[gypsymama]

My dream recall just started coming back last night! I don't know why, but bam, I remembered when I woke up! Yay!

[perpetuallysad]

Yeah!! I'm glad, my dreams are very important to me; they are like my second life, sort of...

[Gojamadar]

Originally Posted by gypsymama

I am a person who has had perfect dream recall through years of practice and keeping dream journals as part of my spiritual beliefs. I would normally awaken everyday and remember at least fragments of my dreams that I could piece together and interpret. But, ever since a recent illness, which also caused my bipolar and psychotic symptoms to get out of control, my dream recall is completely gone. Poof, vanish, does not exist! Where did it go? I have been better for almost 2 weeks now, and my dream recall has not come back, and the sleepless nights and startling wake-ups are getting worse. It's been going on for about 2 months now. And I have not had a medication change at all, just antibiotics.

Is this a part of psychosis I wasn't informed of and I'm just losing my mind?

Hi,
I'm new on this forum however I have been studying my dreams for a long time. The normal state of affairs is to forget dreams, or just see the tail end disappear into oblivion. Dreams are remembered more often if they are created to solve a problem that happens in the sleep. The less dream recall you have, the healthier you are! Why worry?

[Perna]

Yay! I'm so glad you're doing better and back to your dream recall, gypsymama. I love dreaming too, it was one of the most important parts of my therapy.

There's a really neat, professional group that I used to belong to and enjoyed; you might want to check it out, The International Association for the Study of Dreams: http://www.asdreams.org/