What's Dreaming like?

United States
May 15, 2012 8:00pm CST
I feel that I'm one of many who don't have the ability to dream, because every time I go to sleep, I lay on my bed and only see darkness.(Me closing my eyelids) By the time I wake back up, I don't remember anything. I want to say that it feels like being drunk and then having that first blackout experience, but I have not tried it yet. Would anyone like to explain what it's like? Oh and, what was your first experience with Lucid dreaming (if you ever had one? :O)
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@lady1993 (27225)
• Philippines
24 May 12
I am the same as you--I don't recall dreaming at all, i can't remember anything.. Is that bad.. Why don't some people dream? It is just sad, since i think everyone should dream since all of use go through the REm stage.
• United States
27 May 12
I don't really think that it's a bad thing that people don't remember it, but I just feel that whenever I wake up I can't remember a single thing that happened within those 4+ hours of sleep; After all, If a person spends at least 6 hours of sleep everyday, then in general a 20 year old has used up 43,800 hours of his life to sleep. That means that in all those times of sleep, all of those dreams that you have for the most part are going to be different.
@gloryacam (5540)
• Philippines
16 May 12
Dreaming is wonderful! It's like your mind is creating your own movie. All of us dream. Unforturnately, for some people (like yourself), your conscious mind does not remember your dreams.
• United States
16 May 12
Gah... I remember those times back when I was a child in grade school and my teacher asked us what we dreamed of last night and to write it on a piece of paper. I was absolutely confused by this and saw all the other classmates of mine simply writing down what they had in their mind, and after five minutes we would have to share with the class. I unfortunately got the short end of the straws and had to present first. Being first though, did have its advantages. I could always think up of random things and let things go by, but it didn't completely stop to make me wonder until weeks later after I was reminded by my friend what I dream when I sleep. :S
@sayo13 (414)
• India
16 May 12
hello friend, dreaming is something which everyone does, and this is the best place where you can have all the things you want, but at times there are somethings which you see in dreams which you do not like. All this is the creation of sub-conscious mind. whatever you can not do in real life or you can not find in real life happens to come in dreams. many people love to dram and many of us love dreaming just because the dream world is in their own control and they can create whatever picture they want in dream. many people view what they fear most in dreams and they are supposed to see nightmares. but many of us hardly remember what they have seen in dreams, but many of us do remember what they have seen in dreams.
@rashme317 (250)
• Philippines
16 May 12
., there are some instances that people can't remember what their dreams are ., dreaming is a quite a cool experience it's as if you're the director of your own movie ., as for lucid dreaming well i can't remember if havingnone
@rayf227 (95)
• United States
19 May 12
I'm sure it hasn't always been that way. I'm pretty sure that as a child you dreamt. But I sure that you do dream, but just don't remember the dream.
@bharsil83 (114)
• Indonesia
24 May 12
If sleep does not want anything in other words do not remember my dreams, but I also do not think I was drunk. Take it easy not to think about.
• United States
16 May 12
According to studies, it is theorized that the majority of people do dream (or at least experience the sleep cycles associated with dreaming) but a percentage of those people may not remember what they dreamed in the morning. There are a few tips and tricks to improve dream recall that you could try looking up, I've read about them. I've never had trouble recalling dreams, I don't have them memorized to repeat. Dreaming is like a surreal, illogical mirror of waking life. You experience dreams with all five sense at times, though when comparing them with real life you may realize that your dream senses are fuzzy and less concrete. The dreamscape is a landscape that shifts and turns, most of the time without you noticing that anything is wrong. You can walk in one door and turn back and not find it there, but lots of times it doesn't bother you. My first experience lucid dreaming was when I was very young. I was having a dream where my parents were trying to load my sister and I into the car, but the car was all wrong. There were ceramic figurines lined up on all the windows, and the locks were strange switches instead of pull-tabs. The absurdity of the whole situation struck me, and I said out loud, "This is a dream!" My dream character parents argued with me, and I don't really remember what happened after that. When I woke up I remember thinking that I didn't know it was possible to realize that you're dreaming within a dream. If you're asking specifically about dream control, I'm afraid I haven't master that skill-set yet! I often realize that I'm dreaming within a dream these days. I think because I'm so interested in dreams, I'm very attuned to recognizing the dreamscape. I realize that I'm dreaming, and I can often stay lucid for long periods of time, but my dream world doesn't easily bend to my will. I find lucid dreaming to be more like exploring than controlling.