DO you dream ? At night etc..

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

Anyone else sleep walk apart from me?

Twice in recent weeks, Mrs Weeksy has stood up, opened the curtain, closed it again, got back into bed.

If she does it again i'm setting her on fire in the garden on the grounds she's a witch.

She's signalling her lover

[stray cat]

I also have lucid dreams where I realise that I'm dreaming, which is a lot of fun because you can fly and do all sorts of fun stuff.
I had one last week where I was in a shop and I realised I was dreaming, so I started to try to fly but you have to really concentrate on it, even though you know you're dreaming you can't just take off, it's a mental thing and you have to will yourself to fly - anyway I was practising and accidently kicked a bloke in the head whilst he was shopping, he was really angry about it

I have dreams just like that, where if I concentrate really hard I can fly. It’s more like swimming in the air though, and you have to concentrate really hard all the time. I am not aware I am dreaming though.

Most of my dreams are about trying to get somewhere (like across town in a foreign city) and encountering lots of obstacles. Also rivers and canals feature a lot, usually with some kind of “issue” like imminent waterfalls and slippery pontoons

I had a dream once that was all in rhyme; I was really impressed with myself.

[Greenman]

Depends if im sober or not.

The more sober the more vivid the dreams.

Normally good tbh.

I find i have the most mental dreams if i sleep on my back, and they always have relations to 2 or 3 places and include people i know, or have known in the recent times.

If you don't dream your not REM sleeping and you need to get help*... - as im obviously an expert on sleeping!

* - or your battered al the time and if thats the case you get my respect...

[Wossname]

I have vivid and really interesting dreams, tho my wife doesn't agree when I try to describe them to her. Problem is, they're often interrupted by me needing to get up for a wee. I try not to wake up properly while I'm weeing to preserve the interesting dream, but it never works. I suppose I could try not getting up, but there'd be consequences.

[Scotsrich]

I can remember tiny bits of dreams but never any story behind them.

One odd thing is a lot of my dreams take place in the little village that I grew up in. Maybe going back to a more carefree time in my life.

BTW never try and describe your dreams to your partner. They are seriously not interested.
My wife describes her dreams to me and she can relate dream conversations word for word.
20 years together and I haven’t had the heart to tell her I couldn’t give a monkeys.

[demographic]

I used to have good flying dreams when I was a kid, started out small and I could only fly over a wall of our back field but the last one I had (when I was maybe 20) I was a few hundred feet above the Pirelli tyre factory.

I've been told by various yogurt weavers about the supposed meaning of them but it always sounded like shite to me, I just fancied the idea of flying I guess and it was always over an area I knew reasonably well.

Nowadays? Not so much, I hardly ever remember my dreams. Dunno why.

[Yorick]

Sometimes in my dreams, I say or imagine things far cleverer than I could normally talk about. I wake up surprised. Maybe the subconscious is clever than the bit of brain that I use normally ?

[demographic]

I cant fight or run in a dream. Probably as legs and arms are under the duvet but never landed a meaningful punch and plod always catch me

Think theres something that stops people thrashing about in their sleep, an evolutionary advantage I guess.
Anyway it carries over into their dream agility so in short it seems it was a good thing I was a glider flyer instead of a flapper flyer.

[Skub]

Back when I was still drinking,a mate had his own still and made spiced rum. Man that stuff was lovely,but it gave me dreams like something out of an HP Lovecraft story.

I recall dreams the odd time,mostly just disjointed brain farts,rather than memorable.

Usually it's head hit pillow,die,then hours later wake to live again.

Long may it continue.

[Bwana]

We all dream, i just never remember them

ISTR if you dont have REM sleep and dream you go proper batshit. Even if you don't remember your dreams you must be having them, assuming you're not in hospital.

But then again, I could be remembering that fact from an episode of Star Trek.

I find that I wake up being aware of my dreams and what was going on in them. But if I don't give them much thought I have no idea what the hell was going on in them a few hours later, just that they were either nice, odd, or WTF is going on inside your head kind of shit. In times when I'm stressed I get the weird ones that indicate your life is out of control (like having a lot of really weird teeth that are all falling out while I frantically attempt to put them back in). Fortunately I've not had one of those since I opened my own clinic rather than work for someone else.

Lately I've been dealing with family shit and workers who don't seem to think they need to exercise caution when it comes to COVID, so the stress dreams are coming in but not anywhere near as bad as they were when i was working for the last two vets in my career. Just weird shit that I wake up thinking, where the hell did that come from and WTF does it mean. Yet I couldn't give you the first detail about them right now. The teeth falling out dreams did stick though as they were really fucked up weird.

[Bwana]

Anyone else sleep walk apart from me?

Though it sounds like a dangerous mixture, dreaming of murdering people and sleep walking, the worst I've done is when I lived in a flat is slept walked out of my flat into the common hall area naked, my female neighbour was quite surprised.

I almost strangled missus Bwana while we were sleeping one night many years ago. We were visiting her father and had all been sitting around chatting before shoving off to bed. One of the last topics was about biting into food and finding things, like biting an apple and finding half a worm.

Missus Bwana and I were spooning in our sleep. I had this dream where I felt something crawling round in the back of my throat, reached in and pulled a worm out. Then I felt more, pulled them out. It turned into the geometric progression from hell where I was scooping one handful of worms after another. Sometime during all of this missus Bwana started to have nightmare that someone was attempting to strangle her. I woke up and she had both of her hands around my wrist pushing my hand away from her face with all of her strength. I tend to sleep with my back to her now.

[Wreckless Rat]

I sleep walk, sleep eat, I’ve even driven my car... it’s shit tbh and would do anything to find a way out of it as it’s dangerous as fuck, the stuff I do.

I’ve drunk fabric conditioner thinking it was milk, cut my hand open really badly with a kitchen knife, electrocuted myself, and driven my car....and much much more all while sleep walking.

[stray cat]

I sleep walk, sleep eat, I’ve even driven my car... it’s shit tbh and would do anything to find a way out of it as it’s dangerous as fuck, the stuff I do.

I’ve drunk fabric conditioner thinking it was milk, cut my hand open really badly with a kitchen knife, electrocuted myself, and driven my car....and much much more all while sleep walking.

Oh wow! Feel for you . Do you remember any of this when you wake up, or just make assumptions from the evidence?

[Wreckless Rat]

I sleep walk, sleep eat, I’ve even driven my car... it’s shit tbh and would do anything to find a way out of it as it’s dangerous as fuck, the stuff I do.

I’ve drunk fabric conditioner thinking it was milk, cut my hand open really badly with a kitchen knife, electrocuted myself, and driven my car....and much much more all while sleep walking.

Oh wow! Feel for you . Do you remember any of this when you wake up, or just make assumptions from the evidence?

It’s odd... sometimes I have a vague recollection, sometimes I know nothing about it until I find the evidence.

I’ve woken up outside my house, stark bollock naked, when I lived in the centre of town, with no keys and no way back in. I only knew I had been out in my car because my car was “dumped” half in the drive and I had smokes.... I didn’t go to bed with.

I often find things like the oven glove buttered and an attempted bite, a half eaten raw bacon sandwich, milk in the sugar pot, cold cups of tea made with cold water etc

Being electrocuted, yeah that woke me up, as did drinking fabric softener and slicing my hand open.

I’ve been trying to climb in the wardrobe and my missus has rescued me and put me back to bed etc.

It sounds funny, but it drives me mad and fucks your rest up badly.

[Saga Lout]

I also have lucid dreams where I realise that I'm dreaming, which is a lot of fun because you can fly and do all sorts of fun stuff.
I had one last week where I was in a shop and I realised I was dreaming, so I started to try to fly but you have to really concentrate on it, even though you know you're dreaming you can't just take off, it's a mental thing and you have to will yourself to fly - anyway I was practising and accidently kicked a bloke in the head whilst he was shopping, he was really angry about it

I have dreams just like that, where if I concentrate really hard I can fly. It’s more like swimming in the air though, and you have to concentrate really hard all the time. I am not aware I am dreaming though.

Most of my dreams are about trying to get somewhere (like across town in a foreign city) and encountering lots of obstacles. Also rivers and canals feature a lot, usually with some kind of “issue” like imminent waterfalls and slippery pontoons

I had a dream once that was all in rhyme; I was really impressed with myself.

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BTW never try and describe your dreams to your partner. They are seriously not interested.
My wife describes her dreams to me and she can relate dream conversations word for word.
20 years together and I haven’t had the heart to tell her I couldn’t give a monkeys.

Not just your partner. Don't describe your dreams to anybody, they're boring. See above.

[demographic]

I sleep walk, sleep eat, I’ve even driven my car... it’s shit tbh and would do anything to find a way out of it as it’s dangerous as fuck, the stuff I do.

I’ve drunk fabric conditioner thinking it was milk, cut my hand open really badly with a kitchen knife, electrocuted myself, and driven my car....and much much more all while sleep walking.

That must be bloody awful, I heard something on Radio 4 about a year ago about people sleepwalking and sleep driving but if I remember right I was driving to work when it was on and missed some of the programme.

Something about the part of the brain that controls motor functions being dampened down during sleep and generally wakes up at the same time as the rest of the person.
With some people (likely you included) it doesnt always happen in that order and the motor function part wakes up early so they can move about before the rest of the brain wakes up.

Actually, reading that back through I've just stated the bleedin obvious but there were a few people talking about how it had affected them and it made things hard work for them and their partner.

[Buckaroo]

If I wake up an hour before the alarm and then kind of nap again until it goes off I'll have some bonkers dreams.

But I don't recall any of my dreams from proper deep sleep.

Mot of my dreams seem to be about finding a toilet.

That's exactly what happens to me, minus the toilet part
I also remember these dreams in fine detail and think about them during the day. I'm wondering if I can create my own box set and dream for more than an hour

[Buckaroo]

I dream, active dreams, dreams i can recall in great detail, every single night.

Last nights was comical as Flicker was in it driving a tractor, crashing into haybales down some country lane. In the end he fell off the tractor but was saved as he fell on a haybale

But very vivid dreams are common for me

Mrs Weeksy can't actually recall the last time she had a dream.

Great topic

[Wreckless Rat]

I sleep walk, sleep eat, I’ve even driven my car... it’s shit tbh and would do anything to find a way out of it as it’s dangerous as fuck, the stuff I do.

I’ve drunk fabric conditioner thinking it was milk, cut my hand open really badly with a kitchen knife, electrocuted myself, and driven my car....and much much more all while sleep walking.

That must be bloody awful, I heard something on Radio 4 about a year ago about people sleepwalking and sleep driving but if I remember right I was driving to work when it was on and missed some of the programme.

Something about the part of the brain that controls motor functions being dampened down during sleep and generally wakes up at the same time as the rest of the person.
With some people (likely you included) it doesnt always happen in that order and the motor function part wakes up early so they can move about before the rest of the brain wakes up.

Actually, reading that back through I've just stated the bleedin obvious but there were a few people talking about how it had affected them and it made things hard work for them and their partner.

I won’t lie, it’s pretty shit. Drs won’t even give you sleeping pills very easily now, not that’s a long term solution but it ‘can’ get you back into a routine of more sleep, less walking etc.

Valium helps - but again, not a long term solution, and drs definitely avoid handing that out. I have bought some on line in the past to get back into a sleep routine - but then you hear/read horror stories of people buying rat poison made into pills.

I sleep walk to some degree most nights....

[Mussels]

I can remember tiny bits of dreams but never any story behind them.

One odd thing is a lot of my dreams take place in the little village that I grew up in. Maybe going back to a more carefree time in my life.

BTW never try and describe your dreams to your partner. They are seriously not interested.
My wife describes her dreams to me and she can relate dream conversations word for word.
20 years together and I haven’t had the heart to tell her I couldn’t give a monkeys.

I always want to know how my wife's dreams went, it sets the tone for the first couple of hours. Last night she got sent down for two weeks in prison covering for something I had done, she got into a few fights inside so was pissed off with me for it.
She couldn't remember what it was I was meant to have done.