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The DreamBank, a collection of over 20k dream reports

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Re: The DreamBank, a collection of over 20k dream reports

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Post by warent »

I'm curious to know if frequency of dreaming correlates to anything. Most people I talk to "rarely have dreams" (probably meaning they just dont remember them).

For some reason in my case I have a vivid dream every night, sometimes multiple per night, and can't remember the last time my sleep was dreamless.

I've heard keeping a dream journal can help you remember/have more vivid dreams, but I only write my dreams down it it affected me very strongly so I can interpret what my psyche is saying, so this only happens maybe once every few months.

So what gives? Why do some people dream a lot more than others?

Re: The DreamBank, a collection of over 20k dream reports

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Post by codetrotter »

warent wrote: post #2

I'm curious to know if frequency of dreaming correlates to anything. Most people I talk to "rarely have dreams" (probably meaning they just dont remember them). For some reason in my case I have a vivid dream every night, sometimes multiple per night, and can't remember the last time my sleep was dreamless. I've heard keeping a dream journal can help you remember/have more vivid dreams, but I only write my dreams dow…

And relatedly, what about people that claim to not have any dream at all?

> To really be sure that an individual does not dream, we would have to follow him for years and perform awakenings from REM sleep to see if he dreamed. If the individual never reported a dream after years of awakenings from REM sleep then we could reasonably conclude that either the person does not dream, that he or she lacks the ability to recall dreams, or that he or she is a liar who, for some reason, wants to conceal the fact that he does in fact dream.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/dream-catcher/2012...

Re: The DreamBank, a collection of over 20k dream reports

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warent wrote: post #2

I'm curious to know if frequency of dreaming correlates to anything. Most people I talk to "rarely have dreams" (probably meaning they just dont remember them). For some reason in my case I have a vivid dream every night, sometimes multiple per night, and can't remember the last time my sleep was dreamless. I've heard keeping a dream journal can help you remember/have more vivid dreams, but I only write my dreams dow…

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Re: The DreamBank, a collection of over 20k dream reports

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Post by xkeysc0re »

motohagiography wrote: post #5

Would using this for an ML classifier corpus potentially yield a set of hitherto unnamed categories that reflect something structural about our minds?

Sounds similar to efforts by Franco Moretti to do "distant reading" on literary corpuses to reveal trends (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distant_reading)

Re: The DreamBank, a collection of over 20k dream reports

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Post by ThePhysicist »

warent wrote: post #2

I'm curious to know if frequency of dreaming correlates to anything. Most people I talk to "rarely have dreams" (probably meaning they just dont remember them). For some reason in my case I have a vivid dream every night, sometimes multiple per night, and can't remember the last time my sleep was dreamless. I've heard keeping a dream journal can help you remember/have more vivid dreams, but I only write my dreams dow…

I also thought that I don't dream much, but I started the habit of trying to remember if I dreamed something when waking up and if it's in the second half of the night I can almost always remember vivid dream content. Trying to remember dreams after being awake for a while (e.g. 5 minutes after getting up) is much harder in my experience. Most people have at least 2-4 REM sleep phases at night, to have none whatsoever would be quite unlikely unless you're regularly very sleep deprived.
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