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The DreamBank, a collection of over 20k dream reports

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Post by poopoopeepee »

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…

Some people have mostly bad dreams. If I become aware that I am dreaming I stop everything in the dream and "go back to sleep" in the dream. It results in better rest. Everything I've learned in a dream would only be helpful in a world where we wear watermelons for shoes and the trunk of our cars open into hidden ballrooms. It is a really dumb place to spend too much time

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Post by lqet »

I would like to know what small children (1-2 years) dream, but we can of course never really know for sure. My daughter (2 years) definitely seems to have nightmares. She also seems to have conversations in her dreams, as she often speaks answers to questions while sleeping. Personally I very strongly remember some wild dreams when I was very young, probably around the age I started remembering things at all, so around 2,5 years. These dreams were often synesthesic, I could see sounds in extremely saturated, moving, three-dimensional colors, and could "taste" geometric forms like pyramids and cuboids. I have never taken LSD, but I imagine the experience to be quite similar. The closest (but not very close) thing I have seen to these dreams is the stargate sequence in 2001.

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Post by indogooner »

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…

Anecdata: I usually dont remember my dreams unless I wake up early or at least not all the details of it. However, some times, before I sleep I imagine myself in some situation I always wanted to be. For example, a soccer player in a cup final, an activist making people aware about how politicians are dividing them and such things. And then I have vivid dreams and next day I remember most details. Not sure if others also experience this but at least it makes me very happy next day. That's why I so much hate days when I have night or early morning meetings at my job.

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Post by patcon »

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 always assumed this had more to do with the different psychology of how different people wake up.

I usually have amnesia in the few minutes after I wake up, and I lose everything. Like when I used to drive my mom to work as a teenager, she would wake me up right before, and I would just put on pants and hop in the car. Halfway there, I'd sometimes admit I had no memory of how I got into the car.

But if I am focussing on writing my dream right away, usually by writing it down in detail, I can recall it later.

I'm definitely jealous of people who somehow remember it so clearly without any special time commitment. Dreams always feel like living a second life

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Post by vmception »

I wish sites had a browse feature, like “here’s a sample of what you’ll find, here are the keywords that would reveal this same entry”

This and Sci-hub are two of many examples that bounce me over and over again because I have no inspiration on what to search or how

This site even has an entire primer on how to make a useful search query, because apparently its not even a familiar search bar?

And all the users are like “ah thats not a problem, just be so into this field like me that you already know all the papers you want to read!”

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Post by closeparen »

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 can modulate how much I dream based on how dark my sleeping environment is.

Blinds open even slightly: no dreams.

LEDs on electronics uncovered: no dreams.

Full blackout: auditory hallucinations before I’m even fully asleep.

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Post by as1mov »

Just curious, does anyone here have dreams with some recurring themes? I've tried googling for this but sadly most of the content seems to be related to spiritual/mystical "explanations" of it. And I don't bring it up with anyone in real life so as to not appear like a kook.

I don't usually remember my dreams, but when I do there's a great probability that it falls into these 2 categories -

1. I suddenly find myself naked in public, the rest of dream usually involves me trying to remedy the situation. This is the stage where I usually wake up (in a panic with elevated heart rate).

2. Snakes. Not even sure what is up with this one. I am pretty afraid of snakes in real life, more so than normal people. But then there's a bunch of other things I am equally scared of, but I don't dream about them at all.

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

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Post by fumblebee »

hntrader wrote: post #3

Would it be interesting to fine-tune GPT-3 on these?

GPT-2 would suffice for something as non-sensical and rambling as dreams.

No fine-tuning using the dataset, but here's the result of typing in a dream prompt into Talk-to-Transformer:

[PROMPT - a dream from DreamBank] >>> I was putting together a plastic bag full of buttons and sewing paraphernalia. It was time to break out of a Hong Kong prison and I was on the fourth tier cell block. I had to wait till the window washers were busy and distract them by throwing ping pong balls so fire hoses filled with cyanide could be squirted on passers-by. I threw a rock through [...]

[RESULT] >>> [...] a glass door. I was careful not to pull my stitches. I threw another rock out the window. We needed a diversion. I needed to take care of myself. The next thing I knew, I was in a helicopter about to take off. By this point my emotions were in flux, like people around a train wreck. It was hard to know what to do with them. I wanted to be strong but didn't have the will. I wanted to be a martyr. I wanted to be.

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