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The DreamBank, a collection of over 20k dream reports
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#82Do you not dream? I'm almost 50 and I don't have a memory of ever dreaming. I probably do, but have some sort of selective amnesia so that I don't remember dreaming when I wake up. Does anyone else out there experience the same thing?
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#83Just 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…
Yes. Some common ones:
1) Being back in school, missing an exam or test.
2) My car is out of control: won't stop going backwards, accelerates uncontrollably, etc.
3) Finding secret / "extra" rooms in my house.
4) Most recently with covid: being in a store, and realized I've forgotten my mask.
There are definitely other themes but these are the most common.
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#84Possibly related: Scientists entered people’s dreams and got them ‘talking’ https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/02/scientists-entered-p...
Isn't that part of the plot to Inception?
Re: The DreamBank, a collection of over 20k dream reports
#85I have more than two hundred pages of dreams typed out.
It was a lot easier to do this when I was younger as I had much more time in the mornings. I remember everything vividly but once ten minutes have passed since waking it's pretty much gone unless I make a conscious effort to commit it to memory.
It's great fun to go back and be prompted to remember some of the crazier ones or Ctrl+F to see how often various people and things pop up.
Re: The DreamBank, a collection of over 20k dream reports
#86Do you not dream? I'm almost 50 and I don't have a memory of ever dreaming. I probably do, but have some sort of selective amnesia so that I don't remember dreaming when I wake up. Does anyone else out there experience the same thing?
Yep, me too. It's very rare I'll remember anything even moments after waking up. If I do, I can only remember an abstract story (with a lot of missing pieces) rather than an experience with sound or vision.
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#87How else has this? I sometimes remember dreams from easily 15y - 20y ago absolutly vividly, although I have had forgotten them in the mean time. Suddenly, during the day, like in a split second (maybe triggered from a scene or scent) I feel that "feeling" (or more like a superposition of all impression of that dream i had) of a dream long lost and the dream is fully present in that moment and I kind of "remember" it…
How do you know it's a "true" memory? Does that even matter to you? I don't think it would to me! But, I'm curious how confident you are about whether you're in the same space or your brain is rapidly manufacturing the sensation.
Re: The DreamBank, a collection of over 20k dream reports
#88Do you not dream? I'm almost 50 and I don't have a memory of ever dreaming. I probably do, but have some sort of selective amnesia so that I don't remember dreaming when I wake up. Does anyone else out there experience the same thing?
Do you see pictures of things in your mind? For example, if I tell you to imagine the ocean waves coming into the beach, do you "see it in your minds eye"?
I do, almost as if it's a photo or video, but some people don't. I wonder how this affects dreams.
I'm 45 and I do not dream very often (or I forget when I wake up). Remembering only a few per year. But, when I was young I dreamed often.
The human mind, and dreams in particular, are fascinating.
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#89I 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 li…
Yeah, I almost bounced too. But, I decided to try a few random words I imagined might exist in the dreams they talked about on the home page. For example, I searched for "boot" in the series of dreams from the Vietnam Vet. At first, I thought I would have liked to see the entire list. But, after reading a few of those war dreams, I didn't really want to read anymore (and I can't really articulate why).
Re: The DreamBank, a collection of over 20k dream reports
#90How else has this? I sometimes remember dreams from easily 15y - 20y ago absolutly vividly, although I have had forgotten them in the mean time. Suddenly, during the day, like in a split second (maybe triggered from a scene or scent) I feel that "feeling" (or more like a superposition of all impression of that dream i had) of a dream long lost and the dream is fully present in that moment and I kind of "remember" it…
I have very long story arch dreams, an ex-girlfriend called them epic dreams. They're strange, some times I have recurring dreams with long story arcs in which I am in them as myself, sometimes I am in them as another person, sometimes they are narrated, sometimes they span generations, sometimes I'm not in them at all, sometimes they are episodes of a tv show that never had those episodes.
Examples - one dream was set in a post apocalyptic wasteland, sort of like A Canticle for Leibowitz, with narration, there was a kingdom being misruled by a duke and the only one who would be able to stop him was the exiled bishop, his brother, I turned out to be the bishop - an old man returning after many years of exile to the kingdom etc. etc. there were sword fights, radiation monsters, extra sensory perception..
Another dream was a very long special episode of Laverne and Shirley were the girls came out and had their first kiss, I think it was a Christmas episode also.
Actually funny enough I had three dream flashbacks just a couple days ago, first I remembered a comic book store and then I remembered no that store was from a dream, then I remembered a couple other locations from dreams that I had not had for lots of years and had forgotten about.