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Post by tluyben2 »

sammalloy wrote: post #60
tluyben2 wrote: post #56

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Also posted before by me; you can train to control some aspects of the dream. For me dreaming is like living different lives and movies ‘for real’. Sometimes I dream of things so realistic that months later I believe it really happened. Like someone told me about some software and where to get it; turns out this software does not exist, I dreamt it. Control part, for instance, was dreaming about being on vacation on…

> Sometimes I dream of things so realistic that months later I believe it really happened. Like someone told me about some software and where to get it; turns out this software does not exist, I dreamt it. Yes, that’s the exact problem I’m talking about. It’s not good. It feels like it’s bordering on delusion. I’ve met other people like this in RL. I know one woman who believes in things that only happened in her dre…

Yeah, that sounds a bit over the top. I don’t take it that far and by far most dreams I have are extremely over the top or turn weird (either because of me changing things or just because they do) that they are definitely clearly dreams.

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Post by batch12 »

armchairhacker wrote: post #6

I don't get particularly vivid dreams but I sometimes get dreams of really interesting stories. The dream itself is like a movie, I'm not the main character but I'm just kind of watching it unfold. What's really interesting is that these "dream movies" always have a half-decent plot. IMO a lot of movie plots are really bad and stick to typical tropes and lessons. My dreams don't stick to these tropes and have actual…

I have similar dreams sometimes, but in the first person. I meet people in my dreams and have interesting, complex conversations (at least they feel that way in the dream). I usually have lucid dreams too-- or it could be that these are the ones I usually remember. Oddly, I will sometimes know when I am about to wake up and I'll say goodbye to the folks I've met.

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Post by gchamonlive »

tluyben2 wrote: post #58
gchamonlive wrote: post #55

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It's a good thing dreams are really surreal then. I can separate my dreams nicely because I can't for the life of me jump 3 stores high and parkour to the edge of a glass dome while being chased.

I sometimes have dreams where I am just watching tv with some friends, or where I am programming or reading something online. And indeed, months later usually, it feels like that actually happened.

I wish I had more down to earth dreams, really. It is cool to be in a totally different reality, and sometimes when I get a little self-aware in a dream and I concentrate on figuring out whether I'm dreaming, the dream just become more realistic. Like entering a building made of a maze of stairs and actually smelling and feeling the texture of wood. But since my dreams are so disconnected from my daily reality they just fade to oblivion eventually.

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Post by rl3 »

dinkleberg wrote: post #49
jasonladuke0311 wrote: post #41

The supplement ZMA gives me good recall of my dreams pretty frequently.

I was gonna comment about this. ZMA really seems to have an impact on how vivid my dreams are. When I forget to order another bottle my dreams are far less interesting. It's quite odd. It makes me think about how heavily our experience of life is impacted by our chemistry.

>ZMA really seems to have an impact on how vivid my dreams are.

I notice this with zinc/magnesium/calcium. Having taken it every night since adolescence, it's pretty much a requirement for good sleep. Without, REM city. Granted, less calcium and more magnesium these days.

>It's quite odd. It makes me think about how heavily our experience of life is impacted by our chemistry.

Agreed. There's probably a good argument to be had that developing a supplement dependence for sleep has likely affected the course of my life, for better or worse. Probably worse, but who knows.

As an aside, be careful with B6 supplementation; it can accumulate, causing adverse CNS effects.

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Post by neves »

I can't recommend enough the book "Oracle of the Night" by the neuroscientist Sidarta Ribeiro. He enter into the science of the dreams, and teaches how to use them as a source of creativity. Sometimes he wanders, but I think this is what creative scientists do. One of the best science books I've ever read

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/553072/the-oracle-o...

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Post by neves »

neves wrote: post #66

I can't recommend enough the book "Oracle of the Night" by the neuroscientist Sidarta Ribeiro. He enter into the science of the dreams, and teaches how to use them as a source of creativity. Sometimes he wanders, but I think this is what creative scientists do. One of the best science books I've ever read https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/553072/the-oracle-o...

He even teaches how to do lucid dreaming.

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Post by donthellbanme »

mjh2539 wrote: post #53

Be careful what you wish for. When you have incredibly vivid, realistic dreams, and you have good dream recall, it becomes difficult distinguishing between what actually happened in the past and what just happened in a dream.

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Re: Heightened dream recall ability linked to increased creativity, connectivity

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Post by ushakov »

intrasight wrote: post #39
armchairhacker wrote: post #6

I don't get particularly vivid dreams but I sometimes get dreams of really interesting stories. The dream itself is like a movie, I'm not the main character but I'm just kind of watching it unfold. What's really interesting is that these "dream movies" always have a half-decent plot. IMO a lot of movie plots are really bad and stick to typical tropes and lessons. My dreams don't stick to these tropes and have actual…

I consider myself very fortunate that I have very vivid and often lucid dreams - for 50 years since I was a child. My dreams are like cinematic productions - crazy camera work and all. I dream in color and sound. Many of my dreams have soundtracks. I often wake up in the morning with the soundtrack still playing in my head and I turn on my phone and record. I have dozens of them now. When I was ten years old I had a…

same for me too

i remember my dreams in full details, like the stage, lightning, color, cast, interactions, dialogs, etc.

but mostly only small part of the whole story

music i often hear either when i fall into sleep or wake up, but also when i play it in the dream like a guitar

also i dream of pseudo-code

yeah, sometimes i wish there was a way to screen-capture my dream, because some of them would make amazing blockbusters (like some dystopian lost worlds)

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