You can train yourself to remember dreams if you start writing down everything you remember.
You can also learn to recognize that you are in a dream and take control (look up lucid dreaming).
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Or don't, maybe we are supposed to forget them. For instance I do not want to remember my dreams as I have barely ever had a pleasant one. I'd rather wake up in blissful ignorance of whatever shit my broken brain threw together while it tries to suffocate me.
just wanted to point out that most people don't have a lifetime of nightly nightmares, and your could be eased with some therapy, or at least mushrooms and puppies.
and if you LIKE nightmares and want more, slap on a nicotine patch right before you go to bed.
I used that stop smoking drug back in the day. Forgot the name, makes you ill if you use? Holy shit the dreams!
I'd have the most horrific nightmares, but they didn't bother me in the slightest. I loved going to bed, it was like going to a new horror movie every night.
Now I have even a slighty spooky dream and sometimes have to turn the light on to shake it. Speaking of, there was a "dog thing" I dreamed the other night that's going straight in my next horror short.
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I subscribe to the idea that dreams are a byproduct of your brain defragmenting itself, or priming its neural-net with images trained during the daytime.
To remember the byproduct might undermine this process, in the same way that feeding a NN its own output might produce garbage output later.
The recent AI generated videos are such an accurate portrayal of dreams that there must be some parallels there
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HUMAN BEINGS MAKE LIFE SO INTERESTING. DO YOU KNOW, THAT IN A UNIVERSE SO FULL OF WONDERS, THEY HAVE MANAGED TO INVENT BOREDOM.
- Death of the Discworld
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More than relevant. Stolen from. This person just slightly reworded an XKCD comic into a tweet.
Yeah, that was my thought too, though it is possible they came up with it independently. Or forgot they read that xkcd which came out 18 years ago (fuck!).
It has happened to Randall himself before (see the header)
Sex is weird too. You undress and make your self vulnerable and expend a lot of energy and risk catching a disease and then fall asleep. Either we do it for fun or to create a parasite that we have to take are of.
To be fair, in comparison to living, it is a lot of fun.
And clothes are restrictive anyway
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check out the film "Dark City"
Just writing to confirm that I am typing this during the daytime, and it is in front of me, and I am not just some memory of a comment you saw on lemmy
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Every time I lucid dream, I end up waking myself up with something stupid like tripping as I step off a curb.
Just realizing I'm dreaming wakes me up every damn time. The only times I've gotten to have some fun is when I don't question why the laws of physics suddenly changed and just go with it. The second I start going, "Wait a second, I think I'm drea-" boom, I wake up. It's infuriating, I just want to fly around or explore the ocean depths or some shit.
Whenever I realize I'm dreaming I usually just get really excited and it accidentally wakes me up. I don't get time to do cool stuff.
Human memories are stored in flesh
Flesh has to be replaced constantly
When you sleep your memories are being copied and reallocated to new flesh, the things you experience in dreams are just a series of incredibly losely related themes and concepts. In general human memory searching relies on association of concepts rather than any sorted lists or some other silly inorganic solution.
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Almost everyone does it almost every day, it would be more strange if everyone was freaking out about it.
If I don't smokadaweed before bed I do tend to remember them. One of the reasons I try not to smoke late in the evening.
I have the opposite issue. Really stressful, anxiety inducing, or nightmare dreams.
Weed fixes that problem for me by being an organic skip button for dreaming
My understanding is you get less rem tho and less rest as a side effect.
Double sided sword, or whatever
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8 hours sounds nice. I usually manage about 4 or 5
Obligatory sleep hacks from a person who loves sleep:
- Clean bedsheets
- No phone in bed
- Same sleep time every day
- Same wake time every day
- Exercise during the day
- No lights in the room. No LEDs, no street lights
- White noise
If you do any one of these your sleep will improve. If it doesn't, I give you full permission to flame me and my dog.
White noise is critical and underrated.
I have slept many nights, on average about once a day for many years. In my experience, it's the routine that has the most effect. I know it's super difficult to maintain but going to bed and waking up same time everyday is the key.
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I used to be able to remember my dreams, or at the very least I would wake up with a sensation that I had had a dream, but anymore though I just feel like a blank slate, like nothing happened. If I dream anymore I’m completely losing them because I don’t even have the feeling that I’m forgetting anything, it’s just blank when I sleep now.
If you happen to smoke weed that can do it. I've barely dreamt (that I remember) in years
That's one of my favorite parts of weed, I want to sleep, not have to watch some shitty movie I'm not able to control or interact with.
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havent had 8 hours of "lucid coma" since before most of you were born
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Capital won't care about dreams until they can inject commercials, propaganda, etc.
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I have had only a few vivid, real feeling dreams that have stuck with me for years. Do I know what they mean, nope. Do I wish I had more of them... yes. Working on improving my sleep in the last year or so. I think my average sleep time actually got a few mins. shorter. Oops.
I always tell myself I'm going to be fully self-aware when I enter the dream tube, but sadly I never remember if that happened or not.
Start keeping a dream journal and get in the habit of writing in it the moment you wake up. The more consistently you do it, the more you'll remember as time goes on.
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Don’t forget time dilution.
They who master the skill of controlled time dilation will quickly ascend to rule the universe.. or so i was told in a dream.
Problem solving in dreams can be hyper efficient. I once designed an entire web application in the short dreamstate between waking up to my alarm and the second ‘snooze’ alarm. Drew up the solution immediately and then went to work and built it over the course of a month. Mastering that would be so powerful for knowledge workers and artists alike.
I’ve tried the same with music but, while I can create music in my dreams I cannot yet recreate it awake.
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8 hours of sleep ! Wow I'd love that ! If I can get 6 hours it's a great night. Haven't been able to sleep 8 hours in years except for the rare weekends where I don't get woken up by the neighbors dogs or to work my second job.
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And yet we think our waking life is more real.
Anyone who says this doesn't know what "coma" means. Or "lucid" for the matter
I mean sure we accept it, but we do put dreams to a high regard. Hence why you can say something is dreamy, or a dream come true.
Maybe we don’t know enough about dreams yet?
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