Do you remember your dreams?

[doubledown68]

So, I woke up sometime around 6 a.m. this morning, staring around the room, trying to digest what the hell I was dreaming about.

I dreamed that I was a baseball player, and I somehow forgot my toiletry bag at the beginning of a long road trip. So I made a list of things I needed, asked some clubhouse kid to buy them... and then I somehow had a conversation with Lt. Anita Van Buren of Law & Order fame about how much I should tip the club house kid.

Here's what I did before going to bed last night:
1. Play a little MLB 10 The Show
2. Watch a DVR'd episode of Law & Order
3. Look up old Monty Python sketches on youtube, including the Chemist's sketch (a toilet requisite-te-te-te-te-te-te-te).

It's unique but hardly unusual. I've woken up before thinking I've robbed banks, I'm late for finals. Usually the memories fade in the minutes after I wake up. But not on days like today.

Do you remember what the hell you dream about?

 

[Rusty Shackleford]

Sometimes. I get them sometimes where not only do I remember them after I wake up, but they affect my mood. For example, I recently had a dream about an ex, a relationship that ended badly, and I was in a pissed off mood all morning because of it.

It seems that if I happen to wake up to pee in the middle of the night, I'll have vivid dreams that I remember in the morning after I go back to sleep.

 

[Buck]

Write the great American novel, teach Romantic literature, marry my high school sweet heart?

I do remember them, and I mourn their death.

 

[MacDaddy]

I remember mine so well sometimes I'm not sure whether they were dreams or real.

 

[imjustagirl]

I remember mine in the immediate aftermath of waking up. But I have to repeat them to myself, or focus on them, for five minutes if I have any hope of remembering them long enough to tell anyone else.

The other day I had a dream involving myself, a coworker, Target, four random women, Tony Toni Tone and a man wearing underwear on top of his jeans that he was then using as a carryall for those with him (i.e. they were putting their keys down the back of his underwear, but outside their jeans).

 

[Buck]

I remember mine in the immediate aftermath of waking up. But I have to repeat them to myself, or focus on them, for five minutes if I have any hope of remembering them long enough to tell anyone else.

The other day I had a dream involving myself, a coworker, Target, four random women, Tony Toni Tone and a man wearing underwear on top of his jeans that he was then using as a carryall for those with him (i.e. they were putting their keys down the back of his underwear, but outside their jeans).

That's no dream. That's the premise of an Adam Sandler movie.

 

[imjustagirl]

I should option that NOW!

 

[KYSportsWriter]

I tend to remember a lot of my dreams, but the ones that creep me out are the ones I actually (whether in my subconscious or whatever) live them out after a period of time -- sort of like a glimpse into the future.

I can't really explain it, but it's happened several times. And almost every time, everything is the same as it was in the dream. It's really weird.

 

[imjustagirl]

I tend to remember a lot of my dreams, but the ones that creep me out are the ones I actually (whether in my subconscious or whatever) live them out after a period of time -- sort of like a glimpse into the future.

I can't really explain it, but it's happened several times. And almost every time, everything is the same as it was in the dream. It's really weird.

God, you and me both. Problem is I never remember them until they happen. So I can't explain why I'm like "Holy ****!" when something very mundane happens, but it feels like it's happened before.

 

[Dyno]

I don't always remember mine. Some of them are so realistic that I'm sometimes later wondering if I dreamt it or if it really happened. When I have dreams that my dad is in (he died a few years ago), I feel very much at peace when I wake up.

 

[Guy_Incognito]

Almost never, and I'm kind of jealous of those people who do.

 

[Batman]

I thought this was another thread about the experience of working for Gannett or CNHI.

 

[Starman]

Is a dream a lie when it don't come true, or is it something worse?

As a kid I remembered dreams pretty often.

After adolescence I rarely if ever remembered my dreams.

About 10 years ago I found out I had sleep apnea, started using a CPAP, and since then I remember fragments of dreams from time to time.

Unfortunately they usually don't seem to be very remarkable (few guest appearances by Scarlett Johannson, I don't end up ruling the world, etc etc). Occasionally I see dead people (parents, grandparents) but they don't seem to have many insights of sage advice that really apply to current events.

I've read and heard you have to get into REM sleep (15 minutes or so of uninterrupted sleep) to have dreams. With apnea, when you're waking up every 60-90 seconds, you never get there.

I'd say about half the time, I realize it's a dream while it's in progress. Sometimes it's very realistic and I do a double-take when I wake up, but just as often about midway through, there's a "aha" moment when I figure out it's a dream. Sometimes it's irritating/disconcerting/disturbing, but usually, I just go, 'oh well, this must be a dream' and roll with it.

 

[bigpern23]

I often remember them and have a few that recur pretty regularly. The best ones are the ones where I have control of The Force.

The one I dream most often involves me running - lately it's been in road races - but I'm so light, as if filled with helium, it's like I'm running on the moon. My feet barely touch the ground and I can't run nearly as fast as I want or need to.

 

[KYSportsWriter]

I tend to remember a lot of my dreams, but the ones that creep me out are the ones I actually (whether in my subconscious or whatever) live them out after a period of time -- sort of like a glimpse into the future.

I can't really explain it, but it's happened several times. And almost every time, everything is the same as it was in the dream. It's really weird.

God, you and me both. Problem is I never remember them until they happen. So I can't explain why I'm like "Holy ****!" when something very mundane happens, but it feels like it's happened before.

I hate when it happens. Well, sometimes I hate it.

This happened a while back when I was out to dinner with some friends. I said 'We've been here before.' One of my friends looked at me and said 'This is a new restaurant. How could we have come here before?'

I had a dream about going to this place a few months before I actually went. The dream was that vivid.

 

[imjustagirl]

yeah, KY, mine are down to the conversation. It will be something SO mundane, like me asking someone where the dressing room is in a store. But I will recognize the person. It's almost like one of the visions Raven has in "That's So Raven."

Wait, did I just type that out?

 

[EagleMorph]

I tend to remember a lot of my dreams, but the ones that creep me out are the ones I actually (whether in my subconscious or whatever) live them out after a period of time -- sort of like a glimpse into the future.

I can't really explain it, but it's happened several times. And almost every time, everything is the same as it was in the dream. It's really weird.

God, you and me both. Problem is I never remember them until they happen. So I can't explain why I'm like "Holy ****!" when something very mundane happens, but it feels like it's happened before.

That sense of deja vu can be an absolute mind****.

 

[schiezainc]

The last time I remembered a dream I had, I woke up and decided that my father had actually wanted me to break up his company to prove myself. </nerd talk>

Seriously, though, I remember a good slew of my dreams. I don't remember them for a long time mind you, but I can usually hang on to them long enough to analyze them on my commute, assuming I don't want to listen to Stern at that particular moment.

The most vivid dream I can remember is when I was about seven or eight. I had just watched Tales from the Crypt and had a dream where I was running from the Cryptkeeper at night (I don't know why though, he's way fragile and I could probably have taken him). Anyway, he chases me into a public bathroom and then, for some reason, I decide to take a leak. It felt very, very real ... and then I woke up and realized I pissed myself. First and only time it's ever happened. (Honest).

The only recurring dream I have involves me working as a cashier at Stop & Shop. I don't know why I keep having this but I can bank on it occurring at least once a month or so.

And to the posters who mentioned deja vu, I get that all the time. It's gotten to the point where I can almost predict what someone is about to say, in my head of course, right before they say it. I just don't realize it until the words have just escaped their tongues though so I can never get it before they say it, it's like a delay of 0.123 seconds.

 

[doubledown68]

Last night's involved me playing guitar at a concert. I remember I couldn't never get the mic stand to stay at the right height, and the place cleared out pretty quickly when the crowd realized I have no musical talent whatsoever.

EDIT: Now that I think about it, the moderately-sized crowd dispersed when I was doing woeful background vocals on the Jackson 5's I Want You Back (the baby's and yowww's, etc.) Which makes me think I was at least saying that in my sleep. Hope the neighbors got a kick out of that one.

 

[93Devil]

The more tired I am, the less I remember dreams.

The more stress I have at work, the lighter I sleep and the more I remember my dreams.