Oh man. Dreams are such a trip. I guess the first thing I should mention is that one of the medications I’m on can… well, it can make vivid and intense dreamscapes, and boy does it ever. I’ve had crazy Jason Bourne-style epics where I had to jump from a cruise ship to a smaller boat to escape then ended up in a whole other country and then had to hike a mountain then fell in a cove full of violent and very colourful fish, only to be scooped up and end up right back on the original ship. It’s exhausting, and I often wake from these dreams even more tired than I was before I started the night. I moved recently, so my dreams have morphed to fit the theme. I had a whole series of dreams about the same house, but in each dream I’d discover something new about the house. Sometimes it was a whole new set of beautifully renovated rooms that I just knew for some reason I couldn’t live in. Or it was a half falling down area in bright colours. The worst one was the abandoned child’s room… I’m still recovering from that one and it made me feel creeped out in my house for weeks even though the dream house is nothing at all like my real one. It’s been a lot, and frankly I’d be quite pleased for a dreamless night.
What about you guys? Any other lucid dreamers out there? Anyone experience sleep-related side effects from medication? Because yikes, and if so I’m sorry to hear that! Okay, I’m off to bed, perchance not to dream!
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Are lucid dreams an actual thing? I want to believe in them so much but I just can’t get my head around the ‘science’ of it all. Are you really fully aware that you’re dreaming and able to control the events of the dream? My husband always says he has lucid dreams and I guess I’m a little jealous. Maybe the reason I don’t have ’em is because I overthink. Everything. All of the time. 🤣
Hmmm… I think I got the wrong term. I meant dreams that you can’t distinguish from reality while you’re in them and that still feel real when you awake – is that the wrong phrase? So no, I am not usually aware I’m dreaming. Once in a while, but then I can’t make whatever I want happen in them anyway. Just like real life. I’m an overthinker as well!
Yes, I’ve always had very vivid, sequential (or sequential-ish) dreams. No medications involved, though; apparently that’s just my brain.
Yes, I’ve had them all my life as well, they’re just more vivid and intense with the meds. Who knows. Maybe it’s an ADHD brain thing!
Interesting that you would dream about the same house! I’ve found my brain has re-used “sets” — there’s a high school campus it invented that’s a merge of several schools I attended, and it has its own version of my old university.
Yes! That sounds a lot like what my brain does. It’s rarely the actual place, but I always know where it’s supposed to be!