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Newcastle, OntarioOkay, I've been in bed over an hour and can't sleep so I got up and I have a question for everyone. I've always been someone who quite often could remember dreams when I wake up, but lately it's really bizarre. When I have a dream at night, I'll remember it for a while and then forget it completely during the day. When I get into bed at night, the entire dream will come back to me and pick up where I left off the night before - it's really bizarre and it's affecting my ability to sleep. Has anyone else had this happen? Yes, I'm odd, I'll admit it! LOL! I've always have trouble turning off my brain at bedtime and I know that is my ADD - often my mind will do an entire overview of the day before I can even think about sleeping or the minute I climb into bed I will remember 10 things I have forgotten to do and I just have to get up and do them, but this one is new. I'd love to hear if anyone else has had a similar experience. Well, I'm off to bed AGAIN - I'll just try to finish the stupid dream first.
hugs,
Brenda
Tuppies TeddiesI manage to re-visit my dreams when it is something scary, maybe getting bitten by a snake or a spider but when the dream involves perhaps a spunky male. its frustrating because I can't go back to part of the dream that made me wake up....
LutonI once had a really vivid dream about a guy I fancied at college. it was so nice that I was disappointed to have to wake up.
Anyway the next night when I went to sleep - it picked up the dream where I had left it, which was brilliant.
Its only happened that once though!!!
Do you dream in colour or black & white???
Hugs
Claire
Pumpkin & Pickle BearsHi Brenda,
Yes I am one of those people who has very vivid dreams that I almost always remember the next day and I revisit them when I climb back into bed!!!
Claire, what a funny question!!! I can honestly say that I don't know! 
There has been MANY times when I've said to Stu 'Do you remember.....' at which poing he gives me a really odd look 
and I say 'Oh, was that a dream....?'
I also sometimes visit places that I am almost positive I have visited before even though I have never been there before in my life!!!! Spooky!
Posts: 1,277Wow, that is very interesting! I almost always remember my dreams when I first wake up, but then I usually forget them shortly after. They don't usually hang around in my brain for too long.
Now that I'm pregnant I usually wake up once through the night to use the bathroom. Now if it's a very short break like that I can pick up my dream where it left off. But I've never revisited a dream after a whole day of being awake. Cool!
I did have a recurring nightmare when I was younger but I haven't had it in years now, thankfully.
Newcastle, OntarioThanks for all the feedback, girls!
Claire, I almost always dream in colour and they are quite vivid - it feels like the events are really happening or "have" happened, when I remember them the following day.
Gemma, that's interesting about visiting places in your dreams that you feel you've "been before" evern though you've never been in real life. I have this weird feeling about Ireland, even though I've never been. I am inexplicablly drawn to all things "Irish" (even my husband's background is Irish LOL!) without being conscious of it. I loooove Celtic music, but I bought a CD a few years ago with a tune on it that makes me sob every time I hear it, but I hadn't heard the tune before I got the CD. If I watch a TV show or movie that shows the Irish countryside, I get really excited and emotional. I'm absolutely sure I had a life there at some point. Visiting Ireland is on my "to do" list for sure.
hugs,
Brenda
Apple Dumpling DesignsAren't dreams fascinating? I rarely remember any of my dreams...partly because I have sleeping disorder and don't often get into REM sleep for longs periods of time which is where you dream. When I DO however manage to drift into dreamland...they are always very vivid and seem real. I've even had to ask people if things happen.
My mom has actually had dreams come true....fascinating...it's like they were preminitions (sp).
Newcastle, OntarioHi Shantell,
Boy, I could go for a few nights without REM sleep - I always wake up feeling like I've had NO sleep.
Wow, premonition dreams - that's cool. That must make your mum a little edgy when she has a dream about someone in your family - not knowing if it will come true? I don't know if I could handle that one!
hugs,
Brenda
Apple Dumpling DesignsWell...I would normally think my mom was full of it but I can recall more than one occassion when she told me about a dream and then days later it really happened. She has secondary narcolepsy so she drifts off to sleep all the time time for seconds to minutes...I tease her about it. She does it when she's on the phone...one second she's telling me something...then it goes quiet...then she starts up again like she's been talking the whole time. It's funny...we tease her about it all the time...she just tells us we are BORING HER TO SLEEP.
Bears-a-Bruin!I'm fascinated by dreams. I quite often have vivid ones that stay with me for most of the day - you know that feeling? Like you've lived another life overnight?! Recently though, I've felt like I've had really busy dreams but they've disappeared in a flash when I've woken up.
I read somewhere that the best way to remember your dreams is to stay perfectly still upon waking - don't even twitch a muscle. Then focus on whatever you DO remember and try to drag the rest of it back into focus. The reason for not moving is something to do with 'gross motor function' - your brain starts to concentrate on your body rather that your memories as soon as you move (apparently!).
I was trying to teach myself to have lucid dreams for a while. Now that is something really strange! It worked to some extent - but these days I'm just too tired!
Country BearsDo you ever get part way through the day and something happens that breaks your dream (or nightmare!) - that happens to me a lot!!
I heard that some dreams are in colour and some are in black and white too Claire, I can't think what I do now - I'll take more notice tonight!! 
Sweet dreams everyone!!! :hug: :hug:
Posts: 1,277I read somewhere that the best way to remember your dreams is to stay perfectly still upon waking - don't even twitch a muscle. Then focus on whatever you DO remember and try to drag the rest of it back into focus. The reason for not moving is something to do with 'gross motor function' - your brain starts to concentrate on your body rather that your memories as soon as you move (apparently!).
Oh, I definitely believe that! If I lie in bed for a while, the dream seems very fresh and vivid. But once I hop outta bed and get moving, my recollection of the dream starts fading.
Mountain Dreamer BearsFascinating subject!
I have always had very vivid, colorful, complicated dreams.
Like you Brenda, I nearly always remember my dreams when I wake up but forget them during the day. Then, as soon as I lay down at night, pow! They come right back to me.
I often have dreams in which I have a dialogue with myself that goes something like this:
"This is incredible, I wonder if it is a dream?"
*look around, pinch myself*
"It certainly seems real."
*look around some more, maybe touch something or someone in my dream*
"I feels real, this must be real. Yes I think this is real!"
Of course, upon awakening, I always realize if you have to ask yourself "Is this a dream?" it probably is! lol!
Other times I have dreams in which I know I am dreaming and can direct what happens. Fun but strange.
Occasionally I have recurring dreams, but they are usually not the exact same dream, but variations on a certain theme in different settings.
Weird, I know. I'm odd too, Brenda! I have always thought a psychologist would have a field day with me!
I don't envy your Mom and her dream premonitions Shantell! I think it's very cool, but a bit spooky.
Happy dreaming everyone!
