Thread: Dreams

While you sleep the memory storage system of your brain shuts off short term memory and puts memories that happened recently in to long term memory storage. That prevents most people from remembering their dreams except the occasional one while they are starting to wake up. However not everyone's brain shuts everything down fully and people who want to lucid dream (knowledge you are dreaming and ability to control dreams while asleep) will practice remembering dreams until they train their brain to remain active enough to allow lucid dreaming. Same with numbers and letters. Most people's brains shut down the section that can recall or recognize numbers and letters but that is not true for everyone and the people who train their brains for lucid dreaming also often gain the ability to activate those sections of the brain normally shut down. People who watched tv in black and white are likely to dream in black and white.

Personally due to my weird sleeping problems that no one understands I was lucid dreaming 8-12hrs of the day in only stage 1 sleep (there are 4 stages of sleep only the last few are restful sleep) for about 8 years until I started medication. I was soooo sick of lucid dreaming and remembering my dreams. Being aware of your mind being active 24/7 gets tiring. Usually by the end of the night I'd given up trying to do anything interesting with my dreams and just go "boring, cancel it, next" wait to see what my subconscious comes up with next and whether it was interesting enough or not. I am unbelievably happy that my sleeping meds stop me from being aware of most of my dreams. My consciousness and memory needs a break part of the day. I can remember things from before I was 3 years old but I can't remember much in the 8 years between onset of sleeping issues and start of taking medication. My brain and the memory storage system malfunctioned from improper and too little sleep.