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I did the same thing in college and learned fairly quickly that I don't really care to remember all of my dreams. Nights where I remember all of my dreams don't

I did the same thing in college and learned fairly quickly that I don't really care to remember all of my dreams. Nights where I remember all of my dreams don't feel restful and are sort of disorienting. It's hard to describe exactly what was so unpleasant about it for me, but there's some element of time perception involved...it was as though my memories of dreams were encoded on the same track as my waking memories, and my days were missing the "pause between songs" so to speak. Thankfully, at least for me, this is an effect that goes away quickly after I stop keeping a dream journal. I have had a similar effect when stressed/overworked, though, where I start dreaming in code. That's terrible.

cnity 4y ago
The "dreaming in code" thing is just awful. The worst sleeps I've ever had were filled with a tormenting "problem" to "solve" which was just pure absurd abstract theorizing, attempting to fit bits and pieces together that had no tangible relation to a real world problem. Like you, this has always happened to me when I have been stressed and overworked, usually if I've spent a whole day rushing to get something completed that is a little difficult and I haven't appropriately broken down a problem into manageable chunks.
r0s 4y ago
My experience exactly. My intuition tells me dreams that should be recalled will be, the rest really don't need to be.
zelphirkalt 4y ago
The "unrestful" part, I am familiar with it from my chess dreams. Sometime I would dream of a position on a chessboard and of course have to think about what the best move is. Threads are everywhere. It takes time to figure out the move. When I finally have the move, the board grows and suddenly there might be a bishop somewhere far away on that grown board destroying all my "best move" plans. The cycle starts anew. After such a dream, when I wake up, I really feel like "damn, I should have found the best move and shown them!" but also like my brain is burned out from thinking so much and visualizing so much in my mind. Not restful. But fortunately I have better dreams as well and sometimes, when I feel lonely, my brain turns on self-healing mode or something and I dream of someone I love. I will gladly take all the exhausting dreams, to keep the good ones.

cnity 4y ago

The "dreaming in code" thing is just awful. The worst sleeps I've ever had were filled with a tormenting "problem" to "solve" which was just pure absurd abstract theorizing, attempting to fit bits and pieces together that had no tangible relation to a real world problem. Like you, this has always happened to me when I have been stressed and overworked, usually if I've spent a whole day rushing to get something completed that is a little difficult and I haven't appropriately broken down a problem into manageable chunks.

r0s 4y ago

My experience exactly. My intuition tells me dreams that should be recalled will be, the rest really don't need to be.

zelphirkalt 4y ago

The "unrestful" part, I am familiar with it from my chess dreams. Sometime I would dream of a position on a chessboard and of course have to think about what the best move is. Threads are everywhere. It takes time to figure out the move. When I finally have the move, the board grows and suddenly there might be a bishop somewhere far away on that grown board destroying all my "best move" plans. The cycle starts anew. After such a dream, when I wake up, I really feel like "damn, I should have found the best move and shown them!" but also like my brain is burned out from thinking so much and visualizing so much in my mind. Not restful. But fortunately I have better dreams as well and sometimes, when I feel lonely, my brain turns on self-healing mode or something and I dream of someone I love. I will gladly take all the exhausting dreams, to keep the good ones.