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Do you dream? Dreams are generally heavy on mental imagery.

lesuorac 2y ago
Not op, but sleeping and shortly after waking (like seconds not minutes) are it for images. I dunno how often you guys dream but a standard night for me is it's dark out and then it's light out without a dream in between.
- lambdaba 2y ago
  Ever had a lucid dream?
  - lesuorac 2y ago
    Yeah, I can also wake myself from those dreams by raising my heartrate and it won't be throbbing when I actually wake up.
  - e38383 2y ago
    Yes, it's still the same memory as everything else. It's more like a book or description. It's still not the norm. I have normal dreams without being wake in them or waking up from them. According to my "research" (asking friends and family) I dream a little bit less often than other people - maybe one dream per week or two.
e38383 2y ago
Answered here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40758231 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40758231 I do dream, but most of the time not with a visual representation. It’s more like reading a book. There are very few occasions when I wake up and really have the memory of an image. But this fades so fast that I’m not able to really describe the image. I retain the memory of having a picture in my head. And it’s boring most of the time, because it happens in the middle of a dream and it’s basically just the last frame paused. And about the book: Haha, I never thought of visualizing the images described in a book. To rephrase: it’s like knowing the words from a book, but not how the described image looks like.
jackjeff 2y ago
Not OP. I don’t recall any dreams since childhood. If I had not experienced a few myself, I would have a hard time understanding what a dream even is. And my 10 or so dreams only had abstract images. Defo not like a movie or reality where you can “see” things, people, objects. I don’t recall much about them anyway except being slightly mildly freaked out at the time for experiencing something which was not “real”.
- BigParm 2y ago
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Not op, but sleeping and shortly after waking (like seconds not minutes) are it for images. I dunno how often you guys dream but a standard night for me is it's dark out and then it's light out without a dream in between.

lambdaba 2y ago
Ever had a lucid dream?
- lesuorac 2y ago
  Yeah, I can also wake myself from those dreams by raising my heartrate and it won't be throbbing when I actually wake up.
- e38383 2y ago
  Yes, it's still the same memory as everything else. It's more like a book or description. It's still not the norm. I have normal dreams without being wake in them or waking up from them. According to my "research" (asking friends and family) I dream a little bit less often than other people - maybe one dream per week or two.

e38383 2y ago

Answered here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40758231 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40758231 I do dream, but most of the time not with a visual representation. It’s more like reading a book. There are very few occasions when I wake up and really have the memory of an image. But this fades so fast that I’m not able to really describe the image. I retain the memory of having a picture in my head. And it’s boring most of the time, because it happens in the middle of a dream and it’s basically just the last frame paused. And about the book: Haha, I never thought of visualizing the images described in a book. To rephrase: it’s like knowing the words from a book, but not how the described image looks like.

jackjeff 2y ago

Not OP. I don’t recall any dreams since childhood. If I had not experienced a few myself, I would have a hard time understanding what a dream even is. And my 10 or so dreams only had abstract images. Defo not like a movie or reality where you can “see” things, people, objects. I don’t recall much about them anyway except being slightly mildly freaked out at the time for experiencing something which was not “real”.

BigParm 2y ago
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