How vivid are your dreams?

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Sometimes incredibly vivid and exciting, where I'm some kind of secret agent or powerful entity saving the world (or blowing it up). Sometimes dull as rocks. Have y'all ever had a paperwork dream?

I've had the canonical "sitting down in school and being handed a test I didn't study for" dreams. Does that count?

Also, I've had two jobs that I truly despised, the kind that probably put me at risk of heart attack or stroke. Sometimes I dream that I'm back at one of those. Sometimes I "realize" that I never left, or that I'd left but was re-hired for fuzzy reasons. Usually I feel a crushing sense of despair in those dreams.

But once, one brilliant time, I was having one of those dreams and I actually realized while dreaming that I was dreaming. So in that dream I stood up and proceeded to joyfully flip desks, knock over office equipment, and throw papers around because I knew it was consequence-free. Pure bliss. Was sad when I woke up and had to stop trashing that office. :ROFL:
 

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I've had the canonical "sitting down in school and being handed a test I didn't study for" dreams. Does that count?
I dunno. Those sorts of dreams are stressful, and while stress is unpleasant, it's at least kind of exciting. Whereas a full blown paperwork dream is just boring as hell. It's like once in a while your brain has to recalibrate your boredom receptors, so it says "okay, tonight we're dreaming about worker's compensation forms!"
 

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Speaking of vivid dreams...I had the coolest dream last night.

There was a father who was reading the newspaper and his eleven-year old daughter comes to him and says their is a boy in the bathroom. When the father goes in he sees there is a little boy around the same age as his daughter. The boy's hair was the same fiery shade of orange as the daughter's. But weirder was that the boys eyes were two different colors (one green and one blue) like the daughter. They even had the same birthmark! The mirror in the bathroom was shattered and the boy was hitting the side of his head, speaking in a strange langue. Then there was a click and and he stopped hitting himself and started speaking English. I can't remember exactly what he said, something about a photograph keeper...?

Sounds like the beginning of a really cool story! :D
 
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They can be quite vivid. When they are, I dont want to wake up from them and sometimes when I get woken by an alarm, I'll reset it and go back to sleep to return to the dream. I also have dreams that can blend into the real waking world and cause confusion, this has led to me being late to work and I've yet to find a good solution for preventing.

However, the other side of that coin is the fact that I do occasionally suffer from sleep paralysis. Which is waking up, knowing I'm awake, but completely unable to move due to my body still being in a sleep state. These are often accompanied with visual and auditory hallucinations and are never pleasant. Honestly, the most terrified I've ever been is during those sleep paralysis moments.
 

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A lot of my dreams inspire stories/novels. They're so vivid that I keep a notepad beside my bed on my nightstand and jot as much of it down when I wake up. I've had some great ideas with those.

Good topic! :D
 

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Weird confession: I trained myself to remember my dreams. You do this by replaying them in your head as you wake up and going over every detail you remember and writing it down the next morning. When you do this for awhile, you remember your dreams more clearly automatically.

But more importantly: my dreams became more vivid too and I started getting a lot of lucid dreams. It started getting a little annoying to be honest, so i stopped focusing on my dreams. But they are still quite vivid and I remember them most mornings.
 

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A lot of mine are quite vivid and I often have 2 or 3 dreams a night lately. It's pretty bizarre.
 

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Yeah, the dreams I remember are always very vivid. I am almost never myself in them either, though sometimes my own thoughts play commentary over the thoughts of whoever I am dreaming as. It's usually stuff like "Really?! That is dumb" or "That doesn't even make sense".
 

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When I'm in the middle of writing a book or planning, my dreams are extraordinarily vivid; sometimes it makes bedtime complete bliss, othertimes its nightmarish!

Other than that I dont remember mine much.
 

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Sometimes they are. Usually they don't make sense. I had one the other night where actor Harland Williams was sitting behind me in the 9th grade and bullying me. I snapped and beat him to death while reciting Joe Pesci's lines in Casino. That scene where he stabs the guy with the pen. I didn't understand it. Though I was watching Rocket Man before bed.
 

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My dreams are incredibly vivid. Always have been. Then I started taking Diamox, and my dreams are suddenly HOLY CRAP VIVID all the time.
 

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Usually my dreams are super-vivid. I have been under a lot of stress lately and had a nightmare today that I was driving and fell asleep. I knew I was sleeping in my dream and I was trying hard to wake myself up before I crashed. I could not wake myself up and I thought I might be dead. I think I even opened my eyes even though I was still asleep because part of my room blended into the dream. In the dream I thought for sure I was dead because I started to remember "past lives" and then heard loud frighting banging and flashes of light in total darkness. Luckily it was a dream, but I could not help thinking, "Is that what's it's actually going to be like when I really do die?"
 
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Vivid. I've woken up crying from dreams. I've woken up from falling in dreams. I don't actually dream that often, though - I suppose I make up for it by how vivid they are :D
 

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Sometimes my dreams are just vague impressions that I barely remember.

Sometimes my dreams are indistinguishable from waking life, and no matter how bizarre or terrible they are, I don't feel certain I'm dreaming. Sometimes trying to eat things will make me realize I'm dreaming, because I don't actually taste anything. Other times it's like "I CAN TASTE THIS CUPCAKE, THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE IS REALLY HAPPENING FOLKS"
 

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Sometimes my dreams are vivid and sometimes are foggy or tangled.

Overeating at night can cause messy dreams but usually I'm inevitable to eat!

I try to pray before going bed, it banishes troublesome demons and brings a sweet sleep.
 

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Mine are often vivid, but i rarely remember details. For some reason I remember one from last night - adventures of homeless siblings (a boy and girl)and their talking penguin. Now that I'm awake it sounds like Disney movie (not that there's anything wrong with that). They wander into the ritzy part of town and find a huge mansion with a swimming pool (for the penguin, who is quite the deadpan snarker). The eccentric old lady who lives there thinks they're adorable and takes them in. Cue her nephew, a professional freeloader himself, who sees them as competition, so he concocts various zany schemes to get rid of them. I doubt I'm doing anything with this, so anyone is welcome to the idea.
 

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If I had to guess I would say a good 98% of my dreams are vivid, and at least half of that can be lucid. I can't remember the last time I had a "typical" dream. Just last night I had a vivid and lucid dream where I kept floating above the world. I could control where I wanted to float and descend.
 

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I've had a couple of bizarrely vivid dreams.

From childhood: I had a full-color dream dismissing the claim one only dreams in black and white. I was walking up a dirt lane toward a closed wooden door. Behind the door there was a scratching noise. I woke up to find my dog scratching to get in my bedroom. She liked to sleep in whomever's bed was still occupied with a warm body. I remember it because it was definitely in color.

More recently I've had two dreams with absolutely real objects. A short while back I dreamed my crown fell out. It covered two teeth. I touched it, held it, felt the gap in my teeth and finally pushed it back on. The dream was so real I made an appointment with the dentist to cement it back in. But the dentist was unable to pry the crown loose so I apologized and paid for the visit. Thinking about it after I realized I didn't have any bridges or double tooth crowns. To this day even though I know it was a dream it still seems like it really happened.

Just a couple days ago I dreamed I lost some handheld device in my bed covers. In the dream it had a purpose I couldn't recall as soon as I woke up. It wasn't the remote control to the TV I also had. I woke up and kept looking for it for at least a couple minutes before I realized there was no real object missing. I had to convince myself it wasn't real, it wasn't like I realized that when I woke up.
 

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Very vivid, but since I stopped using a dream diary, they usually fade.
 

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I used to have pretty fun dreams, in which parts were vivid, but also very short--just scenes. One of my favorites: For some reason I decided to tame a black panther to impress some guy. I showed up at a party he was at, and he was like "so what?" So I said, "f*ck you, I have a tame panther!" and then spent a while roaming the streets with my panther feeling pretty cool. Another from the same period: a hummingbird nested in my hair below my left ear and there was beautiful music playing.

Lately I've just been having vaguely annoying dreams which I can't quite remember, but which leave me in a foul mood.