I AM DREAMING!!!

Slinky · Post by **Slinky** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 8:21 am

I'm with Bill. I don't think I've remembered 10 dreams in my entire life and I'm 64!

I've always thought that if you remembered a dream that it was because something disturbed your sleep and woke you up. That if you don't remember dreaming its because your sleep was NOT interrupted during the dreaming phase. I seriously doubt that I've gone 64 years w/o dreaming.

If we NEED to dream AND remember dreaming to get adequate sleep, at 64 I should be dead by now. I thought dreams were the result of your brain shuffling all the info and experiences it absorbed thru the day, filing all those "memories" away in the proper files, the least important and most trivial being filed the deepest.

rested gal · Post by **rested gal** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 5:13 pm

Link to some interesting topics about dreaming and REM rebound:

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LINKS to dreaming - dreams - REM rebound

I'm with Bill and Slinky -- I rarely remember a dream while using "cpap."

At a sleep study last October, I had the good fortune of having three consecutive nights of PSG study. One diagnostic night and two titration nights. One titration night using the lab machine and the third night using my autopap but wired to the PSG equipment.

The PSG data showed I had pretty normal REM stages all three nights. Yet if I had been asked each morning, "Do you remember dreaming?" my answer would have been, "No." I was not aware of any dreams at all those three nights. But I did dream -- there was plenty of good REM on the PSG data every night.