How detailed are you dreams?

Almost too vivid sometimes. I often try to go back to sleep so they can continue…

I can rarely remember my dreams at all. I’ve always been jealous of a friend who has incredibly vivid, imaginative dreams.

My dreams are usually so detailed that it’s impossible to tell someone about them. But my worry is why I feel certain things in my dream. For example… I’m sure most of us have had dreams with weird noises in them only to find out it was because your alarm clock was ringing and it was in your dream. But what about times in a dream when, say, I can’t breathe? Did I stop breathing in real life? Very frightening.

@trudacia, I am lucky I guess. I can wake up, let the dogs outside, lie back down and pick up where I was. Sometimes I want to sleep all day to finish.

stevenb, I wish I could do that!! I love to dream. Perhaps this says something about my life… Kidding, dreams are great but I doubt I’d actually want most of them to be reality.

But that is a true gift my friend.

My dreams are often extremely vivid. I never even remember the ones that aren’t. For example, In third grade when I was reading the third Harry Potter book [HP and the Prizoners of Azkaban] I had a nightmare about a dementor. They looked just like the dementors in the movie, though the movie hadn’t even come out yet. I could feel the wind and the sucking, and the tattered cloak against my legs. I could feel the hard, rough, cold cement that I was laying on, and I could hear a storm brewing. I could even feel the wetness of the air. It was crazy. [I know, I know…but hey, I was eight!! It was still an amazingly vivid nightmare…]

Or a curse! I need to get up some mornings and I just keeeeeep dreaming instead!

I can have very vivid dreams. Recently, I had one that had feelings of motion, colors, sounds, much as you describe. It seemed very lengthy too in that there was a lot of detailed content.

I have had some intense dreams. Most of my realistic dreams are of me getting killed or having supernatural ablities. The most vivid was in the 1940’s as a mobster getting gun down(I will never forget that dream). I could smell the dust and mold from the bricks in the alley way, and hear water going down the drains from rain, running with an acute sense of fear like something horrible was about to happen to me. I was shot to death by a group of guys that chased me into an alley with their old Thompsons(with the 50 bullet drums on them). I remember after I got shot I was lying there with a shirt-tie combo, and I was just starring at my body, mangled with bullets. I could actually feel the holes in my chest and stomach. There was blood everywhere, mainly on my hands and on the ground trailing from me. And as real as the humidity in the air, I really thought I was quite literally taking my last couple of breaths for the rest of life. When I woke up I was completly covered in sweat, so was the queen size matress, sheets, and the pillow I was lying on. I’m not the paranoid type, or even the fearful. I really don’t know where that dream came from, but I had it.

Sorry its such relished response.

Very! If I remember my dreams, I remember colours, scenes, sounds, words being said, music being played, clothes the people wear…..yes, very detailed – when I remember them

Yes, my dreams are in vivid, living color. I can feel the breeze, feel the weeds slapping against my ankles as I walk by a river. I remember floating down a river in a boat, and dragging my fingers through the water as we went. Something even weirder-I used to faint easily as a teen. I remember waking up after fainting, and thinking that everything that had happened that day up to that point was a dream. I was expecting to open my eyes and be in my bed. What a weird feeling to wake up and still be in your dream! After that experience, I am not altogether certain that dreams are fake. I think on some level you really are there!

I am glad that I’m not the only one having vivid dreams. I am a big fan of flying dreams. But, where do I get such vivid, detailed images of rooftops and landscapes seen from 500 ft up?

@ steelmarket, google earth! LOL

I find that if I stop to remember my dreams, or recount them as soon as I awaken, then I am more likely to remember more detail. That is the value of a dream journal. Whether you want to remember your dreams for their psychological meaning, psychic meaning, or anything else, if you keep a dream journal, you can write down details when you wake up, and also can notice patterns in types of dreams or dream subject.

I used to have flying dreams as a kid and seeing the rooftops, etc., and that was before google earth, Also, I had never flown in a plane. That is weird.