Just got to wondering if I was the only one who seldom remembered what I dreamt the night before.
-Rick

I wish I remembered them for longer than a minute. My dreams are like movies, in vivid color, and I wake up (usually to go to the bathroom) and think, wow, what a great dream, but in a little while, most of it is gone, except for some flashes of scenes. I recalled some dialogue from last night's: "She's hard saucie; that's saucie to the max."

I can go back to sleep immediately and continue the dream sometimes. I love that. I always go back to sleep very fast.

I haven't had a dream I could remember in years. I'm to the point where I don't think I dream at all.

GregD

Hi Zucchiniflower,
I have always vivid dreams, mostly pleasant which I partly remember when I wake. Some are repeated & some I can 'dream' myself into as the begining stays in my mind. My husband says I can sleep for England. I have no trouble nodding off & like you I can get up & then resume the dream.
Angela.

Rick, I notice royal jelly has disappeared from your treatments. My husband is a bee farmer & he was sceptical about its efficacy. Apparently propolis is considered the main healer especially from our native bees (Apis mellifera). There is a chap in the USA who uses (venom from) live stings to ease arthritis.
Is there a particulr reason you have stopped taking it?
Angela

Yes, I remember my dreams - not every one, but many of them I remember well enough to tell at the breakfast table, and the really good ones I remember for years. I sleep wonderfully, and my dreams are fun and often very beautiful.
The best words I woke up remembering were, "And the parrot on the porch broke into gales of laughter". I wish I remembered that dream, but only the words remain.
My husband wakes me now and then because I seem to him to cry out and be afraid in my sleep, but more often than not I'm laughing in a dream, it just sounds like cries.

ZZZZZZ
birte

Just in case of discussion, I am going to reply seperately.

yessiree - I do indeed, I have dreamt like this since a very young child...

sometimes awesome -sometimes weirdooville,
scarydreaming is not resting -it is running from or away from preconceived
bad guys...monsters...etc.

http://www.answers.com/topic/allan-hobson

a newspaper interview w/ dr.allan hobson:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpag...5BC0A9649C8B63

There is exquisite control of sleep by the brain. In mammals, sleep is one of the key bodily functions controlled by the body clock in the hypothalamus. By these means it is also tied to the rhythm of body temperature, such that sleep occurs as body temperature falls and waking occurs when body temperature is highest. For most animals, including humans, these peaks in alertness and energy availability occur during the daylight hours, but animals (like rats) that rely more on smell than on vision are active at night and sleep in the daytime. In very hot climates humans may also shift their activity into the darker, cooler night and have a siesta during the forbiddingly hot period of the early afternoon.

The body clock times the occurrence of sleep via its direct nervous connection between the hypothalamus and other subcortical structures in the lower brain. Of particular importance are those collections of brain cells in the brain stem which manufacture and liberate from their endings two brain chemicals, noradrenaline (norepinephrine) and serotonin, which appear to have energizing effects needed for the waking functions of the brain and the body. In order for sleep to occur the activity of these brain cells must be quelled by the mechanism of inhibition. As their activity is more and more completely diminished, another group of cells becomes increasingly active and liberates more and more molecules of another chemical (acetylcholine), which appears to mediate restorative functions throughout the body and the brain. It is the reciprocal interaction of the two cell groups that appears to provide the basis of the cyclic alternation of NREM and REM sleep and their functional differentiation.

Functions of sleep

Sleep is vitally necessary. Recent experiments on the effects of prolonged sleep deprivation give hints as to why even short-term sleep loss is so disabling and why it is so vigorously compensated by the brain. If sleep deprivation is extended beyond two weeks, rats develop a distinctive group of signs that inevitably leads to their demise. Their skin breaks down and they show an increasing craving for food but cannot maintain their body weight no matter how much they eat. At the same time they develop more and more determined heat-seeking behaviour, as they cannot control their body temperatures when exposed to normal variation in environmental temperature. Short of these extreme effects, more modest sleep deprivation has been shown to create a wide variety of difficulties. Taken together these suggest that sleep may normally play an important role in the maintenance of such important bodily functions as the immune response and metabolic balance, as well as such critical mental functions as attentiveness, learning and memory, and emotional equilibrium. Shakespeare may have been correct when he said that sleep ‘knits up the raveled sleeve of care’, but he was underestimating the more active developmental and survival functions of sleep.

— J. Allan Hobson

Hi Ric,
I'll remember most of my dreams, I think that's because my body often wakes me up during the night, often during a dream, to let me know it's time to go to the bathroom (average 3 times a night). I drink lots of water during the day.
I find my dreams are much more vivid now, maybe the pd meds have something to do with it. I can remember most of my senses and emotions in my dreams. (smell, temperature, color, touch, pain, fear, smell, laughter, etc.)


Here are a couple of weird dream segments that I've remembered.

I'm watching a band playing in a crowded area. They are singing a song. I'm trying to sing along, but I don't know the words. But the band in my mind, during this dream knows all the words perfectly... weird

I had a similar dream last year, where I was trying to speak to someone in French. I had difficulty in knowing the french words, but he spoke french fluently. In the real world, I've never been able to fully speak this laungage, but my parents spoke french at home when I was a child.

This is my weirded dream experience. Keep in mind that I was asleep and dreaming during this time. Im my dream, I woke up and was analyzing the dream I just had. But I was still dreaming. I know this because my cat woke me up after this dream.

If you want to remember your dreams, the trick is try not to move around after you wake up, keep your head in the same position, recall your dream, than write it down right away. If you don't, there's a good chance you won't remember it later.

Dreams are fun, I always look forward to them. I had some limited success in directing my dreams to where I want them to go.

Pleasant dreams.
Max

I remember a lot of my dreams as well. They range from the mundane to the really weird. They are pretty much very vivid to a point where I can smell, feel, and hear things vividly. Just the other night I dreamed I was bicycle riding. I could not only feel the wind in my face, but also the tightness in the backs of my legs as I pedaled along. In the passed I used to long-distance bike ride so the feelings in this dream were pretty realistic.

In other dreams I've been covered with large swarms of insects. An ant or two doesn't phase me, but when there are large numbers, I get the creepies. In the dreams, I've put my hand into a closet to pull out a bucket, and have seen the bucket full of cockroaches, ants, and ticks. Eew Gross!

I think part of this has to do with the PD medications, and the part is my dreams have always been on the intense side. The medication just helps to amplify them.

I've only been lucky a few times in being able to pickup where I left off in a dream after waking up. When I do it's like I'm continuing a movie from where it left off.

John