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Sleep/Dreaming Question

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If you wake up and remember a dream when you were sleeping, does that mean you were in a deep sleep? For months now I've never recalled dreaming while I was asleep, then I started taking amatryptaline(sp?) and I remember dreaming each morning.

So, with the pills am I getting deeper, more restfull sleep than before?
 
quite possibly. but i believe dreams only occur during a certain stage of REM... so .... i don't know. i don't think anyone will ever figure out how sleep works.
 
you only dream (the ones you can remember) are in lighter sleep actually


the deeper you fall asleep and get REM the less you can remember or "dream" (there is always brain activity while you sleep)

I would stop taking those pills...
 
I'm an insomniac so I don't get as much sleep as I should. With these pills I get a little more sleep than usual, so I can't really stop taking them.
 
Originally posted by: LoKe
I'm an insomniac so I don't get as much sleep as I should. With these pills I get a little more sleep than usual, so I can't really stop taking them.
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oic...well then you are probably about to wake up when you have the dreams but the pill keep you alseep....hence your sudden increase in dreams
 
You go though cycles of REM dream state when sleeping.
There does not seem to be any relationship between REM state and remembering a dream after waking. What there is a relationship to is how you wake up and dream memory. The more rapid the change between sleep state and wake state the more likely you are to remember a dream. Something to consider is that what you remember as a dream very likely was not what you dreamed at all, in the first hour of being awake a person?s memory of dreams changes drastically.
 
That's not quite what I mean. I wrote that out incorrectly. What I meant was, I remember dreaming but not necessarily what I dreamt about.
 
Originally posted by: LoKe
That's not quite what I mean. I wrote that out incorrectly. What I meant was, I remember dreaming but not necessarily what I dreamt about.
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The answer to your question is no. There does not appear to be any correlation between dream memory and quality of sleep.
You dream both in light and deep sleep, and appear to have roughly the same chance of remembering your dreams if awoken from either state.
What seems to most affect dream memory is how you wake up (by what cause) then when or what state you were in when awoken.
 
Originally posted by: SMOGZINN
Originally posted by: LoKe
That's not quite what I mean. I wrote that out incorrectly. What I meant was, I remember dreaming but not necessarily what I dreamt about.
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The answer to your question is no. There does not appear to be any correlation between dream memory and quality of sleep.
You dream both in light and deep sleep, and appear to have roughly the same chance of remembering your dreams if awoken from either state.
What seems to most affect dream memory is how you wake up (by what cause) then when or what state you were in when awoken.
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Thank you. 🙂
 
I used to remember my dreams more when I was a kid/teen. Now I rarely do unless I wake up in the middle of the night, having just been dreaming at that time.

What does it mean when you dream your back in school? Or at a previous job that you hated, thinking "I can't believe I'm back here doing this crap. I was so glad to leave this place"?
 
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