Dreams

[xpr´k]

My dream habbits have puzzled me alot and ive not really found anyone to talk to about this.
Seeing as the psychedelics forum is pretty active and those kind of drugs seem to spike peoples interest in other realities, dreamstates, etc, i'm just gonna ask my question here. Even if you dont know the answer feel free to give opinions or share experiences.

Right my question is what does it mean that i dont remember my dreams, ever? All around me on occation people mention having had a weird, silly or erotic dream but except for a few nightmares enduced by fever i can never remember anything about mine.

My nightmares can be pretty bad though, as a child I had a high fever once which caused severe anxiety attacks while I was sleepwalking. I dont remember anything about those dreams either tbh, but it i kept waking up while i was running around the diningtable screaming like the devil himself was after me suddenly realising, wtf am i doing. This lasted months before it slowly vanished.
The weirdest nightmare i do remember was letting our VERY irritating cat, who woke me up just for that yet AGAIN, out. When i went back to bed i had this very weird dream which as far as i can remember only concisted of a feeling, just a swirly darkgrey to blackness with the ever rising feeling something was just VERY wrong but with no actuall images. I kept waking up from this one and when I finally had to get up, after what felt like eternity of anxiety over something unknown, I noticed our front door being wide open but there was nothing to see cause of a very dense layer of fog. Seeing the door open really creeped me out cause i clearly remembered closing it after letting the cat out.
Another classic nightmare that reappears when i get sick is someone from my family (it varies who actually). Coming rapidly at me, while i'm in my bed, in a strobe like way with his face twisted with madness and anger and raising an axe to kill me. This scene last only a few secs and ends the moment the axe is supposed to hit me and it repeats itself to eternity, till I wake up, my fever dies down or when i have to get out of bed.

If you know anything about dreams or specificly my symptom feel free to share.

[Sky Walker]

I can't tell you much but I can tell you this, you do dream, every night it's just that you do not remember the experience upon waking.

"The pons sends signals to the thalamus and to the cerebral cortex, which is responsible for most thought processes"

Maybe during sleep your pons is not sending strong enough signals for you to achieve lucid dreaming thus any minor dreams you have before or after the lucidity stages are extremely difficult to remember or not vivid enough to interpret. Not a scientific theory, just an uneducated and most likely misinformed guess, but an answer nonetheless.

I suggest you read this thread for further understanding.

http://www.drugs-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=10727

[xpr´k]

Originally Posted by Lukey

I can't tell you much but I can tell you this, you do dream, every night it's just that you do not remember the experience upon waking.

"The pons sends signals to the thalamus and to the cerebral cortex, which is responsible for most thought processes"

Maybe during sleep your pons is not sending strong enough signals for you to achieve lucid dreaming thus any minor dreams you have before or after the lucidity stages are extremely difficult to remember or not vivid enough to interpret. Not a scientific theory, just an uneducated and most likely misinformed guess, but an answer nonetheless.

I suggest you read this thread for further understanding.

http://www.drugs-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=10727

Yeah each person dreams an AVG of 3 dreams each dreamcycle if i remember correct.
Hence my question, what could be wrong with me (sleeping disorder, memory disorder). Remembering not one except for the really bad ones that wake me make me an anomaly.
I asked my friends about this and most of em can remember at least 1 dream each week.
Maybe next time i visit my Dr i'll ask him about this, but i'm pretty sure he will know about as much as me on this subject. Doctors seem to only know the basics or what the last big seminar was about in my experience.