zzz - dream

>>229
Yup. I really like sleeping because I almost never feel sick in my dreams.
I wouldn't mind sleeping forever.

>>229
I never remember my dreams, this is probably because of my lack of sleep. But most of the dreams I remember are about back when I was in school, so I prefer not to remember my dreams.

I relate. Waking up is terrible.

>>231
I have quite the opposite, I remember my dreams. It starts where I wake up and remember the dream very well. Next it's the "forget phase" where you suddenly forget your dream. Then it all comes back to me because I'll think of something in my mind and it'll trigger some bridge that connects my dream memories to my actual memory. Literally every day this happens in the same cycle.

As for your lack of sleep, I have a lack of being awake. I sleep at least 12 hours a day (only about 7-8 hours being actual sleep) the other 4 hours I "force" myself to sleep. Whenever I'm awake I feel compelled to return to sleep (aka feeling tired) there's never a time of the day where I feel awake.

I would go as far to say I'm more awake in my dreams than being actually awake.

Yeah,
Life just isn't that great when you compare it to just about anything else

Yes.

Problem is, if you try to sleep constantly (hypersomnia), you're dreams eventually turn into nightmares and the both "lives" suck.

How vivid are you people's dreams? Mine aren't such a big deal, I wonder why you like your dreams so much.

You should try meditation.

>>644
Allegedly, some dreams have been noted to feel more realistic than waking life. As for myself, I've many dreams in which they're just as real in feeling as waking life.

>>646
Care to share some details? How often do you have this sort of dream? Does it happen at a particular time of the night? Do you remember them in the morning or only if you wake up in the middle of the night?

I had a very vivid dream once, it was lucid actually. I randomly woke up some 3 hours earlier than usual, and managed to sleep only 2 hours later. Somehow that triggered it.

>>649
Unfortunately, I've actually never really logged any particular details as to the events surrounding my more realistic, "controlled" dreams. Though, one thing I've noticed is that I don't believe I've ever had a realistic dream when attaining less sleep than I require (7-8+ hours). Typically, the dreams in which I can control myself and act on my own are the most memorable, so I remember these fairly easily- or so I assume.

>I randomly woke up some 3 hours earlier than usual, and managed to sleep only 2 hours later.
I believe that's called a "wake-back-to-bed". You wake up in the middle of your sleep schedule and allow your mind to awake- though not your body- and then when you fall back asleep your mind is awake as your body is asleep, thus enabling or atleast highly increasing your chances to lucid dream. I've heard that rather than one, long, continuous 8+ hours of sleep, that two, 4-hour periods are more efficient and this can be a good point to do a wake-back-to-bed.

Yes. The dream about being hunted and not able to run away - my legs became limp and weak. Waking up and realising it was just a dream is relieving but I would still be depressed for a few hours after.
>>644
Because apart from what I've written about they are goddarn great. Fighting, flying, crashing soykaf, paranoia. Even being on the run is fun. And talk about climbing a ladder to a 28th floor with a marksman rifle and a laptop bag.

I know how you feel. Sleeping every night is like a new adventure. I wouldn't say waking up is terrible, but usually I'd much rather continue dreaming.

Someday, I want to start lucid dreaming. Supposedly you can be stuck in sleep paralysis for a while if things go wrong, though. Has that happened to anyone here?

I don't dream enough to feel they are better than my waking life. They are not too interesting either. Two things are wird in them though: one is how a minor detail or event of a scene always becomes the main event or location for the next one, making a chain of little sub-dreams only related by this one small detail. The other thing is people I know IRL. They usually preserve their appearance and personality, but don't seem to notice how weird the situation is and ending up acting very outlandish.
I don't really sense much in my dreams. Smells, tastes, touch, heat, momentum, pain, itch, a lot of things are missing. It makes them feel quite dull, and I often get more vivid feels from weird stuff I read or see while I'm awake.

>>711
ive gotten sleep paraylsis plenty of times. ive learned to snap out of it though. you literally think to yourself "i just have to close my eyes" and close your eyes and you get back in the dream.
>>229
there are apps that help you lucid dream. ive used Awoken on android

>>646
Waking Life is actually a really good movie about dreams you should all watch.

>>644
I tend to have pretty vivid and absurd dreams. A lot more enjoyable than my repetitive and bland waking life.

I seriously feel more alive in my dreams.

>>229
I rarely remember my dreams but the few i do remember are always saddening and overly normal.

One was me walking hand in hand with some girl i knew around a lake. That's it.

>>229
Every. Single. Morning.
>Start dreaming.
>Oh soykaf turns out me and my friends are going to Disney world!
>Holy fuarrrk that day at Disney world was awesome! Wait, what's this? My friend's hot sister wants me to sleep with her?
>Woah holy soykaf I just fuarrrked my friend's hot sister!
>Wake up.
>Realize I'm just some glitterboy living with his friend and his friend's sister.
>Realize I'm too poor to go to Disney world and too fat/lazy for my friend's sister to want to fuarrrk me.
>Cry.

>>229
Yeah quite often. Case in point, well you see there was this girl and tl;dr now there isn't. Sometimes I still dream about her and it's the happy dreams, not the sad ones, which destroy my whole week. Missing her is something I'm used to but having her back for a moment only to wake up and realize it was just a dream? is the worst feeling in the world.

>>878
You should at least try, lainanon.

What I tend to do is wake up and then immediately go back to sleep for 15 minutes to an hour. Those are the really vivid dreams.

>>229
i feel like this everyday of my life
i just want to live on the wired

>>739
If it's that easy to snap out of, I guess I'll have to try it. Thanks.

>>887
I've been doing this too and the result is I'm starting to get "to be continued" dreams, something I thought was impossible. In other words the dream picks up more or less where it left off after I fall back asleep. In the past, once I woke up from a dream, that story was finished for good, no exceptions.

>>229
I wish I would never wake up

Being awake is suffering. When you're a busy person you start to realize that it all comes down to sleeping, and that all that matters in life is how much you're sleeping. I really want to sleep right now.

>>229
I used to, it probably depends on the situation you have in reality. I had some depression issues last year, that combined with summer heat and depression causing medications made me go into a spiral of suicidal thoughts and heavy (bottom of the pit) type of depression. During those times, whenever I wake up and remember my dreams (or at least the sensation of it) and remember my current situation. I feel that I wanted to go back to the dream and never wake up. Because the dream is more normal, that I had more control in it even though it wasn't lucid.

But when I stopped the medications and I started to cope with my situation, my depression faded and everything went back to some degree of normality. There are of course dreams that are so amazing I still don't want to wake up, but that's because the dream is amazing.

Well, there were also those moments where I wake up and become glad that it was all just a dream. That my situation in reality is better. (although most of those were before my depression last year)