sleeping patterns - instant dreaming?Follow

first subject posted here. please dont eat me ><

okay, generally speaking, all i have to do is lay my head down and close my eyes and i will be asleep within moments. i start to dream almost instantly.

my boyfriend thinks this is odd and says he has never seen anyone begin dreaming so quickly (REM, talking, all that stuff to clue him in). i seem to vaguely remember something from psychology class about REM and not dreaming until you are at a certain "level" of sleep. i havent paid any attention to when other people begin to dream, because i'm always the first asleep ^^; when i have asked other people i know, they say they have no idea when they start dreaming. i've nodded off for a few minutes and woken from a dream, so i *know*. i would assume these people would know if they did as well.

does anyone else experience the same thing? or know anything about sleep patterns? ^^

In my experience, I only dream vividly when I am in a light sleep. If I wake up to the alarm and hit snooze, I usually dream, and rememeber that dream, more oftan than when I am in a deep sleep.

And REM sleep is not just eye movement, there is also a change in brain waves and activity. I doubt you almost automatically go into true REM sleep. I have a friend that twitches and talk when he starts to go to sleep.

And it's no fair that you are able to go to sleep quickly. The average amount of time it takes a person to go to sleep is 7 minutes. And like usual, I am way above average. :)

that's the kind of response i was really looking for i guess. i didnt figure it was that weird myself.

i have noticed the same thing. often i will get woken up moments after i fall asleep (bf is playing castlevania loudly, cat jumps on me, what have you) and the images i remember are vivid, chaotic, and loud, but make little sense. if i am asleep for a bit longer, like 5 minutes plus and get woken up, i can tell you what i was dreaming about because its a lot more.. i dunno, structured i guess. but yes, much easier than later recalling dreams i had during deep sleep in the morning.



yeah, this pissed my ex right off ^^; my boyfriend now just finds it incredibly amusing to watch me trying to talk or make faces and then wake me to ask what i was just dreaming about.

okay, generally speaking, all i have to do is lay my head down and close my eyes and i will be asleep within moments. i start to dream almost instantly.


No you don't.

Yeah, me too. It takes me a while to get to sleep. I hate people who can lie down, and are out cold within five minutes, it makes me so jealous.

Sleep! I need some of that..

it depends on how sleepy you are. the sleepier you are the more your brain needs a dream.

ive probably had every kind of sleep possible except narcolepsy(sp?) from those dozing off and i dream and feel like im falling and waking right up. lucid dreams, nights with dreams i cant remember, 36 hours awake dream with eyes open while playing final fantasy xi, nutmeg hallucination dreams. but i can believe the instant rem because ive had some of that, along with unsleepable nights.

Ive been having weird dreams lately were i know im dreaming. It's like I'll be in middle of dream not conscious at all, just going along with it and then bam its like, I'm me, I know I am asleep, and I am like "this is a dream" and i react accordingly.

Very odd. Dont know if that happens to other people, but mainly for me i usually just dream and whatever happens. happens and i just remember it in the morning.

Like a dream where i try to stop someone from doing something and they just keep doing it. Now i dream and realize its a dream try to argue rationally with them and if that doesnt work ill just leave because im like its a dream.

Hard to explain without sounding like im on crack.

Okay now i know what it is and such. I can also wake myself up from a bad dream. Is that also part of lucid dreaming?

What you are experiencing is more like a vivid daydream instead of an actual dream experienced in the 3rd level of sleep.

My wife says I mumble to myself right as I go to sleep. For some reason I do this far more when I am sleeping in a sort of half sitting position - which I only do when I'm sick, so perhaps it is that I'm sick that causes the mumblings. She has to wake me up if I am mumbling a lecture because I have this deep public speaking voice that is pretty different from my normal tone of voice and, when mumbled, is disturbing, apparently.

However, unlike eris, it usually takes quite an effort for me to go to sleep and I sleep pretty lightly. Often I wake up when my wife starts breathing faster in her sleep - usually because she is having a bad dream - and wake her from it. We've done this for years, now, and it's pretty rare she wakes from a bad dream herself anymore (although I guess I am starting to slip recently). When we first were...um...coupling she was really impressed by this ability.

Anyhow, to Yanari, I was going to say I also can wake myself out of dreams. For me, I usually find logical inconsistencies and just state 'ok, this is a dream'. And that actually worked for a while but recently I generally just wake from that dream into yet another dream - beginning with me just waking up. Some of these dreams are so vivid I actually get confused when I wake up and look in the fridge or look on my desk because it was different in the dream yet it was so vivid I'm confused.

i have had a few lucid dreams, but its hard to keep that state, its like the thin line between love and hate, except one side is the dream is believable, cant get lucid, and the other side is, this must be a dream, okay that does it, ***** you guys im going home, talking poo is where i draw the line. to balance on that thin line in the middle is HARD. youre always one thought away from waking once you realize youre dreaming.

She might do, depends what your definition of "almost instantly is", it is no set time, and 2 hours might be "almost instant" to eris.