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I am a very vivid dreamer. I usually have about 3 dreams a night which I remember, which are in colour and very very vivid. But over the past 2 weeks I have woken up as usual, my normal routine thing, not remembering having any! This is very unusual for me cuz I always wake up and remember the dreams I just had, then think about them....
What is going on here? Does it mean somehing? I know I'm still having dreams, cuz it impossible for humans to sleep without having at least 4 a night. Its just that I no longer remember them...
Help!
Kiama, the Dreamless One
Malachite
27-03-2002, 17:59
Are you too tired to remember them?...
Try making a point of thinking about remembering them before going to sleep....
and read what everyone else posts, cuz itll be far more informed and useful..
Jeanette
27-03-2002, 18:03
Hi, Kiama! First I want to thank you for answering my flood dream. I hadn't thought about it like that, it's a different perspective. Anyway, I've found that hormonal changes affect my dreams, and the full moon. I'm getting older and more hormone swings, ups and downs, and more vivid dreams. Night sweats (counterpart to hot flashes) cause you to not sleep very soundly, so you are more restless and wakeful. And my hormones have always been influenced by the moon, even after a hysterectomy 3 years ago. (I kept my ovaries :) ) Between being in my early twenties to late thirties, I hardly remembered any dreams. When I was a kid and teenager, I recalled a lot of dreams (and a lot were very terrifying). I recall dreams more now, but they aren't really terrifying any more. Some are just weirder than others! When you go to sleep, tell yourself to remember your dreams, and it might work! Pleasant dreams!!
I've tried telling myself to remember my dreams, and I'm not any tireder (Is that actually a word) now than I was 3 weeks ago... Everything's pretty much the same... Which is why I'm curious...
*Kiama frowns and thinks some more*
Kiama
DollChica
27-03-2002, 19:36
Kiama, if you have a dream that you need to remember, you'll remember it. So don't worrry about it.
Butterfly
27-03-2002, 21:12
Im'm sure that you integrate whatever it is that you are learning anyway. Is your nighttime routine any different? Are you eating different foods? Are you distracted by something in your life? How is your general health?
Maybe, your subconcious thinks you need a rest- are you getting too hung up on your internal life- to the exclusion of your external life?
Just a few things to think about. Bet Isthmus would answer this like an expert!
fairyhedgehog
28-03-2002, 05:45
Originally posted by Jeanette
Night sweats (counterpart to hot flashes) cause you to not sleep very soundly, so you are more restless and wakeful
I know this is a bit off topic, but have you tried Black Cohosh Root? It's really helped me.
All the best,
FH
You can try sleeping with an Amethyst under your pillow. It will drive off insomnia and nightmares. It will also help you to have a peaceful sleep with pleasant, healing and prophetic dreams.
I have a friend who does this and she sleeps wonderfully and has no more nightmares. The dreams she has are nice and peacefull. I did this for a few nights to see how it would affect my sleep and dreams. I slept terrible!!! My dreams became so vivid and real that it affected my sleep. They were nice dreams. Just too many of them, too vivid, all night long.
Most people have good results with this. I'm just too intuned with my stones and crystals.
Dianne
i've had a lot of luck with mugwort under my pillow, and asking "the powers that be" to help me remember, and learn from, my dreams, before I go to sleep. I agree that if a dream is important you'll remember it, so don't worry. good luck and sweet dreams!
isthmus nekoi
28-03-2002, 11:36
Butterfly> *chee* I'm hardly an expert but you're right - I always love to talk about dreams! ^_^
Kiama> I've had this experience too! It could be that you are under some stress (although it sounds to me like this isn't the case)... I remember when I was in high school, I had trouble remembering dreams during exam week - or sometimes the dreams would be about doing exams (how awful is that?!!). I don't stress over exams anymore, so exam dreams don't happen to me now - thank god!
What Butterfly mentioned is also pretty common. As well as any change in routine, it could be that your energies are being channelled out into your waking life so that you are living out what your dreams have been working with previously. So you're concretizing their messages and giving your subconscious a rest :P
Finally, you could be repressing something. Sometimes if I am not on the best of terms w/the uncon, I can feel the resistance towards dream recall, despite the fact that dream recall is very important to me. If this is case, give it time, and be patient w/yourself! Repression isn't necessarily a bad thing - sometimes you *need* to resist the power of the uncon. It's the question of finding the right balance...
Take care,
Isthmus
//Most people have good results with this. I'm just too intuned with my stones and crystals.
Dianne//
perhaps if you are already sleeping well it does the adverse affect on you? have you tried using your stones and crystals for an ailment? i bet they would wok amazing on your because you are so intuned.
in light,
jade
New River
28-03-2002, 14:32
hi kiama!
i am suffering the worst spell of insomnia i've had in years. all the posts so far have mentioned how stress, change in hormones, full moon, etc. can have an effect on this. wow! i'm going thru ALL of those at the same time!
plus i'm at my sister's housesitting so don't even have my own bed or any of my crystals, etc.
i just wanted to ask whether your daydreaming time goes up when you are not remembering your nighttime dreams?
since i have only been able to sleep in little bits and pieces, i.e. 2 or 3 hours per day, i find myself very spacey and zoned out. i can't think straight but find myself staring into space daydreaming. sometimes this can be as effective as a 'real' dream.
no where near as relaxing, healing, or healthy as real dreaming tho.
if your subconscious had something important to get thru to you don't worry, you would get it. your dreaming will come back never fear!
love, light and hope, New River
Hi Kiama,
I am a pretty intense dreamer too. But I also go through long periods when I don't remember them. Just seems to come and go, over fairly long periods of time.
kiama,
i can totally empathize... as of lately, i'm in the same boat. i really am glad that everyone has posted some good suggestions. i;m eager to try a few tonight to see if it improves.
i know that insomnia and stress and the switching seasons can sometimes wreak havoc on your sleepy cycles and disturb the dream remembering state. i've also started keeping a dream diary... keep it at my bed in the hopes that if i do remember a dream, i will record it.
good luck with your dreams and if you think of anything else that may work, feel free to email me with it... as it may help me. =)
blessed be,
.dc
Jade, I wish that was the case, but I haven't slept a night without waking in a very long time. I toss and turn and have to get up to go potty at least once each night.
When I have a migraine I will place my amethyst on my forehead and lay down. It will help me to feel better. I pulled the muscles in my back again and have been placing my amethysts in my bath with me. I did place a lepidolite under my daughters pillow to calm her nightmares. I make sure my son carries Hematite when he has exams. I will do simple magic with candles and my stones and crystals. Magic to calm the household if the kids are fighting, protection spells for when my husband has to travel, magic to help make what little money I have stretch from one payday to the next.
I am interested in crystal healing, I just haven't had the chance to study it yet. Crystal healing and Reiki are two things I plan on learning more about this year.
I might try the mugwort and amethyst thing soon...
Thanks for all you help and kind words guys!
Kiama
DollChica
29-03-2002, 18:52
Kiama,
I re-read my response and feel the need to clarify a little. The same thing that's happening to you, happened to me at about the same age. Like you, I panicked :( Since then I've learned a few things. When you sleep at night, the subconcious part of your brain mucks through the events of the day and puts them in some semblance of order. Sort of like defragging a computer :) This is also the time that messages you need to get will come thru. Your subconcious will make sure you get any messages that you need to get. That's why I said not to worry about it.
Gee...I hope this makes sense.
D.
bing,
that sucks :( reiki may assist you to sleep better. i know that it really helps me and when my daughter was having a terrible time getting and staying asleep i attuned her and now she never has trouble with sleep!
in light,
jade
Jade, yes it does... But, you know, I have gotten used to it. I do seem to get enough sleep. I have tried numerous stones but have discovered that I need to keep them ALL far away from my bedroom. I had never thought that Reiki may help my sleep. Thank you for the bit of information. :-)
Dianne
bing,
i just thought of this....
have you tried herbs?
a while ago we had a thread on rosemary and lavendar as sleep aids.
the rosemary (if i remember correctly) needs to be used in small amounts but the lavendar is very sleep-aiding.
:)
jade
All Is One
30-03-2002, 16:43
Kiama, and all:
I know this may sound silly and maybe it is, but it sure works for me:
I suffer these spells every few months, and I have to change my sleeping spot completely.
** I have used tinfoil and/or heavier coverings on windows in my bedroom to ensure total darkness.
** I have tried sleeping on the floor of bedrm or floor of a different room (near a fire or w/coloured xmas lights on all nite works extra super well!)
** I have tried using favoured cd's and playing them softly all nite. . .
** I like the crystals idea- I have them in the medicine bags I make, and I use them in lots of rituals, but I've never put one alone under my pillow- however a vase or wine goblet or clear glass bowl (a small fish bowl works well) filled with water and tinted blue (I use food coloring) to the shade of your choice, placed in front of a candle, with the tarot cards of your choosing nearby, makes a good meditative break between the waking and the dreaming realms. I love to watch the tiny flame of a birthday candle flicker thru the dark blue water. Thus fire, seen thru water, and you might want to add earth and air elements and other things...
These things worked well for snapping me back to my dream life, which is usually more intense and vivid (and more fun) than most of my waking life, but also did fantastic things for my insomnia.
Good luck to you,
Alison- Who - Flies - In - Her - Dreams
(*yawning*)
It's nice to hear about other's dream lives. I always wondered why I would go thru a period of not remembering dreams. Maybe that's it, that my subconscious wants me to rest. My dreams are always very busy-I wonder what a dream would be like just sitting by a stream listening to the water-doesn't happen to me. I'm always running around helping people, or just 'doing'.
I hadn't remembered a dream in days and days, and yesterday I was going thru some old photographs and saw pictures of an old lover. Wouldn'tcha know he was in my dreams last night, and I remembered the dream quite well. Gee, so was that nostalgia working it's way through my soul? I treasured our relationship while it lasted. I don't have regrets, really, I love the man I'm with right now very much. So it doesn't seem like I'm struggling with anything, just kind of touching base with the past?
I believe we can visit each other in our dreams. I wonder if that was it. the dream was basically, 'yeah, it was great and I sure loved you' kinda conversation. Pretty sweet. So did I go to him, or did he come to me? Hmm...
I've had times where I go to sleep and ask the universe to just let me fly around and have some fun please? And it works! Other times, forget it. Funny tho, whenever I fly in my dreams, I usually ALWAYS nick a telephone pole. It doesn't hurt, but, what's up with that?
:-)
Piccolo
All Is One
02-04-2002, 11:59
I always love the flying dreams because they are so real; so maybe the part where you bump the telephone pole is a extra real part of the dream?
I haven't had a flying dream for awhile, so i think i 'll ask for one.
Sure do miss them.
Another idea: I believe the flying dreams are about spiritual power, and if you are powerfully zipping up into the aeon and nick yourself on a phone pole, it might be a reminder or a message about the limits of personal power (???)
Dreams are so personal in their symbolism, and yet so universal - pretty much sums up the tarot too.
Alison (home sick w/the flu- feeling a bit sorry for herself *cough, cough*)
Don't feel too discouraged Kiama. I have dreams that are very vivid and whatnot, but recently I haven't had one..until the night before last. I dreamed my boyfriend and I got married, had a happy, and then attended a funeral.
Perhaps the reason you and I, alike, have not been having dreams is because our minds are focused on many things. Perhaps their is too much stress going on in our lives. It's more than likely due to alot of things.
I haven't been at this a long time...but just try to pray to your goddess to return your dreams and meditate and rub your temples in the candle light and put on a very spiritual tune...and you will feel completely comfortable..afterwards, you will be rested and it may help return your dreams. If not, atleast you'll sleep well. :) Good luck, my dear..and blessed be! :)
Yes, all is one, I think maybe you're right about the personal power thing. My last flying dream was one where the night before I had asked for a dream where I could fly, and where God would speak to me-long story but, I was just looking for an affirmation I was on the right track. So in my dream I flew up unusually fast, and high, so high I got nervous that I was not going to be able to come back down. Then to my left was a spherical place I 'knew' was the earth, and in order for me to get into that place, I had to fly through the telephone poles (as usual) to get there.
Somehow I knew I should not fly any higher. But, I didn't focus on that part until you mentioned being aware of your own personal power. I probably knew somehow I wasn't strong enough to go any further.
As for God talking to me, that was cool too. When I went inside the sphere, there was a tall table, with chairs around it. I knew my family was about to have dinner there, and draped on the backs of the chairs were drapery fabric type cloths with old English type letters written on them. At that moment I bacame lucid, and new that God had written something there for me. I remember picking up one of the cloths, and I could feel the heavy drapery fabric, and I said to myself, 'I'll just hold on to this and take it with me, so when I wake up I'll know God spoke to me, even tho I don't know what the words mean'. Of course I woke up, and there was no cloth, but the feeling of it was strong on me.
You know those dreams when you want to close your eyes and go back?...sigh. that was a great dream
Piccolo
Greetings.
Kiama, I dream on and off. In some periods I have so vivid dreams, that I have serious trouble waking up. :( One time I even experienced being paralyzed. It's a word for that condition, but I can't remember it now (anyone?). You find yourself trapped in a state between dreams and consiousness. It's really creepy.
Anyway, if these dreaming periods become to tiredsome, I just 'switch off' the dreaming; that is, I make myself forget them till morning. When I'm ready again, I simply switch them on again. I know this must sound kinda ridiciulous, but it's a neat trick. I just consentrate and convince my brain that 'I will remember my dream' or opposite. Try that. Every morning as well, lie for a few minutes, consentrated (not too hard), trying to pick up pieces of your dreams. Eventually, you will remember them. Good luck! :)
Warm blessings,
~aeonx~
I got my dreams back again! I don't know how it happened, but they just came back!
YAY!
Kiamaa
All Is One
09-04-2002, 09:03
I'm so happy to hear that your dream life is back!
If you have any to share (I'd expect the dreams would be pretty vivid after a extended lapse. . .we'd love to know.
This was a great thread, thanks Kiama!