My dream are messed up.

[jupen]

I rarely have a dream that I dont remember, and the ones I do have always have someone I know or are in a familliar environment. If I have a nightmare I am able to twist it most of the time so it doesnt become an extremly bad dream. But on the occasions that I cant change them something weird happens. When I am about to be hurt or discovered my whole body temperature rises and i get all tingly as if the adrenaline in the dream is all over my body as if I was concious. Is this something psi related or just biology?

[ismavatar]

Biology. The same as if you were to experience a sexually explicit dream, your testosterone/estrogen would rush, and the rest is self-explanatory (or can be looked up elsewhere, as it is not appropriate here).

I rarely have a dream that I dont remember

How would you know? Do you know what you forget? Then you wouldn't have forgotten it - or else I could say that I rarely hear or see or experience or think up anything that I don't remember.

[red29216]

I agree with ismavatar, and jupen, it's probably more likely that you rarely have a dream you don't remember clearly; we have dreams every night, a couple every night, and it's possible that you just remember a few big ones very clearly. Or I could be entirely wrong and you could have a bookcase full of clearly described dreams inside dream journals.

[onine]

I don't know how it is for other people, but I dream very quickly, after an hour or two of sleep, and I am dreaming for the entire night. It's really pretty much impossible for me to remember them all.

You should not dominate your Higher Self.

[ismavatar]

90 minutes, actually. That's when REM sleep begins, and REM is when you dream. Then you shift out of REM and into the other phases, and cycle through for another 90 minutes until you get back to REM again. During the time that you are not dreaming, time progresses very quickly (because perceived time is defined by how many memories/experiences you have during the time. No memories means that it seems to take no time at all).

You usually dream several times a night - a lot more than 2. Like 4 or 5 is more reasonable.

The reason you forget your dreams so easily is because they occur at the time that short term memory gets transferred to long-term memory (yes, this happens during sleep. Along with a lot of physical healing and new brain-cells growing, according to a new study). Then the dream gets stored in short term. How good are you at recalling things stored in short term memory 5 hours later? I doubt you're very good at it.

All this is of course from a few studies that I read and some things I learned during a Psychology course.

[The Adfeng]

Well, over time you do gather a way to remember at least one a night. I know at least every night I remember one of my dreams. And it's probably one of the ones that you would be most likely to remember. But, this comes with practice.

[sleepyhollow94]

I find remembering dreams is easier once you start writing down the ones that you do remember, I guess it's sort of getting your brain used to remembering dreams, you're "practicing" it to an extent. Also, for me at least, there are little things that trigger memories of dreams in my head. For example, a few weeks I dreamed of going to my grandmother's house, but when I woke up, I couldn't really remember it. It was that feeling that I knew I HAD a dream, I just couldn't recall the content. Anyways, later that morning, someone mentioned their grandma in a conversation I was having, and it all came flooding back (to a certain extent, of course).