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Post by alpinelake on Feb 22, 2015 16:30:44 GMT
Ever since I can remember, I have had profoundly vivid dreams. I often wake up exhausted and confused about what is real, and have horrible nightsweats. It seems my mind likes to construct entire fictional cities with fictional people I've never met. A lot of the time I am also a fictional person who isn't me...
I have often thought to start a dream journal, but as I'm sure many here know, that getting round to things is hard! Also, I am usually extremely tired on waking and find it very difficult to rouse myself before my memory of a dream has dissipated.
I also experience déjà vu quite frequently, and am sure that I have dreamt things before.
Basically, I'm wondering if anyone else on this forum has such vivid dreams, and can you recall some of the weirder constructions of your mind? Could it be that even during sleep, the mind is hyperactive among people with ADHD?
What is deja-vu? Is it a function of attentional deficit such that we process information twice within the same moment, or is it deeper than that? Does anyone experience this a lot?
I suppose this is quite an open-ended thread and very much as 'general' as its placing suggests :].
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Post by Foxtrot on Feb 22, 2015 19:19:54 GMT
Yes I can relate. I also wake up thinking I've had an exceptional brainwave of an idea but can't quite bring to mind what it was. I bet if I could recall it, it would be something abstract like a translator phone for conversing with aliens or some such tosh.
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Post by Bee on Feb 23, 2015 8:23:10 GMT
I have very vivid nightmares. It only ever seems to be nightmares. Seeing a werewolf rip someone shred from shred. Hearing the screams and the howls. It's awful I also wake up and look around my room and don't recognise it. It's weird. I'll see all my familiar surroundings and just not understand where I am. My partner of nearly 6 years sleeps next to me, and I'll wake up and not know who he is - thinking there's a stranger in my bed! It lasts for several minutes. Most of the time I just go back to sleep. But when it's time to get up it is frustrating. Xx Bee xX
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Post by chrispy on Feb 23, 2015 8:35:49 GMT
Sounds like Jamais-vu, the opposite of deja-vu. Vivid dreams, deja-vu, Jamais-vu, all related, common in seizure disorders (on my mind as just received appointment for an EEG).
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Post by rhiannon on Feb 23, 2015 10:15:10 GMT
Hey Alpine, I have similar things, I no longer consider my graphic and horrible dreams as nightmares though as I've had so many at this point they actually just don't scare me anymore! But I often wake up and feel confused about what is real and what was dreamt, I have had whole relationships with people in dreams and transferred those feelings to reality (not so good!). I don't get deja vu often though, only as much as anyone else I would imagine but I dream a lot more than most people and often remember my dreams better than most. I never really thought this could be a product of ADHD but now that you mention it I think you might be right, that perhaps our brains are more active at night than others. Unfortunately when I went to get my sleep tested I couldn't sleep a wink the whole night or the next day so didn't get any information from that. I always feel like I need more sleep when I wake up and it usually takes me at least an hour to feel alive enough to get out of bed. That's my experience, I'll be interested to see what everyone else says, good thread!
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Post by blaze on Feb 23, 2015 11:22:23 GMT
Alot of the research on adhd suggests we go through different, less restful, sleep patterns, which is why adhd has high risk of cfs as co morbids.
I get extreemly vivid dreams, but in the past it was ptsd rated, now im on high doses of opiates which give v realistic dreams. The funniest was the pregnancy dreams, so sureal!
What you say about feeling like a ficitional character sounds a bit like depersonalisation/derealisation.
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Post by skycaptain on Feb 25, 2015 13:26:33 GMT
Aw crap. I just made a thread about dreams in the 'Lounge' lol didn't see thus had already been done! Woops! I've had vivid dreams my entire life. I love them. Whole world's conjured up and explored! It's amazing! I can still remember some dreams from as little as 7yrs old I think! And in exactly every detail! I made a Facebook group for friends who enjoy my dreams and also for others to post their own. And when I get round to it... (sigh) lol I will be setting up an online blog of my dreams in hopes one day I can publish a book with them
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Post by random on Feb 26, 2015 10:45:25 GMT
I don't recall dreams often. When I do the memory is a bit impressionistic. I know what happended but don't recall graphic detail. Then 5 more ns later it is one. Also find I dream less now I am on meds.and when have had a meds day sometimes dreams return.
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Post by Babble on May 18, 2016 12:06:38 GMT
Reviving this post 'cause I've been thinking about this topic recently.
I never - to my knowledge - have nightmares. Well... not since I was 6 and had a dream about my teddy bears ganging up on me (and I wasn't exactly scared - I only woke up because I was pulling some awesome ninja-esque moves, and ended up head butting my cupboard in my sleep lol).
But I dream very vividly, and quite often the more vivid the dream, the more tired I feel when I wake up.
They say good dreams are the mark of someone who is mentally stable, has no worries, is satisfied with life etc All things I'm not! So don't know how I'm swinging that.
But I definitely get the Déjà vu thing - sometimes so strongly it's a little bit creepy. I always figured it was elements of a similar situation - long since forgotten due to my crappy memory - tugging at a few synapses. The brain making links so you have a response prepared for something it thinks is going to happen (again)?
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Post by easilydistracted on May 18, 2016 19:11:48 GMT
The brain making links so you have a response prepared for something it thinks is going to happen (again)? Well, if zombies attack me while I'm having a picnic I'll be quite prepared for it... (2 nights ago) It did have a familiar feel to it for some reason! Don't dream much, but when I do they are vivid and generally terrifying, ranging from "well, you ain't going to bed again tonight" in scale right through to afraid to go to bed for weeks, all as an adult
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Post by tigger2016 on May 18, 2016 21:29:14 GMT
I very rarely rememeber dreams. I'd like to, but it rarely happens. I might get odd fragments of things that come to mind during the day sometimes.
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Post by clubby on May 19, 2016 15:06:29 GMT
I dream vividly every night for as long as I can remember
Worst dream - age 6 - Dad touched some purple spots on the grill pan and turned into the incredible shrinking man.
Funniest dream - Thought ex husband was a cow and tried to calve him.
Recurring dream - Vision of imaginary things I have neglected/forgotten to do
Best dream - Ability to fly away while being chased by baddies.
Most annoying dream - Trying to pack the suitcase before catching a flight home and discovering I have actually taken the kitchen sink.
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Post by Babble on May 20, 2016 9:26:13 GMT
tigger2016 Do you sleep well? I find that I only ever really remember full dreams if I've had enough sleep. easilydistracted - I have a weird amount of zombie dreams. Like, not particularly scary ones - the last I had, I dreamt that my Dad got turned into a zombie (everything was very post-apocalyptic wasteland-esque, and my family seemed to live in the house from that animated movie Coraline). We kept him in the study and fed him with body parts from dead zombies, and he was pretty much the same except he didn't talk, and he was... well, an animated corpse. It all felt very domestic. I very clearly remember the sound of him shuffling around on the floorboards in his slippers. At least you're prepared for any impending zombie apocalypses? clubby It sounds like you have amazing dreams! I had to try very hard not to laugh while at work I'm tempted to start a 'describe your dream' thread, 'cause I really want to know the full story behind the ex-husband/cow dream lol
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Post by easilydistracted on May 20, 2016 21:08:34 GMT
Babble, Did you tell your Dad about that one? That must have been a bit of fun in itself "Dad, I don't want you to think that I think you are half asleep most of the time or that you eat too much, but last night I dreamt..." Double the fun Last night's wasn't... Halfway up a hillside in the middle of nowhere, my daughter's dog got hurt and I couldn't both help the dog and fix the radio to call the vet in Canada to get help, eventually it became too late for the dog A binman came along and took the dog off me, as he did he said "look me in the eye" I did, he was big with a gentle face and I said thank you. Obvious there's a message in there that I can't do everything myself and do sometimes need help, Who was the binman? One of my alter egos? A bigger more gentle me? Someone else? Disturbing that it was the kid's dog, don't like that bit, really don't like that bit at all, especially as my daughter was not in the dream. Phoned today to check that everyone is ok, they are.
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Post by Mouse on May 22, 2016 10:02:26 GMT
A few months ago, maybe it was last year. I woke up absolutely convinced my mum was living with me after a vivid dream. I went downstairs expecting to find her and was shaken to the core when I realised this was my house and she lives down the road. It weirded me out a bit. I think if my mum was living with me she'd class that as a nightmare. And I had one where the hall cupboard door opened into a large utility/boot room with a downstairs loo. Again, it was so vivid I had to check. (Before I moved in I had one where the same door led into a garage with a kango-ed concrete floor and spring water rumning through it.) As a child I had night terrors and nightmares - same nightmares recurring over and over. Apologies - keep liking my own posts when I use phone and ho to edit.
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Post by tigger2016 on May 23, 2016 14:24:12 GMT
tigger2016 Do you sleep well? I find that I only ever really remember full dreams if I've had enough sleep. I sleep like a log. I probably get less sleep than I ought to, since I've got a 5 year old son who wakes up every day between 6 and 7 and I don't like going to bed too early, but even when I could sleep as long as I wanted I never remembered my dreams
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Post by Mouse on May 23, 2016 18:12:53 GMT
Babble, Last night's wasn't... Halfway up a hillside in the middle of nowhere, my daughter's dog got hurt and I couldn't both help the dog and fix the radio to call the vet in Canada to get help, eventually it became too late for the dog A binman came along and took the dog off me, as he did he said "look me in the eye" I did, he was big with a gentle face and I said thank you. Obvious there's a message in there that I can't do everything myself and do sometimes need help, Who was the binman? One of my alter egos? A bigger more gentle me? Someone else? Maybe the binman was the dog.
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