Dreams Last Between Five And Twenty Minutes?!

fmdog44

fmdog44

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I just read something on MSN.com about dreams and it said we experience 3-6 dreams per night and they last from five to twenty minutes. I find that really hard to believe. Maybe I simply don't recall lengthy dreams but mine only seem to last a minute or less but then can we judge time while we sleep? I know I have dreams I don't immediately recall because they pop in to my head later in the day but only in fragments.
 

For the most part, I remember very few dreams. If I do remember something, 2-3 minutes after I wake up, my mind gets blanked out. Zap-everything is gone. I used to have a great recall of my dreams. Also I forget the name of this, but when you can direct your dreams. I don't know if it's the meds, but I can't remember a darn thing now,
 
fuzzybuddy said:
For the most part, I remember very few dreams. If I do remember something, 2-3 minutes after I wake up, my mind gets blanked out. Zap-everything is gone. I used to have a great recall of my dreams. Also I forget the name of this, but when you can direct your dreams. I don't know if it's the meds, but I can't remember a darn thing now,
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Ditto...10 years retired and still go to work at night!
 

I remember a lot of my dreams in detail, they are also in color and can be lucid at times, I know in the dream that I'm dreaming and that helps me to wake up during a nightmare. With some dreams I've had, they seem very long to have had everything in the dream happen, so I wouldn't doubt one may last 20 minutes or more....like a short movie in the mind.
 
IAM A TRUE DREAMER IN THE ZZZZZ SENSE ----i remember most of them and it seems they went on all nite long ' and we can dream more than one in the nite '

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fmdog44 said:
I just read something on MSN.com about dreams and it said we experience 3-6 dreams per night and they last from five to twenty minutes. I find that really hard to believe. Maybe I simply don't recall lengthy dreams but mine only seem to last a minute or less but then can we judge time while we sleep? I know I have dreams I don't immediately recall because they pop in to my head later in the day but only in fragments.
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Thats exactly the way my dreams are...I have quite a few and usually wake after each one and I check the time when I do wake up, the 5 minute ones surprised me.

i remember bits and pieces of dreams, some more than others...usually the weirder ones and only parts of them..usually the ending.

Had a real weird one last night...don’t know where I was but was getting ready to leave and packing up (common theme in many of my dreams) and then and this part is vague...I told someone I’m pregnant and what if I deliver early and as I said that there was this bloody blob next to me.

thats when I realized it was a very early preemie. At first I thought it was dead but I picked it up and it seemed bigger then and said we have to give him mouth to mouth and get to a hospital.

Also weighed it in my dream and remember thinking that’s a weight that can survive now days.

I know...weird and maybe TMI :)


So weird because I had two healthy full term babies and nobody in my family is even pregnant...
 
Cee Cee, I have also dreamed I was pregnant and arriving at or being in the hospital, but that was it. Your dream was so detailed and it's symbolic of something only you would know about it.

I believe most dreams are symbolic and relative only to the dreamer, but not all.

Your dream of packing makes sense, since you've traveled a lot.

I have a lot of dreams and like the article says, everyone does. I think some can remember more than others.
 
RadishRose said:
Cee Cee, I have also dreamed I was pregnant and arriving at or being in the hospital, but that was it. Your dream was so detailed and it's symbolic of something only you would know about it.

I believe most dreams are symbolic and relative only to the dreamer, but not all.

Your dream of packing makes sense, since you've traveled a lot.

I have a lot of dreams and like the article says, everyone does. I think some can remember more than others.
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Yes, the packing ones are almost every night...of course I am always lmissing something...it never goes smoothly. I do have a lot of recurring themes in my dreams.

A common one is the school locker combination....a test I didn’t study for, homework I didn’t do but these are becoming rarer for me.

Its also interesting that so many people have these dreams in particular.

my nightmares are I’m in a plane that’s crashing or somewhere that I’m drowning or will drown because water is rising..I always wake up.
 
CeeCee said:
Yes, the packing ones are almost every night...of course I am always lmissing something...it never goes smoothly. I do have a lot of recurring themes in my dreams.

A common one is the school locker combination....a test I didn’t study for, homework I didn’t do but these are becoming rarer for me.

Its also interesting that so many people have these dreams in particular.

my nightmares are I’m in a plane that’s crashing or somewhere that I’m drowning or will drown because water is rising..I always wake up.
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I wonder why we have these frustration dreams? Always missing something, etc like you said.

I used to dream I was trying to dial an old pay phone; needed to reach help or home.... but couldn't get the right number. Over and over.

Recurring dreams are often of my ex, my ex in-laws and 3 homes I lived in before with my parents before they passed. In those homes, things had changed and weren't exactly the same, to my disappointment.

Your nightmares are dang scary!
 
RadishRose said:
I wonder why we have these frustration dreams? Always missing something, etc like you said.

I used to dream I was trying to dial an old pay phone; needed to reach help or home.... but couldn't get the right number. Over and over.

Recurring dreams are often of my ex, my ex in-laws and 3 homes I lived in before with my parents before they passed. In those homes, things had changed and weren't exactly the same, to my disappointment.

Your nightmares are dang scary!
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Im never scared in the plane crash ones, I always seem to survive and at that point I wake up.
 
RadishRose said:
That's amazing you're not scared. Mine are of certain scary faces...but they fade away quickly.
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I do have some scary ones but usually after Ive watched a scary movie...usually involves someone with a knife just outside my bedroom door...

Maybe once or twice a year I’ll have a very scare one where I’m almost afraid to go back to sleep.
 
I often have dreams that continue if I briefly wake up. Like CeeCee, I have the one's where I am packing, and don't have enough room in my suitcases for everything. Perhaps I'm re-living a true incident where I had to re-organize what was in my suitcases at Sydney airport because one was over the weight limit. I wondered why I had to do that, when it all was going into the plane anyway. Supposedly, it's so the baggage handler's don't have to carry overweight luggage? Anyway, it's a recurring dream.
 
I have never hear the term "frustration dreams" but that is exactly what my recurring theme dreams are. Mine revolve around being at a place then leaving and not sure where I parked my car. A similar one is I am in a building and not sure how to get out. The dreams never end with me finding the answer, they just end. What kind of fits is I am a little paranoid bout my truck being stolen after I get out and go into a building and have been for about 20 years. A third one involves a woman I am taken with and she and I are in the same place usually a party but I never approach her. Sometimes she and I used to date and other times I just want to go talk to her but I am waiting for her to acknowledge me. She always dissimilar in appearance.
I often wonder what Presidents dream of or astronauts that have been to the Moon or surgeons or murderers. Question for all here. What major person in your life do you never dream about. Mine are my parents.
 
Two recurring themes: I'm getting ready to play a gig, and I'm running late, can't set up in the right room. I'm failing a class that I never actually took, in real life. In both cases, I wake up in a sweat, heart racing. I force myself to say, out loud, "[censored] that [censored]! It's not real. " That usually calms me down, and I go back to sleep. I have these dreams about three times a year. My other dreams are weird ones about living in foreign cities with my second ex and my kids. Occasionally, I'll dream hilarious stuff, and wake myself up, laughing.
 
fmdog44 said:
I have never hear the term "frustration dreams" but that is exactly what my recurring theme dreams are. Mine revolve around being at a place then leaving and not sure where I parked my car. A similar one is I am in a building and not sure how to get out. The dreams never end with me finding the answer, they just end. What kind of fits is I am a little paranoid bout my truck being stolen after I get out and go into a building and have been for about 20 years. A third one involves a woman I am taken with and she and I are in the same place usually a party but I never approach her. Sometimes she and I used to date and other times I just want to go talk to her but I am waiting for her to acknowledge me. She always dissimilar in appearance.
I often wonder what Presidents dream of or astronauts that have been to the Moon or surgeons or murderers. Question for all here. What major person in your life do you never dream about. Mine are my parents.
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Almost everyone in my life has made an appearance in my dreams...some more than others but what gets me are the faces in my dreams that I don’t know...I always wonder if there is such a person in real life.

Who are these people? :)
 
As I understand it you have to be in REM to dream. I sleep so little, I rarely reach that level of deep sleep that lets you dream. But I sometimes have nightmares which wake me up.

A few months ago my mother called. She had a dream that I was very ill and wondered if I was ok. Yup, I am fine, I told her. Except, lol, I almost died the previous weekend. My potassium had fallen too low, if I had not gone to the ER, I would have died that night. Who knew this? Apparently my mother, several thousand miles away.
 
A bit OT but this subject reminded me of wunna my favorite comedians, Norm McDonald;

'You ever have a dream, and then you wake up right in the good part of the dream, and you're back in your stinking life again? You fall asleep; you try to re-dream it. Man, that never works. Always end up with some weird mutation of your original dream. Like, in the first dream, I was in a pool with Christie Brinkley, and we were swimming toward each other. Then, I woke up. So, I fell asleep again and ended up shooting pool with David Brinkley.'
 

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