Do You Have Lucid Dreams, Remember Your Dreams, Dream in Color?

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SeaBreeze

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I often remember my dreams in detail, good or bad. I also dream in vivid colors and do have lucid dreams now and then, where I know in the dream that I am dreaming.

The night before last I had a lucid dream. In the dream I decided to take my dog out for a walk and didn't tell my husband or think much of it. As I started to walk through the neighborhood, there were a large number of dogs loose on the streets, mine was also off-lead. I was watchful that a large aggressive dog might go after him, so I was paying attention.

I wanted to get out of the neighborhood and take a longer walk in a wooded park. I was holding a folding chair for some reason, and saw an open shed that I thought of as my own, or at least shared with others. I wanted to put the chair in there so I wouldn't have to carry it around on the walk.

When I came out of the shed, I couldn't see my dog anywhere and it was starting to get dark. I started calling him and reached in my pocket for my phone to let my husband know what was going on, I forgot my phone at home and was kicking myself for that.

As I walked and called, I could still see loose dogs roaming around the area. I saw something under a bush that I thought was my dog, when I called his name and looked under the bush, a grey cougar came out from underneath. I started to walk through the bushes and two other wild cats were there in my way, looking at me. I knew not to run, stay calm and keep my cool. At this point I acknowledged in the dream that it was only a dream, I'd be okay and will wake up soon.

I walked past them without incident, continued frantically calling for my dog and then woke up, relieved that he was right there in bed with me and what I felt in the lucid dream was true. I've had lucid dreams in the past, some were real nightmares, and it's comforting in the dream to realize that you're just asleep and it's really not happening.
 

That's good Butterfly, some people just dream in black and white. Good that you remember parts of your dreams also, more interesting than those who don't ever remember dreaming at all.
 

SeaBreeze that was some dream. I bet it took all night, although they say dreams only last a few minutes.
I remember most of mine and can usually piece together why I had the dream. Something I watched on TV or something that happened during the day. All jumbled up in my dream but I know what triggered it.

One strange thing is that sometimes I dream the same dreams my mom would tell me about that she had years before. One common one was not remembering her combination for her locker in high school. I don't remember ever having that problem but we both must have had that fear. Funny that it surfaced so many years later and to both of us.
 
When I was in my 20's I had long, narrative dreams that unfolded like film sequences . I wrote down more than 200 of them. There were multiple recurring themes and 4 characters who kept appearing.....who didn't exist in real life. My unconscious mind created elaborate images of buildings and landscapes sometimes very threatening and sometimes very fascinating and alluring. My dream-self displayed some noticeable telltale indicators of how capable I felt myself to be in meeting those scenarios. And I was occasionally lucid. Occasionally I consciously shaped events in the dreamscape.
Through my 30's, 40's, 50's and early 60's dreaming was a lot less interesting and I didn't remember them except as scraps of images.
Now in my mid 60's and almost a year after attending my mother's death.....and having been her sole caregiver for 18 years...my dreams have reignited again. They're not quite as spectacular as 4 decades ago but I think I'm maybe forming an identity of an elderly self comparable to my forming an identity of self as a young adult back then.
About a week ago I dreamed myself in a fascinating house that was a blending of various homes I've actually lived in through the years. It was a wish fulfillment dream: The indoor plants were like a movie set greenhouse; the bookshelves were an architectural art form; the front door (of the house I lived in at college) opened into a whole other house that bespoke comfort and luxurious well being. I woke up walking into that zone.
 
I remember some, generally the ones I have just before waking up. All are in color. For years I had dreams where alligators did "walk-ons." While the dream was "running," an alligator would walk by slowly. He didn't enter into the "story" of the dream in any way and no one in the dream ever thought anything of it at the time. Freud would have loved that one.

I also dream about old girlfriends now and then. None of them have aged a day.
 
My dreams are Cecil DeMille Technicolor cast-of-thousands epics. I never dream about puppies or raindrops on roses or soft cotton clouds. Oh, no, they are spectacular. Sometimes I wake up exhausted.

I can remember the dreams in detail briefly upon waking and then they're gone. I quite often tell the Spousal Equivalent about them and he always looks at me like I'm crazy. Maybe I am?
 
I very seldom remember my dreams, or forget them the minute I wake up. The dreams I do remember are the ones I was having just before waking up suddenly. I always thought I dreamed in black and white, but this morning I dreamed I had a house with a huge back yard and had beautiful exotic plants growing in it and they had flowers. I have noticed that in the dreams I am much younger, like in my 40's, and my family members are also younger and my parents are still alive. Another thing I've noticed is that in life I like to be alone, hate crowds, and like to be neat and orderly. In the dreams I'm always in suffocating crowds, my house or the place where I am is in disarray and cluttery, and I am upset about all the confusion and my inability to get anything done.

One psychiatrist said that since the brain can never shut down, it relaxes with dreams by not making any sense of their content and uses a lot of symbolism.
 
I've always had pretty good dreams~vivid, colorful, fun. Recently I started having nightmares, which is unusual. I figured out that they are related to my watching violent "action" movies that my husband is fond of. Since I realized this fact and stopped watching them, the horrible dreams have stopped. 😴
 
There are lots of things that doctors don't tell you. One is that that certain classes of Beta Blockers and other medications can cause vivid and/or disturbing dreams and hallucinations. I only found this out by accident and when I asked my GP, he just said that bad dreams wouldn't kill me but high BP might.

Later, when I changed GP, he said, no problem, we'll change your prescription.

So, if you experience bad or disturbing dreams, check for the side effects of any medication that you might be taking.
 
One is that that certain classes of Beta Blockers and other medications can cause vivid and/or disturbing dreams and hallucinations.
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This started happening to me (seeing a strange lady standing near my bed for a few seconds when I woke up), and by trial and error I discovered that it was the combination of a beta blocker and alcohol (even the tiniest amount of alcohol!) that was doing it. So I cut out my daily 1/2 glass of wine 🙁 and the strange hallucinations immediately stopped. :)

I've found that I'm also OK if I don't have the medication and the alcohol too close together. But mostly, I just don't drink wine any more.

Another bad combination is beta blockers and sleeping medications such as benadryl. A lot of the stuff we are all taking has some very strange and unpredictable side effects, especially in combination with other things.
 
I dream evety night and some vivid so vivid I wake up confused at where I am and where I was a nanosecond before. I have peopled dreams where total strangers are active and I cant relate them to anyone I know.

Once in a while I have nightmare and some linger for days in my memory but these dreams are infrequent nowadays thankfully.

They say dreams go by contraries but wonder if this is always true. I dreamed I was talking on the phone to my late Husband and his voice was so real and vivid and I woke up feeling awful realising it was a dream and thought how cruel the mind can be to trigger this what in the dream was such a good feeling, so real....then I woke up with tears in my sleepy eyes😯
 
Damn. I don't remember my dreams. I used to have cool dreams. And the usual ones- didn't study for the big test. Now, I'm not sure if it's old age or the fistfuls of pills, I take: but I can't remember them. It's like everybody else has a nightly selection of cable TV shows, and my TV stations goes off the air after the National Anthem.
 
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I dream every night in color and usually remember parts of it.

What I find interesting is who appears in my dreams and who never appears. Apparently, if I don't like an individual, they never get to come "on stage" in my dreams.
 
Nautilus said:
I remember some, generally the ones I have just before waking up. All are in color. For years I had dreams where alligators did "walk-ons." While the dream was "running," an alligator would walk by slowly. He didn't enter into the "story" of the dream in any way and no one in the dream ever thought anything of it at the time. Freud would have loved that one.

I also dream about old girlfriends now and then. None of them have aged a day.
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Sounds like you used to watch those old Lubriderm commercials:

 
Years ago I learned that the multiple dreams I had about "someone taking or stealing my purse" meant taking away my most valued possession...my spiritual values. I gave myself the suggestion if I ever had a dream that someone was taking my purse I'd wake up (become lucie) and not rest till I'd recovered it. Its worked ever since then. Lucid dreams are the best. Also believe when we become lucid in our dreams we are able to change our future.
 
I talk in my sleep. Sometimes loudly and wake myself to see my dog sitting beside me, staring at me..

I sleep with the tv on, usually YouTube and I try to argue with someone on tv who is saying something I don't agree with. I try to ask them to shut up and listen to me because I have the best help for them! But they don't listen, they just go on and on. Very annoying.

My dreams are usually sad the closer to morning it gets. I get up once or twice a night and not bothered by the dreams I had before waking, but during the real waking up I am almost in tears. People have several dreams each night.

I have had a few lucid dreams but only when I was very young. I just knew they weren't real. Like, "This is a joke, right ?"

I do dream in color, but like I have read , it's very hard for people to dream in or remember more than 2 colors. The very few times I've tested this, there was only once when I remembered a 3rd color but even then wasn't sure if it was orange or brown.
 
I do not always remember my dreams. I do remember a definitely lucid dream I had a few weeks ago. I dreamt it was nighttime, and I was in bed. Suddenly there was a loud noise, like a thud. I got up, walked out to the living room, through the kitchen and to the door, and looked outside. Somehow I knew it was a dream. When I turned back to go into the kitchen, there stood Rick. Looking into the fridge. I remember saying something like "You are not supposed to be here, why are you here?" He said, simply "They sent me home". I suddenly "came to" and found myself sitting on the edge of by bed. I remembered the dream, and the feeling it was a dream, but I did NOT remember sitting up..like I did it while still asleep.
 
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