Why if I oversleep do I get weird dreams ?

hollydolly said:
No necessarily nightmares but very strange dreams.

I often dream of people I've not seen for decades, in weird scenarios..

I tried googling this but all the answers seemed to focus on nightmares and these are not, they're just very weird....:unsure:
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You always have weird dreams. It's just that only sometimes you can remember them. Most likely if you wake up, use the bathroom, then go lay back down and fall asleep again for a bit.
 
hearlady said:
You always have weird dreams. It's just that only sometimes you can remember them. Most likely if you wake up, use the bathroom, then go lay back down and fall asleep again for a bit.
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I do have a lot of strange dreams I must admit... but I especially have them if I oversleep....
 
I'd guess it's because at the point of oversleeping you're no longer in a restful sleep. Once you become restless, being right on the edge of waking, your mind is becoming more active, even though you're not fully conscious your brain starts churning information, thus creating dreams. If you're not stressed the dreams are just a confusing jumble of random stuff pieced together, I enjoy those dreams and love figuring out the puzzle of events that created them.
 
C50 said:
I'd guess it's because at the point of oversleeping you're no longer in a restful sleep. Once you become restless, being right on the edge of waking, your mind is becoming more active, even though you're not fully conscious your brain starts churning information, thus creating dreams. If you're not stressed the dreams are just a confusing jumble of random stuff pieced together, I enjoy those dreams and love figuring out the puzzle of events that created them.
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it's just weird stuff.. not pleasant, but not a nightmare necessarily... altho' I do have some horrible nightmares sometimes...

..for example this one involved a person I haven't seen for 3 decades, haven't seen or heard any mention of him anywhere.. and yet he was the lead player in this dream.. and there was me trying to show him that I'd moved on , and was now very talented something that would impress him, yet leave him sorry about the past ... but there was also 3 other women doing the exact same thing... and we were all wearing the same outfit but in different colours... and we were showing off on the top of a bridge in the fog... one at a time...:ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:

...and there was so much more to it as well,....:ROFLMAO:
 
AI - "Nightmares occurring around 3 a.m. likely align with the longest, deepest REM sleep cycles in the second half of the night. Common causes for regular, early-morning nightmares include chronic stress, high anxiety, PTSD, or, frequently, physical factors like apnea, alcohol use, or medication side effects"

A nightmare sometimes wakes me up at 3:00 am. It has happened often enough that I googled it and above is what I found. For a long time I never made it to REM sleep and now my brain seems to be trying to make up for that.
 
DebraMae said:
AI - "Nightmares occurring around 3 a.m. likely align with the longest, deepest REM sleep cycles in the second half of the night. Common causes for regular, early-morning nightmares include chronic stress, high anxiety, PTSD, or, frequently, physical factors like apnea, alcohol use, or medication side effects"

A nightmare sometimes wakes me up at 3:00 am. It has happened often enough that I googled it and above is what I found. For a long time I never made it to REM sleep and now my brain seems to be trying to make up for that.
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..but they're not nightmares, that's the thing... they're just very strange dreams.....
 
I think back to older days when if I fell asleep with TV on ... then woke to late night infomercials or bizarre TV.
maybe your oversleeping dreams are like that item not meant for prime time lol
 
hollydolly said:
No necessarily nightmares but very strange dreams.

I often dream of people I've not seen for decades, in weird scenarios..

I tried googling this but all the answers seemed to focus on nightmares and these are not, they're just very weird....:unsure:
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My strange dreams are the opposite. They usually occur shortly after falling asleep. Many of them have one ting in common: I'm far away from home and having trouble finding my way back. There's a symbolism in there somewhere, but I don't know what. I wish I could oversleep. Unless I'm sick, with or without an alarm clock, I wake up at (or before) 5 AM, and once I wake up and see the time, there is no going back to sleep.
 
hollydolly said:
it's just weird stuff.. not pleasant, but not a nightmare necessarily... altho' I do have some horrible nightmares sometimes...

..for example this one involved a person I haven't seen for 3 decades, haven't seen or heard any mention of him anywhere.. and yet he was the lead player in this dream.. and there was me trying to show him that I'd moved on , and was now very talented something that would impress him, yet leave him sorry about the past ... but there was also 3 other women doing the exact same thing... and we were all wearing the same outfit but in different colours... and we were showing off on the top of a bridge in the fog... one at a time...:ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:

...and there was so much more to it as well,....:ROFLMAO:
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That's more weird than colorful flying kittens which are what I dream of quite often. But then I toss it up to be a vet tech and seeing lots of weird things. Do your dreams upset you, Holly?
 
Supposed dream experts, even those working in psychology labs have for decades been just tossing out flawed conjectures. That noted, @IrishEyes link does have the below a surprisingly to this person, excellent summary as new brain imaging and chemical analysis science rises:

On the brain’s stage, REM sleep is a peculiar performance. The limbic system - amygdala, hippocampus - runs hot, amplifying emotion and memory fragments, while the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex dials down, weakening logical oversight. Neurochemically, acetylcholine runs high as norepinephrine and serotonin dip. This combination promotes free association and vivid imagery without strict reality checks. The result is like a film edited on fast‑forward: scenes splice abruptly, characters merge, objects change function mid‑use, and somehow we accept it until we wake.

Activation‑synthesis theory adds that the cortex tries to make sense of internally generated signals, so odd images are woven together into a best‑fit storyline. Predictive processing models go further, suggesting the brain constantly tests hypotheses about what’s happening. In REM, with less sensory input and altered precision, the system leans into bold guesses. That’s why a hallway fan can morph into ocean surf or the taste of toothpaste into metal - the brain is guessing with playful confidence and little penalty for being wrong.

Our sleeping dreaming brains confabulate and morph as our executive control pilots especially those associated with amygdala social emotions, wanders about within our inner brain EMC fields. The train of such dream wandering thoughts often flows towards interpersonal emotional reactions associated with whatever memories because our executive control is centered there. I dream 100% of the time while asleep, even if for mere moments.
 
dusty said:
That's more weird than colorful flying kittens which are what I dream of quite often. But then I toss it up to be a vet tech and seeing lots of weird things. Do your dreams upset you, Holly?
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yes they do sometimes... and sometimes they make me really sad.. for what might have been .....
 
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