Right before I fall asleep, I’ll remember some random details of a dream I had when I was 5-10 years old. It changes each night, but never is a newer dream.

Does that happen to anyone else?

  • intensely_human@lemm.ee
    14·
    10 months ago

    Oh that’s perfectly normal. What it means is that you are still a kid and your entire life since the age of 10 has been a dream. You’re gonna be a little weirded out when you wake up but all this knowledge and wisdom will be helpful to you.

  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
    8·
    10 months ago

    Man, I don’t even have to wait until I’m falling asleep.

    I don’t always remember a dream after I wake, but I’m what might be called “hyper-phatastic”. You hear about people that can’t visualize, and often don’t have visual dreams at all. I’m the opposite. When I read books, I see what is being described, if there’s enough to go from. My dreams are extremely vivid, and the more vivid they are, the clearer I remember them.

    And I remember a ton from childhood. The one with tornadoes, the super-hero one that was recurring, the fire dream, the ones about other worlds, the ones about family. I could write down a hundred descriptions like that about childhood dreams I can still see in my head, even while awake. It’s a little fucking crazy sometimes.

    I have had a few dreams that were so bad I get PTSD flashbacks when something reminds me of them. That’s not exaggeration, it’s not a misnomer, I’ve discussed it with a therapist and a psychiatrist in conjunction with my other PTSD triggers.

    But, luckily, it’s usually the good dreams that get triggered instead :)

  • Schwim Dandy@reddthat.com
    81·
    10 months ago

    Out of curiosity, how many years back are you remembering? I can imagine it happened to me when I was 20 but its not really a thing for me at 50.

  • yenahmik@lemmy.world
    6·
    10 months ago

    Not unless I’m intentionally thinking about them.

    However, I do have some difficulty differentiating between memories and dreams that I recall from my early childhood.

    Here are three examples of memories I have from a very young age. One is confirmed real by my parents. One as far as I can tell is physically impossible so must be a dream. And the third I have no clue if it is real or a dream.

    1. Shortly before my 3rd birthday, we moved. I remember getting bored while the moving truck was at our house so I rode my tricycle to the next door neighbors and hung out with the old lady and her dog until my mom realized I was missing and yelled at me for wandering off without telling her. (This one really happened)

    2. We were at the mall to meet my dad for lunch at the food court. As we got onto the escalator, I remembered I was able to fly and flew through the mall (it was similar to swimming but in air instead of water). (Obviously this had to have been a dream but it feels just as real of a memory as the first one).

    3. As long as I can remember, when we drove anywhere as a family, my spot was behind the driver’s seat and my sister’s spot was behind the passenger seat. I have a vivid memory/dream of it being reversed but my sister saying we should switch spots. My mom said ok and we switched to the standard positions. Nobody remembers this so it may have been a dream (and I would’ve been extremely young if it was real).

    • emptyother@programming.dev
      2·
      10 months ago

      My first dreams and memories is from around 3 year old too. And yes, I too can only guess if it was real or dreams from context. Maybe a mix?

      One cool thing is that I recently got one memory confirmed from a photograph I’ve never seen until now. 34-ish years later. Damn impressive what brains choose to remember sometimes.

  • Sombyr@lemmy.zip
    5·
    10 months ago

    I get that. I also get continuations of older dreams sometimes. What I find most interesting though is that 99% of my dreams take place in the exact same location.
    It’s my home town, but instead of having large grocery stores and such with massive parking lots, those are replaced by plazas linked together in slightly odd ways with all kinds of interesting stores.
    My dreams, since I was little, usually start with me taking a walk around this alternate version of my home town, and often visiting a restaurant which in every dream is located in the same place: at the end of a plaza which you have to pass through another plaza to get to.

  • peereboominc@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    10 months ago

    I need to stay awake some time during the night to feed the baby or support my wife doing it. I always fight against the sleep and that is when the pre-sleep dreams are really getting weird. What is happening a lot is that I read something and half way the sentence I fall half asleep and at that point, my mind completes the sentence(s) with the weirdest things.

  • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
    4·
    10 months ago

    This is such an odd thread for me to read

    I’ve never been able to remember my dreams, nor even remember if I had a dream.

  • deleted @sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4·
    10 months ago

    Yep! Sometimes they are dreams from when I was a toddler.

    I don’t understand why they randomly happen, but I am amazed that something I remember from 3 or 4 years I can still remember.

  • N0fqy@lemmy.ml
    3·
    10 months ago

    No, but I sure wish I could record my dreams. Have some really funky ones.

    Last night, I was partying with Sammy Hagar. 🤣

  • MonkderZweite@feddit.ch
    1·
    10 months ago

    I remember the struggle of what i want to do with my drone this dream.

    And once we got drones i was too old to really like them. :(