Dreaming

artvanburen, I dream more when I take an antihistamine at night....Zyrtec. Have you added any new meds
lately?

Blessings......

I have always had dreams. I can never remember a night when I have not had dreams. I remember dreaming when I was a very young child and I am now 78! From time to time I have a lucid dream (a dream in which a dreamer ia aware that they are dreaming while they are still asleep). When I have a lucid dream I can usually exert some level of control of the dream, such as controlling my behavior and sometimes the behavior of others in the dream. According to studies lucid dreams typically occur during REM (rapid eye movement ) sleep.

Thanks for responding….No, fortunately I’m blessed to be on no meds at all. I just take my vitamins every morning and that it. This dreaming thing just started all of a sudden after many years of just one or two a year.

Very interesting, I’ve dreamed all my life except for the recent years that I didn’t hardly dream at all and now they are back again. Dreams can be scary to terrifying that you want no part of or they can be beautiful and uplifting, or Spiritual and Visionary, or informative and guiding. The ones lately are just about everyday life. Nothing disturbing.
When I was about 13 and was having these terrifying dreams to the point that I was afraid to go to sleep at night, and this little old lady that rented a room from my mom told me to put a Bible under my pillow and I’d never have them again. I did that and they immediately went away. I still do that when I have a lot on my mind. It gives me a peace. I’m a Christian and that works for me, but non Christians should try it also. Just believe.

Of course I can't be positive, but what I know of sleep stages, and if a person is sleeping correctly through all the stages, you do dream, and have been dreaming, all along. Most dreams are forgettable, but most of us awaken right after dreaming in the morning if we manage to sleep long enough that we enter another REM cycle in the 10-15 minutes prior to waking.
I can't account for the heavy forgetting earlier in your life, the kind where you insist that you only dream once or twice each year. This is extremely unlikely. My bet is that you have been entering REM sleep regularly, but maybe your dreams are relatively simple or innocuous and are not easily recalled. Something has changed and you are now getting more vivid and salient dreams and you're recalling some of them....more of them.

Thanks for replying. No thank goodness I’m on no prescriptions.

You are finally getting into deep sleep, which allows the brain to dream.

I hope that’s it. Thank you

That would be my hope BUT my Garmin watch that monitors sleep/deep sleep isn’t showing very much of the deep. But then in the mornings after I awaken and start having my quiet time and coffee it shows me sleeping. 😝😂😂😂. Sooo I don’t put a lot of stock in the accuracy of those things but I’ve been feeling more rested lately so maybe and I hope it is a deep sleep.

Since being put on Mirtzapine for pain I wake up because I am laughing. Very weird dreams.