why dont i dream when i sleep?

Answer 1

You probably do. But if you don't wake up right at the end of the dream, you won't remember it.

Answer 2

I asked the same question to my sister.

She's a psycologist and she explained me that everybody dreams. Not only all humans, but in fact all mammals are shown to have REM sleep, which is associated with dreams. It is a normal and necessary function of the body (though the details, especially the exact reason why it is important, are unknown).

So if you think you don't dream you probably just don't remember. (You didn't reach the level where you can remember what you've dreamed). But there are good news: Dream recall can be trained!

Here's an article about it:
http://www.lucidity.com/NL11.DreamRecall.html

Answer 3

Everyone dreams. Just because you don't remember thenm doesn't mean that you didn't dream.

dream facts & tidbits

1. One third of our lives is spent sleeping.

2. In your lifetime, you would've spent about 6 years of it dreaming. That is more than 2,100 days spent in a different world.

3. Dreams have been here as long as mankind. Back in the Roman Era, striking and significant dreams were submitted to the Senate for analysis and interpretation.

4. Everybody dreams. EVERYBODY! Simply because you do not remember your dream does not mean that you did not dream.

5. Dreams are indispensable. A lack of dream activity can mean protein deficiency or a personality disorder.

6. We dream on average of one or two hours every night. And we often even have 4-7 dreams in one night.

7. Blind people do dream. Whether visual images will appear in their dream depends on whether they where blind at birth or became blind later in life. But vision is not the only sense that constitutes a dream. Sounds, tactility, and smell become hypersensitive for the blind and their dreams are based on these senses.

8. Five minutes after the end of the dream, half the content is forgotten. After ten minutes, 90% is lost.

9. The word dream stems from the Middle English word, dreme which means "joy" and "music".

10. Men tend to dream more about other men, while women dream equally about men and women.

11. Studies have shown that our brain waves are more active when we are dreaming than when we are awake.

12. Dreamers who are awakened right after REM sleep, are able to recall their dreams more vividly than those who slept through the night until morning.

13. Physiologically speaking, researchers found that during dreaming REM sleep, males experience erections and females experience increased vaginal blood flow - no matter what the content of the dream. In fact, "wet dreams" may not necessarily coincide with overtly sexual dream content.

14. People who are giving up smoking have longer and more intense dreams.

15. Toddlers do not dream about themselves. They do not appear in their own dreams until the age of 3 or 4.

16. If you are snoring, then you cannot be dreaming.

17. Nightmares are common in children, typically beginning at around age 3 and occurring up to age 7-8.

18. In a poll, 67% of Americans have experienced Deja Vu in their dreams, occurring more often in females than males.

Answer 4

You probably DO dream when you sleep. It's just that you forget them when you wake up. The dream state is what's known as REM sleep. (REM stands for Rapid Eye Movement.) This is the deepest sleep a person can be in and still be alive. Everyone, including animals, hit this phase at one particular point during the night - even if it is only for a short duration.

Answer 5

You do, or you would be suffering clearly visible psychiatric disorders. Try conciously thinking about remembering them before you sleep, keep a notebook by the bed to jot down any notes, and you'll start remembering more. Smoking marijuana can also affect your dream retention.

Answer 6

maybe you are not getting into your REM sleep, which is generally when you dream. I had the problem for years, and once i figured it out and when to the doctor and fixed it, I've started dreaming at night now.

Answer 7

Usually people always dream something everynight. Most likely you just forgot what you dreamed about or that you dreamed when you wake up in the morning.

Answer 8

You do. You just sleep so deeply you don't remember your dreams.

Answer 9

you do dream, but you just don't remember, dreams happened when your are deeply sleep, so when you wake up you don't remember

Answer 10

Do you sleep with the TV or radio on?