Why do some people dream and others don't?

Question

I dream every night and remember my dreams when I wake up. Even if I wake up in the middle of the night I will remember what I was just dreaming. I am also a very imaginative person. Why do some people dream more than others? They say you dream in REM (Rapid Eye Movement) time and that you only remember dreams if you have had one within 15 minutes of waking up. I think I am dreaming nearly all the time when I fall asleep though. Why do I dream every night? All my dreams are very detailed and all very different and weird. I can dream many times in one night. Are all dreams meant to mean something?

Answer 1

Everyone dreams, some just don't remember.

Answer 2

First off darlin. EVERYBODY DREAMS. when a person says they dont dream that means they dont remember studies have been done to prove this they measure brain wave activitie in people when in what is called their unconsiose state or sleeping dreaming is basicly an uncounsiouse state. (i cant spell sorry) Second off some dont remember there dreams period and some only remember the important parts unimportant parts or just **** here and there but thats how the brain works.

Answer 3

It is said that all people dream, but not everyone remembers their dreams.

This is only a guess (so I want to make that very clear), but I tend to wonder if people who have dreams that are calling attention to subconscious issues may be in a different stage of sleep because of the particular dream. In other words, if a person doesn't have issues to be addressed through dreams maybe there's the chance that the dream either doesn't alter the state of sleep in order to make the person awake and remember. Again, just a guess, though.

I'm fairly certain that what happens in most dreams is that your subconscious has feelings that need to be processed by your brain, and your brain assigns images (maybe to make those feelings less abstract). I have found that many times the images in dreams are borrowed from seemingly meaningless things I've encountered about or thought about over recent days.

There have been times in my life when I've honestly felt entirely free of "issues" and when it has seemed as if my dreams were meaningless mixes of things I'd encountered or thought about, as if my brain needed to dream, had nothing to deal with, and just took a bunch of recent days' images and turned them into a dream. Maybe there were some minor feelings attached, but they weren't "issues" needed to be resolved the way dreams sometimes address emotional issues.

When I had gone through some loss, though, and began to have less frivolous, meaningless-seeming dreams, I noticed that it seemed as if the dreams were addressing the most "surface level" issues first and over time addressing "each layer down" until the end of the "dealing with" came, and the dream was so difficult to figure out because the emotional processing it addressed was so "deep".

I've never been all that imaginative, and it has always seemed to me as if my dreams are fairly easy to figure out, even when they've dealt with serious emotional matters such as loss of a loved one.

I'm an "intellectual processor" of feelings, so I don't think I'm left with a whole lot of feelings to be processed from my subconscious. If you're very imaginative, though, I would think you may not be as much of an intellectual-processor type, and maybe that's why you have a lot of dreams. Maybe your imagination contributes to the fact that they are vivid and have detail. Maybe, too, though, underneath you could have a lot of emotions that need processing if you haven't dealt with them in a "cold, calculating, processing, way".

Maybe, too, each day you are more emotionally impacted by things you encounter, so maybe each night you have that type of thing to process.

I would think, though, there may also be the chance that you don't have any issues to be dealing with, and maybe your dreams are just a matter of assigning images (and lots of them because of your imagination) to minor emotional impacts that have occurred during each day or recent days.

As you know, though, sometimes physical sensations can cause dreams. There are the dreams about needing to use a restroom when, in reality, you need to use a restroom. There are dreams like dreams of having pain that is caused by one thing or another, but in reality you have the pain but it isn't being caused by what your dream had causing it. Physical discomfort is often the cause of uncomfortable dreams, so even something like heartburn could cause "weird" dreams.

I know there are dream books around, and I'm not sure I have confidence in how correct they are. If you want to try to figure out what your dreams mean think of the feeling you were having at the time each event or object in a dream appeared, and then ask yourself what in your life also caused that same feeling or a similar one. From there, you can go over your "list" of times you felt that way, make some guesses, think of other things in the dream, and maybe get to where you understand where it came from.

Answer 4

"To sleep, perchance to dream. Ah there's the rub for in that sleep of death what dreams may come when We have shuffled off this mortal coil must give Us pause....." We all dream. Most of Us remember at least part of a dream for a few seconds after we awaken. Nothing to it.

Answer 5

Everyone dreams about the same but not everone remebers their dreams. I guess the more creative and connected to your subconcious you are the more you remeber the details in your dreams.

Answer 6

Everyone has dreams, everyone just doesnt remember them!