: Interesting. Over a century of research shows that 80% to 90% of adults have nightmares, that nightmares are normal.
I've not had a nightmare since early 2008, since maybe six months after my divorce was finalized and recorded in early November of 2007.
I'm speaking as someone who remembers his dreams but who no longer writes them down every morning. I gave that practice up in the summer of 2016.
I haven't had bad dreams much at all to speak of since.
: That said, I can drive/direct my dreams much of the time. When I'm dreaming I usually understand that I'm dreaming. Sometimes I rewind my dreams some, if they're interesting, and run them in different directions, like a director getting another take on a scene.
I couldn't do that when I was a kid or in my early twenties, though. I don't know how I became able to do it either. I just noticed I was doing it when I was in my late twenties. Weird.
If I were at all a spiritual or religious person, I’d have called it a spiritual or religious experience.
I’m atheist and adamantly non-believing of ghosts and whatnot, so I interpret it as my subconscious Id had a LOT to say that night, and it damn well sure gave my conscious Ego and Superego what for. To what end, I don’t know. I also couldn’t describe the effect it had on me, but I can definitely say it had an effect.
@thedisasterautist
Damn I wish I could do that, I’d get up to all KINDS of shenanigans
I can’t remember my dreams, tho, unless it’s a nightmare, and when I have a nightmare, I have a NIGHTMARE. I don’t have nightmares often - last one was at least several years ago, possibly more than ten years ago? They’re pretty few and far between.
There’s only one dream I can remember that wasn’t a nightmare, but it was… intense?