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Posted by birdsrule, TC Advisor on 10/24/2009, 4:54 pm, in reply to "Re: anyone hear know about dreams?"
most people don't remember their dreams because they only last a very short time. So unless something wakes you up in the middle of a dream, you likely won't remember any of them. And trust me, if you didn't dream you'd be suffering from psychotic episodes...which is not any fun at all! Dreaming is kinda your brain's way of defragging your hard drive and dumping your cache and cookies every night. 
It's also very rare to dream in color...most dreams are in "grayscale or shadow" colors.
I sometimes dream about tornados...and I am usually inside a very tall, completely glass, high rise building in a downtown area where all of the surrounding high rise buildings are glass. My therapist says that means I am angry about something...lol.
And other times I dream about water...like after a heavy rain and there is water running along the curb to the lower end of a street. She says that indicates there is going to be some sort of change in my life coming up.
And once in a blue moon I will dream in color, or I will dream I can fly. Those dreams are usually very cool.
I can also "change the channel" (as I call it) if I am dreaming about something that is scary and I don't want to dream about it anymore. Or if I was dreaming about something good and I woke up, I can go back to sleep and pick up where the good dream left off and continue with it. I like doing that when I was having an adventurous dream...like about Star Trek...LOL!
I had the sleep study done, and I never achieved REM sleep. I usually can't stay asleep long enough to get there...at least not like a "typical" sleeping person does. My stages of sleep are much shorter than average, so basically I am on a very fast roller coaster compared to most other people's slower roller coaster.
My pain management doctor and I are working to help me achieve a more "typical" night's sleep with increasing the pain prescriptions he has given me, and they are helping as I have noticed I am dreaming a lot more and able to sleep a little longer on some nights than others. I average about 3 hours a night, so the other 21 hours of the day while I am awake...I am in enough pain that it prevents me from even being able to sit still.
But we are working on it, and I have hope that one day I will be able to sleep 6 or maybe even 8 hours and be better able to manage my pain level.
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