OK, so I'm pretty sure this has nothing to do with ADD--but I just want to know who else is in the same boat (with or without ADD).

Whenever I tell people about my dreams, they often comment on how much detial there is, and how it's so vivid and complex....I always thought that most peole dreamt with such clarity, but I'm starting to realize that it's not always the case....

My dreams are so cool, and have so much detail in them--and they're a lot of fun :-p Many times, I'm not even in them--it's like going to sleep and watching a good movie......anyways, I was thinking about why I have such great dreams while others don't, and it occured to me that maybe my brain has perfected the art because I'm constantly day-dreaming when I'm awake.....does the same part of my brain that day-dreams also work when I'm sleeping?

So maybe this is an ADD thing after all? Because some of us constantly day-dream, maybe our brains are great at dreaming???

What are your dreams like? I'm curious.

There is a wide range of ability to recall dreams however it is clear that everybody does dream.

Generally speaking the dreams the people have later on at night and early in the am are much easier to recall, and if people took the trouble to write down their dreams as soon as they wake up they'd likely find they remember more and more detail.

When people who don't claim to remember dreams at all are woken during rem sleep (rapid eye movement = dreaming) and asked about their dreams, they can usually recall some vivid dreams going on.

My dreams are quite varied and vivid overall, if I try to recall them. I have journalled my dreams a few years ago and was amused at the themes and visuals that popped up. I'm nonADD.

I wouldn't be surprised if creative people had more vivid/creative dreams as well though, and many or even most? ADD people are very creative.

I have ADD Impulsive type. I have vivid dreams on occasions, one those occasions I remember my dreams, but most nights I do not recall my dreams.

I am creative and intuitive I dream vividly when I am being vexed by a problem or decision in my waking life.


Here is a site that gives some scientific information you may find useful.

http://web.sfn.org/content/Publications/BrainBriefings/rem_sleep.html

Thanks for the input!

I dream more during the day than at night. (big surprise) I rarely have recall of my dreams.

I dream very vividly, impuslively, and at least partially lucidly most often. My dreams are all over the place...sideways, back and forth from different places, differnet people, differnet themes..I can't keep up with the changes even while Im still having them. I often can't recall great detail if Im trying to tell someone about them but pictures remain in my mind and they are colourful and very detailed.

I'll dream detailed vivid, odd dreams sometimes. But other times I'll have a period where I remember an awful lot of dreams about mundane things. I remember that I recently dreamed about making toast, and a couple of days ago I remembered that I dreamed that I changed the light bulb in the front room. That's a wierd feeling, I'll think... why would I dream that? And how do I know what is a dream and what is not, if I dream about these little things... ;)

Night before last - the last time I was asleep I dreamed Gary's bald brother grew his hair long...I know he has no hair but he did in my dream!!!!!!!

Last night I dreamed that I was working with Phoebe C(k?)ates the cute young actress. We went on a date, moved in together, made love, and got married in the same night :p Then my real partner at work, who is sexy as hell I might add asked me out and I cant remember much after that.

I have met the most increadable woman I've ever met in my life. I was introduced to her by a mutual friend and am now engaged to be married.... My dreams seem to be centered around her...and now with my deployment to Iraq, making love to her and holding her in my arms....

Thats about the extent of any dreams I remember. I've had lots, rememberd lots, forgoten more, and always seem to have half way descent one. Every know and then I'll wake up with a nasty one but then calm down and go back to sleep.

I have a recurring dream that I am unfittingly naked outside and very worried about being seen.
I also dream that I am dreaming...and when I find out THat one is the real dream I am sooo relieved!
In living color, of course ;)

yup, very vivid, very complex, soo much detail, lucid (consciously aware in the dreamworld), and the more i get into listening to my dreams, the more profound and informative they are...

what i have been noticing lately is that my dreams are almost completely visual and tactile ... the imagery is at least as detailed and varied as it is at any moment of eyes-open awareness, and i am always moving.. climbing, falling, touching, bumping into things, things are most real in my dreams when i touch them... and while i do carry on 'conversations' in my dreams, if i really think about it, there is never any actual speaking. mostly eyecontact and kind of telepathic communication... there is no NOISE.

and i think this reflects on my brain in general, how i learn... i hardly ever remember things that people say to me, but i can remember it if i was there, if i experienced it, if i touched it, looked at it, ENGAGED with it, mentally explored it, tasted and digested it...


i am also rarely only one person in my dream. i usually switch around, being everyone, jumping from character to character, or else, i am no one, just like 'watching a movie' too.

mostly the dreams are FEELINGs... and there is something there that i can listen to ...

OK, so I'm pretty sure this has nothing to do with ADD--but I just want to know who else is in the same boat (with or without ADD).

Whenever I tell people about my dreams, they often comment on how much detial there is, and how it's so vivid and complex....I always thought that most peole dreamt with such clarity, but I'm starting to realize that it's not always the case....

My dreams are so cool, and have so much detail in them--and they're a lot of fun :-p Many times, I'm not even in them--it's like going to sleep and watching a good movie......anyways, I was thinking about why I have such great dreams while others don't, and it occured to me that maybe my brain has perfected the art because I'm constantly day-dreaming when I'm awake.....does the same part of my brain that day-dreams also work when I'm sleeping?

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That is my dreams down packed. When ever I am in my dreams which can get way past G rated, I usally end up dead in all my dreams that I am in. Almost like a ritual now. It no longer scares me. Maybe it is how I am not going to live much longer if you belive in that dream stuff. I am not that afraid of death right now. I don't want to die, I am not depressed at least I think:rolleyes: But yeah I can dream movies in my head. I love it.

What I want to know what are your most common dreams. Fighting, war challenging, plain nice happy, make you feel good, you tend to die?:confused::confused:

That is my dreams down packed. When ever I am in my dreams which can get way past G rated, I usally end up dead in all my dreams that I am in. Almost like a ritual now. It no longer scares me. Maybe it is how I am not going to live much longer if you belive in that dream stuff. I am not that afraid of death right now. I don't want to die, I am not depressed at least I think:rolleyes: But yeah I can dream movies in my head. I love it.

What I want to know what are your most common dreams. Fighting, war challenging, plain nice happy, make you feel good, you tend to die?:confused::confused:LOL--I die in my dreams sometimes, but it's never scary--I even had a funeral one time--but at the end I got out like a zombie.

hm.. i used to have 'common' dreams when i was younger, but not for quite some time.

i used to have a lot of struggle dreams, running, being hunted, being enraged but unable to physically affect the world, leading the revolution, drama/passion, fighting heart and soul for some cause...

even younger, i used to have a lot of flying dreams, reoccuring dreams, especially this one where i was walking by the shore of the lake where i grew up, grey cloudy/foggy day, and a big serpentine blue and red (mostly blue) chinese-looking dragon would glid, slid, curl out of the mist and swallow me. and then i would be walking in its stomach, which was essentially a void, absolute nothingness, except that i would come accross four posts/pillars, which were like giant knawed on, half eaten chicken bones. and when i walked into the center of the four pillars, i would fall, and fall and fall, and then SMACK, wake up upon impact with my bed, heart pounding out my throat.
that was when i was six, seven, eight. i used to have it all the time. funny, it wasnt a scary dream, at least not until i hit my bed, really feeling like i had HIT the bed from a long fall.

but yeah, i dont really have dreams like that anymore... i used to go on 'quests' in my dreams... or there would be some very clear good/bad force, a threat, or a love... when my little brother was born i would dream that he was my baby, and my step mother was trying to take him away from me, and i would wake up crying hysterically.

and dreams where my older brother was torturing me and laughing, because the harder i tried to kill him, the less effect i would have... like i was a ghost, and i could not physically make any impact on his body, even if i was stomping on his face or trying to rip out his throat.. in which case i would wake up physically sick with rage and devastation.

some times i would dream that people i loved were being tortured or killed, and i couldn't do anything to help them... sometimes it was illness, sometimes violent. again, i would wake up physically wrought with tension, often crying violently, as though i were actually living it.

one time i remember dreaming that i came home from a long voyage, and i was sick, i was dying... i came home to be close to my boyfriend, who was the only person i had ever loved, or really trusted. and when i got near our house all my things were laying in the street, and people were digging through them and taking stuff, like a free-rummage... and when i went up to our apartment, and asked why, he said he had thrown all my stuff, clothes, out the window. and he laughed. i told him i was dying, and he just laughed and laughed... very cold, very cruel. i didnt understand. it broke me. i woke up broken.

i think the intensity of my emotions is why i learned to stay aware in my dreamspace. i learned to recognize that i could just let things flow, without getting upset... i also learned to control events, but somehow that felt wrong, like i was manipulating what i should not be manipulating.

so now, my dreams are much more subtle. i walk down into subterrenous caves, and the caves are my own mind, like a labyrinth, constantly changeing, all my memories, all my knowledge... i walk the caves and i just look... sometimes they are open feilds, ruins, ply-wood houses, cobble streets, bodies of water... sometimes there are many people, sometimes there are none.

often i am in familiar places, where i grew up, people i knew many years ago, but i have come to recognize that everyone in my dreams is some part of myself, some part of my being. and so i watch my inner play, my inner conflict and dialogue, inner drama unfolding. i watch, and i listen, and i feel.. and it helps me to understand myself, and what is real, and how i create reality by believing in it.

I don’t remember many of my dreams, five or six a year. One or two of these seem to be connected with dreams I have had throughout my life. It is actually some kind of dream world with the same people, places and feeling. Sometimes I have a recollection and realize it was from this world and even though it’s a memory from a dream it feels just like a normal memory. I get the creeps whenever this happens.

What I want to know what are your most common dreams. Fighting, war challenging, plain nice happy, make you feel good, you tend to die?

I have never dies in any of my dreams I have come close but woke up before I was “actually dead”.

I have had flying dreams and escape dreams where I escape from captivity or being restrained.

75-85% of the dreams I remember are goofy stuff like bald men growing long hair.

goofy stuff, i totally agree. I had a dream the other night that i was an undercover vampire. figure that one out.

lol--what exactly does an undercover vampire do?!

I was the one who went to the clubs looking for new recruits or victims. I could get by security because they didnt know i was a vampire for some reason. I'd seduce these women and take them back to the vampire lair. During the end of the dream though I got too excited at the club and bit some girl in the neck. So I goofed that one up, and was on the run for the rest of the dream.

lol--too funny....don't know what that means, but really funny :)

hm.. i used to have 'common' dreams when i was younger, but not for quite some time.

i used to have a lot of struggle dreams, running, being hunted, being enraged but unable to physically affect the world, leading the revolution, drama/passion, fighting heart and soul for some cause...

even younger, i used to have a lot of flying dreams, reoccuring dreams, especially this one where i was walking by the shore of the lake where i grew up, grey cloudy/foggy day, and a big serpentine blue and red (mostly blue) chinese-looking dragon would glid, slid, curl out of the mist and swallow me. and then i would be walking in its stomach, which was essentially a void, absolute nothingness, except that i would come accross four posts/pillars, which were like giant knawed on, half eaten chicken bones. and when i walked into the center of the four pillars, i would fall, and fall and fall, and then SMACK, wake up upon impact with my bed, heart pounding out my throat.
that was when i was six, seven, eight. i used to have it all the time. funny, it wasnt a scary dream, at least not until i hit my bed, really feeling like i had HIT the bed from a long fall.

but yeah, i dont really have dreams like that anymore... i used to go on 'quests' in my dreams... or there would be some very clear good/bad force, a threat, or a love... when my little brother was born i would dream that he was my baby, and my step mother was trying to take him away from me, and i would wake up crying hysterically.

and dreams where my older brother was torturing me and laughing, because the harder i tried to kill him, the less effect i would have... like i was a ghost, and i could not physically make any impact on his body, even if i was stomping on his face or trying to rip out his throat.. in which case i would wake up physically sick with rage and devastation.

some times i would dream that people i loved were being tortured or killed, and i couldn't do anything to help them... sometimes it was illness, sometimes violent. again, i would wake up physically wrought with tension, often crying violently, as though i were actually living it.

one time i remember dreaming that i came home from a long voyage, and i was sick, i was dying... i came home to be close to my boyfriend, who was the only person i had ever loved, or really trusted. and when i got near our house all my things were laying in the street, and people were digging through them and taking stuff, like a free-rummage... and when i went up to our apartment, and asked why, he said he had thrown all my stuff, clothes, out the window. and he laughed. i told him i was dying, and he just laughed and laughed... very cold, very cruel. i didnt understand. it broke me. i woke up broken.

i think the intensity of my emotions is why i learned to stay aware in my dreamspace. i learned to recognize that i could just let things flow, without getting upset... i also learned to control events, but somehow that felt wrong, like i was manipulating what i should not be manipulating.

so now, my dreams are much more subtle. i walk down into subterrenous caves, and the caves are my own mind, like a labyrinth, constantly changeing, all my memories, all my knowledge... i walk the caves and i just look... sometimes they are open feilds, ruins, ply-wood houses, cobble streets, bodies of water... sometimes there are many people, sometimes there are none.

often i am in familiar places, where i grew up, people i knew many years ago, but i have come to recognize that everyone in my dreams is some part of myself, some part of my being. and so i watch my inner play, my inner conflict and dialogue, inner drama unfolding. i watch, and i listen, and i feel.. and it helps me to understand myself, and what is real, and how i create reality by believing in it. I once wrote a real long post for this late at night once before and my satallite connection or this website stopped responding, so I didn't get to post. :(

I'm amazed by Subliminal's description of his dreams, as almost everything mentioned is what I use to dream about when I was younger. Here are some of the common types of dreams I use to have.(I don't seem to have/remember as many anymore)

Dream #1
Was late for a school bus and got on just in time. Minutes after I sit down, the whole bus is suddenly empty. All kids and busdriver are gone.. yet the bus still seems to be moving. I look out the window and I suddenly notice the bus seems to be floating in the air. A little later a giant DRAGON(the scary looking chinese type) flies by the window. I'm thinking I had a mix of the Magic School Bus and Puff the Magic Dragon television shows to come up with this one. :p

Dream #2
I'm riding with someone in a car driving down the road when I glance over to look at the driver again and notice he is gone! Yet the car is still going down the road, like it is computer controlled.

Dream #3
One section of my parent's house is on fire and I'm in it. I can see my dad in the next room which isn't on fire, reading a newspaper. I scream for help at the top of my lungs but he still doesn't hear me and seems to be ignoring me.

Dream #4
I think I'm waking up in my room, but I'm actually still sleeping. I walk upstairs to say good morning to my parents but they don't answer. Then they speak in a real strange sadistic tone which freaks me out and forces me to wake up in my dream again. This cycle repeated a number of times before I actually woke up.

All these dreams were the norm when I was a child. As I look at them now, it seems to be things that I fear could happen to me. I had been a chronic worrier and confused individual most of my life.

Strangely most of my memorible dreams had to do with being left alone in a car with noone driving. I think it may have had something to do with my state of mind or the anxiety of being left alone. Has Subliminal or anyone else had dreams of being in the passenger seat while in a vehicle that seems to be moving by itself? :confused:

I'm not sure what I dream most of the time. I usually only remember fragments of my dreams. My dreams never follow any time line, and I seem to have multiple ones a night...

Most of them are very realistic, but very pointless. One of my few full dreams that I can remember is My girlfriend and I flying first class in an Airplane, then the airplane collides with a mountain and everyone dies. Happy eh?

Another one that I remember is my girlfriend and I being married. Nothing cataclysmic happened, thank god. Many times I find my dreams are just like "re-runs" of experiences I've had as a child, or during that same day. (fire in my room when I was 5, I have pretty vivid dreams about that).

ADDifficultlife,

i'm a she :rolleyes:


and yup, certainly. i used to have dreams about sitting in a car which was rolling fast down a hill, and not knowing which pedal was the break, franticly stomping on them all but nothing working... scary stuff.

your dreams sound kinda familiar to me as well.. :o

ADDifficultlife,

i'm a she :rolleyes:


and yup, certainly. i used to have dreams about sitting in a car which was rolling fast down a hill, and not knowing which pedal was the break, franticly stomping on them all but nothing working... scary stuff.

your dreams sound kinda familiar to me as well.. :o Sorry subliminal, hehe. :o To tell you truth I often don't pay much attention to what im typing sometimes.

Now that I think of it though, I was actually involved in a car rolling down my old neighborhood street before. When I was about 8 or so I was messing around with the shift lever by the steering wheel. I somehow managed to move it to neutral and it started rolling down the hill. I paniced and didnt know what to do and think I actually tried to get out of the window that was part way open. Luckily my dad happened to see the car moving and was able to get in and stop it.

So it would make sense that I had all those strange nightmares about being alone in a car. I also was terrified of overflowing toilets, as this happened a couple times before. I've had dreams where a whole room of toilets overflowed and I was drowning in it lol! :p The wackiness of it all.

hm...

i once had a dream that i was naked sitting on a toilet in the middle of a crowded room... that was kind of weird.

Most of my dreams that I remember are bad. Not in the catigorey of nightmares, but close. The dreams where theres another women effects my mood that whole day. Theres dreams where I got back with my sons father (prison) , thats scary because I have a wonderful man on my side now. I would'nt even daydream (LOL) of getting back with him.

The emotion and tension in my dreams stays in my body even after I wake up. Does anybody else feel that ??

I guess the best part out of it, is that I wake up and everything is back to normal.:) :) No worries.