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[MaximumZero]

What if you were having a non-lucid dream about lucid dreaming?

[atomicwinter]

I often realise I'm dreaming but don't change anything. The problem is that I'm not sure if it's just a dream about lucid dreaming or genuine lucid dreaming. I'd imagine that's possible.

Same. It's just a dream about lucid dreaming. You will know when you Lucid Dream, it's a characteristic experience.

[Dsarker]

I don't dream.

[Pnx]

I don't dream.

According to science^tm everybody dreams. Not everybody remembers their dreams though.

My dogs dream, I see them "chasing rabbits", and Inu will growl in his sleep while Twizzle will do a sort of half-hearted woof, sometimes accompanied by whining (which worries me, they don't seem like nice dreams).

My cats dream, Sugar will meow quite loudly (which keeps putting me in a panic thinking she got left outside), and Olive will sometimes start writhing in her sleep and once or twice has even fallen off her chair.

[Dsarker]

Okay. I presumably dream, but I have never recalled a single one of them.


Also, you only dream in REM sleep.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Indeed. And if you weren't getting REM sleep, you would have died before you were a month old. REM sleep is vital to....something, we just don't quite know what. But we do know that not fulfilling whatever it is will cause increasingly vivid hallucinations in all of your senses, drive you insane, and kill you. In that order.

[Kirbypowered]

In most cases, I'd be on board with the "Everyone dreams" thing. However, science^tm has actually found evidence that some people (person?) who had part of there brain blasted away from shrapnel of a grenade or some such stopped dreaming afterwards.

So yeah, unless you're missing a certain part of your brain, you likely dream.

Another note, from my days of looking up dream stuffs, you do actually dream in NREM sleep, but it's more emotion related and not very imagey, broken up and short. Also more connected to current things going on in you life at the time. It has been awhile since I read it, but that's what I got from it.

Finally, on the topic of lucid dreaming, I barely ever have a lucid dream, and the only times it seems to happen are when I'm not trying. First time I completely failed it after sticking my finger through my hand. Felt very...strange. Strange enough that I woke up immediately. The other time was rather boring and I stopped being lucid quickly. I keep a dream journal (that I've been rather slack on lately) and though it's usually filled with detailed dreams, often there are many short pieces recorded in it that I wrote while delirious from just waking up. It's usually absolutely hilarious to read them, especially when I don't even remember writing half of them.